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Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: The city-based Cabinet has taken €6 billion from people in this country and there are no alternatives. They are backed up by career politicians from the county. An 18-year-old girl, Jessica Sheedy, died in University Hospital Limerick because management did not do due diligence and put many more people at risk. The Minister was in the hospital and found nothing wrong. We were...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that children who attend an independent, co-educational, multi-denominational primary school will be discriminated against when it comes to a home tuition service as part of the July Provision (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37748/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: To assist Deputy Gould with the issue of permission for solar farms. If farmers, for example, with a 100 acre holding release more than 49% of their land holding, they lose their single farm payment. What happens as a result is that three or four farmers come together. To make it viable to build a solar farm, you need between 180 acres and 200 acres with a high-power line. Often, a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: That is no problem at all.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: That is it. I thank the committee for all the work it has done. Planning and environmental issues are something I am interested in as I have been in construction all my life. My question is on solar farms. Up to what kilowatt level would the Department consider a small solar farm development to be exempt from planning? The reason I ask is following Covid and the high rise in energy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Do hotels come into that category?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am sorry to cut across Ms Graham, but I want to get this right. The question is if hotels and other such areas are included. Most solar farms at the moment are being put in fields because they are not recommended to go on roofs. Many of the roof designs are not capable of accommodating solar panels because of the wind that could be trapped which would cause vibrations. They are great...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: My other question is on the planning framework from an environmental point of view for County Limerick. From the details the Department has at the moment, it probably has a footprint map of Ireland as a whole. It can see the weak areas that do not have infrastructure and that are being taken out of the local area plans because of lack of infrastructure for forward planning. In counties...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank Ms Graham.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (7 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 5. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the setting up of a three-year academic degree (details supplied), with a fourth year to be completed in practice, in order to alleviate the lengthy waiting lists for children. [36968/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (7 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: My question asks that in view of the many skills and positions shortages within the health sector, would it be possible to look at a three-year academic degree, with a fourth-year to be completed in practice? This would alleviate the lengthy waiting lists for children in respect of speech therapy, child psychology, orthodontics and many other areas.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (7 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: While I realise that the Minister has opened up new places in research through the Innovate for Ireland programme, there has to be further openings within the postgraduate programmes. For instance, psychiatric nurses have worked for many years in different speciality areas. They could provide therapeutic roles and alleviate huge backlogs in the child and adolescent services areas which...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Education (7 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: In order for a three-year degree course to happen, the colleges and universities will need more supervised placements in all allied health areas, such as language therapy, nursing, midwifery and psychology. Qualified people will be needed to supervise the placements. Surely this is a real possibility in the context of the many critical skills shortages within the various areas of health....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (7 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 229. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will be able to provide a definite date for the Leaving Certificate results given that the exams are now over and students are very concerned that they will miss out on college places abroad; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36860/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (7 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 249. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if discussions are expected to increase the allowance for foster carers given the escalating cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36861/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (7 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has examined the CAO system in conjunction with the skills shortage in Ireland; and if he has examined opening up further places in universities and colleges in order to meet industry demands in the health sector. [36969/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Nursing Education (7 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will extend post-graduate programmes in for example, nursing in order that they could provide therapeutic roles to alleviate the huge backlog in the CAMHS area in which there are currently 3,914 children on waiting lists (details supplied). [36970/22]

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Outdated.

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I concur with the previous speakers. Again, I say to the SCSI that when it is updating its figures, the template stays the same. All it has to do at the moment is update the existing costs; it does not take three months. We updated our data sheet on 1 July when we got all the price increases from all the different providers across the country. We got the costings we are voting on tonight...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I move amendment No. 27: In page 11, line 26, after “home,” to insert “voluntary community housing,”. We will withdraw the amendment.