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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Carbon and Energy within the Construction Industry: Discussion (5 Apr 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: How can we join the dots between the agencies such that they will all sing off the same hymn sheet and they will not say a given issue is some other agency's responsibility?

Government Response to Situation in Ukraine: Statements (30 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I compliment the agencies and the volunteers for the work they have done for the Ukrainian people to support women and children who are refugees coming into Ireland. Ireland is the best country in the world. When the chips are down on their own side from the lack of care of their own Government in the extra taxes it is putting on them, they still welcome people into their homes no matter...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if discussions are expected to implement the return of mask wearing in schools due to the increase of the virus in the community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17094/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (30 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 189. To ask the Minister for Health if discussions are expected with the HSE to review the criteria required to access a medical card due to the increase in the cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17093/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 190. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the waiting times that women are experiencing in University Hospital Limerick for a gynaecology appointment after being given an irregular cervical smear test result (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17095/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Drug Dealing (29 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Minister says in Justice Plan 2022 that she wants to make a real difference in people's lives. More gardaí on the beat would make a real difference in rural communities. Does the Minister realise the Garda station in Newcastle West closed down three years ago to move to a temporary station? The divisional headquarters takes in the greater proportion of County Limerick, but the new...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Drug Dealing (29 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Some 596 gardaí were allocated to Limerick. Of those, 92 were superintendents, detectives and sergeants. There are 7,596 uniformed gardaí in the country out of 8,539, if one removes the detectives from that. Will the Minister explain why Dublin, with a population of 1.4 million, takes 44% of the new recruits? When there is a population of more than 5 million in Ireland, that is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Drug Dealing (29 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 72. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the latest information available to her Department confirms that drug use throughout the State is at an all-time high; the steps being taken by her Department to address the deepening crisis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16675/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Drug Dealing (29 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: The latest information available to the Minister's Department confirms that drug use throughout the State is at an all-time high. What steps are being taken by the Department to address the deepening crisis, and will the Minister make a statement on the matter? I am shocked to see the extent of the use of drugs in Ireland in all sectors of communities, young, old, male and female. There...

Services for Children with Disabilities: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I know the Minister made a visit to University Hospital Limerick. Did the Minister know there is no particular room in that hospital for a person with a child with disabilities displaying challenging behaviour? I also know the Minister said it was a surprise visit. I was in the hospital twice after a road traffic accident I had four weeks ago. I saw what the Minister said he did not see...

Services for Children with Disabilities: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will let the Minister speak in a moment. I was there for 24 hours. On the night that I was there the staff could not do enough for me but I witnessed a health hazard and fire hazards of trolleys on both sides of corridors putting patients and staff at risk. I also know of a person who took their child with scoliosis to a hospital here in Dublin. They had been preparing for this...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (29 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 531. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drug detection dogs trained to use their senses to detect illegal substances that are available in each Garda division; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16679/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (29 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 532. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the staffing complement of each Garda drug task force unit by Garda division for 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16678/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (29 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 533. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of drug-related offences in each Garda district in each of the years 2016 to 2021 and to date in 2022, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16677/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (29 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: 534. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans for the recruitment of more gardaí in rural areas to ensure the escalating drug problems as being reported by An Garda Síochána can be targeted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16676/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am talking about benefiting every household in the country. If the Minister does what I have asked him in the context of 2020 costs, there will be a reduction. He stated that the cost of fuel has gone up but the Government still takes 51% of the total cost. That is for every household. No matter what way one looks at it, it is 51% tax. If the Government takes its 51% tax on 2020...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: Having 51% tax on 2020 prices would be enough.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: It was enough to run the Government-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: How much would it cost? The Government will be taking in €9.6 billion in carbon tax between now and 2030.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, he has asked me the question.