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Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: They might be embarrassed when they hear me say this. I address the Ministers and I am glad there are some females in here as well because there is something I would like to know. With the funding that is being spent at the moment in the education network, we have seen a whistleblower come out over the SPHE, which is actually porn being taught to children between the ages of 12 and 15 in...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: It has been all over the news. There is a teacher after resigning her position.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: It has been on the news and the media.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am delighted to hear that because then we want to have an investigation to know if there are teachers being taught this and then having to teach this to children under the age of consent. This is what I want to make sure. Something like this should not happen under the age of consent and I would support this. The Government is spending upward of €900,000 on telephone boxes to hide...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Stamp Duties (1 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Again it is another failure. Bulk buying like this creates, in effect, a cartel. They are coming into an area, bulk buying the houses and creating a cartel, and then they dictate the prices for the area. They are doing it all in prime locations. If a company in the State is building a housing estate, it must have 30% for social housing. When we look at the scenario where houses are being...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Capital Acquisitions Tax (1 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: They think we all have sheep.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Capital Acquisitions Tax (1 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Or the traditions?

Financial Resolution No. 3: Capital Acquisitions Tax (1 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: While I welcome this increase, it does not go far enough if you take into account the last three or four years of inflation and the cost of properties. Let us take as an example a cottage that somebody has left to a family member. Three or four years ago, before costs increased as a result of inflation, you could not give away a cottage for €25,000 or €30,000. Now they...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I would like to put forward a question to the people in Ireland and to all the different generations of people who have voted for Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael, the Green Party and other parties. I ask them today whether their children and grandchildren are for sale because that is what this budget is. The Government is trying to buy the votes of those who have voted for those parties for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: How many of those children were operated on twice-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: -----from the rods breaking in their backs?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Double figures were given.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: The figures the Tánaiste has given are inaccurate.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: The figures the Tánaiste has given are inaccurate because some of those operations have been done twice. The rods broke in those children's backs. They were operated on twice within two years, and they are also in those stats.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Taoiseach needs to meet them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Yesterday I attended a presentation in the audiovisual room from the Scoliosis Advocacy Network and a spina bifida advocacy group. It was one of the most packed audiovisual room presentations in the five years I have been here. When their stories were told, there was not one dry eye in the room. There were parents with their children in wheelchairs. There were people there on crutches...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Tánaiste. He mentioned CHI, the HSE and advocates. These are the same people who have been heading this since 2015 except with a new name. Nothing has changed. The same people from that system have a new name with new positions but they are the same people. The one thing the Tánaiste left out in his contribution when he mentioned anxiety for people was the main...

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: This Bill is about making sure that digital health records are used safely and effectively to improve healthcare in Ireland. I will begin by referring to data protection. I wrote to the Minister two years ago about the very subject matter of the Bill, namely health records. Sometimes in a hospital a doctor will send on a patient's records and the next thing that happens is correspondence...

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Carers. It is in the wording. It is carers. I am from a family of 11. In his last number of months and years, people came to care for my father. As a big family, we were able to do much of it ourselves but we had people who came in part-time. I cannot thank people who do that kind of work enough. The dignity and the home life they have, being cared for in their own home, is...

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: That is correct. As there are live investigations at present, I would not like to target any one individual in the context of the matters that are being investigated. I am so delighted that after five years of being here that UHL is finally being investigated. When the investigations are done, I hope criminal charges are brought against the people who have put others at risk and that there...