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Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (21 Apr 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: 2016. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the recommendations made by a person (details supplied) to update the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill and amendments to the Children and Family Relationships Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19582/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (21 Apr 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: 2015. To ask the Minister for Health his views on protests of a distressing nature outside the Maternity Hospital, Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19581/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (21 Apr 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: 2405. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time radiographers working in University Hospital Limerick in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20713/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (21 Apr 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: 2406. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time medical virologists based in each hospital in each the years 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20714/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the Programme for Government: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Apr 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will speak first. I will start with the matter of directly elected mayors. There was a democratic vote in Limerick and I will accept that. Was I in favour of it? The answer is "No". At the time we had a perfectly good CEO who brought Limerick from being in a very poor state to being extremely viable. That individual was working well but has now left. We have another CEO in place now...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the Programme for Government: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Apr 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am sorry for cutting across the Minister of State, but raw sewage is being pumped from Oola into the rivers, into the River Feale in Drumcollogher and from Askeaton and Glin into the Shannon Estuary. Do not give me that, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on the Programme for Government: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (20 Apr 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am sorry Chair, but other Deputies were allowed to finish their points and they were allowed to go two minutes over. He can surely give me 30 seconds to finish my point, as he has done for everyone else. The Minister of State has come in here, and we are pumping raw sewage into the Shannon Estuary and all the other waterways around. People who are building in rural areas are not doing...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 16 - Valuation Office (Revised)
Vote 23 - Property Registration Authority (Revised)
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: There is a shortage of houses because, due to the pandemic, houses were not being built. An issue in Limerick at the moment concerns people relocating to Limerick from other counties, which is causing a massive problem with price increases for three- and four-bed houses. It is up to €50,000 to €75,000 in some areas, including Castleconnell. How do we combat that in a time of...

Project Ireland 2040: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I move: “That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — Project Ireland 2040, comprising the National Development Plan (NDP) and the National Planning Framework (NPF) are not underpinned by any democratic mandate or vote, by either House of the Oireachtas, as originally promised by the previous Government; — in excess of 560 submissions were made to the recent review of...

Prime Time Investigates Programme on Department of Health: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: My remarks are not directed at the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, because I know she is a good person. However, there comes a time that there has to be accountability for the actions of people within the Department of Health. This issue affects the most vulnerable people in society. I refer to the money being spent on legal challenges and investigations in respect of people who are...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Apr 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: It is ironic that Fine Gael has raised this issue today. It was under the previous Government and the current Government that broadband was not rolled out in the first place. Listening to the Fine Gael Deputies, the doors are open now and things are all wrong. It was under their regime that broadband was not rolled out properly in the first place. Rural areas have suffered under the...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: We have seen from the minutes of the Council meeting, from which I quoted, that Ireland has lost its voice in Europe. Do our MEPs need a Lemsip or lozenges to get their voice back? The minutes referred to every other member state but Ireland was not mentioned. What has gone wrong? On the issue of vaccines, we have seen what is happening in regard to the contracts with AstraZeneca. I...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: On a point of order, I said I would take advice from my doctor in the context of having an underlying condition. Again, the Minister of State goes to the gutter and cannot give answers to the questions raised. If he were as good at answering questions as he is at-----

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am just a mere mortal when it comes to European law and the ongoing European Council meetings. Clearly, there are not enough mortals from Ireland going to these meetings. I had to read through the minutes of the meeting we are discussing and nowhere did I see any mention of the horrors that hauliers and firms in Ireland are going through in order to get their goods delivered. Ireland is...

Caring for Carers: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (31 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I support this motion. I cannot thank carers enough for the work they do in their own homes and the homes of others in Limerick and around the country. Since coming into the Dáil, I have continuously spoken about the rural-urban divide and today, I want to highlight the issue again. Take, for example, the situation in a typical rural setting in which a tender goes out for the care of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I would hate to pull the Minister of State on one of her own comments. She said the churches are open online. I have spoken to people from Granagh, Ballingarry, Croom and Patrickswell, and I can keep naming places, who have told me their Internet service breaks down every day because of the failure of the roll-out of broadband. The churches are not open online. They are not there. Last...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing this Topical Issue debate. Is this Government anti-religion? I am entitled to have my religion, just as everybody else is entitled to their religion. We are entitled to worship. This Government does not know whether it is legal to allow us to worship. We are the only country in Europe in this position. A case was taken in Scotland, yet the legal...

Civil Liability and Courts (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: There is only one way we will stop insurance fraud and that is by making people accountable. There are people whose families have a history of claims. We probably all know people or families who have made massive claims. There is no problem with people making insurance claims that are warranted, needed and just but we have serial claimants. We have to link it to something. We have to...

Residential Tenancies Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: More than 3,000 renters are currently protected from eviction and rent increases under the emergency Covid-19 housing legislation, which was introduced on 27 March 2020. The purpose of this Bill is to extend the emergency period specified in the Planning and Development, and Residential Tenancies, Act 2020 until 12 July 2021 and to provide the necessary amendments to the Act and to the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (24 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: 568. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on foreign production companies having an obligation to hire production and acting staff here given the financial exemptions they receive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14697/21]