Results 161-180 of 2,141 for speaker:Richard O'Donoghue

An Dáil a chur ar Athló - Adjournment of Dáil (18 Dec 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have been in business all my life - over 30 years self-employed. We might look at all the SMEs in this country. We are breaking in my business on Friday. We are back on 6 January. Most businesses around this country are working. What is wrong with this Chamber coming back to work? This is the division between real workers and real business and this Chamber. The Government is afraid...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (18 Dec 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I congratulate the Ceann Comhairle on her position and Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl on the great work he did in his time in the Chair. I thank everyone in County Limerick who voted for me and entrusted me to serve in the Thirty-fourth Dáil. I thank all the canvassers, all the office staff, all my family and all my friends who entrusted me to represent them in Limerick and...

Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Ceann Comhairle as I have probably given him a couple of hairy moments throughout the five years of my first term. Please God I will be returned again. As the Minister said, it will be up to the electorate. We are all here to represent the people who elected us. All I can do is wish everyone health going forward, both those people who are to return and those who are retiring....

Appropriation Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Nov 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have been in construction all my life, with over 30 years of experience, and am still in construction on a daily basis. I start work on site at 7 o'clock in the morning because most of the Departments I deal with do not open until 9 a.m. or 9.30 a.m. I get my day's work done in the morning before I come to work at all. That keeps me in tune with inflation, labour and material costs and...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: The first day I came to the Dáil, I was greeted by a good Limerick man who brought me in. His first bit of advice for me was to get lost if I wanted to learn the House. When I asked what he meant he said I should get lost and go into every corridor and room because I would eventually find out where to go. He said I would learn very fast and it was only the way to get experience of the...

Carer's Allowance: Motion [Private Members] (6 Nov 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: If we look around the Public Gallery we see the next generation of people. We are their carers. The vulnerable people in this country are being penalised for caring for people. They are being penalised. The means test for anyone that is caring for somebody should be abolished. It is caring; that is what they are doing. If we look at the money paid to the people at the very top levels of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Wind Energy Guidelines (5 Nov 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 112. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what actions and decisions were made by his Department when it received a joint submission (details supplied), signed by 13 acousticians during the public consultation period for the draft 2019 WEDGs; if this matter was brought to his attention; what action or decisions were made because of receiving the joint...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health and Safety (24 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 151. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of submissions made by the HSA to An Bord Pleanála, half yearly from 2018 to date (by submission date), categorised by type of strategic infrastructure development (energy, transport, environmental and health), in tabular form. [43803/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Health and Safety (24 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 152. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for a list of the submissions made by the HSA to An Bord Pleanála, for the previous two years, by case file number and date submitted, in tabular form. [43804/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (24 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: 214. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a copy of public submissions made to the draft 2019 wind energy development guidelines, specifically those made by MAS Environmental, the Institute of Acoustics, Wind Energy Ireland, the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Health, HSE Environmental Health Office, the Office of Planning Regulator,...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have been a building contractor all my life and I know to build houses we need infrastructure. The discrimination this Government has against putting infrastructure around this country is evident. All the Government wants to do is build its numbers in Dublin so it can get extra people in the Cabinet, rather than spreading it around the country so other people can get affordable homes....

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Why does the Government not?

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: It is because the Government is the same thing over and over again. Three years ago, a house cost €120 per sq. ft and the Government took 13.% on top of that which was €16,200. Today, it costs €200 per sq. ft and the Government takes €27,000. That is for every 1,000 sq. ft of a house from people who are working and paying for their own houses. That is what the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: The facts are there.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: It must be an election.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: Where are they?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: In the city.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: It is 42 years later.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: False promises.