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Written Answers — Department of Health: Physiotherapy Services (3 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: 150. To ask the Minister for Health when physiotherapy will be reinstated for children with complex medical needs and chronic conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30833/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: 421. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 121 of 14 October 2020, the reason a number of persons (details supplied) failed to qualify for any of the Covid-19 related schemes that are under the remit of his Department. [32896/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: 700. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools without music room facilities can resume their studies offsite; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33125/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1275. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts he has made in respect of contact tracing in view of the fact close contacts of a person (details supplied) have waited up to five days to be contacted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32892/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (3 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1276. To ask the Minister for Health his views on agency staff employed by the HSE; his further views on recruitment within the HSE as a whole; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32893/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (3 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1277. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding high-risk surgical patients; his plans to address the backlog of surgeries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32894/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agricultural Colleges (3 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1521. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if agriculture colleges (details supplied) are included in the once-off €50 million third level Covid-19 fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32895/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: I welcome the witnesses. I would welcome a constitutional right to housing. I have been in construction all my life and I have listened to people in the room talking about building houses and giving people the right to live. When co-living was brought up recently in the Dáil, I voted against it because there should not be any co-living. When we consider the Covid virus today, I do...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Referendum on Right to Housing: Discussion (3 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: From the point of view of dereliction in areas, many buildings within our county, Limerick, are under conservation orders. They are already involved in our infrastructure but I am looking at this from a planning law point of view. We have many buildings that are derelict and many under conservation orders. Under the current planning regulations, those buildings cannot be done up. They...

Flood Prevention Policies: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: I propose to share time with Deputy Michael Healy-Rae. Climate change has a considerable impact on flood risk in Ireland. This means rising sea levels, increased wave action, potential winter rainfalls and intense rainfall events. Other factors are changes in land use through house building and other building developments. These are factors that we cannot control. However, what we do...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: This Bill shows how far out of touch the present Government is with reality. I refer to the reality of rural Ireland. It shows how little the Government thinks of anyone outside a large city. The Government wants those people to pay the most for all its projects, but it returns nothing to the counties. A budget of €18 billion was presented for 2021, but the allocation of €5...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (4 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: 31. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will reconsider the exclusion of theory test centres from level 5 restrictions given the need for persons to obtain a licence for employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34018/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: 48. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will reconsider the exclusion of minor and under 20s championship games from level 5 restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34017/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: 128. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding dancing at weddings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34015/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (4 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: 129. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding hair and make-up professionals services for wedding parties only; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34016/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: I understand the 25 cu. m. basically takes out most of the farms ranging from small to medium size. If we consider water extraction where it is being used for irrigation or cooling, my issue is when we have a very hot summer and where certain people's crops are under threat, they go to the rivers to extract water to try to keep their crops going. I have seen in one or two years where they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: As I said, some of our waterways and rivers have not been maintained for many years. If some areas are at high risk of drought, a certain area could be licensed to allow abstraction to take place because it has a higher volume of water, rather than it being taken from farther up the river where it would prevent the water from making it down to the next place. It could be investigated to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Water Environment (Abstractions) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: Many people have made the point that because of the pinch points and the water levels changing, and given that much water is held in different areas, it has widened embankments. What is causing many of the flash floods at the moment is that while the river bed may be 15 m wide, when the water comes there may be a section downstream that is only 6 m wide because it has not had the flow from...

Regional Airports: Motion [Private Members] (11 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank Deputies Mattie McGrath and Michael Collins for sharing their time with me. Since Deputy Michael Healy-Rae is not present, I will share my time with Deputy Danny Healy-Rae. I thank Deputy McNamara for tabling this timely motion. Deputies have stated that this is not a fight between Dublin Airport and the rest of the country's airports, but it is. Pre-Covid, 33 million people...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2020)

Richard O'Donoghue: First, for people who qualified for a primary medical certificate before the Supreme Court judgment in June of this year and who are upgrading their vehicles, are they still entitled to the VRT payment or has that been restricted? Second, with regard to the cost of the Supreme Court judgment, has it cleared the backlog of people waiting for their primary medical certificates?