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Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am delighted the Minister, Deputy O'Brien is here. The Land Development Agency is a way forward for building houses. The LDA, however, must work with the other agencies. Every city and small town in Ireland is looking for houses to be built. This cannot be random house building but a vision for a long-term view of the cities, towns and villages. Population is increasing and there is a...

Impact of Covid-19 on Women for International Women’s Day: Statements (4 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: Since the outbreak of Covid-19, up-to-date data and reports from those on the front line have shown that all types of violence against women, particularly domestic violence, have intensified. It is hard to believe that one in three women in Ireland is affected by domestic violence. It is not confined to class, age, sexuality, religion or disability. It has been named as the shadow...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020 (Resumed): Land Development Agency (9 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I wish to pass on the apologies of Senator Boyhan who has been called away to another meeting. He hopes to be back before this meeting ends. I thank Mr. Coleman and the other witnesses for attending. Limerick has a population of 200,000 at the moment, which is forecast to grow to 250,000 by 2026 and 300,000 by 2040. The city and county councils were amalgamated in 2014. Surveys suggest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Affordable Housing Bill 2020 (Resumed): Land Development Agency (9 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: That is what I wanted to clear up. The spin that has been put out there is that the LDA is not engaging with local authorities. However, I conducted my own investigations and the local authority in Limerick said that the agency was engaging with it.

Civil Registration (Right of Adoptees to Information) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank Sinn Féin and Deputy Funchion for bringing forward this Bill. Under the Data Protection Act and the GDPR, data being held by the State relating to persons should be given to adoptees. The Government must explain why this data is being held. Copies of information the held should be given to adoptees. This would be their entitlement under Article 15.3 of the GDPR. In 2019,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Taoiseach will be talking to the new US President, Joe Biden, for St. Patrick's Day. Will he ask Mr. Biden to help Ireland? We need to get outside of the EU process and get the vaccines into this country. All of the Irish people in America will help us. All the Taoiseach has to do is open his mouth and say, "Please support the Irish", and they will do it.

Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (10 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: On Monday last, the Government unveiled plans to reform the CAO system of access to third level education. This news is certainly welcome and the three-year plan will lead to an increase in the number of apprenticeships to 10,000 every year by 2025. The programme should be much more ambitious in respect of apprenticeships, however. I propose that the target should be 15,000 apprenticeships...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Residential Tenancies Bill 2021 (16 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: The committee met yesterday. I have listened to other speakers this morning. As a public representative and member of this committee, my job is to scrutinise every Bill introduced. I would not be doing my job if I did not push for scrutiny of this Bill, although, as mentioned by other speakers, we do not have it in front of us today. It is members' duty to scrutinise Bills. What has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Residential Tenancies Bill 2021 (16 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: Is that number correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Residential Tenancies Bill 2021 (16 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I think it is seven-six and not seven-five.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Waiver of Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of Residential Tenancies Bill 2021 (16 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: Maybe we would want to scrutinise this as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank our guests for coming in. My question follows on and is on the same theme. I am delighted that Deputy Ó Broin has one of the lowest expenses because when one comes to rural areas, one has to travel a lot of miles and cover a lot of ground compared to smaller areas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of Electoral Reform Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I want to ask about media platforms under GDPR. Data went out from the Department recently about a new road to check out areas and tell people in that area that they are on a route. Under GDPR, the Department could not send a letter to each of the individual houses but instead had to send them out in a flier system. It meant that only 10% of the people got the fliers because of 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]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (24 Mar 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1572. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the inclusion of the cost for PPE equipment for medical card holders seeking appointments at dentist clinics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14698/21]

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...