Results 261-280 of 1,881 for speaker:Richard O'Donoghue

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I did not acknowledge at the start of the debate that I am a building contractor. I have been building for more than 30 years. I have never done any work for the local authorities or the Department; it is one-off. I put that on the record before I start.

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: There is no infrastructure.

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges that: - despite years of promises and lip service, the Government has consistently failed to effectively tackle the housing crisis, leaving them scrambling to react to a situation that has now spun out of control; - according to Eurostat, Ireland's housing crisis is currently the worst in Europe, with rent prices increasing more than...

Food Costs and High Grocery Bills: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: The high cost of doing business in Ireland is extremely challenging. We can see that each week in our shopping bills. I selected basic shopping bills from trolleys over seven years and noted that, surprisingly, the basic prices of milk, eggs, bread and butter have increased by 15% and those of vegetables and meat have gone up by 40%. This highlights to me the issues of farmers' inputs,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Forty years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Forty years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Forty years of raw sewage.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Forty years of raw sewage.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Forty years.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Uisce Éireann, non-Uisce Éireann places.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I will.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: The rural regeneration and development fund is a “commitment of €1 billion by government to be invested in rural Ireland over the period 2019 to 2027”. Those are the Government's words. The fund was set up to develop infrastructure that may be needed to support town centre housing and commercial development. With what? There is no investment in basic infrastructure...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: -----and anti-afforestation. Licensing in afforestation has dropped by 100%. The Government is anti-transport, delaying the ability of persons to get a driving test by up to six months in rural Ireland. Driving is our only form of transport. I cannot stress enough the importance of this for our population. To get to schools, colleges, sport and work in rural Ireland, we need basic...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Tánaiste is now talking about the number of houses being built in rural Ireland. The Government is allowing raw sewage from Askeaton to go into the River Shannon, from Dromcolliher into the River Deel and from Kilbeheny into the River Funshion. It is the biggest polluter environmentally in Ireland. It fines farmers, businesses and householders for any small pollution, but it is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Kilbeheny. Oola.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Go down and drink the water there now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: It did not know the sewerage system was there.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: It did not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the committee for allowing me to come in now as I have another engagement to attend. Regarding local authorities with zoned lands, infrastructure for them is non-existent in County Limerick. The lands are zoned under local area plans and the residential zoned land tax is coming in, yet in some cases there is no infrastructure in those towns or villages where the zoned land is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Land Value Sharing and Urban Development Zones Bill 2022: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank Mr. Hogan for his answer. There are lands in different areas of County Limerick, for example, in Croom. At the moment, there is serviced land in Croom but the infrastructure's sewerage capacity only allows for 300 more units but the land zoned for development is for up to 1,000 units. There is serviced land, which has been taken over, but there is also a problem with capacity on an...