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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: That excludes two thirds of County Limerick because of our infrastructure problem. We have development land. Areas have already been targeted that have infrastructure and can be opened up for infrastructure but it wipes out two thirds of County Limerick, which people want to have developed but cannot.

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the Chamber and listening to us, as every time the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, sees us coming, he is gone because he knows we are telling the truth.

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I believe he has gone from being green to being yellow. Like the coward of the county, he is out the door as fast as his legs can carry him when he sees us coming because he knows we speak the truth. We are self-employed, so we understand what the carbon tax and energy crisis can do to businesses and every person in this country. That is why he runs from us and hides when we are in the...

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: None of them understands what it is like to live in rural areas and support the local economy. That is what is wrong - we have too many people trying to have butter on both sides of their bread and talking out of both sides of their mouths.

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Minister referred a moment ago to all the different things he brought in through CAP and for farmers a number of months ago. Could he tell me now why Macra na Feirme members marched to the Dáil today? The boards they had in front of them stated “McConalogue, Hackett and Heydon – Family Farms for Sale”. That was on their placards. The Minister said he had...

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I also support Deputy McNamara's amendments. I am a farmer's son. God rest my mother and father, we grew up on a farm. I have brothers who farm and nephews and nieces in the contracting business. I understand farming because I see it every week, I live it every week and I have been part of the farming community. Macra na Feirme's members had to walk 79 km. They started last night and...

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: He was on the phone to the president of Macra na Feirme today and he said he would not meet them, when he previously said he would-----

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: He was in the Dáil and he was supposed to-----

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: They came at 2 p.m. and he did not come out to meet them.

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: He met them later, at his own convenience, but he would not meet the full group of people who walked 79 km.

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Sorry.

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: If the Minister of State wants to try to talk over me, I will talk over him all day long. He seems to have-----

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: It is easy for Deputy Heydon to try to tell the truth, when the Taoiseach could have walked out for five minutes at any time and met people. Ministers often sit in for five minutes and take over for anything in the Dáil. It was at 2 p.m. today. The Minister of State should not bother making excuses for the Taoiseach when I am talking about amendments.

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Without interruption, please. I support these amendments. I am a farmer's son. I also understand farming and where Macra na Feirme is coming from. The Minister is from a farming community himself. The farmers who were here today are aged up to 35. I was thankful to see a 50-50 representation of men and women supporting the young Macra na Feirme members today. The average age of people...

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Promises, promises and more promises. The inflation taxation the Government has taken off everyone is now to be given out to the people and the Government will say it is giving them something off. It is waiving planning permission fees, which I welcome, for people who can build. We sat at a committee hearing yesterday, which the Minister of State attended, and heard about the failure of...

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Minister, Deputy O'Brien, and the Ministers of State, Deputies O'Donnell and Noonan, appeared at the housing committee today to discuss Housing for All. The Ministers spoke about the houses being built in Limerick city and elsewhere in the country. I welcomed the waiving of the planning permission fee for local authorities. The positivity stopped, however, when we considered County...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I welcome the Minister, the Minister of State and their officials. It is ironic that this meeting is on today and Uisce Éireann came back with an update to me at 12.23 p.m. It is amazing that when there is a housing committee meeting and the Ministers are in front of us, they can come back with an update for us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: We will return to County Limerick. I understand there is much work going on in Limerick city. Many houses are being built and I welcome that. However, I represent the county of Limerick. The Minister was in Limerick recently and we visited a couple of sites where he announced houses in different areas. We went to a hospital and showed that in hospital there were five existing new houses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I like the Minister's confidence.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Returning to Killmallock, it is a town with buildings from the 14th century and there are conservation orders on many of the properties. In other countries, conservation orders mean keeping the front façade and allowing the rest to be modernised. One business owner has contacted me to say he is seeking to do up an existing premises to allow him to provide two apartments over it. The...