Results 21-40 of 1,862 for speaker:Richard O'Donoghue
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: No. We should insist.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: I know nurses did not get paid during their internship until the last year. That was the case but now there is a payment in place. Do the junior doctors get paid or is it the same system as the one for nurses? That is one question I would have but as an employer, I know that if anyone works in a place where you have to have PPE gear, for example, the contractor provides it. If it is a...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: That is the system in use in the UK. If nurses go for their training in the UK, they are supplemented but they are contracted to work back there for three years, not five. When a person went to the UK to do training as a nurse, some of the places here would not take him or her when he or she came back here. They said that the person was trained differently in the UK than a person is here....
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: To go back to construction, in a place of work, proper PPE gear must be supplied to everyone for their safety. Surely to God, if you are in a place of front-line services, everything you need must be supplied to you. There should not be any cost involved in that. If it is there for the private sector, why is it not there for the public sector? If it is enforced on the one hand but it is...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: Yes, it is accessible under freedom of information, FOI.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: If a declaration were signed by the witnesses who appeared before the committee stating we could act on their behalf, we could then request information. I believe it goes back to them. They can authorise us to look for that information but it has to come from them.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: On the Senator's point about getting an independent voice on this, one thing we can do is look for the paperwork from the Gaffney family. We can also look for the declaration stating we can request the same information from the licensing authorities. We will then have paperwork from both sides to compare to make sure that when we make the decision, we will have both sides of the information...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: Right.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: Just to clarify, and this should go back to the petitioner, the way forward is through the Seanad. Send in the letters to everyone in the Seanad. On the basis that if the Government falls, this falls with it, we have to learn from mistakes. We saw what happened with the two most recent referendums that went to the country, where the result came back with a no vote to both. We have seen...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: I wish to add one more thing, if I may. I appeal to the Seanad to listen to the voice of the people and to make sure this Bill gets the amendments and that it does go back to the Dáil, if that is the case. I make an appeal in this regard. I am appealing to the Seanad to make sure this Bill does not come in its current form.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: We are back to the issue of accountability, but now it is accountability in the context of people's lives. It is also in the context of the future of a family. They made the decision based on the protection of lives and now they are being treated in this manner. If there is a defective vehicle, of whatever type, the responsibility has to go back to the manufacturer, but it is fighting with...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: The licensees who have appeared before the committee can request the documentation from the licensing.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (21 Mar 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: I agree with Senator Craughwell on this. It is something I have taken legal advice on during the week, both independent legal advice and from a lobby group. I listened to the details on this issue and the lobby group said the same thing. The worst thing that could happen is if it goes to the Supreme Court. At the moment, the Bill is in the Seanad, where amendments can be made and it can...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (21 Mar 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: 117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport why there was a decreased allocation for the maintenance of roads across the country in the Budget. [11431/24]
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: On a point of order, I have no problem staying on for a while to do a few votes, but the timeline of 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning means I have to get up at 5 o'clock in the morning to attend the committee. If the Chair is looking for grace on one side, there should be grace on the other side as well. You have no-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: That might be okay with Deputy Higgins if she is not far away-----
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: There you are.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: I said I have no problem with it.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: I have no problem, but Deputy McAuliffe has a problem with extending the meeting.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Mar 2024)
Richard O'Donoghue: So have I.