Results 61-80 of 100 for long speaker:Richard O'Donoghue

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...have saved on the energy cost of getting food to the shops. It would have saved on the cost of producing food. It would have saved on the cost of people going to work. It was a short-term solution to a long-term problem. Yes, we have a problem, but I was giving a solution for people. Yesterday, people were suffering. Today, people are suffering. Tomorrow, people will be...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jan 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: I welcome the Bill that has been introduced by the Minister because there is at long last a voice for those who have gone unheard for decades - the voice of a mother or father trying to find a son or daughter and the voice of a child unable to discover his or her birth family, access health information or just get a birth certificate that is accurate. Within this legislation, there will be...

Gender-based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2022)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...gender-based violence. I am calling for accountability. We have heard from campaigns for women’s and children's safety in recent days and a joined-up approach to women’s and children’s safety is long overdue. Over Christmas, I was speaking to a person who came home from Canada. She was in a local village when a group of 11 to 13-year-olds heckled her on her way...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) (Foetal Pain Relief) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...capacity to feel something like pain from 12 weeks of gestation. As revealed in the 2020 article by Professor Stuart Derbyshire and John Bockmann, there exists significant literature which has long asserted that, from 20 weeks or earlier, unborn babies can feel. Recognising this reality, many countries have introduced foetal pain relief for unborn babies, such as prior to spina bifida...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...their classrooms and go outside to stand on wet ground under NPHET and Government guidance. We have asked children to wear masks in school. It has been shown that, if a child wears a mask for that long a time, the carbon monoxide he or she could endure would be damaging to the child's health. We have got to look at this. We have created safe environments and we have put guidelines...

Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion [Private Members] (8 Dec 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...installed solar panels to run his farm on solar power and reduce emissions. The cost of the solar panels was €21,500. He got a grant of €3,000 and then had to pay 13.5% VAT on installation. How long will it take for him to recoup the initial cost of €21,500? Surely there is supposed to be an incentive for farmers to install solar power. I will give a breakdown of...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Nov 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...land the council originally built the houses on. They have lost three sales as a result of this strip of land still not being registered correctly. I am talking about a strip 6 ft wide and 20 ft long. The county council has put in wheelchair access on this land for the person who lived in the house and has done maintenance within the house but this issue has fallen through the cracks....

National Standards Authority of Ireland (Carbon Footprint Labelling) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Nov 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: .... My colleagues and I have consistently campaigned for the Government to tackle the licensing bottleneck to enable forestry planting and harvesting. The harvesting of trees is taking too long. Carbon gets locked into wood and wood products. When this happens, new trees can be replanted and the cycle of storage happens again. What I want to say to everyone in Ireland and everyone in...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...set out guidelines for people in order that they will have information, from the time a route is decided, on procurement, the time it will take for each individual section to be completed and how long it will take for the road to be built. This has been an issue since 2010. The lives of farmers and householders have been put on hold because they are not getting the information they need....

Rising Costs and Supply Security for Fuel and Energy: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...On 24 November, a convoy of trucks will travel to Dublin and block the whole place. The only way the Government will listen to people outside Dublin and other urban areas is if we turn off the lights for a week. Let us see how long people will last then. That is what happens to us. The Rural Independent Group is fighting for equality. We are not fighting against climate action but...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (14 Oct 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: I agree that getting in touch with representatives of Irish Water is the best way to go. I had an hour-long meeting with a representative of Irish Water yesterday relating to some issues in Limerick. It was a follow-on from a meeting of the housing committee. I met representatives of Irish Water and many other people involved with the issue, and questions that we have been looking to have...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Budget Statement 2022 (12 Oct 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ..., but how can we do that when the Government takes all our taxes and carbon emissions and puts it into the cities? The money it spends on infrastructure in the cities should be doubled for the county areas because we pay the most. That is simple mathematics, but it has taken a long time for that to get through to the Government. Turning to the SUSI grant, I welcome the additional...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Oct 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...to see the houses we have issues with. I have a question that might help the Minister going forward. Have the quarries found to have had pyrite in their blocks stopped making blocks? If so, how long ago did they stop? This report was done in 2012 so the quarries knew there was an issue at that time. Have those quarries been making blocks since then? Have they added to the problem, in...

Committee on Public Petitions: Annual Reports of the Ombudsman for 2018, 2019 and 2020: The Ombudsman (30 Sep 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...disability equipment that has outgrown children or adults gets reassigned, serviced, maintained, even if it has to stay on a shelf for a year or two. Many people with disabilities are waiting a long time for such equipment and the only access available is to new equipment, whereas reconditioned equipment can get back onto the field faster and help those people with their disabilities. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: 1038. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding support for persons suffering the effects of long Covid and who are unable to return to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41633/21]

Consumer Protection (Regulation of Retail Credit and Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Jul 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...is included in the paperwork. In addition, personal contract plans will have to be agreed by the Central Bank before each agreement is sanctioned. I am surprised, however, that it has taken so long for these changes to be implemented. As of February 2020, there were 62,078 PCPs in operation in Ireland, which was an increase of 527% since 2014. That is a shocking statistic in an...

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 Jul 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...fair share of the taxes and the punishments the Government is putting us under and send it back down for the infrastructure in our county. This goes for the Deputies who are representing Limerick city and county. They are elected by the people of Limerick to represent them. I might not have gone to school for as long as the Minister did or get all of the college degrees he has but...

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out: Statements (2 Jul 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...Taoiseach stated that people visiting pubs should be asked if they are vaccinated. People working in the hospitality sector asked whether it will be the case that they will be allowed to serve people all day long but, come the weekend, if they want to go out themselves, they will be told, sorry, they cannot come in because they are not vaccinated. The Government has now said it will roll...

Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (1 Jul 2021)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...to school, because it was the only way they would do so. Most of the girls would get as far as third year and then leave. Most of the Traveller children did not progress past third year. I am not talking about long ago. It was only a few years ago. Personally, I know many people within the Travelling community who run good businesses. There is a stigma which is present in every...