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Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Willie O'Dea: I am informed that I am sharing with Deputy Cathal Crowe but if he does not appear, I will continue on. I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach very much and I am very reluctant to interrupt Deputy Healy-Rae whose speech I was enjoying immensely. I sincerely congratulate the Minister on bringing this legislation forward. It is very timely in view of the fact that it has been...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024)

Willie O'Dea: I am sharing with Deputy Crowe.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ukraine War (7 Mar 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 54. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the action he is taking to promote accountability for violations of international law, including international crimes, arising out of Russia's invasion of Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10851/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Willie O'Dea: The question of University Hospital Limerick was raised already this morning. I want to say to the Taoiseach that while I appreciate and accept what the Government has done and is doing, the situation on the ground there is beyond appalling, quite frankly. There was a time when we had three emergency department, ED, backups, which a group of experts within the HSE decided to abolish. ...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (15 Feb 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant social homes returned to active use in each of Limerick, Clare and Tipperary from 2020 to 2023; his expectations for same in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6671/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Willie O'Dea: Last November, I raised with the Taoiseach the disturbing suggestion that community funding for the north side of Limerick city was about to be cut by 59%. At the time he expressed concern and said he would ask the Minister of State to have a word with me. The Taoiseach did that and I thank him for that. However, when I spoke to the Minister of State, he said he could not meet the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Willie O'Dea: In 2011, 13 years ago, the number of gardaí policing Limerick was 637. It shrank to 612 in 2020. It has now shrunk again to 585. That is against a background of a substantially and rapidly increased population and a tidal wave of antisocial behaviour, which is making miserable the lives of many people in my constituency. I deal with cases of people who are literally under a curfew in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Enlargement (25 Jan 2024)

Willie O'Dea: 74. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for a report on the discussion of the opening of EU accession talks at the EU Foreign Affairs Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3005/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Willie O'Dea: What about the surgical hub?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Willie O'Dea: One in three patients on hospital trolleys in this country is attending University Hospital Limerick. That means there are more people on trolleys in Limerick than in all of the Dublin hospitals combined. This has given rise to conditions in the hospital that are Dickensian and inhumane from the point of view of patients and staff. There is a block under construction at the hospital. When...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (14 Dec 2023)

Willie O'Dea: 74. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when he expects the six new assessment hubs to streamline the assessment of needs process will be established to relieve pressure on service delivery, as set out in the Roadmap to improve Children’s Disability Services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55522/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

Willie O'Dea: Each year, the social inclusion fund provides moneys to areas of significant urban disadvantage. Several areas in my own city benefit from that funding: St. Mary’s Parish, South Hill, Moyross, Ballinacurra-Weston. They have recently been informed that as a result of a decision by the Department of Social Protection, their funding next year will be cut by 59%. The purpose of the fund...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Universal Social Charge (23 Nov 2023)

Willie O'Dea: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of earners in counties Limerick, Clare, Cork, Kerry, Tipperary and Waterford who will benefit from the USC reductions announced in budget 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51218/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Nov 2023)

Willie O'Dea: As the Minister will be aware, last week, Jozef Puska was convicted of the murder of Ashling Murphy. In common with other people convicted of murder in this country, this individual will be able to apply for parole in 12 years. Ten years has elapsed since the Law Reform Commission recommended that in murder cases, the trial judge should be given power to impose a minimum period of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Willie O'Dea: On many occasions I have raised in this House the situation concerning the dire conditions in University Hospital Limerick, UHL. Unfortunately, the situation seems to be getting progressively worse. The Minister for Health has committed to setting up a surgical hub in the mid-west to alleviate the pressure on UHL. I raised this by way of parliamentary question last February and the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Willie O'Dea: 13. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the capital investment in flooding projects associated with flood risk-management that is being provided in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46914/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Oct 2023)

Willie O'Dea: I have been approached by a number of people who are living in financial straitjackets because their mortgages were sold to vulture funds without their knowledge or consent. It is impossible for those people to get away from the vulture funds. I made representations to the major financial institutions to take on some of these mortgages for people who have never missed a single instalment,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Artificial Intelligence (12 Oct 2023)

Willie O'Dea: 12. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for a progress report on the national artificial intelligence strategy.. [44169/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)

Willie O'Dea: 82. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on the implementation of the Defence Forces infrastructure plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42529/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Willie O'Dea: A number of communities in Limerick city are extremely concerned at reports that their community policing service is about to be withdrawn. Regardless of the outcome of the current negotiations on the Garda rosters, I hope this does not come to pass. If it does, it will not happen at a worse time. We are plagued with anti-social behaviour. I know several vulnerable and elderly people who...