Results 521-540 of 1,981 for speaker:Richard O'Donoghue

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (2 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 307. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if discussions are expected to offer financial support to registered post-primary teachers to upskill in order to teach home economics, as is currently offered to registered teachers to teach mathematics, physics and Spanish. [5417/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Housing Provision (2 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 353. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of the areas in Limerick city and county where the proposed modular homes are to be built, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5418/23]

Council Development Levies: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I welcome this motion brought by the Independent Group as it is asking for funding to be delivered to the county councils. How can we provide information for renewals and town plans if we are unsure of the basic infrastructure that is available in our areas? Under section 48 of the Planning and Development Act, there is a statutory mechanism in place for councils to use financial...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members]: Passport Services (31 Jan 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: A significant amount of time was spent in all our offices to get passports through on time in 2022. Difficulties include the Passport Office timeline differing from what is available online. I am calling for additional resources to be provided to address the backlog in processing passports. Will the Tánaiste confirm whether postal applications from 2022 are still on the system from...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members]: Passport Services (31 Jan 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am very concerned about how many of our nurses, doctors, pharmacists and other healthcare workers are going abroad to work. It is the hopelessness I can see in them when I meet them that is the biggest issue. When is the Government going to tackle the issue of our healthcare workers leaving this country? The reason I know this is the case is because they are coming to us for help with...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members]: Passport Services (31 Jan 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: And they turned around and went back home again.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members]: Passport Services (31 Jan 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: After coming home.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members]: Passport Services (31 Jan 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: They came home for the call and now they are going back.

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members]: Passport Services (31 Jan 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 67. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the extent to which the Passport Office is prepared for the influx of passport applications for this spring and summer (details supplied). [4615/23]

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: The initial report on CAMHS in the mid-west looks damning, with an emphasis on the 140 children that were lost in the system. However, on further investigation, it seems that CAMHS brought this to the attention of the Mental Health Commission. A senior clinician had left the service, leaving a caseload behind him. One person leaving could result in 140 vulnerable children being left...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (31 Jan 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 352. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the additional resources that his Department has provided to address the backlog of passports yet to be processed; and if there is a current backlog of postal applications to be dealt with. [4616/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Today I again raise the issue of University Hospital Limerick, UHL, and ask for the resignation of all the management there. We always say to trust our health professionals. I hold a letter from our health professionals - 87 of them, doctors and professors - about the overcrowding in UHL. The letter states there has been extreme crowding and relentless demand on services for the past ten...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: They said ten years.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Will the Government reopen Nenagh?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jan 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: I asked for that to be done two and a half years ago and the Government did not do it. Now 87 health professionals have asked for it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: The Government taxes the working class and the squeezed middle.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: Ask the farmers about ash dieback.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jan 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: The ash dieback.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (26 Jan 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that post-primary teachers have no secure way to switch jobs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3804/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (26 Jan 2023)

Richard O'Donoghue: 255. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the fact that schools have to cancel junior cycle technology subjects in-service training due to the lack of substitute teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3805/23]