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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (2 Oct 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 116. To ask the Minister for Health whether her Department has in place a strategy to cut the waiting lists for speech and language therapy assessments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50452/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Oct 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: 403. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public patients in each of the years 2021 to 2024 and to date in 2025, on waiting lists in University Hospital Limerick who have received care via third party insourcing activity, in tabular form; the extent to which this activity has reduced waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52625/25]

Investment in Sport and Sporting Infrastructure: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am delighted to welcome the Ryder Cup to Ireland and that it will be in Limerick, the real capital of Ireland, as I call it. We now have a world-class golf tournament in Ireland. I have to thank the McManus family for what they have done not only for Limerick but the rest of the country and for what they have invested in this country and in Adare, Country Limerick. I am delighted for the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Oct 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: On 1 May, I asked a parliamentary question about the cause of the high volume of refunds in employment permit applications, which was resulting in delays. People are able to get permits, on the one hand, from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment but, on the other side, at the Department of justice, there are delays for visas. The left hand is doing one thing and the right hand...

Abolition of Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Independent Ireland has looked for the means test to be abolished. It is not about the means test; it is about care. If we are practical about it, an awful lot of people could be outside the threshold because they may have been left something by a loved one or their partner might be working two jobs to try to put food on the table and it puts them outside the means test threshold. If we...

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I met a man during the week who married a woman from County Tipperary. This is actually laughable. When the woman he married moved from County Tipperary to County Limerick, and went to renew her car insurance premium with the same company she has been insured with for the past 20 years, they charged her €179 more because she had moved to County Limerick. Even though the same person...

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Value for money.

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Read your history, Minister.

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: What about the overspend, Minister?

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: It is a waste of money.

Child Poverty and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I am going to give the Minister the answer today to solving a lot of the problems. I am in business all my life, so I treat politics like business - delivery on budget and on time. We are talking today about homelessness and child poverty. The overspend on the children's hospital is €853 million. I am the Chairperson of the Committee on Budgetary Oversight. We will have the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I ask everyone to turn off their mobile phones and devices or put them on silent. Before we begin, I wish to explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege and the practice of the House with regard to references that may be made to other persons in the witnesses' evidence. Witnesses are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the presentations they make to the committee. This...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Before I suspend the committee for a vote in the Dáil, I welcome Deputy Joe Neville's parents and family members who are here today.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Deputy Neville has five minutes and as I said earlier, I will stop people at five minutes because we are restrained on time.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: This meeting is to suspend at 8.15 p.m. That is what was agreed. There are five more members to speak. With the agreement of the members that are left, if we cut the time everyone will get in and if we do not the meeting will suspend at 8.15 p.m. and members will not get in. Will the agreement of the five that are left be that we will go to just three minutes? Will we all agree to that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: With respect, Deputy, the time is up. I call on Deputy Pearse Doherty.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: Sorry, Deputy Doherty, we have only limited time. We have done it to accommodate everyone. I am not changing it for him. I call on Deputy Cathal Crowe.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I have a question. In Limerick we had a big meeting at the start of this week in the Wyeth Nutritionals factory. We met major stakeholders and businesses from around County Limerick. Some of them are international companies that have bases here. Their biggest problem was, with their sister companies in other European countries, that the cost of doing business here is 10% or 15% more than...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: We have been talking about overruns in different areas. Since I became a TD, I have been asking in the Dáil for design and build. That means that when there is a design-build project, as happens in other European countries, we can develop infrastructure, hospitals, etc. If there is a design-build model, then the budget is the budget. There can be no overrun. Can we adopt that on...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: I thank the Ministers and their officials for attending and thank you for staying on longer with us. I now adjourn the meeting.