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Select Committee on Social Protection: Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (22 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I thank the Minister of State and his officials for this interesting exchange and a lot of the comments by the committee were taken on board.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (22 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: That is okay.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (21 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on the proposal to include the P-Tech learning pathways programme for inclusion in the curriculum; and if there is a timeline to report back on the proposal. [22384/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (21 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) was refused a payment. [22392/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (21 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 370. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a list of schools participating in the hot school meals programme in Dublin 15 and Dublin 7, and any schools in Dublin 15 and Dublin 7 that have requested to be on the list but are not included in this year’s programme. [22383/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (21 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 558. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the issue that GPs have been refusing to do private cervical smear tests for patients as they have no faith in the labs where the tests are analysed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22401/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus (16 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the inhumane policy regarding comfort breaks within Dublin Bus, where drivers are being penalised for having to use facilities, which is causing buses to run late, and comfort breaks having to be recorded. [16995/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (16 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the continuance of the current P-Tech programme in Dublin’s NEIC programme will be supported by the Government now that the pilot programme has ended and the programme has demonstrated its success for the 5 P-Tech schools through internal and external evaluation; and the longer-term plan for the expansion of the P-Tech...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (16 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 274. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a CNS in dementia in each acute hospital in Ireland; and if he will outline the situation in each hospital, in tabular form. [22282/24]

Road Safety and Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (15 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: A number of issues with road safety were alluded to earlier and there is a core problem around all of them, namely, enforcement. I want to start by expressing my deepest sympathy and offering my condolences to all those who have died on our roads. Last week, a young man was killed in our constituency on an electric bike in a tragic incident that occurred in Allendale. Electric bikes are...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I also welcome the families in the Gallery. I was five years old when the bombs were detonated in Dublin and Monaghan and I lived a short distance away, in Sheriff Street. Growing up in the north inner city, the impact of these bombings left a long legacy of fear in the area and the wider city of Dublin. Everyone knows that this attack in Dublin and Monaghan was carried out by a combined...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: At least 13 families in Dublin 15 have no school place for September for autistic children. Ellis, aged 5, has no school place. He has applied for 24 schools and received 24 refusals. What is required? His parents need to fill in the school application, give two proofs of address via bills, give his original birth cert and baptismal cert and give proof of his PPS number, along with all...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (14 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a stream of funding to local community groups or local authorities to repair and upcycle musical instruments that are left in recycling centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20938/24]

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: There is a serious lack of school places in Dublin West. At a recent meeting, the NCSE admitted that there are 13 children it knows of who do not have places for September. It knows and admitted that there will be more. We have children transferring to post-primary who have no school places, and even in one school, one child transferring from junior school has been told there is no place...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (9 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 1. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to report on the community centres investment fund; who has received funding; what stage each project is at; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20937/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (9 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: Will the Minister report on the community centres investment fund, who has received funding and what stage each project is at, and will she make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (9 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I welcome that 600 projects have been completed or are at completion stage. Previously, I raised with the Minister the matter of some centres that had encountered unexpected difficulties, so an opportunity for them to continue accessing the fund is important. When the fund was originally proposed, applications amounted to approximately €70 million. While funding has already been...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (9 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: It is under way. My wife is on the board now, so I am kept abreast of exactly what is happening in the centre. The board is brilliant and has done incredible work. The fund has been important to the centre. I welcome that we are considering the fund’s future and that it will not just be a one-off. As the Minister said, we do not just do our houses up once and then leave them...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Broadcasting Sector (9 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 37. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to give a commitment to multi-annual funding for local community radio stations that operate the community services programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20939/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (9 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 235. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fixed penalty notices (FPNs) gardaí issued for parking on a footpath in 2023; the percentage of those FPNs that were paid within the first 28 days of penalty notices being issued in 2023; the percentage that were paid within the subsequent 28-56 days of the penalty notices being issued in 2023; the...