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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...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: Despite the Taoiseach’s bluster this afternoon, the Minister has failed to deliver truly affordable homes. Either he is involved in a massive smokescreen of misinformation or is so completely out of touch that he genuinely believes he is delivering affordable housing for people who are so desperate that they will jump on any of his schemes, not to get on the property ladder but to own...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus (8 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current update position regarding Dublin Bus having the necessary infrastructure installed in all buses to be able to accept credit or debit card payments. [20649/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (8 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when each of the public car parks within Dublin Airport were last remarked or resurfaced, in tabular form. [20650/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (8 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 133. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when remaining phases of the BusConnects programme will come into operation. [20651/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (8 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 168. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if each application that applied for the post of chef at the recent OPW recruitment campaign have been officially informed if they have been successful or not successful in getting the job. [20638/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (8 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 178. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of vacant WTE positions currently in the Workplace Relations Commission; the estimated full-year cost of filling each of those vacancies; and when each of the vacancies will be filled, in tabular form. [20635/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 387. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 905 of 9 April 2024, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda authorities in order to answer this question. [20640/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 388. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardai within the DMR who successfully completed a HGV course in the years of 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and the duration of this course. [20643/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (8 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 389. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of WTE forensic accountants working in the Criminal Assets Bureau and the Garda National Drugs and Organised Crime Bureau in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [20644/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (8 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 409. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of Rásaíocht Con Éireann staff who received a performance-related bonus in the years 2022 and 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and the reasons the bonuses were awarded. [20654/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Properties (8 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 410. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of rent his Department has received from commercial units based within Howth fisheries harbour centre in the years of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [20655/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (8 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 464. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full-year cost to increase the intake of graduate social workers to 400 throughout the graduate programme, in tabular form. [20652/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Detention Centres (8 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 465. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons admitted to Oberstown detention centre in each month of 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [20653/24]