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Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: In terms of the cost of living, Ireland is the most expensive country in the EU. Electricity costs are at the core of this huge increase. Ireland's costs are 46% above the EU average. Our gas and electricity are the most expensive in the EU at more than double the average. At the same time, energy companies are making massive profits. This affects many ordinary workers and families on a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I want to follow on from Senator Currie’s questions about Dublin 15. I refer to the distress the parents are experiencing at the moment. Unfortunately, there will be no comfort for them until they get a place in a school. It is now three days away from the end of the school term and they do not have a place in a primary school. Are the school places the Minister of State has just...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: They are all in Dublin 15. If there are 11 or 12 places available, why have the parents not been told that? We know they are there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: To be clear, the information the parents have sent to us is that many of those places are already gone; they have already been allocated. It sounds like there are 15 or 11 places. The reality is there will not be because a lot of those places will be allocated to students who are already in that school. When parents are listening in here on this, there will be cold comfort because they know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: Sure but what I cannot understand is this. Let us say we have had a week, from last week, when the Minister of State had a meeting with the parents, we met outside and had this discussion regarding the places. How long does it take to pick up a phone to a school to say it has a certain number of places in their school, and to ask has it allocated them to a particular student in the school...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: Sure. I am not going to labour on it again because I think I have made my point on that. On the appropriate school places, again, I have a message from a parent here, who is Bradley's parent. Since the meeting, they are still in the same position as last week. He is still in the same school and not achieving. They got two phone calls from the school saying it cannot meet his needs and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society: Department of Education (25 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: Genuinely, I am sitting here and I cannot for the life of me understand-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I welcome parents of autistic children in the Gallery this afternoon who are angry and frustrated because with less than a week to go to the end of the school year, their children have no school place. It is important to remember these are not just school roll numbers; they are children with rights. There is Rían, Ellis, Noel, Noah Hariri, Noah Lenord, Samuel, Macie, Eamon, TJ, Kapish,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (20 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 34. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will extend the rural regeneration fund to purchase derelict buildings in urban towns with populations of less than 10,000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26457/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (20 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: Will the Minister extend the rural regeneration fund to purchase derelict buildings in urban towns with populations of less than 10,000, and will she make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (20 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: The Letterkenny cathedral quarter group is working hard on the ground to develop the quarter for the town’s community, tourism and employment, but its members do not believe it is fitting into any of the boxes that would help it get grants and other funding. The Department has provided funding under the rural regeneration fund to purchase derelict properties in rural towns, but there...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (20 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I would appreciate that. I have been engaging with the group in recent months. Its members are frustrated. They have been applying for different types of funding but their group has been unable to fit into the boxes they are looking towards. Although they are in a larger urban area, they are looking to the rural fund. Local authorities get funding for urban areas, but surely there should...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Gangland Crime (20 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I appreciate the Minister's answer but we need those gardaí now. I met the superintendent recently and we had good discussions. I am hopeful that in the future there will be a refocus on community gardaí and getting gardaí back on the ground talking to young people, engaging with communities and residents' associations, which we have not had for a good number of years. We...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Gangland Crime (20 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 13. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will commission a Mulvey-style report in relation to gangland activity in Dublin 15 and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26492/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Gangland Crime (20 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I ask the Minister for Justice if she will commission a Mulvey-style report in relation to gangland activity in Dublin 15 and if she will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Gangland Crime (20 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I could not agree more with the Minister about what needs to be done in the long term in relation to this. Yet, unfortunately, at the moment, they do not have the resources. That covers every aspect of community activity. I have lived in Dublin 15 for the past 30 years and I have seen criminal gangs come and go. Unfortunately, we are in another age and era where there is a cycle of brutal...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: EU Funding (20 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 45. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the supports that are in place from her Department to assist organisations that do not have the capacity to apply for and manage EU funding. [26463/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Restorative Justice (20 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 172. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding that has been made available for community dialogues and restorative justice programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26462/24]

Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: Sinn Féin will be supporting this Bill. The charities sector plays a very important role in the provision of vital health, education, addiction and homeless services, community development and many other services in Ireland. The Bill has gone through very thorough pre-legislative scrutiny and many of the issues that were raised have been addressed. I thank groups such as The Wheel,...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (19 Jun 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 12. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount spent by the Defence Forces on purchasing military equipment from German-based companies in 2022, 2023 and for the first five months of 2024, in tabular form. [26318/24]