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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Data (15 Jul 2025)

Paul Donnelly: 1063. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of WTE forensic accountants employed by Charities Regulator in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [39173/25]

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Donnelly: The fact of the matter is that normal working families are being affected by a cost-of-living crisis. This Government has lost control of it. Week on week, families see their shopping bills rise and rise, and the Government is burying its head in the sand, ignoring people's hardships and refusing to bring forward a cost-of-living package. Even the conscious shopper using the so-called...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Donnelly: I thank the witnesses for the presentations. I live about 700 yd or 800 yd away from the drone base in Millennium Park. I walk the park every day, so I see the drones every single day. There are currently six drones - they added one in the past couple of weeks - and because I am not part of the flight path, it does not directly come over our house unless it is delivering next door to us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Donnelly: It is the responsibility of Government, not private business, to legislate and the failure of Governments over the past couple of years to legislate on this is the reason we are all sitting here. We are not here talking about defibrillators and medicine but the commercial end of drone delivery and its impact on residents. Should Manna not hold off scaling up until legislation with proper...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Donnelly: Why are the spares not put out?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Donnelly: On the scaling up, Manna is only allowed four drones at the moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Donnelly: Is that across the Thirty-two counties or just the Twenty-Six Counties?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Donnelly: I wish to get back to the CCTV issue because I think we have fully addressed the noise issue - not satisfactorily, but I think we have exhausted it here today without the proper regulations and guidelines that need to be in place. I made a point about CCTV and an incident to the people who were before the committee previously. I spoke to Manna directly when I went to see Manna about it....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Paul Donnelly: What are the plans for 2026 and 2027? The company obviously has a business plan.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Donnelly: 271. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on regulatory framework governing drones used for commercial deliveries; the options that exist for residents to opt out of flight zones; and for an update on any other related information on committee discussions or ministerial action on this issue. [37450/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Donnelly: 379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will re-introduce the route for people who undertook an early childhood care bachelor's degree to attend a postgraduate course in a college (details supplied); and the supports he has put in place to help undergraduates progress from their early childhood care degree to furthering their studies to become a special education teacher....

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Donnelly: Last Sunday in Dublin West, I attended the anniversary of the genocide of 8,372 men and boys, some as young as 12 years of age, who were murdered by Serb forces. This year is the 30th anniversary. I will give a brief synopsis. Between April 1992 and 1993, Srebrenica and villages in the area held by Bosnian Muslims were constantly subjected to Serb military assaults, including artillery...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Donnelly: The last paragraph is slightly worrying because in the presentation that was given to us on Monday evening by the principal and the patron of the school, it was stated that the SENO gave a verbal commitment to the school that the deadline of 19 February would be waived for pupils in St. Mochta’s as classes were not sanctioned on this date. The principal met with all parents on 5 March...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Donnelly: I know the Minister of State is aware of the issue in St. Mochta’s National School and the two special classes. First and foremost, we should express our concern for the parents and children involved in this situation. St. Mochta’s agreed to open up two classes after long discussions and much dialogue with the NCSE - one in temporary accommodation in the library and the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Donnelly: 25. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an updated timeline for the full roll-out of contactless payment on Dublin Bus, and across the wider public transport network. [36258/25]

GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Donnelly: It is run by volunteers.

GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Donnelly: Volunteers did that for decades.

GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Donnelly: Look at Moore Street.

GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Donnelly: Has the Minister of State been down Moore Street recently?

GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2025)

Paul Donnelly: Has the Minister of State been down Moore Street recently?