Results 821-840 of 2,245 for speaker:Paul Donnelly

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 71. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the plans that are being put in place to increase funding to CSPs when the new minimum wage legislation is put in place as a lot of projects are struggling to meet the current minimum wage. [4302/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I ask the Minister of State about the plans that are being put in place to increase funding for community services programmes, CSPs, when the new minimum wage legislation is put in place as I hear that a lot of projects would struggle to meet the current minimum wage.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I welcome the news because I know a number of the projects that were in touch were concerned. I heard that one project faced a €13,000 increase with regard to the minimum wage. The new needs-based model is important and it is working. I have said on numerous occasions - and still believe - that we should move to the model whereby every project is brought up to the minimum wage in...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 119. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if extra funding can be provided by Pobal through the community service programme to an organisation (details supplied). [3992/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 428. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are any plans to set up dedicated scrambler apprehension units in urban areas, properly resourced units with the vehicles and equipment needed for their role. [4307/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 429. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there any plans for the use of drones in the following and apprehension of illegally driven scramblers in parks and estates. [4308/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 430. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are any plans to equip the cycle mounted gardaí with electric bikes. [4309/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Primary Care Centres (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 573. To ask the Minister for Health to make a statement on the closing of the primary care centre in Tyrrelstown, Dublin 15 and lack of GP practices taking new patients in the general Dublin 15 area.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4305/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Hospital Services (30 Jan 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 574. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the Connolly Hospital endoscopy unit closure; can he look at reopening the endoscopy unit or increasing bed capacity in Connolly Hospital to avoid shutting down day services to manage inpatients. [4306/24]

Charities (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Jan 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I thank the Minister for bringing forward the Bill. Sinn Féin supports its overall purpose and I will address some of the issues that have been brought forward during the pre-legislative process and identified by others. I found the pre-legislative process and the committee meetings very useful. I thank everyone who engaged with them, including the Charities Regulator, the ICCL and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Paul Donnelly: Today, a call was made for sick patients to go to GPs and other pathways to try to avoid emergency departments. Unfortunately, in Tyrrelstown in my constituency, their GP clinic will close in February and, as we know, there is overwhelming evidence that people are dying in emergency departments. Let me give an example. The Tánaiste talked about primary care, early diagnosis and access...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Paul Donnelly: That is what I have been told.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Paul Donnelly: In Connolly Hospital.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Paul Donnelly: It has been reduced.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Paul Donnelly: How is this being communicated? Is there a plan to communicate the message that this significant change is coming down the road?

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Paul Donnelly: The buying up of homes by international vulture funds in Balgriffin is not a new phenomenon. I was in this Chamber in 2021 when a similar-style fund took 121 homes off the market in Bay Meadows in my constituency of Dublin West. That was 121 homes taken out of the reach of any first-time buyer wishing to purchase a family home. Words are important here and I use the word "home" because...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I commend the gardaí in Dublin West on the hard work they are doing and the commitment they have, particularly in the difficult circumstances since the horrific murders on Christmas Eve. However, I want to raise the chronic issue of the lack of Garda numbers, which is affecting the confidence of people in Dublin West in the ability of the State to provide a service. Confidence in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Donnelly: To start, I wish to pass on my condolences for Mr. Paul Kelly, his family, friends and colleagues. This is very sad news. I have a couple of questions. Some of them follow on from Deputy Ó Cuív's questions. I will give two examples. In one, a constituent of mine contacted me regarding his mother, who was on pay-as-you-go tariffs for both electricity and gas. When he did an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Paul Donnelly: It related to the increase in rents. It is rare, but I have seen a couple of renovictions where people had to leave properties. I cited an example where rents had doubled. I do not know whether this is a matter for the SEAI. If we are going to consider giving substantial grants to private landlords, though, it needs to be stitched in that rents do not increase.