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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Donnelly: 1. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to provide an update on the progress of the community recognition fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49723/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Donnelly: Could the Minister of State provide an update on the progress of the community recognition fund and make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Donnelly: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I acknowledge that the fund will go some way towards building community supports and community integration. It somewhat recognises the generosity of many of our communities throughout the State. The very fact that the fund was put in place acknowledges the pressure on facilities owing to the huge number of asylum seekers, refugees and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Donnelly: Again, I welcome the initiative. However, I wish to issue a note of caution and concern regarding the significant number of people coming into the country, particularly Ukrainians. Somewhere in the region of 500 to 800 are coming in per week. Those seeking international protection and asylum seekers are coming in as well. A very large number of people are coming in. There are areas...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Library Projects (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Donnelly: This question is on the need to provide capital funding for new library buildings. Will the Minister make a statement on the matter?

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Paul Donnelly: I also thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this motion. I thank all the workers who are going into people's homes as we speak and providing incredible support to those who need that help. I know that from personal experience. I talked to such a worker in my mother's home yesterday morning. She was coming into the house to help my mother. The work they do is absolutely incredible...

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Paul Donnelly: Road safety is a massive issue for everyone. The recent statistics on recent road deaths are absolutely frightening. In my constituency there are high-performance cars at the M3 garage in Hollywoodrath. I sympathise with those who want to show off their cars. They have taxed and insured them and they spend a lot of time and energy on them, but they are let down by idiots who drive their...

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Paul Donnelly: Yet again there is no sign of light at the end of the tunnel for those workers and families who continue to struggle with the crippling cost of energy on top of the continuing rise in the cost of living. Many Deputies, possibly including the Minister of State, are getting emails from constituents who are worried about their bills for the upcoming winter. They are worried about turning on...

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Paul Donnelly: Sometimes we get bogged down and lost in numbers, statistics and figures. We hear of millions and billions. I listened earlier to a report from Zara King on Virgin Media. It frightened me to my core and angered me. Many of us have elderly parents who could be in the position she described. Ms King wanted to illustrate that a particular lady was active and how healthy she was when she got...

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Paul Donnelly: She has a copy. She should read that book. The stories are heartbreaking, but also inspiring.

Situation in the Middle East and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Donnelly: The people of Gaza need our support now. They need it this evening, in the next hour and minute, because they are dying in their hundreds. These are men, women and children, innocent civilians, who have no connection with Hamas which perpetrated brutal, violent and unjustifiable acts last weekend. There is no justification for the killing of civilians on either side. All acts of violence...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Oct 2023)

Paul Donnelly: I raise the issue of the significant increase in the number of cars stolen throughout the State. We have seen a surge in Dublin 15 and Dublin 7 in particular. It is many years since I have seen joyriding and cars being burnt out on a such a scale. There is a solution, however. Most, if not all, of the cars are imported from Japan and have no alarms or immobilisers, making them incredibly...

Sustainability of Stability of Services Provided by Section 39 and Section 56 Organisations on behalf of the HSE and Tusla: Statements (12 Oct 2023)

Paul Donnelly: I welcome the National Federation of Voluntary Bodies, the workers in the Gallery and those who are looking in. Sometimes I think I live in a parallel universe. I was sitting here listening to Deputies McGuinness and McAuliffe, who have stated, and I am paraphrasing, that it has not caught up on them, they are not surprised that people are taking this action and it is disgraceful - all...

Sustainability of Stability of Services Provided by Section 39 and Section 56 Organisations on behalf of the HSE and Tusla: Statements (12 Oct 2023)

Paul Donnelly: ----section 56 and section 10 organisations?

Sustainability of Stability of Services Provided by Section 39 and Section 56 Organisations on behalf of the HSE and Tusla: Statements (12 Oct 2023)

Paul Donnelly: Not once was it mentioned.

Sustainability of Stability of Services Provided by Section 39 and Section 56 Organisations on behalf of the HSE and Tusla: Statements (12 Oct 2023)

Paul Donnelly: I did not interrupt Deputy McGuinness. Last week and over the last couple of years since I have been in this Chamber, I, like many others, have raised the issue of section 39, section 56 and section 10 organisations. We have raised it for years, on occasion after occasion. We met the workers and the unions yesterday in the audiovisual room in Leinster House and they were angry that there...

Sustainability of Stability of Services Provided by Section 39 and Section 56 Organisations on behalf of the HSE and Tusla: Statements (12 Oct 2023)

Paul Donnelly: All I can say is that I was at the meeting.

Sustainability of Stability of Services Provided by Section 39 and Section 56 Organisations on behalf of the HSE and Tusla: Statements (12 Oct 2023)

Paul Donnelly: Deputies McAuliffe and McGuinness were not there.

Sustainability of Stability of Services Provided by Section 39 and Section 56 Organisations on behalf of the HSE and Tusla: Statements (12 Oct 2023)

Paul Donnelly: Deputy McAuliffe was not there.

Sustainability of Stability of Services Provided by Section 39 and Section 56 Organisations on behalf of the HSE and Tusla: Statements (12 Oct 2023)

Paul Donnelly: There is no doubt that people will ask why the workers are on strike. Why would people who are looking after people who are so vulnerable withdraw their labour? It is precisely because they care so deeply about the people whom they care for, including those in drug services, disability services, homelessness services and section 56 organisations, whom I have worked with previously; those...