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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Personal Public Service Numbers (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Donnelly: I wish to ask the Minister for her views on the delay in issuing PPS numbers by her Department and the plans that are in place to tackle this delay.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Personal Public Service Numbers (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Donnelly: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I accept the difficulties that have been experienced by the Department over the past six or seven months, in particular in respect of the crisis in Ukraine. I commend the workers in the Department who have been operating in very difficult circumstances. An Irish citizen who worked in the UAE came home to get a job. We are asking people to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Personal Public Service Numbers (13 Oct 2022)

Paul Donnelly: I accept the response from the Minister of State.

National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) (Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Donnelly: I am delighted to co-sign this Bill with Deputies Daly and Cronin. I was a child welfare officer in my local GAA club, St. Peregrines, and I know the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, was a child welfare officer in his club, St. Brigid's, in the same constituency. I am sure he understands the predicament and how difficult it is. I fully support and agree with the Garda vetting process...

Community and Voluntary Sector Workers: Motion [Private Members] (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Donnelly: I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this motion. We will not have a community and voluntary sector if the pay and conditions of these workers are not dealt with, similarly to how the public service was dealt with. As someone who served as a member of a board for many years, I remember how, before 2011, people started off on the same pay. That link was broken and has never been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Donnelly: Go raibh maith agat Leas-Chathaoirleach. I thank the Minister of State for coming here today. It has been a really useful process and shows the value of the committee. The pre-legislative scrutiny has been really useful, particularly for me anyway in getting my head around this. On the Charities Regulator's input last week, many people were really reassured listening to how the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Donnelly: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Donnelly: A certain credibility is provided when an organisation gets charitable status. We have to be conscious that this lends credibility to an organisation. I appreciate the Minister of State's answer; gabhaim buíochas leis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Donnelly: On the issue of significant events, is it going to be prescriptive? Is it going to be a case of this is what we deem to be significant events or will it be these are the three we believe will be the most significant events but there could be others we have not identified but we will work through them when we identify them? I am trying to clarify if it will be prescriptive. The big concern...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Charities (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Paul Donnelly: Okay.

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Oct 2022)

Paul Donnelly: I echo the concerns that have been expressed about the members of the Travelling community and some tenants who may not see this money. I say to Deputy Ó Cathasaigh that the Sinn Féin position is that a price cap, as we have clearly stated, must go hand in hand with a windfall tax on the profits of the energy companies. While this Bill will be welcomed by many ordinary workers and...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Oct 2022)

Paul Donnelly: Not if there is a wealth tax.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Paul Donnelly: In Dublin 15 there is no emergency accommodation. Would the Taoiseach support emergency planning legislation similar to that being used for the Ukrainian refugees and modular housing in local authorities like Fingal County Council so that we can house people who are currently facing a notice to quit in coming months?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Paul Donnelly: Yes, I have seen them.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Paul Donnelly: More important is the emergency planning legislation that is being used for Ukrainian refugees.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 Oct 2022)

Paul Donnelly: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide details including the location, completion timeline and patronage of the new post primary school (details supplied) in Dublin 15. [49643/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (11 Oct 2022)

Paul Donnelly: 228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage of east-bound flights on runway 10 in Dublin Airport that do not follow their designated flight-path; and the percentage of flights which deviate from their flight-path leaving Dublin Airport and fly over the zone between Ongar and Lohunda in Dublin 15. [49719/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Voluntary Sector (11 Oct 2022)

Paul Donnelly: 808. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide all funding streams available to the community and voluntary sector; and the parameters and opening and closing dates for applications for same in tabular form. [49777/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Citizens Information Services (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Donnelly: I note a couple of things in the Minister of State's statement, particularly with regard to the decision-making process. It is stated very clearly that this is a group of independent bodies that acted jointly and came out with exactly the same strategy at exactly the same time. There was obviously very significant co-ordination on this matter between the board and those independent bodies....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Citizens Information Services (5 Oct 2022)

Paul Donnelly: I wish to raise the issue of the Citizens Information Board and paid employees and volunteers in an office setting, a matter I have tried to get on the agenda for quite a while. As people are aware, the Citizens Information Board adopted a policy whereby full-time office staff must be fully paid employees and volunteers were given what they described as menial jobs in the offices....