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Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Paul Donnelly: I welcome the extra funding for the social inclusion and community activation programme, SICAP. A period of catch-up is needed to deal with the issues around poverty, disadvantage and inclusion within our communities, due to the savage cuts of the past ten years carried out by Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. I have concerns about the stand-alone community centres fund. It is something...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Regulatory Bodies (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Donnelly: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 671 of 21 September 2021, the criteria under which criteria psychologists, who are awaiting regulation by CORU under the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005, given VAT exemption rated at 13.5% on earnings over €37,500; the reason that counsellors and psychotherapists who are awaiting regulation under...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Donnelly: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will seek State funding to the yellow flag programme run by an organisation (details supplied) to build a culturally competent and inclusive school environment. [49109/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Costs (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Donnelly: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) requires a €100 admission fee in order to apply for placement at the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49350/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (12 Oct 2021)

Paul Donnelly: 349. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will seek State funding to the yellow flag programme run by an organisation (details supplied) to build a culturally competent and inclusive school environment. [49110/21]

The National Youth Justice Strategy 2021-2027 and Supporting Community Safety: Statements (6 Oct 2021)

Paul Donnelly: I welcome the strategy and commend all those involved in producing it. If implemented, it will have a significant impact on young people at risk and help to divert them from criminal and antisocial behaviour. As a former co-ordinator of Meitheal and the child and family support networks, CFSNs, with Tusla, in the Dublin 17 area, I saw incredible results yielded by a parent and child led...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (6 Oct 2021)

Paul Donnelly: 6. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has the power to order data centres to turn to auxiliary power if the demand on the grid could cause potential blackouts. [48724/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (6 Oct 2021)

Paul Donnelly: 13. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on reports that MetroLink and elements of DART+ are due to be arbitrarily delayed for several years. [48723/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (5 Oct 2021)

Paul Donnelly: 577. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a matter regarding Covid-19 cases in schools (details supplied). [47596/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2021)

Paul Donnelly: I would like to raise the issue of Riversdale Community College. I visited the school in the last couple of weeks to check in on the works going on with Danu special school. To say I was shocked to see the condition of the school is an understatement. It resembles a building site with only one way in and one way out. This work was due to start in the summer but it appears now that it will...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2021)

Paul Donnelly: -----who can see the great work being done on the Danu special school that is being built at the moment in the same complex.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2021)

Paul Donnelly: It is going to be a brand new, up to the range-----

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2021)

Paul Donnelly: It is important that we get this done.

Afghanistan Crisis: Statements (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Donnelly: I echo the comments of previous Deputies about the Irish Refugee Council and some of the requests it has made with regard to this situation. We all have seen the horrors on our television screens. We have seen the desperation of people who are trying to get out of Afghanistan and who are facing the Taliban, particularly in the scenes at Kabul Airport in the final days of the American...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Donnelly: I have an email folder full of stories of ordinary people who are struggling to rent and buy at the moment. Some have been on social housing lists for more than ten years. Unfortunately, this is not a housing for all strategy, but more of the same failed Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael housing policies that created the crisis in the first place. A constituent wrote the following to me this...

Data Centre Moratorium: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Donnelly: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing forward this motion. We do not seem to have a coherent strategy on the development of this industry and its impact on our current electricity and water infrastructure. It seems planning applications are made and decided at local level in local authorities. How are we planning to reduce the use of fossil fuels to generate electricity at a time when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Donnelly: I thank the trade union representatives for their attendance and the way in which they explained how important the services are. It is very important that we try to get that message out there. The services are important for the workers, particularly those in Empower in my own area whom I met quite often, including at their recent protest. I fully support the pause to provide an opportunity...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Provision of Local Employment Services: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)

Paul Donnelly: Mr. Egan said the Department consulted and listened, contrary to the evidence that has been presented by workers, the representatives of trade union members who are here today, companies and elected members. Will he specifically point out what the Department included the tender that came directly from the feedback from those working in and employing people in the sector and those affected by...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Sep 2021)

Paul Donnelly: 344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide information on his Department's review of siting and size conditions for rooftop solar panels on homes and a review of exemptions for educational and community buildings as part of the current development of interim planning regulations; if he will provide information on the stated need to consider...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (28 Sep 2021)

Paul Donnelly: 767. To ask the Minister for Health the definitive timeframe and plan for the full reopening of adult day services in an area (details supplied). [46533/21]