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Roadmap for Living with Covid-19: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Paul Donnelly: First, I pay tribute to all the front-line workers and all those who have been working so hard over the past number of months. I express sympathy again to the family and friends of those who have passed way and those who have suffered throughout this pandemic and crisis. Covid-19 has seen the decimation of many small businesses across the State, certainly across my constituency. I have...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: Rail Services Provision (6 Oct 2020)

Paul Donnelly: I firmly believe that the process involved in selecting the preferred options and the consultation process are significantly flawed. I will give a couple of examples. First, I welcome the DART+ Maynooth–Dunboyne line. There is no doubt that the rail transport system for the whole community along that line will be transformed. I did not receive a single email, telephone call or...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: Rail Services Provision (6 Oct 2020)

Paul Donnelly: I thank the Minister. I am a little disappointed in that there is no commitment to ask Irish Rail to hold off until that meeting can be held. I accept that we are not living in normal circumstances, but this is important. This is a major project and we cannot get it wrong. I would like to mention a couple of things. The Fingal County Development Plan 2017-2023 includes two local...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: Rail Services Provision (6 Oct 2020)

Paul Donnelly: Can we have a conversation about putting in place funding for professional help for local communities?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (6 Oct 2020)

Paul Donnelly: 467. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria for school transport to be provided to a Gaelscoil (details supplied). [28591/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (6 Oct 2020)

Paul Donnelly: 808. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of emergency funding provided to community projects since March 2020, by name of the project, sector and type of funding in tabular form. [28284/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (6 Oct 2020)

Paul Donnelly: 809. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of emergency funding provided to social inclusion projects since March 2020, in tabular form. [28285/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Discussion (7 Oct 2020)

Paul Donnelly: I have a couple of questions. One relates to people who are on the southern side of the Border but living in the North and their social welfare payments. How will that work post Brexit? Head 15 provides for the Minister to provide for transfer of data to the UK by regulation for the purposes of carrying out the functions of the Act. The data would be exchanged by relevant officers and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Discussion (7 Oct 2020)

Paul Donnelly: This week the British Parliament is discussing what some people see as the most draconian legislation that has ever been seen for the use of murder, rape and sexual assault by British state security services. I am deeply concerned. What protections do we have to ensure any data or that type of information being passed over on individuals from the Twenty-six Counties do not get into the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Oct 2020)

Paul Donnelly: The programme for Government pledges to support local drug and alcohol task forces to help them identify needs in the community. I was a member of a drugs task force in the very early days and for several periods since then, until quite recently. I remember the exciting days when the community felt its voice was being heard. That has sadly been lost in the past ten years. Can the...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development, and the Islands (Further Revised) (14 Oct 2020)

Paul Donnelly: I am a townie and I am coming at this from a different perspective. I am from the inner city of Dublin originally and now live in Blanchardstown, which has a small rural hinterland in The Ward. We are talking here about connectivity but only in terms of broadband and not in terms of how people get from A to B. Deputy Ó Cuiv referenced roads and I am interested in public transport in...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development, and the Islands (Further Revised) (14 Oct 2020)

Paul Donnelly: I have a number of questions. Will I go through them all and then the Minister of State can come back?

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development, and the Islands (Further Revised) (14 Oct 2020)

Paul Donnelly: That is no problem. I have raised projects under subhead B12, the community services programme, on several occasions with regard to my area but it will be relevant to others. Many of these social enterprises are under real pressure. Their income has been decimated over the past seven months. Now, after being closed for months, they are operating at 30% or 40% capacity. The funding that is...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development, and the Islands (Further Revised) (14 Oct 2020)

Paul Donnelly: I had a question on applications for business grants and so on. Some new processes were introduced in the budget.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development, and the Islands (Further Revised) (14 Oct 2020)

Paul Donnelly: It could be forwarded to the committee.

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development, and the Islands (Further Revised) (14 Oct 2020)

Paul Donnelly: There are couple of issues I would like to highlight. I have mentioned subhead B11, the community enhancement programme, on several occasions. A grant of €2 million has been made. I know of two community centres in my own community that are in need of 40% of that. One is at risk of closing because it is in such poor condition. It is one of those community centres and parish halls...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development, and the Islands (Further Revised) (14 Oct 2020)

Paul Donnelly: I was community volunteering co-ordinator for St. Peregrines GAA. Volunteering was structured and organised fantastically through Fingal County Council. We overcame one issue, which always has puzzled me. I worked previously for Tusla, and in one year I was Garda vetted on five occasions. I was smiling in respect of the volunteer list. I wondered how we were going to get those people...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development, and the Islands (Further Revised) (14 Oct 2020)

Paul Donnelly: In response to what Deputy Ó Cuív said, I have been involved in community development all my life. A strategic decision made somewhere to take community development out of the community and put it into local authorities and partnerships. That was fine, and some of them have worked very well but, in some ways, it has removed that link with the community. I will provide the example...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Estimates for Public Services 2020
Vote 42 – Rural and Community Development, and the Islands (Further Revised) (14 Oct 2020)

Paul Donnelly: On the charities sector, I have looked at some of the feedback coming in on the budget. There is a concern that their fundraising has fallen off a cliff. We can see where, for example, the Darkness into Light event did not happen, and millions of euro are being lost. I am concerned that many of these services provide important and vital services for and in the community. Some of these...

Ministerial Power (Repeal) (Ban Co-Living and Build to Rent) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2020)

Paul Donnelly: This Bill is very simple and the decision to be made is all the simpler because Fianna Fáil and the Green Party both opposed co-living in no uncertain terms when in opposition. The Minister of State's Government colleagues from my area, the Minister Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy Roderic O'Gorman, and the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, both vehemently opposed the co-living...