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Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I welcome the recent Garda action against scramblers and quads in Tallaght, Ballymun and Limerick. However, it is just a drop in the ocean in terms of the problems and dangers on the roads that these vehicles, which mostly young people drive, pose. Two weeks ago, I was cycling up Dame Street and watched as three scramblers came down the street on one wheel. That is one of the main streets...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I welcome the U-turn, flip-flop or withdrawal or whatever word the Minister wants to use with regard to this Green Paper. First and foremost, the biggest congratulations must go to the disability activists who, from the very start, feared the direction of this Green Paper. For me, it really brought up the old saying, "When England sneezes, Ireland catches a cold." With this, we can say...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: Go raibh maith agat. I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Following on from that previous question, the Parliamentary Budget Office showed two consecutive years of real wage decline in 2022 and 2023. Projections now indicate that workers relying on State pensions and other welfare supports will be worse off at the end of 2024 than when this Government came to power in 2020. I...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I thank Mr. Nugent.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: Even around the issue of demographics, there is the interesting question of immigration. The projections for population growth over the next number of years are going in that direction, so it seems odd to argue against it in the context of the demographics issue. I find it pretty puzzling that that is being used. We know that when immigration increases, people get work, input to the...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: Interestingly, more and more people in their 50s and their 60s are coming to my constituency office having received a notice to quit or a significant rent increase. They may be retired or may have had to leave work early because of illness, etc. They do not have the ability to pay the mortgage they are still paying or to pay their rent. We are seeing that more and more. It is a really sad...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report on Indexation of the Taxation and Social Protection System: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: The issue of the pandemic was raised earlier. When the first pandemic payment was announced it was the basic €203 a week. There was absolute uproar from people who argued they cannot be expected to live on this. Very quickly there was a U-turn, a flip-flop, whatever you want to call it, and it went up to €350. That was a classic example of when everybody looked at this and...

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: This Government needs to end the recruitment embargo and implement a workforce plan for the health service. People shake their heads in disbelief at the recruitment embargo. The Government needs to train more radiation therapists and hire the staff needed to utilise all radiotherapy equipment. It is a scandal that expensive life-saving equipment is lying idle due to staff shortages. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (16 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the progress made in relation to guidance counsellors for post-primary schools in the context of the public consultation on the national policy group on lifelong guidance. [16269/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (16 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a survey by her Department completed by 100% of the membership of an organisation (details supplied) in relation to providing a pathway to the appropriate route of registration for those who are working as guidance counsellors in post-primary schools without the specific qualifications required to register as a post-primary...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (16 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 332. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the already apparent lack of secondary school places available in the Dublin 15 and 7 areas for this coming September; if there is a plan to provide more spaces; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14021/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 333. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the chronic lack of school places for children with autism in the Dublin 7 and 15 areas. [14333/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on State Pension and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I have a few observations. A matter alluded to by several people is that it is becoming increasingly difficult and people are coming to us in absolute frustration because they cannot get an answer from the Department and they cannot get a person to speak to. They are using our offices to try to get an answer after they have submitted documents. It has got worse, especially since the...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 153. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if officials from his Department and or military officials have met with senior officials from Airbus to discuss the progression of the new AirBusC295W aircraft coming into the Air Corps in 2025 in the past six months. [14786/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 154. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of females that joined Defence Forces from each general service recruitment campaign or cadet service recruitment campaigns in the years of 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [14787/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the delivery of additional carriages for Dublin-Rosslare Europort rail line. [14788/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated cost in 2024 if the security personnel budget onboard the LUAS increased by 33%. [14789/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 268. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number and percentage of buses in the Bus Éireann fleet (excluding school transport scheme) and in the Dublin Bus Fleet that are aged over 12 years old as of 2 April 2024; and the number of new buses for both companies that would be needed to be provided each year to ensure all buses in the fleet are less then 12 years old....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 305. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of final demands issued by the Revenue Commissioners and the Sheriff referrals over the value of €10,000 for 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [14798/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Staff (9 Apr 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 385. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of WTE senior digital forensic investigators and senior analysist investigators both at the grades of HEO working for the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission in the years of 2023 and to-date in 2024, in tabular form. [14795/24]