Paul Donnelly

1457. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth the amount of funding for a School Completion Programme from 2010 to 2025 (details supplied), in tabular form. [26003/26]

1458. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide the criteria for the allocation of funding to each School Completion Programme in the State. [26004/26]

1508. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth the average age of school buses that have been part of the Bus Éireann fleet in each of the past three years, in tabular form. [26678/26]

1604. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the funding provided by Sport Ireland to Tennis Ireland in each of the years of 2024, 2025 and 2026, in tabular form. [26673/26]

1605. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport if Minister of State in his Department met with either the Thai transport minister or officials from any airline regarding discussing a proposal to have a direct flight from Dublin to Bangkok during his recent visit to Thailand [26674/26]

2163. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of indoor and outdoor firing ranges excluding firing ranges owned by Defence Forces that armed Gardaí have regular access for firearm training in 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form. [26676/26]

2164. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of Superintendents and Chief Superintendents within DMR underwent events, public order and public safety strategic commanders training course in each of the years of 2024, 2025 and to-date in 2026, in tabular form. [26677/26]

2408. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether the recently revised assessment of need framework limits or reduces access to cognitive assessment for children, including in cases where intellectual disability is not suspected. [24390/26]

2409. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the way in which the revised framework ensures that children with uneven developmental profiles, including those who may be gifted or twice-exceptional that is, children with both high ability and additional needs such as autism, ADHD, or dyslexia, will be appropriately identified within the system [24391/26]

2410. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality : whether her Department has conducted any impact assessment on how the revised model may affect the identification of children whose needs are masked by high cognitive ability or compensatory functioning. [24392/26]

2411. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the safeguards in place to prevent under-identification of such children, particularly in light of evidence that twice-exceptional children are already under-recognised within Irish education and disability services. [24393/26]

2412. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if access to cognitive or psychological assessment remains available where there is evidence of significant intra-individual discrepancy, asynchronous development, or unexplained underachievement. [24394/26]

2413. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the training or guidance is being provided to assessment officers and multidisciplinary teams to ensure that complex presentations, including masking and twice-exceptionality, are recognised under the revised model. [24395/26]

2414. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department intends to review the implementation of the revised assessment of need framework to ensure that no cohort of children is excluded from identification due to the streamlining of assessment processes. [24396/26]

2537. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if there will be a review of the ECCE eligibility cut-off dates to eliminate the unfair disadvantage faced by children born in early January (details supplied). [26031/26]

3275. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health if the HSE plans to run a recruitment campaign in the UK to attract qualified orthodontists to work within the Irish Public Health Services. [26684/26]

3276. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the improvements to Craniofacial Services within Public Health Services during 2026; and the additional revenue being provided towards these improvements. [26685/26]

3277. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons currently on the waiting list for lung transplant operation. [26686/26]

161. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Defence the number of Defence Forces personnel, by rank, that would be needed to fully train a new army cadetship class of 65 personnel. [18681/26]

237. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Transport if Irish Rail will cover the costs in the interim to shorten the gap between platform five and train carriages at Connolly Station, as the gap between some train carriages and this platform at this station is quite big. [18678/26]

238. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Transport the number of Bus Éireann PSO double decker coaches, double decker buses that came into the fleet in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; the number that were withdrawn from the fleet during this period, in tabular form. [18679/26]

239. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Transport the steps that CIÉ are taking to advertise for new retail units to open at Busáras Station. [18680/26]

504. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the number of WTE staff, by job title, and gender, employed by the OPW working at Dublin Castle as of 3 March 2026, in tabular form. [18682/26]

561. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the number of WTE staff, by job title, and gender, working in the events and festival department of Fáilte Ireland as of 3 March 2026, in tabular form. [18689/26]

562. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the additional steps that Tourism Ireland will take to increase the number of US and UK tourists coming to Ireland during 2026. [18690/26]