Results 41-60 of 330 for going forward speaker:Catherine Connolly

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (17 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...pseudo-condition "parental alienation" in family law. Deputy Sean Sherlock - to discuss the lack of additional needs education units and supports in north Cork. Deputy Alan Dillon - to discuss the Government's role under broadcasting legislation in protecting our national cultural and sporting events. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - to discuss when the new elective hospital in Cork will...

Control of Exports Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...the implications of that and which countries we are singling out and which other countries we are not singling out and so forth. I do not see the word "ethics" mentioned anywhere. There was a golden opportunity lost there. That is brought home to me all the more because the end of the opening statement that was given on 29 September 2021 states: The Department has been engaging with...

Food Costs and High Grocery Bills: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Given that this is a Sinn Féin motion, and Sinn Féin has the right to reply at the end, I will go back to allow others to contribute. I am not setting a precedent for the future, nor am I setting a precedent on behalf of the Ceann Comhairle. I will go back now to the Social Democrats and work forward from Deputy Cairns.

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...I welcome that approximately €12 billion has been paid out over the past year under a number of schemes, but they were all one-off, piecemeal schemes with no overall policy setting out where we were going. We have faced crisis after crisis. We started when we declared a climate emergency and a biodiversity emergency. The housing crisis existed before I entered the Dáil and...

Deployment of Naval Service Vessel to Participate in Operation Irini: Motion (25 Apr 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to participate in the debate. I will start with context and numbers. Since search and rescue, SAR, under Operation Sophia was ended in March 2019, 8,059 people have gone missing in the Mediterranean. If we take a slightly longer period, 26,377 migrants are missing in the Mediterranean as of 19 April 2014. Some 619 people are missing to date, including 58...

Report of the Independent Review Group on Dignity and Equality Issues in the Defence Forces: Statements (30 Mar 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I am sure the Women of Honour and the good members of the Army would forgive me for not wasting time on praise because I have only five minutes on a report with 100 pages, along with 12 appendices running to 294 pages. I have read the 100 pages but have not read all the appendices yet. This comes on top of the suffering and pain of numerous women and men who were ignored when they made...

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Mar 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...in hospital. This one has 268 pages, ten Parts, 293 sections and seven Schedules. The explanatory memorandum alone is 58 pages long. I welcome the Bill and acknowledge the huge work that has gone into its preparation. I acknowledge that there was pre-legislative scrutiny of the Bill as I often condemn when it is not done, so well done on that. As usual, I thank the Library and Research...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Mar 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...that accident and emergency charges remain in place. I do not understand the logic behind the view that if we took away the charges, accident and emergency departments would be overwhelmed. Most people are reasonable and rational. A few weeks ago, my partner and I tried to avoid going to the hospital as best we could. Most people who are reasonable do that. I do not agree with the...

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...;d ó 1958. Sin thart ar 65 bliain. Le linn na tréimhse sin, ní féidir luach a chur ar na seirbhísí agus an tacaíocht atá tugtha ag na comhair chreidmheasa do chosmhuintir na tíre. Tiocfaimid ar ais maidir leis na sonraí ach go hiomlán is céim dhearfach í seo. Bheinn ag súil gurb í an chéad chéim chun...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...siar. I am wearing a jacket that is ill-fitting. I wear it out of respect for a woman who spent time in a mother and baby home. I wear it to be in touch with her spirit. She was allergic to the doublespeak and hypocrisy that this Government and previous Governments have persisted with. Perhaps the fact that it is ill-fitting stands as a metaphor for the ill-fitting scheme the...

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Here we go again. I had a young woman in my office this week. She was full of enthusiasm that there was a new movement on the ground. I actually held my head in exhaustion at the enthusiasm which is completely unaligned with what this Government and every other Government has done. I thank Sinn Féin again for bringing forward this motion. Obviously, the ban on evictions must be...

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...less than two and a half minutes. I will not take a breath and will stay focused. I have never read a more self-serving report that serves the narrative that has already been determined by the Government, namely that it did nothing and naughty people came forward to look for benefits that they did not deserve and were not based on legislation. Not alone is it done that way, it is also...

Mortgage Interest Relief Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Gabhaim comhghairdeas leis an Aire Stáit nua. Ní bhfuair mé deis é sin a rá go dtí seo agus go n-éirí léi ina ról nua. I thank Sinn Féin, as usual, for tabling this motion which has merit. While I have some concerns, it is time-limited, targeted, capped and it is for family homes. Why does the proposal have merit? We are talking...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...Devices) Bill 2022. The Minister's speech failed utterly to ease out the balance that must be made between the fundamental right to privacy and the infringement, intrusion or invasion of that right for the common good or public safety. That is a very delicate teasing out. Top of the list has to be the fundamental right to privacy. We take that away at our peril. When we take it away,...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...s sheer frustration, upset and disbelief. I lost a little patience with someone I talked to yesterday because I thought that person was still hopeful. I was left in the position of saying we will go through a charade tomorrow with these amendments. I then thought that was not correct and I should not do that, but it was a reflection of my own frustration. People came to Leinster House...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...I wanted that in the context of many reports, some of which can be seen here. In fairness to the visitors in the Gallery and to Catherine Corless in Tuam, without whom there would be nothing, this goes back to 2012, with eight years from 2012 to 2020 and three more since. During that time, we had various reports. I do not want to keep repeating this. This is our last opportunity unless...

Council Development Levies: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Deputy Collins and her office for the work that has gone into this. I support the motion. I welcome that the Government appears not to have tabled an amendment and that it will accept the motion. This is positive. I am struck by the difference in language on this. I will go local for a minute and I will come back to the point on language. Lately all of the Deputies in Galway...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...an athbhreithniú neamhspleách atá ar siúl le bliain anuas faoi stiúir an Bhreithimh Bronagh O'Hanlon. Cá bhfuil an tuarascáil atá geallta? Laistigh de na téarmaí tagartha, dúradh linn go mbeadh an tuarascáil críochnaithe roimh dheireadh na bliana. Tá deireadh na bliana imithe agus tá bliain nua ann. Cá...

Inshore Fishing: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jan 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...this and I fully support it. They have highlighted the crisis the industry is in and the urgent need. They have identified a figure which is very different in the scheme of money given out by the Government often unaccounted for and without transparency and accountability coming back. The Minister's comments to the effect that it is the first time a group has brought a Private Members'...

Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Second Stage (24 Jan 2023)

Catherine Connolly: .... But still today, this measure is seen as a magic solution that departs from conviction that low deceased donation rates result only from a negative public attitude. The authors of the study go on to say that we should never blame the public. What came out through the committee hearing, which I will come back to, was the absolute need for infrastructure. There was some disagreement...