Results 61-80 of 330 for going forward speaker:Catherine Connolly

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Sinn Féin and I support the motion. However, having been elected in 2016, I really wish I was here with a motion from the Government and an update on Sláintecare and the primary care strategy in order that we could all participate. We have been through this song and dance, have we not, at every single election? Public health, housing and transport, dealing with climate...

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Jan 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Anybody can make a mistake. I have certainly made mistakes. It is about how one handles those mistakes. If we are looking for perfection in politicians, we are not going to get anyone to put themselves forward. However, how we deal with mistakes when they are made and the consequences of those mistakes are what is important so that trust is restored. I say that conscious of tribunals in...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Once again, we are rushing through important legislation in a busy week during Christmas. We did this two years ago. We have done it many times but one stands out, which is the ratification of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA, and we saw where that ended up. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan already referred to the change in the quorum, which was rushed through and of course, to...

Abuse at Certain Educational Institutions: Statements (24 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...the redress board we set up in parallel with the Ryan investigation that has been quoted so often here today, you will see that we made it an offence for people to open their mouths about what they got as an award. We made criminals of them. We then moved forward to the Magdalen laundries redress scheme, the operation of which the Ombudsman described as "maladministration". We also set...

Transport in Galway and Other Areas: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: That is good news, so we might be able to talk about how the motion will be implemented. The motion arises from the latest OECD report, Redesigning Ireland's Transport for Net Zero: Towards Systems that Work for People and the Planet, which I am sure the Minister has read. I have read it. It is just one in a series of reports issued nationally and internationally of which the Minister is...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...that Catherine Corless, local human rights activist and historian, started looking into her family tree and began to discover various things. We are extremely grateful to her. That is ten years ago if my sums are right. I will come back to her. Prior to that, we had many indications from many different places that something was very wrong. I come from a city of institutions, Galway...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: This Independent is entirely on her own for ten minutes. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward the motion and giving us an opportunity to put the spotlight on public transport. I welcome the amendment proposed by Solidarity-People Before Profit. I hope Sinn Féin will consider it. I will come back to the western rail corridor, which is given the thumbs-up in the motion, and that...

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...said about apologies. At the most basic level, public apologies have been placed on a statutory footing in other jurisdictions. The motivations for public apologies are: generally both backward- and forward-looking, acknowledging past harms but also signalling a better future. The backward-looking elements include the taking of responsibility for past human rights violations, the...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome this legislation and the opportunity to speak on it. I thank the Library and Research Service for its detailed paper on the Bill and for the brief we got, which has been very helpful. It has been said many times what the Bill involves. There are really six kernel points that have been set out for us. The Bill proposes to give effect to them. First, it makes amendments to the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regional Development (4 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...really significant, being three times higher than the corresponding gap in 2010. This is all set out. The Minister has seen the submission. The assembly is clearly pointing out that, instead of going forward, the north-west region has gone backwards. It is important for the reports of the Commission and the Minister to be published. We will then be able to see whether the money is...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...Seamus Heaney. I believe Seamus Heaney was actually paraphrasing Václav Havel, the former president of Czechoslovakia. He might have been better quoting from a poem by Seamus Heaney if we are going to quote him. I am reluctantly quoting because I agree with a previous speaker today that he is misquoted and misused in the Dáil, but I think it is particularly relevant. A quote...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (21 Sep 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...xe1;bhar seo a phiocadh. Táim ag díriú isteach inniu ar chúrsaí uisce, nó easpa uisce, i dtrí cheantar i gContae na Gaillimhe, sé sin, Inis Bó Finne, An Spidéal - i ndáiríre ó na Foraí Maola go dtí An Tulan agus níos faide siar - agus Inis Oírr. De réir mar a thuigim, tá dea-scéal ann...

An Bord Pleanála: Statements (15 Sep 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ..., without the institution being able to analyse itself and come back. Suddenly we have an announcement of 24 staff, I think. It begs the question as to how the board was supposed to function. I am going to ignore the allegations for the moment and leave them to one side and look at processes and procedures. How was it supposed to function if suddenly we can give 24 staff? How was it...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Institutional Burials Act 2022 (Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam) Order 2022: Motion (14 Sep 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...has been referred to. As I am wont to do, I will put it in context. The expert technical group's report entitled Options and Appropriate Courses of Action was published in December 2017. The Government announced a forensic excavation in October 2018. The then Minister, Katherine Zappone, made some comments about taking the right actions. In November 2021, when nothing had happened,...

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...work on the ground is recognised and is not wasted. There are more and more voices on their side in the Dáil. I know it is slow, but they are making progress. This motion is a basic one. I understand that the Government is accepting it and that there is no amendment to it. The motion notes our legal obligations, it acknowledges what has been done so far with the reports, the...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...that Ireland signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) in 2007 and ratified the UNCRPD in 2018; - that, notwithstanding a commitment in the Programme for Government: Our Shared Future in 2020, Ireland has not yet signed or ratified the Optional Protocol to the UNCRPD, making Ireland one of just three European Union member states to have taken...

Special Educational Needs: Statements (16 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...of the Constitution, as the Minister of State knows better then me, regarding primary school education. It does not depend on ability. Unfortunately, in the O'Donoghue case back in the 1990s, the Government sought to argue that some children were not educable. We have moved a long way from that, but that is the background here. I will return to that in respect of the July provision. We...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...on the Bill and welcome the fact that I have time to do so. It is the first time there has been time to consider the Bill. It was published on Monday and we are discussing it today. The note we got from the Oireachtas Library today points out that its staff did not have enough time to devote to the Bill. Let us place this in perspective. The 2015 Bill represented a seismic change, in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Harbours and Piers (31 May 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Táimid ar ais arís ar Inis Meáin agus an chéibh ansin, an Caladh Mór. Is í mo cheist arís agus i gcónaí ná cad é stádas na forbartha atá beartaithe? Tá a fhios agam go raibh an tAire ar an oileán ach cá bhfuilimid faoi láthair? What is the status of the promised development of an Caladh Mór? Where is...

Strike Action by the Medical Laboratory Scientists Association: Motion [Private Members] (25 May 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...The Minister’s speech should have dealt with the background to this. It contained a heading entitled “Background”, and I was full of hope that he would give us the background, analyse what had happened and tell us what he was going to do. Instead, there was nothing. I have a report in front of me. It has 112 paragraphs and 64 difficult recommendations written by...