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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 5. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 169 of 18 May 2023, if he has received the report in respect of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023 from the Galway social housing task force; if so, if he will provide a copy of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32786/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Baineann mo cheist le cúrsaí tithíochta i nGaillimh - tá sé níos cirte easpa tithíochta i nGaillimh a rá - agus an tascfhórsa a bunaíodh breis agus ceithre bliana ó shin. Níl tásc ná tuairisc ar an tuarascáil. Níl aon tuarascáil feicthe againn fós. My question relates to the task force that was set up...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: We have a report. After that statement, clarity left the room. There will be further negotiation and the Minister of State is going to go back to the task force. When am I going to see a copy of the report? The purpose of the task force was to analyse the problem in Galway. Let me read from the minutes of the most recent task force meeting, where it was stated that emergency...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I have not just raised this recently. I have raised it consistently since the task force was set up. A task force was set up because of the housing emergency. I appreciate the Minister of State's efforts in getting the report but I would appreciate his comments on how it has taken this long to get a task force to produce a report in a city where the rents are rising 19.4%, where the...

Message from Select Committee (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: The Select Committee on Justice has completed its consideration of the Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022, and has made no amendments thereto.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 47. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for details of any engagement he and his Department have had with Galway City Council to-date in 2023 with regard to Galway City Council’s targets for the delivery of new social houses in Galway in 2023, 2024 and 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32796/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Foreshore Issues (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 73. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 100 of 21 June 2023, if Ministerial consent in accordance with the EC (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011 was sought in respect of the foreshore activity referenced in Marine Notice No. 40 of 2022 and in Marine Notice No. 36 of 2022, and the details of same; if...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to provide for an ongoing cost of disability payment in Budget 2024, as opposed to a once-off payment, as a way to begin to address the inequality identified in the Cost of Disability in Ireland Report; for details of any analysis carried out by her Department in this regard; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 95 of 23 May 2023, the status of the promised straw-man proposal for the restructuring of long-term disability payments; the timeline for the public consultation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32825/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 174. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline in tabular form, by county the number of completed retrofits to date since the introduction of the grant schemes; the number of grants drawn down to date; the number of grants applied for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33353/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 184. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason Transport for Ireland branding logos are displayed solely in English on buses and other forms of public transport throughout Ireland; what engagement he has had with Transport for Ireland regarding the development of branding in Irish, particularly in light of the official aims of the 20 Year Strategy for the Irish language;...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Language (6 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which his Department and agencies under the aegis of his Department facilitate persons seeking to access their services through the Irish language; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33402/23]

Nature Restoration Law: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I must now deal with a postponed division relating to the nature restoration law, which took place on Wednesday, 5 July 2023. On the question, "That the amendment to the amendment to the motion be made", a division was claimed, and in accordance with Standing Order 80(2), that division must be taken now.

Nature Restoration Law: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Will the Deputies dissenting who are claiming a division please rise in their places?

Nature Restoration Law: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: As fewer than ten Members have risen in their places I declare question is carried. In accordance with Standing Order 82 the names of the Deputies dissenting will be recorded in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Dáil.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I echo what Deputy Funchion said about people listening to the debate and will not reiterate it. I fully support that. The Minister replied in respect of the appointment of Sheila Nunan and cannot comment on it. The problem is that if those negotiations had taken place prior to the creation of the scheme, perhaps it would be more comprehensive. Perhaps it would have taken away the...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I have raised only two issues. One is whether the woman asked for her name to be removed. The other issue relates to discussing it in the Dáil.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I notice that a group of amendments have been taken together. Amendment No. 1 is in relation to conclusion dates, so I have no idea why that is there. Deputy Funchion has asked that question, and I will repeat it. First, I want to thank the Department for its work. When I attended the Irish-language committee today, I realised that there is an extraordinary number of vacancies in the...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Amendments Nos. 15 and 16 have been ruled out of order

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Amendment No. 17 has been ruled out of order.