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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Micheál Martin, the current Taoiseach has repeatedly said that the triple lock is at the core of our neutrality. As a neutral independent sovereign State, we should use our voice to champion the UN structures, to reform the UN structures and to get away from the language of rule-based order and talk about international law which has been hard won following two world wars. Then we come...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 44. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the proposed changes to the triple lock; if it is intended to remove the neutrality protection of the triple lock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6076/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The Tánaiste talks about respect and trust. That is exactly what the people of Ireland do not have for on in him. There has been a carefully choreographed campaign to get rid of our neutrality. The current Taoiseach, back in 2013, clearly spelled out what Fine Gael was up to. At that point, we were told the triple lock was an integral part of our neutrality and so on. You have...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Deputy Coppinger for bringing this issue and setting it out so clearly in the motion and to the visitors in the Gallery. I wish the Minister best of luck in his new role and I welcome that he is not opposing the motion, which is often the death knell - but I will give him the benefit of the doubt that it is not the death knell and he will take this matter seriously.

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: He said is committed to bringing in the register and changing the law. I have only five minutes so I will not go into it. I welcome what he is saying and he will have to deliver on that.

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: In 1974, a groundbreaking book about a women's refuge in Chiswick, London entitled Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear was published. Fast forward 49 years to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland publishing an article entitled, "Why is sexual violence still hidden in plain sight in this era of oversharing?" about domestic violence and gender-based violence. Forgive me if I am...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 21. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the progress of the Defence Forces tribunal; the details of the resources allocated to the tribunal; the number of support and administrative staff appointed to the tribunal; the details of the legal supports, if any, provided to people making submissions to the tribunal; the cost to date of the tribunal; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 22. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline the ways in which Ireland has cooperated and collaborated with NATO since it became a member of Partnership for Peace in 1999; to detail chronologically the escalating relationship between Ireland and NATO since that time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6079/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Meetings (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 26. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 5 February 2025, if the minutes as requested will now be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6078/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 39. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 5 February 2025, if Ireland intends to purchase military equipment from Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6080/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: They do not have any worries.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 39 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Joanna Byrne - To discuss unsafe working conditions in the ambulance station in Drogheda. Deputy Séamus McGrath - To discuss Garda resources and station opening hours in south Cork city. Deputy Shane Moynihan - To discuss...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Is that the one the Minister is addressing?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: It was going too smoothly.

Driver Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Gabhaim mo bhuíochas le Sinn Féin as an rún seo a chur os comhair na Dála. Tá sé thar a bheith tábhachtach agus go raibh míle maith acu go bhfuil an deis tugtha dúinn páirt a ghlacadh sa díospóireacht. On the previous occasion, I wished the Minister of State the best. On this occasion, I note that he and the Minister are not...

Disability: Statements (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I will preface my remarks by saying that if the Government is seriously interested in helping to empower people with disabilities, it would abolish the means tests for carers immediately and it would bring in a cost of disability payment immediately. I will pick up where my colleague left off when she spoke about breaking the law. The Government is blatantly breaking the law. Twenty...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: It is seven years since the Government decided to bring in a very good policy at the end of December 2018 to stop trawlers over 18 m in length fishing within the six-mile limit. A significant part of that policy was to stop the unsustainable fishing for sprat. This is the seventh year of the policy. Unfortunately, because of the Government's or the Department's failure to carry out the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: We are finished that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: When will the policy - it is a brilliant policy - be rolled out?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 127. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to financially acknowledge those excluded from the mother and baby and other institutions redress scheme, in particular those who do not meet the 180-day requirement, those whose were boarded out, those subjected to vaccine trials, those who suffered additional abuse as a result of race or ethnicity;...