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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Inquiries (4 Mar 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 345. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the EU omnibus legislation which severely risks undermining critical sustainability legislation, including the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive; if he agrees that the omnibus would undermine the EU’s efforts to tackle corporate impunity and to prevent human rights and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (4 Mar 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 351. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the consultation process on the employment regulation order governing the security industry will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9796/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (4 Mar 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 713. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1086 of 5 February 2024, when hormone replacement therapy will be freely available to those with a prescription; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9540/25]

Housing Commission Report: Statements (27 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Housing Commission's report. The commission commenced its work in January 2023 and published its report in May 2024. It has taken this long for the Government, under pressure, to put it on the clár oibre agus díospóireacht a bheith againn faoin tuarascáil thábhachtach sin. The commission had 14 members, five sub-committees...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (27 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: We are way over time.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Accommodation (27 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Thank you, Minister, we are way over.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (27 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the means test for carer's allowance will be abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8014/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (27 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of community employment scheme supervisor remuneration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8013/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (27 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 333. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the independent review of part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017, announced in July 2020 and due for completion by end-2020; if the report has been finalised; when the report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8912/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 411. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for implementing the proposed changes to governance and safety regulations in the field of aesthetic medicine, with specific regard to dermal fillers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8877/25]

Third Anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: It is right that we had a minute's silence today and that we have statements on the illegal invasion by Russia of Ukraine. It is important that we continue to show solidarity with the people of Ukraine. I welcome the visitors to the Gallery and also those who have left. The figures are indeed shocking, with 12 million people displaced from their homes in Ukraine. As of 31 January, the UN...

Third Anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Tá cúpla soicind fágtha ach ní fiú dul ar aghaidh le haon cheist eile, faraor. Is é sin deireadh le ceisteanna chun an Tánaiste agus an Aire Cosanta.

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

Catherine Connolly: I will pick up on that point on trust. Trust is at an all-time low in this Government in relation to neutrality.

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

Catherine Connolly: In the context of troops going through Shannon Airport, the Tánaiste has never once inspected those troops. Repeatedly, he has got information about arms and soldiers carrying arms. Never once did he engage in an inspection. He reassured us. I am never reassured by institutions nor Governments. I like to see evidence. There is no progress on the occupied territories Bill, which...

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

Catherine Connolly: We were told that over and over. When I talk to people on the ground in Fianna Fáil, they tell me that neutrality is absolutely at the core of what we stand for.

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.