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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (19 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide radiation therapy students with a payment and travel allowances during their final-year internship in line with supports offered to student nurses, particularly in light of the finding of the National Radiation Therapist Review that there is a 30% shortage of radiation therapists; and if he will make a statement on the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (18 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister of State. I have given the details. I gave them to the Taoiseach when he took the question. There are 15 units with 11 sitting tenants. I wish the Minister of State the best, but when we get an answer like this that contains a lot of padding, it really is unhelpful. If the Minister of State was standing on this side of the House, she would be saying the same thing to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (18 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Galway City Council.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (18 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle as ucht an cheist seo a phiocadh. Tá sé thar a bheith tábhachtach do Ghaillimh agus do chórais áitiúla ar fud na tíre. Tá an scéim seo ann chun cosaint a thabhairt do thionóntaí atá i dteach agus é ar intinn ag an tiarna talún an teach a dhíol. I gcásanna mar sin,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (18 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Fós. Beidh tú.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (18 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: No, only since before Christmas.

Mental Health: Statements (18 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister of State and I have been here before and I have already congratulated her. There is an urgent need for the mental health Bill to be enacted. It was an absolute damming indictment of the last Government that it failed. I have praised the Minister of State for her work and I fully supported her with that Bill, but it fell. That Bill was the culmination of years of consultation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Consultations (18 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any local representatives, councillors or TDs were consulted at any stage during the relocation process of the Donegal Education Centre, Donegal Town; if so, who, when and for what reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5506/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 317. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm whether the management committee followed the procurement process for the leasing of new premises for the Donegal Education Centre, Donegal Town; if it was publicly advertised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5507/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (18 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether different locations were looked at as part of the Donegal Education Support Centre, Donegal town, relocation; if guidelines were used to evaluate these other locations; if so, to detail those guidelines; if any effort was made to meet the stated growing need in the Donegal town area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5799/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (18 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm that the Donegal Education Support Centre has a procurement policy; the date on which it was adopted; to confirm that it is in line with the public service guidelines; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5508/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (18 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a cost analysis was conducted for the selected relocation of the Donegal Education Support Centre; if these findings were shared with the management committee, staff and stakeholders; if their views were taken on board in the making of the decision to relocate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5800/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (18 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 415. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to expand the rent pressure zone scheme to include additional designated areas in which rent increases are capped; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5499/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (18 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 416. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend the rent pressure zone scheme beyond 31 December 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5500/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (18 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 470. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 852 of 9 September 2024, if the review of the working group has been completed; if a Level 8 BSc in Construction Project Management is to be included in the list of approved qualifications for engineering roles within Local Authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6264/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Trade Sanctions (13 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The figures on our trade with the US, including our exports there, are something else, not to mention the figures on the services we import, which are even double those figures. The figure I have for exports to the US in 2024 is €103 billion. I am not arguing over figures at all; the enormity of the figures speaks for itself. My question is on the analysis that has been done by the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Trade Sanctions (13 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I would be delighted to clarify my views on anything if I had a little more time. Specifically on the question, I am asking the Minister what analysis has been done and he is clarifying he is undertaking it and that it will be published in April. I understand the dilemma because there might be no tariffs tomorrow and it is all changing. We are dealing with a bully here. I asked about...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Trade Sanctions (13 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 2. To ask the Minister for Finance the analysis undertaken to establish the impact that proposed US tariffs on the EU would have on Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4897/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Trade Sanctions (13 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Baineann an cheist le taraifí agus an rud atá beartaithe ag na Stáit Aontaithe don Aontas Eorpach, Éire go háirithe. My question relates specifically to the tariffs. What analysis has been done on the impact of the proposed tariffs on the EU, given that Ireland, within the Union, is uniquely exposed, and in light of the policies we have adopted and our stance on...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (13 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 55. To ask the Minister for Finance if the National Treasure Management Agency has fully divested from all Ireland strategic investment fund global portfolio investments in companies on the UN Human Rights Council database of business enterprises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4896/25]