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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (12 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: It is unfair the way it has worked out.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (12 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 8. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the basis on which the decision has been taken to legislate for the removal of the triple lock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31260/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (12 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach Gníomhach. Baineann mo cheist leis an nglas triarach agus an cinneadh atá déanta fáil réidh leis. My question relates to the triple lock. Will the Tánaiste outline as clearly as he can the basis on which the decision was taken to legislate for the removal of the triple lock? If he can outline that in a rational...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: When will that be completed?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Cathaoirleach and apologise for being late as I was caught up with something else. I am looking for guidance on this issue, on which I am no expert. The correspondent has written to and been in contact with a lot of TDs regarding automatic enrolment. He did his best to explain the issue to us and we raised it in the Dáil and did our best to have it addressed. I do not...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: There has been engagement and we were told the information is sensitive and cannot be made available. I am looking for more guidance than that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: That is great. I would appreciate a comment from the Comptroller and Auditor General more generally on matters such as this. I am not sure whether he has read the correspondence.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Cathaoirleach. The accounts route is a good route and will have a parallel in terms of follow-up.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Contracts (12 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 70. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 206 of 8 May 2025, to provide details of the 2025 work programme of the Institute for Security Governance to be progressed throughout the year, which is costing the State €716,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31259/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children with special educational needs without a place in a school, by county, in tabular form; the measures being taken to provide places for these children who do not have a school place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31300/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: What about the local TDs?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: That is great.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: There are not 25 TDs in Galway.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I will stay with the theme of housing and, in particular, the emergency task force that was set up in Galway in 2019. At the end of last year, during the last meeting for which I have minutes, the new chair said the delivery to date is "not a happy picture". This was referring to the failure to deliver housing in Galway city and county. Lots of issues and obstacles were raised. One is...

Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I have no doubt the Minister has feelings of horror like we have and like he expressed. My difficulty is that he is demonstrating a classic case of cognitive dissonance because he holds beliefs in his head that are clashing with each other. While his feelings are the same as ours, his actions are different. In doing those actions, he seeks to rationalise them, which is the classic way of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (11 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 16. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he has taken to secure the release of an Irish woman detained by Israel in the West Bank (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31215/25]

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion. I cannot tell you how many times I have spoken on this issue. I will come to the housing task force, the minutes of which the Minister was instrumental in getting us. When we talk about empty houses tonight, we are doing so against a background of the highest ever number of homeless people: 15,580, 4,475 of whom are children. This Government...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Toghchán Leas-Chathaoirligh (10 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Rachaimid ar aghaidh anois le toghchán Leas-Chathaoirligh an choiste. Mar a chomhaontaíodh ag ár gcruinniú ar an 27 Bealtaine 2025, dúramar go dtoghfaimis Leas-Chathaoirleach ar an gcoiste. Tá dhá ainmniúchán faighte agam. Fuarthas ainmniúchán i dtaobh an Teachta Aengus Uí Shnodaigh ar an 28 Bealtaine 2025 agus ansin fuarthas...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Toghchán Leas-Chathaoirligh (10 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Ba mhaith liom comhghairdeas a chur in iúl don Teachta Naoise Ó Cearúil – in ainneoin mo vóta. Beimid ag obair as lámh a chéile agus é mar Leas-Chathaoirleach ar an gcoiste.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Toghchán Leas-Chathaoirligh (10 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Go raibh míle maith agat, a Theachta. An bhfuil éinne eile ag iarraidh labhairt?