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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (2 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister for that clarification. I realise and openly acknowledge that the Minister inherited this issue. However, we have known for a very long time that direct provision does not work. It isolates people, creates a stigma and is inhuman. The High Court recently ruled in August of this year that the State had utterly failed in its duty to provide for basic needs, including...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (2 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Can the Minister provide context on what State-owned facilities we will have, when we will have them and what are the numbers we are talking about? Unfortunately, the Minister referred to the Peter McVerry Trust, which leaves serious questions to be answered and there are ongoing investigations into it. We are also at this stage now because the successive Governments has failed to deal with...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (2 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 11. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the State-owned reception and integration centres due to accommodate up to 13,000 international protection applicants; when the centres will be operational, the steps he is taking to ensure that all persons seeking international protection have their basic needs met and are offered accommodation on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (2 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: My question is very specific. I am asking for an update on the status of the State-owned reception and integration centres due to accommodate people coming to our country. I ask this question a quarter of a century after direct provision was introduced as a temporary measure. A quarter of a century later, we have had a White Paper and the Day report but we still have no State-owned...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (2 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: You have gone way over time on that.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (2 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: That is okay. I have allowed it given the sensitivity of the topic.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (2 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 41. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 291 of 18 June 2024, the number of applications to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme received to date; the number refused and the reasons therefor; the number where a notification of a positive determination has been made; the number accepted; of those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (2 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 251. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a report (details supplied); if he will accept and implement the recommendations of the report; in particular, his plans to fully implement the recommendations on adequate staffing levels to safeguard vital cancer services into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39381/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (2 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 252. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing deficit at the radiation oncology centre for radiation therapy treatment in Saolta Centre Galway; the reason only three of the four linear accelerators are operating at full capacity; the reason only one of two CT scanners are operating to full capacity; his plans to ensure that all machines are operating at full capacity; and if he will make a...

Financial Resolution No. 4: Stamp Duties (1 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: As we have eight speakers, they will have maximum speaking time of two minutes each. I call Deputy McGrath, who asked first to speak.

Financial Resolution No. 4: Stamp Duties (1 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I am very sorry but there are about five or six more speakers.

Financial Resolution No. 4: Stamp Duties (1 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I cannot allow the Deputy any more time. I call Deputy O'Callaghan.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The Parliamentary Budget Office prepared a paper for us, which stated: "It has to be acknowledged that the political cycle provides little incentive to plan for medium or long-term needs." It acknowledged that point, and that each Government is driven by short-term needs. However, notwithstanding that acknowledgement, the continuation of that approach by this Government is particularly...

Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: On this topic.

Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat. Anois, Sinn Féin. There are three speakers in this slot.

Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I will leave the Deputies share time whatever way they wish.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fisheries Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 62. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1260 of 9 September 2024, the status of the public consultation on a review of trawling activity inside the six-nautical-mile zone which closed on 12 April 2024; if the submissions have now been analysed; the timeline for publication of a report of the public consultation; when a decision will...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fisheries Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister and I are more than familiar with this issue, so we might not bother with the history of it. My question is very specific. It relates to trawling inside the six-nautical-mile zone by vessels more than 18 m long. We know there is a long history here so my question is specific. I know the communication period for submissions has closed. I know there were an extraordinary...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fisheries Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I do not doubt that at all but, as the Minister said, in two months it will be six years since the decision was made to bring in this very welcome policy because of unsustainable fishing practices in the six-nautical-mile zone, particularly in respect of sprat. I will not rehearse all of that again but it was urgent enough in December 2018 and here we are, almost six years later, and there...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fisheries Protection (26 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the consultation and the 5,000 submissions but we really need a date for when those submissions will be analysed. I suspect that the vast majority of them are in support of the Government's policy, as were the High Court and the Court of Appeal. Both of them found no difficulties with the policy; it was the consultation. The two gentlemen who brought the first action said it was...