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Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Thank you, Minister. I do not wish to hammer the point, but Members are looking at me as regards copies of the speech. Such copies are very helpful, and this is significant legislation.

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy, we are on the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill.

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I do not, actually. We are on the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill.

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: There are many ways of raising important issues.

Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy, please. This is the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister to respond.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: We are way over time, Deputy. The Minister to respond.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I ask Members for their co-operation. There are three more contributors and we are way over time.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Is é sin deireadh le ceisteanna maidir le polasaí.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I have checked the list and the Deputy's name is not there. Has she given notice?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: That information has not reached me. The Deputy may go ahead.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: To clarify regarding the administration of our business, the Deputy's name was not on my list. Somebody else's name is here.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Okay.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: When people apply for a primary medical certificate and it is refused, they have to go to the appeals board. The Minister will be aware that the appeals board was not sitting for quite some time. In my office it has been lately brought to my attention that there is a waiting list of more than two years for people with serious disabilities applying to the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: That is right.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The board is in place. The backlog is the issue.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: There are five contributors left so I ask them to contribute by keeping to the time.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I want to add my voice to those of other TDs who asked for time for a debate on Palestine and Lebanon. We are complicit by our silence, despite our words and recognition of Palestine. As a neutral country, we should be using our voice, now more than ever, in the context of brining peace to the world. The EU is still trading with a country that has flagrantly breached every international...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 330. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1594 of 23 July 2024, the status of the implementation of the Third National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence, and in particular the commitment to double the number of refuge spaces during the lifetime of the strategy; the number of refuge spaces and their locations...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (24 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 331. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 186 of 10 July 2024, the number of people who have been refused leave to land at a port, or at the border with Northern Ireland, in 2023 and to date in 2024, broken down by nationality and location of the refusal; the number of those who were refused leave to land who applied for...