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- Questions on Proposed Legislation (7 Dec 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Tagann sé díreach faoi chlár oibre an Rialtais ó thaobh na Gaeilge de.
- Pension Equality and Fairness: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 Dec 2016)
Catherine Connolly: The Sinn Féin Deputies will share ten minutes.
- Pension Equality and Fairness: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (7 Dec 2016)
Catherine Connolly: In accordance with Standing Order 70(2), the division is postponed until the weekly division time on Thursday, 8 December 2016.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy Mattie McGrath is sharing time with Deputy Danny Healy Rae, ten minutes each.
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Is it on topic?
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Although there are some positive aspects to it, this Bill is not a solution to the housing crisis. It will significantly intensify the crisis because the solutions proposed in it, by and large, are not based on evidence or any comprehensive analysis of the causes of the existing crisis, which amounts to a national emergency. Without proper analysis, we are proceeding down the same road that...
- Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2016)
Catherine Connolly: They have no choice.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (13 Dec 2016)
Catherine Connolly: 418. To ask the Minister for Health when an MRI and lumbar puncture appointment will be provided for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39425/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Blood Donations (13 Dec 2016)
Catherine Connolly: 489. To ask the Minister for Health when the amended policy regarding deferral of blood donations by men who have sex with men will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39960/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Blood Donations (13 Dec 2016)
Catherine Connolly: 490. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the requirement for a 12-month deferral period for blood donation by men who have sex with men in view of the fact that there is no such deferral period in other jurisdictions such as Italy, Poland, Spain, Portugal, Ukraine, Russia, South Africa, Latvia, Bulgaria, Mexico and Peru; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39961/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Blood Donations (13 Dec 2016)
Catherine Connolly: 491. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to extend an equal 12-month blanket deferral policy for sexually active heterosexual blood donors in view of the rapid rise in HIV diagnoses in this population and the possibility of HIV infection of heterosexual blood donors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39962/16]
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (13 Dec 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I support the amendment. There has been a complete lack of analysis of the problem. We are rushing in once again to a developer-led solution. I made this point in the Dáil and I will repeat it at every opportunity as quickly as I can. We have a major housing emergency. There has been no proper analysis of how that arose, so therefore we cannot have a solution. At the very least,...
- Pre-European Council: Statements (14 Dec 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I am not sure how many attempts have been made by different elected Members over the years to enshrine neutrality in the Constitution. The Sinn Féin Bill on 24 November was the most recent. Prior to that, a Bill was tabled by Deputy Mick Wallace on 18 December 2014. That Bill was defeated at Second Stage at a time when a RED C poll showed that 78% of the population agreed that Ireland...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (14 Dec 2016)
Catherine Connolly: 112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide a copy of the report on the consultation that took place between Traveller organisations in Galway city and Galway county and the national directorate for fire and emergency management in advance of the production of their 2016 report on programme to review and enhance fire safety in local...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (14 Dec 2016)
Catherine Connolly: 113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will provide a copy of the audit and the results of the survey that took place in Traveller accommodation Galway city and Galway county by the national directorate for fire and emergency management in advance of the production of their 2016 report on programme to review and enhance fire safety in local...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (14 Dec 2016)
Catherine Connolly: 114. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the fire and safety training that has taken place in Traveller accommodation units or with Traveller organisations in Galway city and county in the past year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40274/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (14 Dec 2016)
Catherine Connolly: 115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the stage at which the CENA pilot project for Galway is at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40275/16]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I presume we will be coming back to the issue of tendering at some stage.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Catherine Connolly: Will we come back to it through the framework of the internal financial controls in the HSE? Will that be the heading?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)
Catherine Connolly: I was going to ask when we would meet for that purpose. It will be in February. That is fine.