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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (8 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 62. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to remove the pandemic unemployment payment from the reckonable income calculations for the SUSI scheme in order that students who exceed the threshold for financial support as a result of having received the payment will not be disqualified from the SUSI grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36791/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (8 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to remove the period of residence requirements with regard to the forthcoming scheme to regularise undocumented migrants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36760/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (8 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 117. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 118 of 3 June 2021, the status of the audit of the way responsibility for domestic, sexual and gender-based violence is segmented across different State agencies; if she has received the final report to date; when the final report will be published; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (8 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 206. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagement he has had with his counterparts in relation to the use of State-sanctioned violence against peaceful pro-democracy protesters in Eswatini; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36940/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vaccination Programme (13 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 37. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the financial cost of the Covid-19 vaccination roll-out in Ireland; the details of the indemnity given to pharmaceutical companies with regard to the Covid-19 vaccines including the estimated cost of same; his plans to introduce a Covid-19 vaccine compensation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38065/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vaccination Programme (13 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to ask a priority question. It is very specific. It is about the cost of the vaccination roll-out, the nature of the indemnity given and to how many pharmaceutical companies, the cost of that and the nature of it. Equally important is an issue I had asked about in December in a question to the Taoiseach, and which I have raised many times since, namely, the matter...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vaccination Programme (13 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister and I look forward to getting that written reply and going through the figures. I believe that the Minister has said that to date it is €121 million - I did not quite catch it - or was it €200 million spent to date? On the indemnity, it is of vital importance that we know the nature of the indemnity. I am truly tired of getting an official response...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vaccination Programme (13 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I am not going away and I will keep persisting because this is the most basic information that we should have. Vaccines are an essential part of the treatment of the virus. We also need full information on the vaccination programme at every level. I do not know the cost. The Minister told me he approved up to €200 million, but that was prior to vaccination. Could we have the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (13 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister will get a chance to come back in.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (13 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Joan Collins - to discuss the suspension of the North Inner City Drugs and Alcohol Task Force; (2) Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor - to discuss when the assisted human reproduction Bill will be published; (3) Deputy Colm...

Teachtaireachtaí ón Seanad - Messages from Seanad (13 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Seanad Éireann has passed the Affordable Housing Bill 2021, without amendment. Seanad Éireann has passed the Companies (Rescue Process for Small and Micro Companies) Bill 2021, without amendment. Seanad Éireann has passed the Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021, without recommendation.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: The Deputy's colleague is not here.

Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (13 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: You did. I call Deputy Quinlivan.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (13 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 56. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 430 of 13 May 2021, if the second operating theatre in Merlin Park University Hospital on which construction is due to be completed by end-2021 will also begin to carry out surgical operations by end-2021; if not, when it will be fully fitted out and operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28719/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (13 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 85. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the full resumption of respite services in County Galway which have been severely impacted by Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37581/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (13 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 216. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the energy security review of Ireland’s electricity and natural gas systems; when he expects the review to be completed; his plans to publish the final report and recommendations of the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37990/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (13 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 505. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of the redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37850/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (13 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 506. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1241 of 21 April 2021, the status of the investigation into the leak of the report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation; the details of any report received from the Secretary General of the Department of An Taoiseach to date; the inquiries made by him to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: EU Regulations (13 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 507. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way in which the requirement for new regulations accords with the requirement to disapply national provisions to ensure that EU law is fully effective (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37852/21]

Mandatory Hotel Quarantine Extension: Motion (14 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Some Deputies will be caught unawares because the debate has moved quickly. I will slowly move on through the next slots. Unfortunately, no one is here. I will ask the Minister of State to reply unless we have another speaker.