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Messages from Select Committee (6 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022 and has made amendments thereto. The Select Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment has completed its consideration of the Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022 and has made amendments thereto.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Agriculture Schemes (6 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: The final Topical Issue matter is to discuss the compensation package for farmers in relation to the Shass Mountain landslide. I hope my pronunciation is correct.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Agriculture Schemes (6 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: That concludes the Topical Issue debate. For the second time, I am adjourning the Dáil.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (Resumed): Agriculture Schemes (6 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: No, I suspended it, then adjourned it and forgot about the Topical Issue debate.

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Offshore Islands (5 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 84. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 5 of 17 February 2022, the status of the new policy for the islands; if the draft policy has been finalised to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17840/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Harbours and Piers (5 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 95. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 12 of 17 February 2022, the status of the development of the pier on Inis Oírr; the engagement that her Department has had with Galway County Council and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to date in 2022 in relation to moving forward with the development of the pier;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: International Protection (5 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children of school going age that are awaiting access to the education system, three months after their international protection application has been made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17998/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (5 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 526. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average waiting time for a PPS number for international protection applicants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17999/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (5 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 612. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of international protection applicants awaiting the issuance of a temporary residence certificate in card form and not the paper document; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17996/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (5 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 613. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons awaiting a preliminary interview further to section 13 of the International Protection Act 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17997/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Harbours and Piers (5 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 956. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 6 of 17 February 2022, the status of the development of Caladh Mór on Inis Meáin; the status of the development of the updated simulation by the National Maritime College of Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17797/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Trade Agreements (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Let us get back on track here. Every side has gone over time. We are going back to the time limits, unfortunately.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy Naughten will be introducing this question.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reviews (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 90 of 10 February 2022, the status of the work to revise the Government Statement on the Role of Data Centres in Ireland’s Enterprise Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18723/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reviews (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: My question is specific and straight. I am asking for an update on the status of the work to review the Government statement on the role of data centres in Ireland's Enterprise Strategy.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reviews (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I tabled a series a of questions and generally the Tánaiste has answered me. There was hope, a deadline and a recognition that we need a strategy. That seems to be gone with this reply. It seems to be gone to never-never land. I do not have time here to go through the latest report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that was mentioned yesterday in the Dáil. It is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reviews (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: The Government is not proactively reviewing this policy. It is reviewing it now because of outrage over the lack of analysis in relation to the damage done by data centres. I fully accept that we need data centres and that they are part of the modern economy. What I do not accept is the thumbs up that was given in 2018, three years after we passed a climate action plan and one year before...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Reviews (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: We are in quarter 2.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Minister, you are way over time.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Policy (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister.