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Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Motion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I must now deal with a postponed division relating to the motion on the proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022. On Wednesday, 30 November 2022, on the question, "That the amendment to the motion be agreed to", a division was claimed and in accordance with Standing Order 80(2), that division must be taken now.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Reports (30 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 60 of 28 September 2022, if he has received the report to date; if he will clarify whether the report, which is expected by the end of 2022, is the annual report in respect of 2021 or 2022; if he will provide details of any reports that he received from the Galway social housing task...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (30 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 131. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 470 of 25 October 2022, the status of the review of the school meals programme; if the review group is on track to complete the final report in November 2022, as per the target date; when the final report will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59714/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (30 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 169. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to move to an informed consent model for transgender healthcare provision, which would be led by GPs in the community; if he will provide details of any engagement he has had with the transgender community in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59591/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Lands (1 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 5. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the development of the register of relevant lands; if the Land Development Agency, LDA, is on track to complete the register and make it available online by the end of quarter 4 2022, as per the target date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59701/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Lands (1 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: My question is specific. I am asking for an update on the status of the development of the register of relevant lands and if the LDA is on track to complete the register.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Lands (1 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome that positive news. However, I stay guarded in my welcome because the LDA was set up on a non-statutory basis over four years ago and the first job it had to do was carry out an audit. Over four years later we do not have the audit. It has been on a statutory basis for over a year and we still do not have the audit. I welcome the audit and if the Minister is saying we will have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Lands (1 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I find it a little reassuring that we will be focusing on brownfield sites. I worry, however, about recreational land. I hear what the Minister is saying, but I have seen previous moves to change this designation. Many times these have come about via motions from councillors. This is still being done in Galway, where land is still being rezoned. This is one aspect of the matter. I think...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (1 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 14. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 175 of 27 September 2022, the status of the development of the promised section 28 guidelines for planning in Gaeltacht areas; the timeline for the public consultation; the timeline for the publication of the guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59700/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (1 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Baineann mo cheist leis na treoracha pleanála do na cheantair Ghaeltachta. Táimid ag fanacht orthu le fada an lá. Ba mhaith liom soiléiriú a fháil maidir le stádas na dtreoracha sin. I seek clarification about the promised section 28 guidelines for planning in Gaeltacht areas. I did not hear the answer to the previous question but I am sure the two...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (1 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Guidelines were originally due to be completed by the end of 2021, then in 2022, and now we are coming into 2023. Tuairisc.ie and the Irish-language committee, chaired by Deputy Ó Snodaigh, has covered this. We produced a report and made specific recommendations. It has been raised by every delegation that has come before our committee and when we have travelled the country. I am...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (1 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Given the climate emergency, I have no difficulty with the importance of strategic environmental assessments and so on. That goes without saying but we are not at that point. We do not have planning guidelines. The delay has been on the part of many Governments. We are waiting for the planning guidelines. The people coming before us are not exaggerating. Everyone knows there is a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (1 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Is that process ongoing?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (1 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: In January.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (1 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: The Deputy who tabled the next question is not here. If a Deputy is delayed, we will go back and take the question when they arrive.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (1 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: The Deputy is over time. I call an tAire to respond.

Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Cuireann sin deireadh lenár suí speisialta den Dáil agus den Seanad. Gabhaimid buíochas leis an Uachtarán von der Leyen.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Coláistí Samhraidh agus Mná Tí: Plé (23 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Sin í an chéad fhadhb. Is í an dara fhadhb ná go bhfuil na mná tí in ann níos mó daltaí a choinneáil sa teach, ach níl cead acu go hoifigiúil.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Coláistí Samhraidh agus Mná Tí: Plé (23 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Cloistear an ceist sin, "An bhfuil ciall leis sin?", go minic anseo agus ní bhíonn freagra air ar bith.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Coláistí Samhraidh agus Mná Tí: Plé (23 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Bhí cruinniú ag na mná tí leis an Roinn le déanaí, nach raibh?