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Finance Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Apr 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Will the Deputies claiming a division please rise?

Finance Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Apr 2023)

Catherine Connolly: As fewer than ten Members have risen in their places, I declare the question carried. In accordance with Standing Order 82, the names of the Deputies who claimed a division will be recorded in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Dáil.

Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)

Catherine Connolly: It is the Minister of State and I again, at the end of a debate and a crisis that is deepening. I will pick up for a moment on something Deputy Harkin said. Let me outline the analysis that has been done on the help to buy scheme by many agencies. The original cost was €40 million. It is now €175 million and rising which is four and a half times the estimated cost. More...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (18 Apr 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 38. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date on the Government's commitment to doubling the number of refuge spaces for victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence over the lifetime of the third national strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17328/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (18 Apr 2023)

Catherine Connolly: My question is what progress has been made to date on the Government's commitment to doubling the number of refuge spaces available for victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence, DSGBV. I ask this question specifically in the context of the Government's commitment to a specific number of spaces, which falls far short of what is required under the Istanbul Convention.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (18 Apr 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister and I would appreciate the table. This is really about acknowledging what it took to get to this point. The Minister's colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, has read out the names of the people who were victims. To put this in context, 12 women died in violent circumstances in Ireland in 2022, making it the worst year in a decade for violence...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (18 Apr 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome that information and I will work with the Minister every step of the way. We had, however, a previous strategy. When the review of it was done and published in July 2021, it told us that the audit around DSGBV found a lack of effective oversight of implementation of the previous national strategy, a fragmented approach and a lack of action on decades of recommendations. On top of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (18 Apr 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 45. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 34 of 6 December 2022, the status of the independent review of Part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017, which was due for completion by the end of 2022; the reason for the delay; if the review has been completed to date; if he has received the final report to date; the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (18 Apr 2023)

Catherine Connolly: My question is very specific. I ask about the status of the independent review of Part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017. I ask this because under that Act there is an obligation on the Minister for Justice to carry out an independent review and report three years after the Act came into operation. We are years behind now. We have been given many dates, none of which has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (18 Apr 2023)

Catherine Connolly: There was a legal obligation to carry out the review. The terms of reference specifically stated that the purpose of the review was to discover the information that exists regarding the number of arrests and convictions and the impact of the legislation, and whether it was doing what it was supposed to do to protect sex workers on the ground. We have criminalised the purchase of sex. From...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (18 Apr 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I am not sure I had the privilege of getting the reply when I was in the Chair. It does not quite set out what the Minister is setting out here in the Chamber. I would appreciate if the Minister could clarify in writing what he is telling me in respect of how this was waylaid in order to do something else. This report was to be completed within three months in July 2020, and three months...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (18 Apr 2023)

Catherine Connolly: My problem is that I did not quite catch what the Minister said.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cancer Services (18 Apr 2023)

Catherine Connolly: We will call it early morning instead of late evening.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (19 Apr 2023)

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: Deputy Neasa Hourigan - to discuss ongoing maternity hospital restrictions. Deputy Matt Shanahan - to discuss the latest Department of Education initial teacher education policy document. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - the discuss...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (19 Apr 2023)

Catherine Connolly: B’fhéidir go mbeidh an Teachta in ann píosa ama a shábháil dom. Táimid taobh thiar den am.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (19 Apr 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Táimid thar am, a Theachta. An tAire Stáit anois-----

Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I hate to interrupt but we are discussing the Courts Bill, which relates to the appointment of judges.

Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome this short Bill. Depending on how you count it, there are four pages and seven sections. The purpose of the Bill - to provide for an increase in the maximum number of judges - has been outlined frequently. I welcome that and it is positive. However, this is being introduced following ongoing and serious concerns being expressed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the...

Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I must again caution the Deputy in relation to due process. There is a separation of powers.

Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Well, okay.