Results 27,921-27,940 of 33,367 for speaker:Catherine Connolly
- Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (9 May 2023)
Catherine Connolly: Seanad Éireann has accepted the Finance Bill 2023, without recommendation. Tá an Bille Airgeadais glacadh ag Seanad Éireann gan athrú, gan mholadh.
- Food Costs and High Grocery Bills: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 May 2023)
Catherine Connolly: Níl aon duine tagtha. Nobody has appeared, so I am-----
- Food Costs and High Grocery Bills: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 May 2023)
Catherine Connolly: I know things have moved quickly so I am sure people have been taken unawares. With the Minister of State's patience, I will give just a couple of seconds, literally, and then we will move on to him. The debate has moved much quicker than anticipated. Táim ag dul go dtí an Rialtas anois agus an Aire Stáit, an Teachta Calleary.
- Food Costs and High Grocery Bills: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 May 2023)
Catherine Connolly: Given that this is a Sinn Féin motion, and Sinn Féin has the right to reply at the end, I will go back to allow others to contribute. I am not setting a precedent for the future, nor am I setting a precedent on behalf of the Ceann Comhairle. I will go back now to the Social Democrats and work forward from Deputy Cairns.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (9 May 2023)
Catherine Connolly: 55. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 128 of 7 March 2023, his plans for the phasing out of the help-to-buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21523/23]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (9 May 2023)
Catherine Connolly: I am returning to a theme I have raised lots of times on the help-to-buy scheme. What are the Minister's plans for phasing out of that scheme? What further analysis is there on it? I say this having read all of the reviews, analyses and commentaries that clearly identify serious concerns with this scheme. I will come back to this in my two supplementary questions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (9 May 2023)
Catherine Connolly: I appreciate the Minister is setting out that more than 38,000 people have benefited from the scheme. My question relates to the analysis that has been done. The Minister is selectively quoting from Mazars and other reports. As he well knows, this scheme was introduced in January 2017, which is more than six years ago. It was estimated that it would cost €40 million annually. It...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (9 May 2023)
Catherine Connolly: I bow to the Minister's greater knowledge and wisdom in these matters. I am not even giving my opinion. I am looking at the various reports. The Mazars report states: "The scheme is poorly targeted with respect to incomes, location, house prices ... [and] has regressive impacts. ... the problems that it sought to address remain and the specific market failure at which it was targeted ......
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (9 May 2023)
Catherine Connolly: I am going by what the reports have asked the Government to do, which is to phase it out and scrap it, but not now. That is what I am going by.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Schemes (9 May 2023)
Catherine Connolly: It is spelled out clearly.
- Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (10 May 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 Éamon Ó Cuív - to discuss the need for an extra payment for eligible social welfare recipients with a dependent adult. Deputy Paul Donnelly - to discuss the rights and entitlements of migrant nurses working and...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (10 May 2023)
Catherine Connolly: The Minister of State, please.
- Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)
Catherine Connolly: I am not sure that is appropriate parliamentary language in relation to a submission. The Deputy might take that on board.
- Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)
Catherine Connolly: It is the description.
- Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)
Catherine Connolly: I rarely interfere in a debate, and the robustness of debate is very important, but the descriptions attached to a certain agency that puts in submissions is not okay.
- Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)
Catherine Connolly: I am not going into it.
- Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)
Catherine Connolly: I am not repeating it. The Deputy can look at the record.
- Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)
Catherine Connolly: I ask the Deputy to reflect on it.
- Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)
Catherine Connolly: I have no difficulty with that-----
- Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)
Catherine Connolly: -----but, the Deputy said a lot more than that. I ask him to reflect on it.