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Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community (7 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Tá neart ceisteanna agam ach is do lá éigin eile iad.

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: It sounds like there is going to be a lot more than one book.

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Anois, i ndilchuimhne ar iar-Thaoiseach na tíre agus in ómós dó, seasfaimid le chéile ar feadh nóiméad amháin inár dtost.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community (7 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Cén chaoi a bhfuil a fhios ag Meta é sin?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Wage-setting Mechanisms (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: We are not under pressure, but I am loath to set a precedent.

Estimates for Public Services 2024: Messages from Select Committees (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimates for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2024 - Votes 27, 28, 35 and 36. The Select Committee on Transport has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2024...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister will get a chance to come back in. He will have time afterwards. I will now go back to the speakers, beginning with an Teachta Cathal Crowe.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: We will have one update from the Minister on this question.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Corporate Governance (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 11. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been brought to a recently published report (details supplied) which outlined that over half of the 50 largest companies in the Irish economy scored 30% or less on corporate uptake of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5479/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Corporate Governance (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: My question relates to the snapshot of large firms operating in Ireland as regards human rights principles. Some 50 of the largest companies operating in the Irish economy scored 30% or lower. Indeed, five semi-State companies scored less than one out of a possible 24.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Corporate Governance (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister for the response and the communication. We need to improve the implementation. We had a plan that was in being, which theoretically was a good plan, but is out of date since 2020 and we are now in 2024. I would like a date for the next plan. I would like clarification on the stakeholders' forum. Has it sat again and if not when will it sit? I would like to know if...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: As we have a short time left, we will go back to Question No. 95 from Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú. He will not get all of his time but he will get some of it.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Last year legislation came into being, the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023, but nothing has happened. That legislation followed on from a report that took five years to report. The Government got that report in October 2020 and it was published in January 2021. That had followed on from Catherine Corless's seminal work from more than a decade ago. Two years and a...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy, we are over time and outside the scope of the Bill.

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I have given the Deputy great flexibility.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (7 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 129. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the projected cost of the revised Coirib go Cósta flood relief scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5474/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: White Papers (7 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 149. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment for an update on the implementation of the white paper on enterprise; the status of the second update report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5471/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Reports (7 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 150. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the timeline for the publication of his Department’s report into the impact of recent policy changes on businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5472/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (7 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 151. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 74 of 22 November 2023, the status of the report by the Implementation Group to address the recommendations of the March 2022 Department of Justice Report on the Review of the Atypical Working Scheme for non-EEA Crew in the Irish Fishing Fleet; the timeline for the publication of the report;...