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Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I am not going into that. I made an exception for the Deputy. I ask him to proceed now if he wants his additional two minutes.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Amendments Nos. 195 to 218, inclusive, and 221 to 225, inclusive, are related. Amendment No. 196 is a physical alternative to No. 195. Amendments Nos. 204 and 204 are physical alternatives to amendment No. 202. Amendments Nos. 195 to 218, inclusive, and 221 to 225, inclusive will be discussed together.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Amendments Nos. 226 to 232, inclusive, amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 232, amendment No. 235, amendment No. 236, amendment No. 1 to amendment No. 236, and amendments Nos. 237 to 247, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: For the attention of Members, I am moving on to other questions. We are finished with Priority Questions. I am starting but some Members are not here. I want to alert the House to that fact.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Bogaimid ar aghaidh anois go dtí an chéad ceist eile, Ceist Uimh. 5 in ainm An Teachta Gino Kenny.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: If Deputy Duncan Smith is agreeable, we will move to Question No. 6 in his name.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Tá muid ag dul ar ais go dtí Ceist Uimh. 5 in ainm an Teachta Gino Kenny.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Overcrowding (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Is féidir linn bogadh ar aghaidh go Ceist Uimh. 7 in ainm an Teachta Gino Kenny, arís.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: It is Deputy Paul Murphy's question on nursing vacancies.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Closures (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 8. To ask the Minister for Health further to Question No. 33 of 2 May 2024, to provide an update on the recruitment of the required staffing resources to ensure Clifden District Hospital can remain open on a permanent basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25537/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Closures (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I am glad the Ministers are here. Táimid ar ais arís go dtí an ospidéal sa Chlochán. I am asking for an update for the recruitment of the required staffing resources to ensure Clifden District Hospital will remain open on a permanent basis. Will the Ministers zone in on that in their contributions?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Closures (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister of State. It is not a mutual admiration club but I want to pay tribute to her own hands-on approach. Having said that, this hospital has been limping from week to week. Back in October 2022, which is almost four years ago, it was announced that Clifden hospital would be closing. It was a terrible blow and all of the local representatives, those from Fine Gael, Fianna...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Closures (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Yesterday, there were 57 people on trolleys in Galway. I will be coming to this later in Leader's Questions. I give forewarning to the Minister there and to the Taoiseach that I will be coming back to Galway later. There were 57 people on trolleys. Have any of us spent time on trolleys? If we did, I think it would be sorted out very quickly. We go back again. There are beds empty in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Closures (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: What will happen to the district hospital?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fisheries Protection (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 46. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Question No. 89 of 25 April 2024, the status of plans for the introduction of measures to protect the sprat fishery, which is concentrated within the six nautical mile zone; to provide a status update on the review of trawling activity inside the six nautical mile zone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25539/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fisheries Protection (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I am returning to the issue of sprat. I ask the Minister for an update on the status of plans for the introduction of measures to protect the sprat fishery, which is concentrated within the six nautical mile zone, and to provide a status update on the review of trawling activity inside the six nautical mile zone.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fisheries Protection (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I certainly understand the background to this and I am on record as saying the policy was very good and the intent was great. Unfortunately, we have been through what we have been through, and the Minister mentioned 2018. Of course, it is important to say that sprat is not subject to a quota. As a forage fish, it is a vital source of food for other fish and mammals and it is vital for the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fisheries Protection (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister. It is very important to give a timeline. The policy was good. The courts did not strike down the policy; in fact, they made it clear that they had no input at all into the policy. As far as they could see, it was a good, sustainable policy and the Government was entitled to do that. What happened was that eventually the Court of Appeal, and earlier the High Court on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 58. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 25 April 2024, to provide an update on the work of the wool council; if the €30,000 in departmental funding has been drawn down to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25540/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I am seeking an update on the work of the wool council. Of the €30,000 allocated to the wool council, how much, if any, has been drawn down? Where are we at with regard to the recommendations from the consultants who carried out a report on the potential for wool?