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

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister of State for the update. The programme for Government contains a promise and an objective that the Government would explore the range of possibilities with wool. In the 21st century and in the face of climate change, it is just extraordinary that wool is classified as a waste product is just extraordinary. I am trying to get to a point where there is a thriving...

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

Catherine Connolly: The demand is there. This was included in the programme for Government in 2020. It is now 2024. It took up to 1 July 2022 to get the report. It took another length of time to establish a council. There was an interim chair and now there is another interim chair. We are still wondering whether there is a demand but, in the 21st century, having declared a climate and biodiversity...

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

Catherine Connolly: I would love it if the Minister of State shared the possibilities and the potential around wool.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Táim ag díriú isteach ar ospidéal na Gaillimhe arís agus ar an méid othair atá ar thralaithe, 62 inniu. Tá daoine ag fulaingt agus ag fáil bháis ar thralaithe fad is atáimid ag caint is ag ceiliúradh torthaí na dtoghchán. I am glad the Minister is here today. He previously served as Minister for public expenditure and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: One almost loses the will to live in regard to this. In 2014, the accident and emergency unit was deemed not fit for purpose. Ten years later, it is still not fit for purpose. The Minister tells me money is going into it. There are 62 people on trolleys. They should not be on trolleys. We live in a Republic. The Government has normalised a situation where patients are on trolleys. I...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 19. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 38 of 2 May 2024, to provide an update on the SAR/PBC by the project team and the Galway University Hospital’s capital programme oversight board for the new emergency department, women and children’s block in UHG; the timeline for when it is expected to move to pre-tender stage; to provide an update on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 98. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the options open to school staff who have to sign on for job seekers benefit during the school holidays, in the context that the payments often arrive after the holiday, making it impossible for them to pay bills, buy food, and so on, with particular reference to the reason the payment is so reduced and delayed; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Neutrality (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 37.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 28 May 2024, if he will publish the non-paper and the text of the letter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24834/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Sanctions (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 69.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the value of frozen Russian assets in Ireland and in Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25559/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Agreements (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 70.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the ‘urgent review’ of the EU-Israel Association Agreement requested jointly by Ireland and Spain on 14 February 2024; the response from the Commission to that ‘urgent review’ request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25560/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 74.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade what assessment he has made of the implications for Ireland of the Council decision to use the proceeds from immobilised Russian assets to support Ukraine’s military activities to defend itself and to boost its military capabilities; if he is satisfied that Russian assets immobilised by Ireland will not support or be used for such...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Export Controls (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 231.To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 71 of 23 May 2024, the names of the companies in respect of which fourteen individual dual-use export licences with a value of €52 million to end users in Israel in the period 7 October 2023 to 23 May 2024 were granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24835/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 340.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the lack of secondary school places for children with special needs in Dublin 7, where there are 11 special needs classes but only 5 at secondary level, meaning that some children may face not being able to continue their education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25383/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 407.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of section 179A planning exemptions that have received stage 1 approval from his Department, broken down by local authority, including the location and number of units in each scheme, in tabular form; the number of such schemes which have commenced construction to date; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 408.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of section 179A social housing planning exemptions that have received stage 1 approval from his Department, broken down by local authority, including the location and number of units in each scheme, in tabular form; the number of such schemes which have commenced construction to date; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 446.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of her engagement in 2024 with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Tusla, and foster carers’ representative groups, with a view to ensuring that foster carers will be eligible for state pension contributions in respect of their time spent fostering; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 447.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of any analysis carried out by her Department as regards allowing for foster carers to be eligible for State pension contributions in respect of their time spent fostering; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24854/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 560.To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a person with refugee status in Ukraine, who is legally resident in Ireland due to the war in Ukraine, can apply for Irish citizenship as he has no passport from his own country and no prospect of getting one as he is a refugee; or if he becomes entitled to apply for Irish citizenship after 5 years; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Schemes (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 573.To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding approved by his Department for an organisation (details supplied) under the equine technical support scheme for the years 2019 to 2023, in tabular form; the proposed funding for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24833/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Assisted Decision-Making (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 588.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of enduring powers of attorney (EPA) lodged with the decision support service (DSS) since the service has been operable; the number approved; the number not approved; the number outstanding as a result of the EPA legal practitioner statement not being signed by a solicitor; all by month in tabular...