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Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Are you finished?

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I have a conflict of interest because I am further down the list. The Minister wants to speak on this.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I understand. I am breaking the rules, but it is almost holiday time. I declare a conflict of interest because I am further down the list. I did my best to invite people into the Chamber. By way of exception, if the Ministers agree I will let Members contribute and we will then come to the Minister of State for what is left of his time. Sinn Féin will then conclude.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Thank you for your co-operation.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (2 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach Gníomhach, Deputy Mattie McGrath, as ucht a bheith sa Chathaoir. Fáiltím roimh an mBille seo agus an obair atá curtha isteach ag na Teachtaí Dála Mairéad Farrell agus Eoin Ó Broin. Tá siad ag díriú an spotsolais ar ghné den earnáil tithíochta seo. Is gné amháin...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 67. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of his engagement with senior management in the Defence Forces with regard to the number of serving members who have convictions for gender-based violence; his plans to publish the recent audit by the Defence Forces carried out in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28181/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I stay with the same issue. I am asking for details of the Tánaiste's engagement with senior management in the Defence Forces with regard to the number of serving members who have convictions for gender-based violence, and his plans to publish the recent audit carried out by the Defence Forces in this regard. I am asking this question in the context of the Women of Honour documentary...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome that the Tánaiste is taking a hands-on approach, but can he imagine? We have had a commission on the future of the Defence Forces. We have the documentary on the Women of Honour. We have a tribunal set up. However, he, as Tánaiste of this country, the second most important role, has to repeatedly ask the what the situation is. He gets a report, and he is not happy...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I do not have much time to reply. Statements are scheduled in the House tomorrow and I will happily elaborate then, if I have the time the Tánaiste has had, on how we have got to this stage and how we ignored an interdepartmental committee in 1997 that came forward with recommendations. The violence is not an epidemic or a pandemic. It is violence mostly by men against women, but also...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: What about the other years? Where is the analysis of that? How many serving members are before the military court? In respect of Peter Ward, for whom I have great respect, what are his terms of reference? Will we see them? After what period will the report be published? I go back to the Women of Honour, Natasha O'Brien and all the other women, and what they have put up with. I am...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The Tánaiste will publish the terms of reference and the report.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Courts Service (2 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister has received serious correspondence from the Bar Council and others. They wrote to her on 21 June stating she will recall that in October they withdrew their services because of the lack of confidence in the Government’s commitment to the preservation of the highest standards of administration of criminal justice. That was the first time ever that such action was taken....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Courts Service (2 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: We did not get a written reply, so this is difficult. The Bar Council is taking unprecedented action. October was the first time such action had ever been taken, and now we are to have action again for three days. Sara Phelan, chair of the Bar Council, has stated the council has at all times made clear, both to Government and to its members, that it would be willing to allow a period of...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Tribunals of Inquiry (2 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 82. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 21 of 6 May 2024, the details of the resources allocated to the tribunal of inquiry to examine the effectiveness of the complaints process in the Defence Forces; the number of support and administrative staff that have been appointed to the tribunal; the details of the legal supports, if any, that will be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (2 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children, by county, who availed of the home tuition grant scheme 2023-2024 special education component; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27874/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (2 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 343 of 25 June 2024, if he will confirm that access to homeless services is permitted to those Ukrainian beneficiaries of temporary protection who reach the 90-day cut off for State-provided accommodation and who have no alternative accommodation in place; and if he will make a statement...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (3 Jul 2024)

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 - The need to provide a full range of services in CDNT4. Deputy David Cullinane - To discuss the business case submitted by Waterford Airport for funding to extend the runway. Deputies Aengus Ó...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Airport Policy (3 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an Aire Stáit as a ardú céime. Go n-éirí leis ina ról nua mar Aire Stáit.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Ar aghaidh anois go dtí an tríú Saincheist Tráthúil in ainmneacha na dTeachtaí Seán Sherlock agus Duncan Smith: to discuss the non-payment of pension increases due to retired An Post workers. As the Deputies are sharing time, they have two minutes each.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (3 Jul 2024)

Catherine Connolly: What a sentence.