Results 32,421-32,440 of 33,461 for speaker:Catherine Connolly

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (18 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 415. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to expand the rent pressure zone scheme to include additional designated areas in which rent increases are capped; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5499/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (18 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 416. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to extend the rent pressure zone scheme beyond 31 December 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5500/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (18 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 470. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 852 of 9 September 2024, if the review of the working group has been completed; if a Level 8 BSc in Construction Project Management is to be included in the list of approved qualifications for engineering roles within Local Authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6264/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (19 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 250. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide radiation therapy students with a payment and travel allowances during their final-year internship in line with supports offered to student nurses, particularly in light of the finding of the National Radiation Therapist Review that there is a 30% shortage of radiation therapists; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Export Controls (20 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 16. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of dual-use export licence applications in respect of end-users in Israel approved by his Department in 2024 and to date in 2025; the value of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6377/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (20 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 109. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the work undertaken by his Department to ensure adequate resourcing of lead Departments for climate adaptation-related activities; his views on the report of the Climate Advisory Council’s Annual Review ‘Preparing for Ireland’s Changing Climate’ 2024; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (20 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 111. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an update on the decarbonisation zone in Galway city; the status of the implementation plan; the resources in place to achieve the required 7% annual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions to 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6437/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: It is seven years since the Government decided to bring in a very good policy at the end of December 2018 to stop trawlers over 18 m in length fishing within the six-mile limit. A significant part of that policy was to stop the unsustainable fishing for sprat. This is the seventh year of the policy. Unfortunately, because of the Government's or the Department's failure to carry out the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: We are finished that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: When will the policy - it is a brilliant policy - be rolled out?

Disability: Statements (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I will preface my remarks by saying that if the Government is seriously interested in helping to empower people with disabilities, it would abolish the means tests for carers immediately and it would bring in a cost of disability payment immediately. I will pick up where my colleague left off when she spoke about breaking the law. The Government is blatantly breaking the law. Twenty...

Driver Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Gabhaim mo bhuíochas le Sinn Féin as an rún seo a chur os comhair na Dála. Tá sé thar a bheith tábhachtach agus go raibh míle maith acu go bhfuil an deis tugtha dúinn páirt a ghlacadh sa díospóireacht. On the previous occasion, I wished the Minister of State the best. On this occasion, I note that he and the Minister are not...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: It was going too smoothly.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Childcare Services (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Is that the one the Minister is addressing?

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 39 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Joanna Byrne - To discuss unsafe working conditions in the ambulance station in Drogheda. Deputy Séamus McGrath - To discuss Garda resources and station opening hours in south Cork city. Deputy Shane Moynihan - To discuss...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: They do not have any worries.

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Deputy Coppinger for bringing this issue and setting it out so clearly in the motion and to the visitors in the Gallery. I wish the Minister best of luck in his new role and I welcome that he is not opposing the motion, which is often the death knell - but I will give him the benefit of the doubt that it is not the death knell and he will take this matter seriously.

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: He said is committed to bringing in the register and changing the law. I have only five minutes so I will not go into it. I welcome what he is saying and he will have to deliver on that.

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: In 1974, a groundbreaking book about a women's refuge in Chiswick, London entitled Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear was published. Fast forward 49 years to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland publishing an article entitled, "Why is sexual violence still hidden in plain sight in this era of oversharing?" about domestic violence and gender-based violence. Forgive me if I am...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 44. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the proposed changes to the triple lock; if it is intended to remove the neutrality protection of the triple lock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6076/25]