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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (8 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 646. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current outstanding strategic housing development planning application list, setting out the number of housing units and locations involved, in tabular form. [17531/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (8 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 648. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the extent to which planning authorities are required to consider whether a building can satisfy building control regulations before permission is granted for it to be built; if planning authorities are required to provide measurements for access routes; if a building that requires a disability access certificate may be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Táim ag díriú isteach ar mhuintir na Palaistíne agus an cinedhíothú atá ar siúl inár n-ainm fad is atáimid anseo ag caint agus briathra milse, bhreátha ag na hAirí gan beart ar bith. Inné sa chúirt, dúirt Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh, "Israel has closed all crossings and it has turned Rafah itself, once a refuge for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: It is our responsibility.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: We have an obligation to prevent genocide and not to be complicit in genocide. It is our job to do something. It is particularly our job as a country that was colonised. That is exactly what has happened with Israel's colonisation of Gaza and, more widely, Palestine. As a republic and an independent sovereign state, we have a duty to take action. Doctors Without Borders has described...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: You do not know because you have not inspected them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I have asked you to inspect them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: That is not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Is masla é sin do chosmhuintir na tíre.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (30 Apr 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 at the ambulance station in Drogheda. Deputy Gary Gannon - To discuss the lack of suitable after-school facilities in Dublin 1. Deputy Brian Brennan - To discuss the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Derelict Sites (30 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Bogfaimid ar aghaidh go dtí an tríú saincheist agus an Teachta James O’Connor.

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I did my best to read through the report. I have two minutes so I cannot do it justice, but I have certainly read it. I would like to welcome it but I cannot. When you look at it, the words, such as "sustainability", are good, but you then realise it is business as usual. It is significant that in a few days' time we will - I will not say celebrate - recall that we declared a climate and...

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I do not have the cluster of amendments in front of me but we are speaking about taking away the right to jury trials. I wished the Minister the very best in his new career but I cannot but go back and read out his speech. I do not know how he is going to get around that, other than by the fact that he now has power or, as has been alluded to already, has been captured by the Department. I...

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister also has a choice.

Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (30 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I also commend the Minister for his honesty and openness but that raises all the more questions. He is a member of a party and he has the views that he formed, based on his research and experience, that this was a bad decision, but he is now asked to leave that aside and go with what the party is telling him. That is extremely worrying, not just for this debate but for many other debates...

Report of the Farrelly Commission: Statements (1 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Gabh mo leithscéal. I ask the Minister for a copy of the speech, if that is possible.

Report of the Farrelly Commission: Statements (1 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I do not want to hold the Dáil up but I want to be assured we are getting a copy of the speech.

Report of the Farrelly Commission: Statements (1 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: It is coming to the Chamber now, is it not?

Report of the Farrelly Commission: Statements (1 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach Gníomhach.

Report of the Farrelly Commission: Statements (1 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I have read all the reports today but I have not read the 2,000-page report. I know the Minister is under pressure today and I do not wish to personalise this. On top of all the reports, not to have a copy of her speech today is unacceptable from the Department.