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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (1 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 319. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine given that it is over a year since the closure of the public consultation on trawling within Ireland's six nautical mile limit, and given that trawling continues to take place within areas such as Kenmare Bay, which is part of the Kenmare River Special Area of Conservation, when the results of the public consultation will be...

Europe Day: Statements (7 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I am certainly not using my words to celebrate Europe Day. I say so because it has completely lost any moral compass, if it ever had one. We are two days away from the 75 years of the peace declaration by Schuman and we could not be further from that peace declaration. The Minister of State presented an 11 page speech and I will intermingle that with the words of Simon Harris, our...

Europe Day: Statements (7 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I do not think, in all honesty, the Minister of State could disagree with that given the amount of money that is going into the military industrial complex. A lot more than a shaking of the head is necessary when we are standing as a neutral country and not using one word of condemnation in the same way we have against Russia. It goes to our credibility as an independent country. It goes...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Ghaeltacht (8 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 94. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén pleananna atá aige chun scéim na ndeontas tithíochta Gaeltachta a reáchtáil arís de bhun Acht na dTithe (Gaeltacht) (Leasú), 2001, chun tacaíocht a chur ar fáil do chainteoirí Gaeilge a bheadh ag iarraidh teach a thógáil nó a athchóiriú sa...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Ghaeltacht (8 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Baineann mo cheist go sonrach le cúrsaí tithíochta sa Ghaeltacht agus go háirithe le mír 9 d’Acht na dTithe (Gaeltacht) (Leasú), 2001. Faoin mhír sin, tá cumhacht ag an Aire agus ag an Roinn airgead agus acmhainní deontais a chur ar fáil do chainteoirí Gaeilge chun tithe a athchóiriú nó tithe a thógáil....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Ghaeltacht (8 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. Tuigim nach luíonn an cúram seo leis. Tuigim a chás. Tá sé ag seasamh anseo in ionad an Aire, an Teachta Calleary. Is cúis díomá agus imní go bhfuil sé ráite go neamhbhalbh ag an Rialtas anois nach bhfuil sé chun scéim na ndeontas a thabhairt ar ais. Ní thuigim cén fáth mar...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Ghaeltacht (8 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. Is maith an rud é go mbeidh cruinniú idir an t-údarás agus an tAire mar beidh an Bille um Údarás na Gaeltachta (Leasú), 2024 os ár gcomhair arís an tseachtain seo. Bhí cruinniú le bheith ann idir BÁNÚ agus an tAire freisin. Tá súil agam go mbeidh an cruinniú sin ann sula...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Meetings (8 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 159. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 5 February 2025, if the minutes of all meetings with an organisation (details supplied) will now be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18047/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Meetings (8 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: My question is very specific and relates to a specific organisation. It is about a specific series of meetings the Department of Defence has had with the Irish Defence and Security Association. This is my third time asking for the minutes of these meetings. On the last occasion, whoever was in the Tánaiste's place told us it was his intention to publish these minutes. I have two...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Meetings (8 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I did not see those minutes. Perhaps we did not look properly. I do not know. I welcome that they are there. I will take back the word "minutes" because these are not minutes. What I have are two notes. To describe them as "minutes" is utterly wrong. In the notes of one meeting that was held in Newbridge, we see that a person took the notes in October 2024. We have no idea of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Meetings (8 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The arms industry is supplying arms for genocide to be carried out in Palestine. The Tánaiste knows that. He has spoken about it. This group represents the arms industry, it lobbies for the arms industry and it has an open door to the Department. I know of a series of meetings. Is the Tánaiste confirming that the minutes, or whatever we are going to call them, of all 11...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Meetings (8 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Does that include the arms industry?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Meetings (8 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: It is not everything.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (29 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 105. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps she will take in view of the publication of the report on negotiations with religious organisations associated with the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20527/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Commissions of Investigation (29 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 123. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the second phase of the commission of investigation (certain matters relative to a disability service in the south east and related matters), as required by Part II (a) (iii) and (iv) the terms of reference of that commission, will commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20526/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (29 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 925. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the development of a school (details supplied), currently at stage 2B; the timeline for the completion of the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19711/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Strategic Infrastructure (29 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 1189. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government , further to Parliamentary Question No. 646 of 8 April, the reason the current outstanding strategic housing development application list waiting to be determined by An Bord Pleanála (ABP) is no longer available on the ABP website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19022/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (29 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 1516. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to make a statement in relation to the Review of Part 4 of the Sexual Offences Act 2017, and the acknowledgement in that review that there has been no impact on demand for the purchasing of sex since the enactment of the legislation, even though that was the key rationale for its implementation, and in that context, and the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (29 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 1517. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to make a statement regarding the status of the draft report on the review of Part 4 of the Sexual Offences Act 2017, submitted by the original independent expert commissioned to undertake that review in July 2020, with particular reference to where that report can be accessed, the reason it was not published, and the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (29 Apr 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 1582. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications received from Iranian citizens for a visa; the numbers granted under the headings employment - crucial skills & scientific researcher, study - phd and masters, and join family in the period 11 December 2023 to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19728/25]