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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I call Deputy Neville.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I beg the Deputy's pardon, I got caught up on the fishing issue. I was just thinking of something else. We have taken three speakers so we will just deal with those and then the Deputy will be the next speaker.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Is there anything Mr. McCarthy wishes to address in respect of those contributions?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The Deputy can ask his further questions as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Can we agree to note the listing of accounts and financial statements? Agreed. The listing of accounts and financial statements will be published as part of our minutes. I propose that we go into private session to discuss additional matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Every single member of the Opposition has put their name to this motion. I welcome Cara and her father. It is an indictment of this Government and previous Governments that Cara Darmody, a young teenager, has had to come back two years after she addressed an Oireachtas joint committee in November 2022. At that time, she said, "I am here to tell you what it is like to live in a family that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Inshore Fisheries (20 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 132. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 319 of 1 May 2025, 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 in inshore waters, some of which are special areas of conservation, when the results of the public...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Programmes (20 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 180. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 11 of 2 April 2025, if the detailed project proposals have now been evaluated; the results of that evaluation; the status of an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25620/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Wind Energy Generation (20 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 246. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of a planning application (details supplied); when the planning application will be formally withdrawn following confirmation that the developers will no longer proceed with the project; the status of the marine area consent granted to the company in December 2022; details of the 'performance security'...

Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support Schemes: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I dtús báire, ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis an ngrúpa teicniúil. I thank the technical group for once again putting the spotlight on the absence of services and the failure of successive Governments to recognise the invaluable work that caregivers give us. I am not going to use my own words. I am going to use the Policy Statement on Care published by...

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: It is okay.

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: There are two of us left, so it is-----

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: That is okay. I just wish to be fair to the other speakers. I know it is difficult for the Chair. I have attended many protests, as all my colleagues have done. There was a time when I was most uncomfortable with the chant "Israel is a terrorist state" because I am an absolute democrat. I have no such reluctance now and I am ashamed that I was not comfortable with that chant because...

Biodiversity Week: Statements (21 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I wish the Minister of State the best. I welcome his passion today and his invitation to all of us to go out into the country. There is a lot more than that to be done, however. He knows that more than anyone. If we go back, we declared biodiversity a climate emergency back in May 2019. The Minister at the time, Josepha Madigan, said that, “We are losing biodiversity around the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (22 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the provision of student accommodation in Galway; when the new national student accommodation strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26176/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (22 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: My question relates to student accommodation in Galway. Where is the national strategy? I ask this in the context of a city where a recent survey found that almost one fifth of students at the University of Galway are living with family members or are in emergency accommodation. Those surveyed represented 8.5% of the student population. About 12% of respondents reported that they were...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (22 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Will the strategy be published later this year?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (22 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the standardised design. It is very practical. That has been done all over England with great cost savings. Let us go back to Galway. Approximately 19,000 students are in what I still call the NUIG. Then there is the Atlantic Technological University, ATU. There are more than 40,000 students in Galway in just two third level institutions. I know the Minister does not like the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (22 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I am not straying into the housing area. I am putting the issue into the context of a city where we have a massive housing crisis. I do not exaggerate. People have been on a waiting list for 20 years. We jump for joy when someone gets a house after 15 years. That is the context. In addition, we have two universities. A disaster of a decision was taken years ago before the arrival of...