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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Cathaoirleach and apologise for being late as I was caught up with something else. I am looking for guidance on this issue, on which I am no expert. The correspondent has written to and been in contact with a lot of TDs regarding automatic enrolment. He did his best to explain the issue to us and we raised it in the Dáil and did our best to have it addressed. I do not...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: There has been engagement and we were told the information is sensitive and cannot be made available. I am looking for more guidance than that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: That is great. I would appreciate a comment from the Comptroller and Auditor General more generally on matters such as this. I am not sure whether he has read the correspondence.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Cathaoirleach. The accounts route is a good route and will have a parallel in terms of follow-up.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I certainly do not agree with the Order of Business. We need to reflect on what is happening in the Middle East. We have had an unprovoked attack by Israel on Iran and the language around this is simply shameful.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: It is an unprovoked attack on a sovereign, independent country and we are not talking about it or making space for a debate. This is an attack by a rogue state, which the Government has agreed is committing genocide, that has now gone into Iran, and is suddenly the moral conscious in relation to nuclear armaments, which Iran does not process-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Israel is not even a member of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I raise the serious matter of the closure of a dental practice in Oranmore, County Galway, more than three years ago. Approximately 200 patients and families have been left in an utter predicament and have been subjected to partial treatment, no treatment and so on. They have engaged. All of the TDs at the time had a meeting with the Dental Council. There is utter frustration and anger...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: It was.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: It is almost an identical concept.

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: In my three minutes I am going to repeat what I have said since the day I came in here. This crisis has been caused by Government policy. We have just come in from the Raise the Roof protest. There is no doubt each policy from each Government has intensified the crisis as it has failed to recognise - deliberately so - that housing is a basic human right. Each Government has dealt with it...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (17 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 95. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on efforts to secure further contributions from the religious organisations associated with the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32406/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (17 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 112. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of payments made to date in each ‘number of days resident in relevant institution’ category of Schedule 2 and in each ‘number of days resident in relevant institution’ category of Schedule 3 of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023, by Schedule and by...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Shannon Airport Facilities (17 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 159. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is satisfied that an aircraft which landed at Shannon Airport on 21 May 2025 was not operating as a “state aircraft” with reference to the definition provided for by section 5 of the Air Navigation and Transport Act 1950, or as a "foreign military aircraft" with reference to the definition provided pursuant to S.I. No....

Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Deputy O'Gorman and the Green Party for bringing forward this motion and putting the spotlight on public transport. I am also grateful that the Government is not opposing it. I welcome the Minister of State's speech. I know he is heart and soul behind rail. I may get a chance to come back to that. The Minister of State acknowledged that "Public transport is not just about...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (18 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Leanfaidh mé ar aghaidh ar aon nós. Níl a fhios agam cé mhéid nóiméad atá agam.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (18 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: There are three speakers, if they turn up.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (18 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Tuigim. Leanfaidh mé ar aghaidh until they come. Go raibh míle maith agat. Unfortunately, the Deputy who made the allegation of sanctimonious wrath against a colleague in another party has left. I cannot think of anything more inappropriate from a TD who is part of the Government that is standing over a housing crisis. The only sanctimonious wrath that I have ever heard in this...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Human Rights (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 22. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 28 of 1 May 2025, and 6 of 20 February 2025, if the action plan on business and human rights has now been published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32968/25]