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Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I understand. There is an absence of people for an effective planning system and local authority but there is a plan in place to sort that out.

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Okay. My next question is in relation to inspections.

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I will. Inspections are very low. The take-up of disability grants is very low. There is underspending in lots of programmes while there is an absolute housing crisis. There is not much one can do in a few minutes but it is a disaster.

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I am looking at pages 44 and 45. There is an underspend on inspections due to a lack of staff. I am looking at the Department's accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Can I stick with what is before me? I see an underspend on the most basic thing we have, the inspections system. On pages 44 and 45, it tells me-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I know. Maybe we will reflect on how we do this.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The Taoiseach stands before us shamefaced today to tell us that the occupied territories Bill will not include services. He does this on a day when 21 people were shot like moving targets at a fair as they queued up for food this morning. We are told that 56,000 people are now dead in the genocide. The Lancet tells us the figure is much higher, as does the Harvard database, which puts the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: You should be.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I am fully clear what it is about.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I am giving the Taoiseach the context, which is that a genocide is under way.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: We are talking about a genocide.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Then stop-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Twenty-one individuals were shot.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The Government has checked and inspected them, has it?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I will take out the "s" and say "airport".

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I actually blamed you.

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Here we go again about nursing homes. A scandal has given us cause to talk about nursing homes. All the details of that scandal have been outlined. I am not going to outline them again. It is bewildering that HIQA had a report on one of the homes, Beneavin, in November, and it was substantially compliant. That in itself is frightening. I looked to remember, because my memory is faulty,...

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Can I get the clock stopped for a minute to clarify something? I assumed we were letting Deputy Tóibín have his slot ahead of us and that we were sharing our own slot, which was six minutes each.

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion. It is brief and to the point. I have no problem with implementing the recommendations of the Fifth Report of the Convention on the Constitution, which was quite some time ago now, for all Irish citizens on the island of Ireland. I have no difficulty with that. To follow on from my colleague, Deputy Stanley, it is not in the programme for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Clár Oibre agus Tosaíochtaí Údarás na Gaeltachta: Plé (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Déanfaidh muid ár mbreithniú ar chlár oibre agus tosaíochtaí Údarás na Gaeltachta le hionadaithe thar ceann an údaráis. Cuirim céad míle fáilte rompu go léir. Tá orm na finnéithe a lua agus rud a léamh. Iarraim orthu fanacht liom ar feadh cúpla nóiméad. I measc na bhfinnéithe, tá...