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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (3 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: 2. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to the findings of a report (details supplied) that front-line services were contacted 32,144 times, being an increase of 12% on 2023, that 44% of women surveyed were not satisfied with their initial engagement with An Garda Síochána and that its response to more than 65,000 contacts received last year was...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (3 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: The Minister is very familiar with the latest Women Aid's report. What will he do, given the significant increase in contacts with Women's Aid and that 44% of women said they were not satisfied with their initial engagement with An Garda Síochána? The response is inconsistent from the Garda in relation to the 65,000 contacts received. What steps is the Minister taking in relation...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (3 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I followed this up myself since I joined the Dáil in 2016. We had a task force in 1996 and Eithne FitzGerald was the Labour Party Minister at that stage. Ever since, we have been playing catch up. I am not reassured that the Garda now has courses in place. It was acknowledged by the Garda when it was before us at the public accounts committee recently and further details will be sent...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (3 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I disagree. The Garda is doing a good job through the protective units but I disagree with the Minister that things have changed in terms of societal attitudes. The Minister could do certain things and act very quickly. He could act regarding the domestic violence register he promised. He has given me no timeline for that. Women’s Aid has consistently stated the strongest...
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (3 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: 45. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to review the process whereby international protection applicants may, at very short notice, be moved from the communities in which they have established connections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36346/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (3 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: 66. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1082 of 10 June 2025, the urgent steps he is taking to end the policy of not offering accommodation to international protection applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36345/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (3 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: 105. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the ways in which he is supporting Irish wool and developing its market potential; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36343/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (3 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: 120. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 319 of 1 May 2025 and 132 of 20 May 2025, given 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...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: There has been a very welcome announcement that there is going to be a commission of investigation into every allegation of historical sexual abuse in every school in the country. Are we going to have a debate on that in the Dáil? Is it going to be on the agenda next week? We are going to finish next week. We need to learn from previous commissions of investigation, and it should be...
- Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Chair for facilitating me. My apologies. I welcome the opportunity to say a few words on this Bill. As usual, I thank the Oireachtas Library and Research Service, which again has been under pressure to produce a digest for us. The Bill has 17 sections and two Parts. I have both positive and negative things to say about it but I never agree with waiving pre-legislative...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: To go back to Children's Health Ireland and its financial statements, I meant to ask on the previous occasion about legal settlements, but I ran out of time. CHI's financial statements clearly disclose a total sum of €125,500 with regard to the Workplace Relations Commission but they do not give any figures for the claims under the State Claims Agency. Can Mr. Fitzpatrick just...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: I am asking about the 32 claims that were settled.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: I am asking about the 32 claims with the State Claims Agency.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Does Mr. Fitzpatrick have any details on the cost? He gave us a figure for the WRC.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Does Mr. Fitzpatrick have a figure for those or information on the nature of the cases?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: CHI would be fully-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Will CHI be able to give us figures on it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Yes, I imagine so.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: It would also be to prevent. That is the reason the figure is not disclosed there. Mr. Fitzpatrick might come back to us with that figure.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: He might let us know one way or another because we will then pursue it with the State Claims Agency. With regard to the National Treatment Purchase Fund, consultants cannot refer from public to private. I think the witnesses have excluded that as a possibility, have they?