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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Central Bank of Ireland (15 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I am glad ISIF has divested of its investment. I received a written reply to a query, which stated that in 2023, the investment was worth €2.62 million. That was the year Hamas crossed the border and Israel started on this genocide. In 2024, as the genocide continued and worsened, this State invested more money in the bonds. It was not an awful lot more, but there was an...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Central Bank of Ireland (15 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I will use the time the Minister has not used. I accept he has nothing to do with those decisions and that ISIF is an independent body. However, he has an opinion and is a part of a Government that says genocide is taking place. He stood over a situation whereby through either a lack of knowledge or otherwise, he could not tell me how much money was being invested. Suddenly we have the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Central Bank of Ireland (15 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: The Secretary General of the UN has told us: What we are witnessing in Gaza is a level of death and destruction that has no parallel in recent times. And it is something that undermines, I would say, undermines the most basic conditions of human dignity for the population of Gaza, independently of the enormous suffering that they are having. We are investing in that genocide.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Central Bank of Ireland (15 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: The Minister's Government plays a role in doublespeak.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: In Senator Frances Black's occupied territories Bill in 2018, she set out four categories of trade: the import of goods; the import of services; the export of goods; and the export of services. Inexplicably, the Government's Bill has left out three of those categories. This is despite the unequivocal advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice that Israel's continued occupation...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: School Transport (16 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: 50. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the consideration given to the inclusion of a light rail system for Galway in the upcoming review of the National Development Plan; when the plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39984/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disease Management (16 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: 205. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the supports available to ensure people with cerebral palsy can adapt their cars to continue living independent lives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39916/25]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I am conscious this is the last day of term. The revised national development plan is going to be published within two weeks. On many occasions, I have drawn the Tánaiste's attention to the lack of infrastructure in Galway and I do so again. This is a major obstacle to development. Galway is one of the cities to be developed in a sustainable way. On the east side of the city, there...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: I have a few practical questions and an observation. I will put all my questions and my observation in one go. I am conscious of the workload of the Department of public expenditure and other Departments. A continuing theme is staff vacancies, an inability to predict when people will retire and the uncertainty around that. Department heads must have some idea how many staff are going to...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: I have read that. I just want to know the numbers. How many vacancies-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Is it big? Is it significant? How is the workload managed? What money is going towards agencies or staff who have been brought in as a result?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: How many retirements happen with two weeks' notice? Has the Department looked at that to see? Do a substantial number just give two weeks' notice?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: There is huge variation.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Not a note on the technical aspect but more the Department’s oversight of the LDA and who provides that oversight.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: There was just one last question. Mr. Moloney might not want to comment on the tenant in situ and policy.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management (10 Jul 2025) Catherine Connolly: Is a review under way?