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Other Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I understand that to a certain extent in the context of the specific aspect of the question but under A Vision for Change, going back to 2006 - and prior to that back to 1984 when there was another plan and patients were moved out of psychiatric buildings - can the Government stand over the fact that not a single community mental health team has been rolled out in Galway city, Connemara or...

Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Thank you, Deputy.

Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy, we will run out of time for the other Topical Issue matters.

Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The Deputy can come back in for his two minutes.

Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I am afraid the Minister will not have time to finish; the four minutes are up. I am sorry about that, unless Deputy Cahill wants to give his two minutes to the Minister.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Facilities (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I have no difficulty with that, as long as I get an answer. I wish to raise the issue of the closure of two operating theatres in Merlin Park University Hospital in Galway, which is the sister hospital to University Hospital Galway. The two orthopaedic theatres that have closed for a number of weeks happen to have the longest waiting lists and in recent years, a former consultant has...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Facilities (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister of State for some of the clarification given. On 4 September there was a leak and on 13 September there was a further leak. This facility is a centre of excellence serving nearly 1 million people, if we take in the catchment under Saolta from Letterkenny down to Galway, as well as patients who come from County Clare, which is outside the area. This is a centre of...

Report of Joint Committee on Justice and Equality on Immigration, Asylum and the Refugee Crisis: Motion (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I am sharing my time with Deputy Bríd Smith. I would like to praise the Minister of State but I am disappointed by his speech. I know that on a personal level he is very sympathetic to the plight. In a previous speech, he said he was very conscious of the misery and suffering experienced by refugees. He has made many sympathetic and positive statements. However, his defence of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 76. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the plans in respect of a new building in view of the decision of HSE west to ring-fence the insurance payment for the construction of a new building following the burning down of the addiction counselling service building at Merlin Park hospital, Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40767/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: What is the time limit for questions?

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Was that 139 stations?

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Go raibh míle maith agat. Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an tUasal Ó Cualáin as a ról nua. Go n-éirí leis. Níl sé éasca. I realise there is a boundary, that the Oireachtas Committee on Justice and Equality also has a very important role in this and that the matters will be discussed in detail. Our remit is because the acting Garda...

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Ó Cualáin waited for the correspondence?

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I only have five minutes so I want to ask very specific questions. Mr. Ó Cualáin waited, in due course, which is the normal procedure for a letter to come to clarify the outstanding pieces of correspondence.

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That is okay. So there was no discussion with anyone after the witness left this committee until the committee wrote out to him and said-----

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: With whom?

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: How did happen? Where did the moment on the road to Damascus come?

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Had the witness been in contact with the Department of Justice and Equality?

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Is Mr. Ó Cualáin very familiar with the interim report?

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: We are waiting on the Government to make a decision on that, is this correct?