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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme (8 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 1391. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address perceived discriminatory measures (details supplied) under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20085/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Partial Capacity Benefit Scheme (8 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 1505. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to remove the barriers associated with the partial capacity benefit scheme and allow persons on invalidity pensions to participate in employment for rehabilitative or therapeutic purposes for up to 20 hours per week as permitted under pre-2013 exemption arrangements without the need to transfer to partial...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sea Lice Controls (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 4. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions being taken to control sea lice levels at salmon farm sites which are having an adverse effect on the successful survival of salmon and sea trout smolts or kelts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20261/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sea Lice Controls (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: My question is straightforward and I would appreciate a straightforward answer. What actions are being by the Department to control sea lice levels at salmon farms which are having an adverse effect on the successful survival of salmon and sea trout smolts? I raise this question in the context of the commentary of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment regarding an...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sea Lice Controls (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I do not have a copy of the Minister's reply to hand but I asked what I said was a very straight question. What actions are the Department taking with the reporting of an unprecedented increase in levels of sea lice? The Minister's Department has been written to by the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, which has pointed out the result of the monitoring system,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sea Lice Controls (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I do not mean to take the Minister by surprise as this matter is too serious for that. The Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment has written to the Minister's Department. I asked the actions taken by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and these will clearly include actions taken following input from the Department of Communications, Climate Action and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sea Lice Controls (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I appreciate that I am not entitled to ask another question but there has been some confusion. Will the Minister clarify if the response went from his Department to the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment by the required date?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sea Lice Controls (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: That is okay.

National Broadband Plan: Statements (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Tá mé ag roinnt mo chuid ama le mo chomhghleacaí, an Teachta Broughan. I have only six minutes so I will get straight to the point. I ask for sense to prevail here. I do not think the Minister will listen to me but it is important, for the sake of the people who elected me and for the public record, that I ask for sense to prevail. The Minister and his Government are...

Report of Joint Committee on Climate Action: Motion (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the report and its 42 priority recommendations and 39 ancillary recommendations. I thank the Chairman of the committee, Deputy Hildegarde Naughton, my constituency colleague in Galway West, and all the members of the committee, including my colleague, Deputy Pringle, who represents the Independents 4 Change group. It is important to put all that positivity, which is wonderful,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sea Lice Controls (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 34. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and location of organic salmon farms requested to accelerate harvesting in view of concerns about high sea lice levels on their farms; the number and location of other farms with levels of sea lice that are of concern; the actions being taken to address and resolve these issues; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Environmental Investigations (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 39. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to ongoing research undertaken by NUI Galway with EU funding on antibiotic resistant bacteria in the sea around County Galway; the actions being taken further to the findings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20097/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Clár Foghlamtha Comhtháite Ábhar agus Teangacha (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad iad sonraí na réamhscoileanna, na mbunscoileanna agus na n-iar-bhunscoileanna, go háirithe ainm, áit agus uimhir na scoileanna sin, a bheidh ag glacadh páirt sa Chlár Foghlamtha Comhtháite Ábhar agus Teangacha le linn scoilbhliain 2019/2020; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Clár Foghlamtha Comhtháite Ábhar agus Teangacha (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad é líon na múinteoirí i ngach scoil atá ag glacadh páirt sa Chlár Foghlamtha Comhtháite Ábhar agus Teangacha le linn scoilbhliain 2019/2020 agus atá cáilithe chun ábhair eile, seachas an Ghaeilge, a mhúineadh trí mheán na Gaeilge sna scoileanna sin; agus an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Clár Foghlamtha Comhtháite Ábhar agus Teangacha (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills cad é líon na ndaltaí a ghlacfaidh páirt sa Chlár Foghlamtha Comhtháite Ábhar agus Teangacha le linn scoilbhliain 2019/2020 agus cad iad na ranganna/blianta scoile lena mbaineann siad de réir scoile i bhfoirm tábla; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [20192/19]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Craoltóirí Seirbhíse Poiblí (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 149. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government an ndearna sé plé le húdaráis RTÉ maidir le teip an stáisiúin a gcuid dualgas reachtúil i leith craolachán i nGaeilge a chomhlíonadh; cad iad na torthaí a bhí aontaithe; cad é an plean gníomhaíochta a aontaíodh agus cad é an...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I was one of the members who agreed that the meeting should be deferred, partly for personal reasons in that I was attending a funeral, but I did not agree to it being deferred for political reasons. That would have been wrong. I think the Chairman is doing himself an injustice in that regard. It would have been the wrong precedent to set. The meeting was scheduled to take place yesterday...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: In fairness to the Chairman, we should never ever cancel a meeting for political reasons. Quite the contrary, it is the very day we should go ahead with it. We need more information. Broadband provision is an extremely serious matter. In fairness to Deputy Catherine Murphy who asked for it to be placed on the agenda, we learned an enormous amount which is not reflected in the report which...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: It certainly was not.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: We move on to correspondence No. 2131B from Dr. Donal McManus, chief executive officer of the Irish Council for Social Housing, dated 15 April, providing a breakdown requested by the committee of all tenancies. The information provided refers to 29,803 housing units offered by approved housing bodies, including a clarification of the length of the tenancies, the number of tenants with...