Results 18,041-18,060 of 33,115 for speaker:Catherine Connolly
- Covid-19 (Children and Youth Affairs): Statements (20 May 2020)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister. I realise this is difficult and I thank the Minister for her professionalism in regard to how she is approaching this subject. However, I have to say I do not believe that childcare was given appropriate attention at the level of NPHET. Perhaps that was not its role but, certainly, when we look back on the minutes from 16 March, it comes up as an item under discussion...
- Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)
Catherine Connolly: I am sharing time with Deputy Marian Harkin. I wish the Minister the best of luck in whatever path she takes and I also pay tribute to the staff in the Department. They have worked incredibly hard and it is important we place that on record. The Minister dealt with the maternity leave extension and it is something that also concerns me, along with the position of people over 66. I will...
- Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)
Catherine Connolly: I understand all of that.
- Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)
Catherine Connolly: That is welcome. Perhaps the Minister could give me the figures and the breakdown of same.
- Covid-19 (Employment Affairs and Social Protection): Statements (20 May 2020)
Catherine Connolly: The group I am speaking about is a quantifiable number of approximately 1,000 people. I understood that there was no clarity regarding the supplementary welfare allowance. There is clarity regarding the special needs payment, but that is a one-off payment and there is no appeals process. If the Minister is telling me that the language students qualify for the supplementary welfare...
- Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (21 May 2020)
Catherine Connolly: Ní cúis iontais é don Cheann Comhairle nach mbeidh mé ag díriú isteach ar chúrsaí gailf. Beidh mé ag díriú isteach ar ghasúir le riachtanais faoi leith agus ar scoileanna speisialta atá dúnta le dhá mhí anuas anois. Coicís ó shin, d’ardaigh mé an cheist seo leis an Taoiseach. Bhí...
- Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (21 May 2020)
Catherine Connolly: If the Taoiseach could please answer in the 30 seconds, what is the Government going to do about the special schools?
- Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (21 May 2020)
Catherine Connolly: Is the Taoiseach going to meet the parents who have written to him?
- Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister for his responses to the questions I raised when we last met. I have some specific questions on nursing homes and all residential centres that have now been tested. Have all the tests come back? If not, why not and what is the reason for the delay?
- Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)
Catherine Connolly: Perhaps the Minister will confirm it in writing.
- Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)
Catherine Connolly: The Minister referred to 41 laboratories. Are we now using all our laboratory capacity in Ireland or is further capacity available?
- Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)
Catherine Connolly: Will the Minister confirm in writing that we have sufficient capacity in Ireland?
- Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)
Catherine Connolly: Will we, therefore, stop using German laboratories?
- Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)
Catherine Connolly: The Minister might confirm that. I want to zero in on nursing homes. Again, for the record, I do not believe they were prioritised. My office has checked when it came to our attention from Europe that there were serious problems in nursing homes. It was way back in early March. We did not learn from other countries but perhaps we will learn now. I turn to private hospitals and preface...
- Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)
Catherine Connolly: It is at 15% to 20%. Will the Minister please deal with the figures?
- Covid-19 (Health): Statements (21 May 2020)
Catherine Connolly: How does the Minister stand over Merlin Park Hospital being left empty?
- Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (27 May 2020)
Catherine Connolly: Tá dhá cheist agam, ceann amháin i mBéarla agus ceann i nGaeilge. Ní mór dom a rá i dtús báire go bhfuil an teachtaireacht iomlán mhícheart ag dul amach go dtí an tír inniu. Tá muidne i Seomra na Dála, tá sé folamh agus níl aon Taoiseach ann. Tá gá le hathbhreithniú a dhéanamh ar...
- Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (27 May 2020)
Catherine Connolly: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Taoiseach ach tá rud difriúil faoin earnáil seo agus tá a fhios aige é sin. Beidh na mná tí agus na coláistí thíos leis. Beidh impleachtaí maidir leis an gceantar, leis an nGaeilge agus leis na Gaeltachtaí. Is rud thar a bheith tábhachtach é seo. It is very important that the implications...
- Covid-19 (Health): Statements (27 May 2020)
Catherine Connolly: I will ask again about private hospitals and nursing homes. Having read what I have read, I am more convinced than ever that nursing homes were not put to the top of the list. The Minister said many times in this Dáil that HIQA was the voice of the nursing homes. I looked at the minutes and I did not see HIQA as the voice of the nursing homes. HIQA had the expertise and the...
- Covid-19 (Health): Statements (27 May 2020)
Catherine Connolly: It is about inequity.