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Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I must cut off the Minister there. Moving on to the Regional Group, I call Deputy Naughten.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister has one minute, literally.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I am really sorry but I must stop the Minister. The way the time was used was Deputy Naughten's choice, and each Member has that choice. I am really sorry but I must move on to the Rural Independent Group.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: Moving on to the Independent Group, are there three speakers?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: In terms of the time to be used, is it five minutes each?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I am sharing time. The Minister of State and I have disagreed in the past and we will disagree again today.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I am not sure where his 10,000 social houses are but there is no substantial number in Galway. The targets for acquisition and social housing have been reached in Galway because they was set so low. At something more than 100 units, one would have to reach it. Meanwhile, the Government is exceeding its targets for the housing assistance payment, HAP. It is putting people into HAP...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: Did the Department approve it?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: Just to take the Minister up on that last point that the NTA is now working on park-and-ride, I had the privilege of being mayor of Galway for 2004 to 2005. Then we fought a determined battle against management to include park-and-ride in our city development plan. However, city management did not think it was appropriate. We put it in and it remained as an objective. Fifteen years later,...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: Ní mór dom a rá ar dtús go n-aontaím le ceannaire Fhianna Fáil agus leis na Teachtaí eile go bhfuil gá práinneach le cinnteacht ó thaobh ghruagairí na tíre. Ní mór dom a admháil go bhfuil coimhlint leasa agam mar tá sé deacair domsa. I agree with what was said by the leader of Fianna Fáil and the...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the clarification that there will be an independent monitoring body. I do not agree with the Taoiseach that A Vision for Change ran out. The date ran out - 2006 to 2016 - but the vision contained therein and the implementation, and what they set out on every sector, and the fact that it was a partnership with the community and with families, and to rebalance the power in the...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I want to zone in on the private and the public hospitals in Galway and their underutilisation. I welcome the decision to review the contracts in question at the end of June. I have raised it many times already. The Minister described the virus as a villain. I do not think it is helpful to contribute human characteristics to a virus. A virus is a virus. It is a matter of our reaction to...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: It took years to make the rehab unit state of the art. My own family benefited from it. It has been closed down to benefit the private hospital to justify the Minister's contract that we never saw because it is commercially sensitive. To try to understand this, really it is like something from Kafka. We put its public patients into a private hospital. It is mind-boggling. I am not here...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: EU Meetings (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 7. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if EU defence issues were discussed at the last EU Defence Ministers meeting last May; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11431/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 15. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if funding has been secured in 2020 for the construction of a crash rescue building at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel; the estimated cost of the project; the duration of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11428/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 16. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if funding has been secured in 2020 for the replacement of hangar 2 and upgrade to hangar 3 at Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel; the estimated cost of the project; the duration of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11429/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 38. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount spent on purchasing new properties for additional embassies and consulates over the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11430/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 112. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps that will be taken to remedy the anomaly which prevents small businesses and companies which employ seasonal employees from availing of the temporary wage subsidy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11424/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to serious concerns relating to the quality of online classes being delivered by many English language schools as a result of social distancing measures, many of which are flagrant breaches of the interim list of eligible programmes, ILEP; if he will consider in conjunction with the Minister for Justice and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Foirne Scoile (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an gcinnteoidh sé nach gcaillfidh scoil (sonraí tugtha) an ceathrú múinteoir i Meán Fómhair 2020, ag féachaint go háirithe do na dualgais bhreise atá ar an bhfoireann scoile maidir le Covid-19; an ndéanfaidh sé é sin a dheimhniú don Phríomhoide chomh sciobtha agus is...