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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Reviews (27 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 333. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the independent review of part 4 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017, announced in July 2020 and due for completion by end-2020; if the report has been finalised; when the report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8912/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (27 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 411. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for implementing the proposed changes to governance and safety regulations in the field of aesthetic medicine, with specific regard to dermal fillers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8877/25]

Third Anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: It is right that we had a minute's silence today and that we have statements on the illegal invasion by Russia of Ukraine. It is important that we continue to show solidarity with the people of Ukraine. I welcome the visitors to the Gallery and also those who have left. The figures are indeed shocking, with 12 million people displaced from their homes in Ukraine. As of 31 January, the UN...

Third Anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Tá cúpla soicind fágtha ach ní fiú dul ar aghaidh le haon cheist eile, faraor. Is é sin deireadh le ceisteanna chun an Tánaiste agus an Aire Cosanta.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I will pick up on that point on trust. Trust is at an all-time low in this Government in relation to neutrality.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: In the context of troops going through Shannon Airport, the Tánaiste has never once inspected those troops. Repeatedly, he has got information about arms and soldiers carrying arms. Never once did he engage in an inspection. He reassured us. I am never reassured by institutions nor Governments. I like to see evidence. There is no progress on the occupied territories Bill, which...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: We were told that over and over. When I talk to people on the ground in Fianna Fáil, they tell me that neutrality is absolutely at the core of what we stand for.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Micheál Martin, the current Taoiseach has repeatedly said that the triple lock is at the core of our neutrality. As a neutral independent sovereign State, we should use our voice to champion the UN structures, to reform the UN structures and to get away from the language of rule-based order and talk about international law which has been hard won following two world wars. Then we come...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 44. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the proposed changes to the triple lock; if it is intended to remove the neutrality protection of the triple lock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6076/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Military Neutrality (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The Tánaiste talks about respect and trust. That is exactly what the people of Ireland do not have for on in him. There has been a carefully choreographed campaign to get rid of our neutrality. The current Taoiseach, back in 2013, clearly spelled out what Fine Gael was up to. At that point, we were told the triple lock was an integral part of our neutrality and so on. You have...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Deputy Coppinger for bringing this issue and setting it out so clearly in the motion and to the visitors in the Gallery. I wish the Minister best of luck in his new role and I welcome that he is not opposing the motion, which is often the death knell - but I will give him the benefit of the doubt that it is not the death knell and he will take this matter seriously.

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: He said is committed to bringing in the register and changing the law. I have only five minutes so I will not go into it. I welcome what he is saying and he will have to deliver on that.

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: In 1974, a groundbreaking book about a women's refuge in Chiswick, London entitled Scream Quietly or the Neighbours Will Hear was published. Fast forward 49 years to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland publishing an article entitled, "Why is sexual violence still hidden in plain sight in this era of oversharing?" about domestic violence and gender-based violence. Forgive me if I am...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 21. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the progress of the Defence Forces tribunal; the details of the resources allocated to the tribunal; the number of support and administrative staff appointed to the tribunal; the details of the legal supports, if any, provided to people making submissions to the tribunal; the cost to date of the tribunal; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 22. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline the ways in which Ireland has cooperated and collaborated with NATO since it became a member of Partnership for Peace in 1999; to detail chronologically the escalating relationship between Ireland and NATO since that time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6079/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Meetings (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 26. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 5 February 2025, if the minutes as requested will now be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6078/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (26 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 39. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 5 February 2025, if Ireland intends to purchase military equipment from Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6080/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: They do not have any worries.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (25 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 39 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Joanna Byrne - To discuss unsafe working conditions in the ambulance station in Drogheda. Deputy Séamus McGrath - To discuss Garda resources and station opening hours in south Cork city. Deputy Shane Moynihan - To discuss...