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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Does the Tánaiste see the date on the occupied territories Bill? It is 2018. It is now 2025. I welcome that some progress has been made. However, it has taken the deaths and slaughter of 54,000 Palestinians, and that figure, which I read out this morning, is totally inaccurate. According to The Lancet, the figure is much higher than that. At the very least, this occupied...

Flood Relief: Statements (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister of State and I have had an engagement on this before. First, the scheme in Galway has not been prevented because of objections or bureaucracy. Second, the catchment flood risk assessment and management was the biggest flood risk assessment and it affected two thirds of the population. It was a brilliant piece of work. It was completed in 2018. Unfortunately, when the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I want to share with the Tánaiste a positive letter I got from Galway City Council. It is delightful. I am told the council is incredibly proud of the impact the energy retrofit programme is having in providing warmer and more efficient homes and helping to reduce energy poverty. It is a delightful letter except the family about whom I raised representations has gone on a waiting list...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: We all may well be appalled and sickened, but the Government is refusing to face the elephant in the room. Israel has an umbilical cord attachment to America. America, followed by the EU, is the biggest supplier of arms to Israel, and the Irish Government is waiting for a morally corrupt and inept EU to take action. The EU is the second biggest supplier of arms to the genocide. Let us...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: He can say a lot of things, and then we watch Shannon being used, an occupied territories Bill that is going nowhere and trade with Europe. Ours is a small country. It is time we led, given our history. It is time we called for an absolute ceasefire, led in the UN, made our words mean something and called out that narrative for what it is. Israel is a rogue state. It is not a democratic...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: You stand up-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: -----and account for what we are going to do when you say there are war crimes and a genocide.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I would be delighted.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Palaver?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Now what are you going to do about it?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Good. When?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Before the summer?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I am not throwing brickbats.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I am returning to the issue of Palestine and the genocide that is going on there. This morning, we listened to RTÉ's report of what the Palestinian ambassador to the UN said. He spoke of how flames and hunger were devouring Palestinian children. We also listened to an eyewitness account of a doctor on the ground. I will provide a few figures, but how have we reached this point? How...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ethics in Public Office (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I have to agree with the previous speaker on this. I looked back to April. This is not a priority. In its 2009 annual report, SIPO "recommends that the Department of Finance should draft new legislation to be based on best practice for dealing with conflicts of interests and ... consolidate". Fast forward to the 2021 annual report, SIPO states "For a number of years, the Commission has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ethics in Public Office (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I will stick with what SIPO tells us. I will go back to 2019 and to the submission to public consultation on the regulatory impact analysis. It states that SIPO's "mandate includes oversight of the electoral Act". It then goes on to outline some of the challenges for SIPO in this role and the lack of independence of SIPO in terms of budgets, staffing and reporting to the Oireachtas. It...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ethics in Public Office (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: They were outlined by SIPO in 2019.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ethics in Public Office (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 136. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 99 of 13 February 2025, for an update on the plans to review and strengthen the ethics in public office legislation, following the completion of the review of the statutory framework in December 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27769/25]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The witnesses from the three organisation before us are all very welcome. ICT has been asked so many questions. They are saying there were no resources at the time, there was nobody in place at the time, and there was no business case at the time. I will not go back over it. I will move on to the art gallery. It is a wonderful facility. I have been down there many times. It is a joy to...