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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Did the homes in Galway that Ms Cliffe referred to have the same provider?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Again, my difficulty is I see public health nurses in Carraroe where there are 13 beds empty and not enough staff and then we have to put staff into the private system to keep it going. It is a madness really. I do not expect the witnesses to comment on it but it is an utter madness to me and certainly is not value for money, which is our role here and it is never put into the picture. My...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I understand all of that and I know the authority is reluctant-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: This is the dilemma HIQA has been placed in. It should not be in that dilemma in the first place because now we are making decisions on whether the health executive has enough staff or resources while they are depleting resources elsewhere.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (17 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 36. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 100 of 13 February 2025, for an update on the Coirib go Cósta project; the timeline for its delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39985/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the status of the extension to a school (details supplied); the timeline for the delivery of the extension; when the project is expected to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39982/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the urgent steps being taken to ensure equality for school secretaries and caretakers; the details of her engagement to date with their trade union and with the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation in this regard; if the analysis of the survey undertaken by her Department to understand the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: EU Regulations (17 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 275. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of the proposed omnibus legislation which seeks to weaken the EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), which legislation was scrutinised by the Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment on 11 and 18 June 2025, and in relation to which Minister for State for International Development and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: In Senator Frances Black's occupied territories Bill in 2018, she set out four categories of trade: the import of goods; the import of services; the export of goods; and the export of services. Inexplicably, the Government's Bill has left out three of those categories. This is despite the unequivocal advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice that Israel's continued occupation...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: School Transport (16 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 50. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the consideration given to the inclusion of a light rail system for Galway in the upcoming review of the National Development Plan; when the plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39984/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disease Management (16 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 205. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the supports available to ensure people with cerebral palsy can adapt their cars to continue living independent lives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39916/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Central Bank of Ireland (15 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister's Government plays a role in doublespeak.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Central Bank of Ireland (15 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 101. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 60 of 29 May 2025, if the 2024 figure, due mid-year, in respect of the value of all State investment in Israel bonds, is now available; if Ireland, through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, has now entirely divested itself of direct holdings of Israel bonds; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Central Bank of Ireland (15 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I am following up on an issue I have raised more than once in respect of the State investment through ISIF in Israel war bonds. I ask the Minister to be very specific. I got the figure for 2023 in a written reply. We had to wait for the 2024 figure. What was that figure? What is the figure for 2025? Will the Minister explain why we are investing in war bonds when genocide is taking place?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Central Bank of Ireland (15 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I am glad ISIF has divested of its investment. I received a written reply to a query, which stated that in 2023, the investment was worth €2.62 million. That was the year Hamas crossed the border and Israel started on this genocide. In 2024, as the genocide continued and worsened, this State invested more money in the bonds. It was not an awful lot more, but there was an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Central Bank of Ireland (15 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I will use the time the Minister has not used. I accept he has nothing to do with those decisions and that ISIF is an independent body. However, he has an opinion and is a part of a Government that says genocide is taking place. He stood over a situation whereby through either a lack of knowledge or otherwise, he could not tell me how much money was being invested. Suddenly we have the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Central Bank of Ireland (15 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The Secretary General of the UN has told us: What we are witnessing in Gaza is a level of death and destruction that has no parallel in recent times. And it is something that undermines, I would say, undermines the most basic conditions of human dignity for the population of Gaza, independently of the enormous suffering that they are having. We are investing in that genocide.

Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (15 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: In my four minutes, I will make some general comments rather than going into the terms of reference, although I share the difficulties. I would have preferred if the terms had come before the Dáil so we could have looked at them and discussed them. We should have learned from previous debacles, but that has not happened. I welcome the Minister’s work but we are now left with a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Fórsa, on behalf of caretakers and secretaries in schools, has served formal notice on 2,000 schools of indefinite strike action at the end of August. They have been forced into this position due to the lack of action from the Government in relation to parity and equality for caretakers and secretaries, as are given to SNAs, teachers and principals. It has long been recognised that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Tuarascáil Bhliantúil 2024 agus Caighdeán na Seirbhísí Poiblí Dátheangacha: Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga (15 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Cuirim céad míle fáilte roimh na finnéithe: Séamas Ó Concheanainn, an Coimisinéir Teanga; Órla de Búrca, bainisteoir gearán, ról nach bhfuil éasca; Eibhlín de Paor, bainisteoir imscrúduithe; agus Maggie Ní Chadhain, bainisteoir oibríochtaí. Bhí siad ann go mion minic. Is dóigh go bhfuil na...