Results 241-260 of 866 for speaker:Cathy Bennett
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Very good. Well done. I thank the witnesses and Mr. Finnegan. I wish him very well in the future.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (25 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: That is okay. I will move on. We will advise them to go down that route from here. On the print room and the printers, a new contract was put out for printers last year. Will Mr. Finnegan talk me through that?
- Auto-Enrolment: Statements (24 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: You are very considerate.
- Auto-Enrolment: Statements (24 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Sinn Féin supports an auto-enrolment pension scheme. We believe it is the Government's responsibility to foster a retirement framework that ensures workers are financially secure in their retirement. However, both Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have a poor track record on retirement policy. While Sinn Féin believes workers should have the right to retire at 65 should they choose...
- School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: I disagree with Deputy Byrne. As far as I can see, school transport is getting worse every year. Every year I am contacted by parents whose children have been utterly failed by this Government. With little to no notice parents are left to shoulder the burden of attempting to reschedule work and other commitments to deal with the Government's failures while children see buses full of their...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Yes, of course.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Does that not contrast sharply with the Commission's refusal to economically sanction Israel in response to the genocide? It has given no sanction.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: It has been quite disturbing just listening to details of what is going on. Are there any hospitals left where people can receive medical treatment?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Is nothing being offered to the people who want to leave the Palestine? If families want to leave, can they do so?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Does Mr. Whyte know offhand how many people have left?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: So, these people are actually trapped then.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: It is the Israelis that are trapping them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Is the European Commission still helping?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte (23 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Mr. Whyte is very welcome. At the outset, I acknowledge the 360 UNRWA staff who have been killed in the course of Israel's genocide. I express my own solidarity with those people who today are still risking their lives, as Mr. Whyte has said, to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people in the face of extreme terror. At the onset of Israel's genocide in Gaza, organisations which...
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (23 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: 60. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the timeframe in which it is intended to deliver on the Programme for Government commitment to reduce the cost of childcare to €200 per month per child. [50184/25]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Our job here is to ensure that the public are getting value for money. In the context of the HSE, the public are not getting value for money. I cannot believe the number of overruns and write-offs relating to the HSE that have been flagged. I want to know if this has happened before with the HSE, what penalties were imposed and what were the actions and results. Who is ultimately...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: To come back to my question, I asked who is solely responsible or ultimately responsible. I want to make sure they are coming in with the HSE when they come in to our meeting. I want to make sure they are here.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Okay. For everything on the list. It is just to ensure that we have somebody here for all the items on the list.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Sep 2025)
Cathy Bennett: May we also write to the Office of Government Procurement, OGP, regarding public procurement? Many of these tenders are coming in at the time of tender and by the time the project is finished, the price has doubled. Some kind of stipulation must be put in such that the price at which a project is tendered and the procurement is won cannot be exceeded. What is happening does not make any...