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Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: And this is 2017. Is the delay on the side of the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: No, but I am asking. Where is that legislation?

Public Accounts Committee: IDA - Financial Statement 2016 (5 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Has that had an impact on the IDA's daily work when it comes to acquiring property?

Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I have serious concerns about the Bill, although I understand where it is coming from. I have serious concerns about what might be the unintended consequences leading to substandard accommodation. I also have concerns that the Bill is being put forward as a solution to the housing crisis, a crisis which has been driven by Government policy. Successive Governments have utterly relied on the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Mitigation Plan (4 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the national mitigation plan will be discussed in Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41906/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Gorse Burning (3 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 51. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the inter-agency gorse fire group has been established; the specific objectives and term of the group; the number of times the group has met; the names and positions of each of the members; if an interim report has been published; if so, if he will provide a copy of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41671/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forest Fires (3 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 60. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the overall cost of the fire at Cloosh Valley, County Galway; the value of the timber lost and the reconstitution costs, bogland lost and the services involved in extinguishing the fire; the number of hectares of both forestry and bogland lost; the results of investigations carried out by Coillte, his Department or another body; if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (3 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to parliamentary Question No. 313 of 26 July 2017, when a proposal in respect of the management of a facility (details supplied) was received by his Department; if he will provide a copy of such a proposal; when approval was given for this use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41310/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Oibreacha Feabhsúcháin do Scoileanna (3 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills an dtabharfaidh sé soiléiriú maidir le stádas an iarratais atá déanta ag scoil (sonraí tugtha), go háirithe ós rud é gur chuir an scoil an soiléiriú ar na costais a bhí iarrtha ag an Roinn isteach an 29 Meitheamh 2017; an bhfuil cinneadh déanta ina leith; mura bhfuil,...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service Staff (3 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 217. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number and grade of staff at the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, INIS; the number and grade of vacancies; his views on whether the service is adequately resourced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41312/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (3 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 234. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 40 of 16 February 2017, the number of refugees that have arrived here under the resettlement and relocation programmes in 2016 and to date in 2017, in view of the fact that the Government has pledged to accept a total of 4,000 persons into the State by the end of 2017; the anticipated...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Employment Rights (3 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 230. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the names and positions of the members of the inter-departmental taskforce established to examine the implications of the NVH v. the Minister for Justice and Equality judgment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41515/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Employment Rights (3 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 231. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the plans Ireland has to opt into the recast Reception Conditions Directive (2013/33/EU); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41532/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (3 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 232. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 40 of 16 February 2017, the number of unaccompanied minors that have arrived here to date; the plans in place to fulfil this commitment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41533/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Migrant Integration (3 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 233. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the integration strategy for refugees and asylum seekers who arrive here; if he will provide a copy of the strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41534/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Counselling Services Provision (3 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 303. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1077 of 11 September 2017, the anticipated role and function of the existing professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy in relation to the accreditation of practitioners once the statutory registration board has been put in place in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41300/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Protection Agency Reports (3 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 497. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 711 of 11 April 2017, if he will provide a copy of the report on the outstanding recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41531/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Strategy (3 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 527. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the implementation of recommendation 105 of the road safety strategy 2013 to 2020; if the recommendation has been implemented; if not, the reason therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41548/17]

Report of Joint Committee on Justice and Equality on Immigration, Asylum and the Refugee Crisis: Motion (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I am sharing my time with Deputy Bríd Smith. I would like to praise the Minister of State but I am disappointed by his speech. I know that on a personal level he is very sympathetic to the plight. In a previous speech, he said he was very conscious of the misery and suffering experienced by refugees. He has made many sympathetic and positive statements. However, his defence of...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Facilities (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I have no difficulty with that, as long as I get an answer. I wish to raise the issue of the closure of two operating theatres in Merlin Park University Hospital in Galway, which is the sister hospital to University Hospital Galway. The two orthopaedic theatres that have closed for a number of weeks happen to have the longest waiting lists and in recent years, a former consultant has...