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Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Facilities (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister of State for some of the clarification given. On 4 September there was a leak and on 13 September there was a further leak. This facility is a centre of excellence serving nearly 1 million people, if we take in the catchment under Saolta from Letterkenny down to Galway, as well as patients who come from County Clare, which is outside the area. This is a centre of...

Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Thank you, Deputy.

Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy, we will run out of time for the other Topical Issue matters.

Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The Deputy can come back in for his two minutes.

Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I am afraid the Minister will not have time to finish; the four minutes are up. I am sorry about that, unless Deputy Cahill wants to give his two minutes to the Minister.

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I understand that to a certain extent in the context of the specific aspect of the question but under A Vision for Change, going back to 2006 - and prior to that back to 1984 when there was another plan and patients were moved out of psychiatric buildings - can the Government stand over the fact that not a single community mental health team has been rolled out in Galway city, Connemara or...

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 9. To ask the Minister for Health further to Question No. 468 of 20 September 2017, if he will clarify the proposal to locate the community mental health team base at a site at Dangan, Galway; the status of the proposal; the timeframe for the opening and operation of the facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40768/17]

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: What is the status of the proposal to locate the community mental health team base at a site at Dangan, Galway? I understand from a local radio interview that it will now not proceed. I hope the Minister of State can tell me that is not correct. What is the status of that given the commitment under A Vision for Change?

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister of State for the attempted answer. I am disappointed. I asked a very specific question on a specific site in Dangan in Galway. If the local official is able to say on radio yesterday that it is gone, surely the Minister of State knows. I ask him to give me an update on whether that site is gone and is no longer viable. The bigger point is that an integral part of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospitals Building Programme (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 5. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 136 of 21 June 2017, the progress that has been made on the relevant plan and the options appraisal in view of his approval, in May 2017, for the Saolta health group to develop a plan for the future of its hospitals and necessary service expansion and for the conduct of an options appraisal for the future acute hospital...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospitals Building Programme (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: This is a specific question and I would appreciate if the Minister answered it, rather than discussing the accident and emergency unit or other planned developments at University Hospital Galway. I am seeking specific information. In December 2016, the Saolta University Healthcare Group wrote to the Minister seeking approval to carry out an options appraisal in respect of a new hospital....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospitals Building Programme (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister for providing a completion date of mid-2018 for the appraisal. I also appreciate that he did not sidetrack from my question. I asked him not to do so because of the urgency involved. The Minister's party colleague in the Galway West constituency clarified through a question to the Minister that the hospital finds itself in the wrong position and unable to cope. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Hospitals Building Programme (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: If the Minister continued to outline what he regards as improvements, I could not argue with him but all these improvements have added to the problems at the site. While a 75-bed unit was provided, the closure of two wards meant the hospital did not receive a single extra bed. The new mental health facility has been delayed and will not open until the end of the year. It also has...

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: What is the time limit for questions?

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Was that 139 stations?

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Go raibh míle maith agat. Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an tUasal Ó Cualáin as a ról nua. Go n-éirí leis. Níl sé éasca. I realise there is a boundary, that the Oireachtas Committee on Justice and Equality also has a very important role in this and that the matters will be discussed in detail. Our remit is because the acting Garda...

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Mr. Ó Cualáin waited for the correspondence?

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I only have five minutes so I want to ask very specific questions. Mr. Ó Cualáin waited, in due course, which is the normal procedure for a letter to come to clarify the outstanding pieces of correspondence.

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That is okay. So there was no discussion with anyone after the witness left this committee until the committee wrote out to him and said-----

Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)

Catherine Connolly: With whom?