Results 2,861-2,880 of 32,714 for speaker:Catherine Connolly
- Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to say a few words on this matter. Background is always very helpful. When we talk about droves of people coming into the country, that is not accurate. We have a total of just under 26,000 people in direct provision. I hope I have a chance to come back to the inhuman, unacceptable direct provision we were supposed to finish a long time ago. Of those 26,000...
- Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: There were 500 or 600 maximum and I understand applications are now closed.
- Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I would love to talk to the Minister about this but I only have a few minutes remaining. I appreciate his work but, unfortunately, he has not ended direct provision. This Government has presided over mixed messages with regard to our approach to asylum seekers in every possible way, creating a two-tier system and pitting communities against each other. It is all inconsistent. Not too...
- Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I am only going by what is here.
- Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I do not mean to interrupt the Deputy but I am only going by what is here.
- Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The Deputies can sort it out among themselves but I am going by what is here. There is less than four minutes each.
- Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Is there a copy of the Minister's speech?
- Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat. It is usually the practice to give a copy of the speeches.
- Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I will leave it with the Minister.
- Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Is there any copy of the speeches?
- Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Okay. I call the Minister, Deputy Harris.
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Island Communities (30 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: 97. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 30 of 14 November 2023, the status of the monitoring committee for the implementation of the new policy for the islands; the terms of reference of the committee; the membership of the committee; the number of meetings held to-date and the dates of same; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Island Communities (30 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: 99. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 23 of 14 November 2023, for an update on the work of the steering committee tasked with monitoring progress on the development of the piers on Inis Oírr and Inis Meáin; the date of the next meeting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3981/24]
- United Kingdom Import Controls: Statements (25 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Just a little bit. Bogfaimid ar aghaidh go dtí an Grúpa Réigiúnach.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: It is over five years now since the Government made a very good decision to ban trawlers over 18 m from fishing within the 6 mile limit. That is over five years ago. It is over ten months since the Court of Appeal held that policy at nought on a very narrow ground. The decision was very good. It was unsustainable. Unfortunately, that unsustainability has continued and the figures for...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I know all that.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Conflict Resolution (25 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: We are over time. We are running out of time. There is one last question. Deputy Boyd Barrett literally has time to put his question.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Conflict Resolution (25 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: We are over time on that specific question.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Enlargement (25 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Before the Tánaiste answers Deputy Mc Hugh wants to come in.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (25 Jan 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Can we have some consistency with the times, please?