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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I am not sure which Minister is answering, but I am asking about the regional university hospital in Galway, a master plan we have been waiting on for a long time and a control development plan. I have in my hand the HIQA report from its last unannounced visit. There is a shortage of 232 beds and a huge difficulty in treating patients with dignity and respect and privacy, notwithstanding...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Unfortunately, I will not be there for that photo opportunity on Thursday because the Dáil will still be sitting.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome that the Minister is going to Galway. The reason I put my hands up is that we had the former Taoiseach back in 2017 tell us it was not fit for purpose. It is now 2025. I am looking at a HIQA report from last year that states that a strategic assessment preliminary business case had been completed, approved by the Health Service Executive board and submitted to the Department of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome that the Minister is going there-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome it, but she should listen to what I am saying. Back in 2015, it was not fit for purpose. We had Leo Varadkar down there telling us it was not fit for purpose, then we had Deputy Micheál Martin as Taoiseach, and here we are in 2025 and we are getting more and more plans. I welcome that there is something at the end of this month.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: We have 31 people in there with nowhere to go due to delayed discharges. We have a serious problem with privacy and dignity. We have a problem with lack of staff and lack of clinical leads, notwithstanding the progress. I pay tribute to the staff. Let us go back to Savita Halappanavar in 2012, and forward. This is a hospital seriously under pressure, a congested site with not enough...

Housing and Critical Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion and providing us with an opportunity to speak on it. Sinn Féin is asking for three basic things. The first is clarification from the Government on its plan for funding the infrastructure that is necessary, as has been identified by so many organisations on the ground. The second is the implementation of the Housing Commission...

Power of Higher Education, Research and Skills as Economic Enablers in a Changing World: Statements (13 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this topic. The last occasion I spoke on it was, I think, February 2022 in relation to the Higher Education Authority Bill. I had a lot of time then to discuss where we were going with third level education. I welcome the Minister's speech and the priorities it set out. However, I have a huge problem with the title, "Power of Higher Education,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Go raibh míle maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I am going to return to the genocide that is taking place in Palestine. The Taoiseach said the problem was that Israel was riding roughshod over the world. That is not entirely accurate because most of Europe is behind Israel and America is certainly behind Israel. In practical terms, despite the very good words the Taoiseach has used and his describing what has happened lately as a war...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 163. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to ensure that Clifden hospital remains open on a permanent basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23680/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 1185. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 5 March 2025, the current staffing shortfall at the HSE’s Galway community audiology services; when the posts will be filled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24343/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Meetings (8 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 159. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 5 February 2025, if the minutes of all meetings with an organisation (details supplied) will now be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18047/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Meetings (8 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: My question is very specific and relates to a specific organisation. It is about a specific series of meetings the Department of Defence has had with the Irish Defence and Security Association. This is my third time asking for the minutes of these meetings. On the last occasion, whoever was in the Tánaiste's place told us it was his intention to publish these minutes. I have two...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Meetings (8 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I did not see those minutes. Perhaps we did not look properly. I do not know. I welcome that they are there. I will take back the word "minutes" because these are not minutes. What I have are two notes. To describe them as "minutes" is utterly wrong. In the notes of one meeting that was held in Newbridge, we see that a person took the notes in October 2024. We have no idea of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Meetings (8 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The arms industry is supplying arms for genocide to be carried out in Palestine. The Tánaiste knows that. He has spoken about it. This group represents the arms industry, it lobbies for the arms industry and it has an open door to the Department. I know of a series of meetings. Is the Tánaiste confirming that the minutes, or whatever we are going to call them, of all 11...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Meetings (8 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Does that include the arms industry?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Meetings (8 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: It is not everything.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Ghaeltacht (8 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 94. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén pleananna atá aige chun scéim na ndeontas tithíochta Gaeltachta a reáchtáil arís de bhun Acht na dTithe (Gaeltacht) (Leasú), 2001, chun tacaíocht a chur ar fáil do chainteoirí Gaeilge a bheadh ag iarraidh teach a thógáil nó a athchóiriú sa...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: An Ghaeltacht (8 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Baineann mo cheist go sonrach le cúrsaí tithíochta sa Ghaeltacht agus go háirithe le mír 9 d’Acht na dTithe (Gaeltacht) (Leasú), 2001. Faoin mhír sin, tá cumhacht ag an Aire agus ag an Roinn airgead agus acmhainní deontais a chur ar fáil do chainteoirí Gaeilge chun tithe a athchóiriú nó tithe a thógáil....