Results 281-300 of 32,662 for speaker:Catherine Connolly

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Economic Policy (12 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 116. To ask the Minister for Finance when the long-term investment strategy for the infrastructure, climate and nature fund will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4859/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Procurement Contracts (12 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 154. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an open and competitive tender process was conducted for any building works or any lease arrangements for the Donegal education centre, Donegal town; if so, to provide an overview of the steps taken; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4968/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Procurement Contracts (12 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria used to select a contractor or builder for any proposed works in the relocation of the Donegal Education Centre to Letterkenny; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4969/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Procurement Contracts (12 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an independent audit or review of the decision to relocate the Donegal Education Centre, Donegal town, was conducted to ensure that the procurement process complied with best practices and governance policies; if so, the date and outcome of this review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4970/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (12 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 157. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail all discussions and consultations that took place with staff before an announcement to relocate the Donegal Education Support Centre was made; if the views of staff were taken into consideration when making the decision; if so, the way in which they were so considered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4971/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Policy (12 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 170. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he has considered Galway city as a location for a pilot project for the roll out of a tourist bed-night tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4860/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (11 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 37. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the timeline for the passage of the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 that incorporates a ban on imports and services from these areas, supported by the advisory opinion on the illegality of Israel's occupation and settlements issued on July 19 2024 by the International Court of Justice; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (11 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to ask for an update on the occupied territories Bill, more formally called the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018, which incorporates a ban on imports and services from the occupied areas. I would like a robust and honest exchange on this matter. Slaughter is happening daily in Gaza and the occupied territories. The occupied territories...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (11 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: This and the previous Governments have had ample time since 2018 to enact the occupied territories Bill. It is a matter of great disappointment to everybody in the Opposition that the programme for Government talks about progressing it. The Government will change the triple lock but it will progress this Bill some time in the future, ignoring completely the reality on the ground and the new...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (11 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I disagree fundamentally with the Tánaiste on this and I take no comfort that we are ahead in terms of our condemnation of what is happening. We need a lot more than condemnation. We need to stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine. Their country has been destroyed. Genocide, in my opinion, is under way as we trade words across the Dáil. There is a case before the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (11 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: We are beyond trading words, taking credit for standing with the Palestinian people or recognising Palestine, which I fully praised the Government for at the time. There is no Palestine left to recognise on the ground. Some 80% to 90% of it has been destroyed. What is on the ground is the resilience of the Palestinian people, who have failed to give up at any stage. As an independent...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (11 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: It has been declared illegal by Israel.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (11 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The Government must also enact it.

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome this opportunity to contribute. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward the motion in its Private Members' time because it allows me a little more time today than I had last week to go back on some of the topics. This is very important. The motion and, indeed, the amendment, in part, are good in that we have acknowledged all the good work on the ground. That has been set out...

Programme for Government: Statements (Resumed) (11 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Tá muid ag dul ar ais go dtí an Rialtas leis an Teachta James O'Connor.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (11 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 32. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the basis on which, and by whom, the decision was taken to endorse the non-binding working definition of antisemitism; if that endorsement includes endorsement of the 11 'contemporary examples' of antisemitism by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4513/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Process (11 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 49. To ask the Taoiseach in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Process (11 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 50. To ask the Taoiseach in respect of each Bill referred to the President for his consideration and signing in 2024; the dates on which each Bill was presented to the President for signing; and the number of Bills referred that had the possibility to overlap with the Bill, given the seven days afforded to the President for consideration were he to have taken the full seven days for each...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Process (11 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 51. To ask the Taoiseach in respect of each Bill referred to the President for his consideration and signing in 2023; the dates on which each Bill was presented to the President for signing; and the number of Bills referred that had the possibility to overlap with the Bill, given the seven days afforded to the President for consideration were he to have taken the full seven days for each...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Process (11 Feb 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 52. To ask the Taoiseach in respect of each Bill referred to the President for his consideration and signing in 2022; the dates on which each Bill was presented to the President for signing; and the number of Bills referred that had the possibility to overlap with the Bill, given the seven days afforded to the President for consideration were he to have taken the full seven days for each...