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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (1 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 190. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the marine licence vetting committee has been convened regarding a 35-year foreshore lease application (details supplied); if so, the names of all the members of the committee and their qualifications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10581/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (1 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 191. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if the marine licence vetting committee has been convened regarding a foreshore licence application (details supplied); if so, the names of all the members of the committee and their qualifications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10582/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (1 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 192. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the names of the members of the marine licence vetting committee, and their qualifications, who assessed the ten-year foreshore lease 2006 to 2016 application granted to the Marine Institute for a wave energy test site in Galway Bay (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10583/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Foreshore Licence Applications (1 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 236. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she has satisfied herself that the consideration and advice supplied by her Department in respect of foreshore lease application (details supplied) meets the statutory obligations with regard to the implementation of environmental EU and national laws, in view of the serious concerns regarding non-compliance with environmental...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Environmental Regulations (1 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 237. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has been in contact with the Department and Minister of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government regarding concerns conveyed to her Department by the public over the past number of months regarding possible non-compliance with national and EU environmental legislation; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (28 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the names of the members of the MLVC responsible for reports (details supplied), in view of the fact these reports informed his decision to grant a 35-year foreshore licence to the Marine Institute on foot of an application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9568/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Foreshore Licence Applications (28 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 378. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of all ocean energy related foreshore lease and foreshore licence applications from 2000 to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10082/17]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Foreshore Licence Applications (28 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 489. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is satisfied that the response of the Heritage Council, when officially consulted regarding a foreshore lease application (details supplied) to construct an offshore electricity generation station on Galway Bay, meets her Department's statutory obligations, in view of the project's nature, size and location amid the...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Foreshore Licence Applications (28 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 490. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is satisfied that the response given by the National Parks and Wildlife Service's development applications unit, when consulted regarding a foreshore lease application (details supplied) to construct an offshore electricity generation station on Galway Bay, meets her Department's statutory obligations, in view of the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Alternative Energy Projects (28 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 734. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of the ESB's WestWave ocean energy project off County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10080/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Alternative Energy Projects (28 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 735. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the EU and national funding received by the WestWave ocean energy project off County Clare to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10081/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Smarter Transport (28 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 783. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the extent to which each of the 49 actions as outlined in the smarter travel policy has been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10291/17]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Deployment (28 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 846. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 68 of 15 February 2017, the reason the deployments were so high in April and October 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9651/17]

Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The debate on this Bill is extremely important. The digest that has been produced to accompany this legislation confirms that approximately 600,000 people in this country, or 13% of the population, have a disability. The exact figure depends on the definition of "disability" that is used. The figure is much higher if a broader definition is used. The digest continues:Of people aged 15 and...

Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: The removal of an important part of what we signed up to - maximum communication with people with disabilities - compounds the insult to people with disabilities. I remind the House that Article 33 of the UN convention enshrines the right of people with disabilities to participate in the decision-making process entirely separately from the organisations that represent them. Sections of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I certainly welcome that because the level of dependency that I have seen in public nursing homes in Galway and in the county, when we had one in Galway, was extraordinary. There is a facile debate, not even a debate but a facile public relations campaign, going on into private nursing homes to suggest they are much cheaper. Certainly I welcome that as the complexity of finance for public...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I will be coming from Galway.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Have we?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I do not think we should rush off to look at nursing homes. I do not think it is our role. A particular point has come up here in respect of high levels of dependency in public nursing homes. That is our starting point. We should make decisions on what we will do after that, rather than rushing into it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (23 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: I beg the Chairman's pardon. I am not saying that we should not visit a public nursing home but that the issue that has come before us is the high dependency level and issues like that. I do not think we should rush off to visit a public nursing home and feel we have to balance it with private nursing homes. I do not think that is necessary at this point. I think it is necessary to gather...