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Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Polasaithe Iontrála Scoile: Cearta Oideachais (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Tá sé déanta acu san aighneacht a chur siad isteach maidir leis an mBille ach is féidir linne mar choiste é a dhéanamh chomh maith.

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Polasaithe Iontrála Scoile: Cearta Oideachais (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Tá ceistín bheag ag an Teachta Ó Cuív.

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Polasaithe Iontrála Scoile: Cearta Oideachais (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Ní bheidh mórán deise againn na freagraí a fháil. An Seanadóir Ó Clochartaigh, go sciobtha.

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Polasaithe Iontrála Scoile: Cearta Oideachais (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Go práinneach.

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Polasaithe Iontrála Scoile: Cearta Oideachais (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Tá mé ag iarraidh cúpla nóiméad a fháil do na freagraí.

Joint Standing Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Islands: Polasaithe Iontrála Scoile: Cearta Oideachais (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Tá daoine ag fanacht taobh amuigh den doras. Ó mo thaobhse, tá mise thar a bheith sásta nach bhfuil mí-thuiscint i gceist maidir le, mar a dúirt an tUas. Colmán Ó Drisceoil, constaic bhog a chruthú nó ligeant do dhaoine mí-úsáid a bhaint as an bhforáil. Níl aon mhí-thuiscint i gceist anois. Tá sé thar...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drug Trials (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 991. To ask the Minister for Health the channels available to raise concerns or make complaints in the area of medical research and the trial use of certain drugs on both human and animal subjects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41453/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 1251. To ask the Minister for Health the current average waiting time in weeks for processing overseas registration applications by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland from the date initial correspondence was received; the measures in place to reduce any delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1430/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Commission (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 1321. To ask the Minister for Health when the decision support service within the Mental Health Commission will be established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1787/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Commencement of Legislation (17 Jan 2017)

Catherine Connolly: 1322. To ask the Minister for Health when the outstanding substantive sections of Part 8 of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 will be commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1788/17]

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 1 o’clock We have housing crisis because excessive Governments, including the Minister's, have had a neoliberal philosophy which determined that the Government could not build houses directly. Year after year, in my experience as a councillor, the Government suspended housing construction programmes. The Minister asked me to be straight. I am being straight. Could the Minister...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: This is the amendment on the Government's strategy to increase rents year-----

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I sat here yesterday. The fact that the Minister made a mistake - if we take the best interpretation - on an equation is not my problem. The fact that we are here on a Friday debating something that should not be debated in this manner is a problem which the Minister has created.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister has reduced the housing crisis to an equation. He forgets the meaning of the word "equation". Raising rents equates to homelessness. This is the essential equation we should examine.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I understand, and I am speaking on the amendment to increase rents by 4% each year. In this context, I must give the background as to how the crisis has emerged. The Ceann Comhairle might have a particular interest. Given that we established a Housing Agency to be expert advisers, to advise, predict and help the Government, we must ask what the agency has been doing since it was...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Bhí a fhios agam riamh go bhfuil difríocht mhór idir Béarla agus Gaeilge ach níor thuig mé riamh go dtí seo an difríocht idir Béarla an Rialtais agus a chomhghleacaithe i bhFianna Fáil agus muidne ar an taobh seo agus, níos tábhachtaí fós, muintir na tíre. Tá difríocht mhór ann maidir le teanga agus...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I will come back to Galway.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister has done a strategy on two areas. His partners in government are taking credit for forcing the Minister to look at other areas. It seems to me he is not looking at the problem properly at all. He is doing it piecemeal. It is a strategy for landlords. It is a strategy to increase rents. If he is seriously interested in housing, he would have looked at the evidence and done...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister has not. On the last occasion, he confirmed to the Dáil that he was doing an audit of all the local authorities in the country.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: My experience is that we have bought hectares of zoned residential land. The Minister cannot tell me how many planning permissions. He cannot come back and say what the problems are and resolve those problems. Instead of that, as part of this amendment, as well as building in 4% and 4% and 4%, which is 12% over three years, in these rent pressure zones, which presumably will include...