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

Catherine Connolly: I beg the Minister's pardon.

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

Catherine Connolly: I have read the strategy. The Minister is making arrangements to use public land for leverage. The Minister uses lovely words which I call weasel words. I am not sure why the Minister is shaking his head. I wonder sometimes-----

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

Catherine Connolly: I wonder sometimes-----

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

Catherine Connolly: I am absolutely. I am really interested in hearing the truth.

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

Catherine Connolly: I am not into spin at all. If the Minister has noticed anything in ten months of my presence in this Chamber, he will know I abhor spin. I am allergic to spin.

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

Catherine Connolly: I have no time for it. When we are talking about truth, let us look at the housing problem. I have repeatedly said that in Galway, somewhere between 13,000 and 15,000 people are on a waiting list. As we speak-----

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 73. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to parliamentary question number 125 of 22 November 2016, the progress which has been made in reducing the number of persons in direct provision that give their legal status, should not be in direct provision; the procedures or mechanisms which have been put in place to accurately qualify the number of persons in this position in view...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: EU Directives (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 74. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason Ireland has not signed up to European Directive 203/9/EC which would enable those residing in direct provision to access the labour market; the government's position in this regard.; and if she will make a statement on the matter [40608/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Naval Vessels (16 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 244. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the circumstances surrounding the docking of a submarine at Horgan's Quay in Cork at the beginning of November, observed during the first weekend of November 2016; the country of origin; the reason for which it docked; the purpose of its journey; if it was part of a NATO operation; if there were armed guards on board and-or on the quay;...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Briefly, there is a way out of this and the vacuum that has been created. The Minister could accept the relevant amendment and use the Consumer Price Index, CPI. That would remove any difficulty, now that he is in this mess. I do not know if the Minister knows the German-Czech writer Franz Kafka but he should read his work. In fact, his writing would be more easy to interpret than the...

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Yes, that would be even easier.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Report Stage (15 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: And Deputy Catherine Connolly.

Questions on Proposed Legislation (15 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I understand the Minister for Education and Skills promised the review of the DEIS programme would be published before Christmas. Foolishly, I thought it was this Christmas. Will the Minister for Education and Skills confirm that I have not been foolish and it will be published before Christmas? If so, when? Happy Christmas too to all.

Business of Dáil (15 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle talks about the principle but what I see here is a great absence of principle. The leader of Fianna Fáil stated that he does not agree that it should go away today, yet, if agreement had been reached last night, we would not be having this debate - or what stands for a debate - from Fianna Fáil. There is certainly Tadhg an Dá Thaobh i gceist anseo...

Pre-European Council: Statements (14 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I am not sure how many attempts have been made by different elected Members over the years to enshrine neutrality in the Constitution. The Sinn Féin Bill on 24 November was the most recent. Prior to that, a Bill was tabled by Deputy Mick Wallace on 18 December 2014. That Bill was defeated at Second Stage at a time when a RED C poll showed that 78% of the population agreed that Ireland...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Ferry Services to Inis Mór: Discussion (14 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Níl mé i mo bhall den choiste seo. Tháinig mé anseo chun éisteacht. Tá an scéal ar eolas agam. Ba mhaith liom rud ginearálta a rá bunaithe ar mo thaithí ón am gur toghadh mé deich mí ó shin. Tá mé cinnte go bhfuil easpa tuiscine agus easpa tola ón gcomhairle chontae agus ón Rialtas maidir leis an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Ferry Services to Inis Mór: Discussion (14 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I think there has been a misunderstanding in relation to the High Court judgment. It is obvious that county councils are entitled to have by-laws. We need to ask why the by-laws were introduced in the first place. They should not have been introduced. The effect of the by-laws was to divide the islanders from the rest of the county. We can keep saying the county council was right -...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Dec 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I presume we will be coming back to the issue of tendering at some stage.