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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Information and Quality Authority (17 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Is HIQA confident that next year there will not be another RTÉ documentary? I am sure that when was HIQA set up, it was to ensure that something like this would not happen. It has happened, and that is why-----

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil introducing legislation to provide for revised governance and accountability for the HSE is farcical. In effect, the most substantive aspect of governance I see is a chief executive whose grossly substantial salary facilitates their operating as a mudguard for the Minister of the day. Regarding accountability, with scandal after scandal in our health service,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: That is a new excuse.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: The Taoiseach should start driving the roads.

Dental Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I thank the Independent and Parties Technical Group for bringing forward this motion on this very important matter. This Government is utterly failing in terms of dental services. The Minister's role is to provide a framework in which services can reliably and efficiently be delivered and to adequately fund these services. As I see it, the Minister is utterly failing. Of the 200,000...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I welcome Mr. O'Brien. The CEO of IBEC, Mr. Danny McCoy, in March said that he was opposed to passing the Bill, stating that it was a "high moral position ... but its practical implementation is probably zero, so it's kind of worthless to the people you are trying to benefit." When the Government announced it would be progressing legislation it was described by the Palestinian ambassador as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: To me that reads as IBEC being more concerned for business than it is for human life.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I understand IBEC was founded in the early 1990s following a merger of the Federation of Irish Employers and the Confederation of Irish Industry. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: What position did these organisations take with regard to the ban on the import of produce from apartheid South Africa? Mr. O'Brien's organisation offers opinions on what is best for Palestine today. Does he think that historically the South Africa ban was as worthless as it believes this Bill will be?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: The apartheid South Africa leader de Klerk lobbied the then Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, in 1993 advocating that the ban be lifted as it would benefit South Africans. A visit by Dr. de Klerk was opposed by the current President Michael D. Higgins on the basis that the apartheid system had not wholly been deconstructed and that South Africa was still under international sanction. Would Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: No view.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I am just looking for a comparison. What is interesting is that Ireland led the way in banning imports from apartheid South Africa. That is why I believe Ireland should be leading the way now as well. Other European countries would come along with us and do that also. The European Community at the time also followed. At the moment, the EU has not followed suit, but we hope that is what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: It is difficult for us because we have heard both sides of the story with Palestinians as well, and it is just horrendous what they are living through. Mr. O'Brien is also talking about miniscule amounts of money that would be lost with this Bill, and that the Bill is only symbolic. Trade will only lose €685,000. What about the services portion of the Bill we are trying to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I apologise. There are services such as-----.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Accommodation services are already moving in and making money. There is probably a lot more. If this Bill does not pass here, there will be a lot more money involved.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Banking Sector (15 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 100. To ask the Minister for Finance if any analysis has been carried to assess the level of dividend forgone as a result of the State selling AIB, for each of the years 2022, 2023 and 2024. [39381/25]

Endometriosis Care in Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I welcome all the ladies in the Gallery who have suffered long enough. I thank Senator Maria McCormack who has travelled the length and breadth of the country to be informed of endometriosis. I have said in the House before that this State has a sad history of failing women. The Government continues to fail women today when it comes to the diagnosis and care for those with endometriosis....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: There has been underfunding.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jul 2025)

Cathy Bennett: The witnesses have claimed this Bill would harm Palestinians if it goes through. That is not what the Palestinians say. We have letters of support from 60 Palestinian NGOs, human rights organisations and trade unions. Palestinian farmers told The Irish Timeslast week that the Bill is a source of hope. A Palestinian advocate will appear before this committee shortly strongly supporting this...