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Biodiversity Week: Statements (21 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I wish the Minister of State the best. I welcome his passion today and his invitation to all of us to go out into the country. There is a lot more than that to be done, however. He knows that more than anyone. If we go back, we declared biodiversity a climate emergency back in May 2019. The Minister at the time, Josepha Madigan, said that, “We are losing biodiversity around the...

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: It is okay.

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: There are two of us left, so it is-----

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: That is okay. I just wish to be fair to the other speakers. I know it is difficult for the Chair. I have attended many protests, as all my colleagues have done. There was a time when I was most uncomfortable with the chant "Israel is a terrorist state" because I am an absolute democrat. I have no such reluctance now and I am ashamed that I was not comfortable with that chant because...

Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support Schemes: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I dtús báire, ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis an ngrúpa teicniúil. I thank the technical group for once again putting the spotlight on the absence of services and the failure of successive Governments to recognise the invaluable work that caregivers give us. I am not going to use my own words. I am going to use the Policy Statement on Care published by...

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Every single member of the Opposition has put their name to this motion. I welcome Cara and her father. It is an indictment of this Government and previous Governments that Cara Darmody, a young teenager, has had to come back two years after she addressed an Oireachtas joint committee in November 2022. At that time, she said, "I am here to tell you what it is like to live in a family that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Inshore Fisheries (20 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 132. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 319 of 1 May 2025, given that it is over a year since the closure of the public consultation on trawling within Ireland's six nautical mile limit and given that trawling continues to take place in inshore waters, some of which are special areas of conservation, when the results of the public...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Programmes (20 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 180. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 11 of 2 April 2025, if the detailed project proposals have now been evaluated; the results of that evaluation; the status of an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25620/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Wind Energy Generation (20 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 246. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of a planning application (details supplied); when the planning application will be formally withdrawn following confirmation that the developers will no longer proceed with the project; the status of the marine area consent granted to the company in December 2022; details of the 'performance security'...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Baineann mo cheist le rialacha nua atá ag teacht ón Aontas Eorpach agus ag cur freagracht ar tháirgeoirí bia tuilleadh eolais a chur ar fáil. Is maith an rud é go mbeidh dualgas orthu tuilleadh eolais a chur ar fáil maidir lena gcuid earraí. An fhadhb ná go mbeidh sé sin uilig i mBéarla agus ní bheidh dualgas ar bith orthu an...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: It is specifically this issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: One apology has been received from Deputy Ardagh. We are joined by the Comptroller and Auditor General, Mr. Seamus McCarthy, who is a permanent witness to the committee. Everyone is very welcome. I remind everyone to turn off their mobile phones, including mine, which is not off. I have a few housekeeping matters. I remind members of the constitutional requirements that in order to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: We will take questions at the end. We will finish the education grouping.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I apologise for doing it this way but there are 106 to go through so I thought it better to go through the education ones first. What is the highest figure for non-compliant procurement?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: What is the highest figure for this group?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The Deputy suggests we write to all of them.