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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Climate Change Policy (16 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I agree with the Minister totally, absolutely. They should show vision and they should lead. That is very difficult when staff are constantly moved, when the county council is seriously underfunded and staff are moved from department to department. As soon as they get any expertise, they are moved off under pressure. There is a serious role for the Government in properly resourcing and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (16 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Is there a document, an analysis or research-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (16 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: -----that led to the Minister’s decision?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (16 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 5. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 72 of 28 September 2023, and subsequent follow-up, the details of the analysis carried out by his Department regarding the operation of the community-led category in RESS 1 and RESS 2, and in particular the challenges faced by community-led energy projects; the details of the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (16 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy O’Rourke raised this matter in a slightly different way, but both questions are the same really. As the Minister knows, this is an issue that I follow up on continuously. I do not know how many questions I have tabled on it. It is good that there is a community-led category – I welcome that as well as the changes – but my problem is that I do not know where the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (16 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: As someone who supports what the Minister is talking about, I am frustrated. The Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, was present the last time I asked about this on 28 September. He stated that he would contact my office. I received an acknowledgement but nothing with details of the analysis. Where RESS 1 is concerned, I have been told repeatedly that seven community-led projects were...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (16 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I do not disagree with the Minister and I am delighted that community projects are out of the auction system. They should never have been in it in the first place. When we declared a climate emergency, we spoke about needing transformative change because our corporate model and other models had not worked for energy. That transformative change will come from the ground up and nowhere else....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (16 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 204. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 26 October 2023, for an update on plans for the introduction of measures to protect the sprat fishery, which is concentrated within the six-nautical-mile zone; when he expects to receive the updated scientific and economic advice from the Marine Institute and Bord Iascaigh Mhara on...

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I must now deal with a postponed division relating to the motion on the escalation of violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory. On Tuesday, 14 November 2023, on the question, "That the amendment to the motion be agreed to", a division was claimed and in accordance with Standing Order 80(2), that division must be taken now.

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: From the Seanad (15 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Does the Minister of State want to come back in?

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: From the Seanad (15 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Before going through the next three amendments, I note that things have moved much quicker than anticipated. For the information of Members, the next item, the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023, Report and Final Stages, will be starting immediately after this item, in just a few minutes.

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: From the Seanad (15 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Seanad amendments Nos. 13 to 15, inclusive, have already been discussed.

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: From the Seanad (15 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: A message will be sent to Seanad Éireann acquainting it with the fact that Dáil Éireann has agreed to amendments Nos. 1 to 15, inclusive, made by Seanad Éireann to the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023 (Bill 54 of 2023): Report and Final Stages (15 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Amendments Nos. 1 and 3 are related and may be discussed together.

Estimates for Public Services 2023: Message from Select Committee (15 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: The Select Committee on Transport and Communications has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2023: Vote 29.

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: From the Seanad (15 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Seanad amendments Nos. 1 to 3, inclusive, 5, 11 and 13 are related and will be discussed together.

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: From the Seanad (15 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Seanad amendments Nos. 4 and 6 to 10, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: From the Seanad (15 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Amendments Nos. 12, 14 and 15 are related and will be discussed together.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: The Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act was enacted in 2017, ostensibly to give better protection to sex workers and victims of human trafficking. To ensure that protection became a reality, a statutory obligation to carry out a review was included in the Act. That obligation came into effect in March 2020, three years after the Act’s enactment, yet here we are in 2023 some three and...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (15 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne - To discuss the hot school meals programme in Ennistymon Community School, County Clare. Deputy Gino Kenny - To discuss the lack of public health nurses in Dublin Mid-West. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore - To discuss...