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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (8 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 135. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason a US military aircraft (details supplied) was permitted to land and refuel at Shannon airport on 1 February 2024; to clarify the steps that were taken to ensure that this aircraft was not involved in US military operations in support of the Israeli attacks in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5993/24]

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...earth. No houses, no agriculture, no nothing. They have no future;”  Another colonel said: Vengeance is a great value. There is vengeance over what they did to us... This place will be a fallow land. They will not be able to live here. That is included in the submission to the ICJ from South Africa and that is quoting directly from the original sources. I stand here...

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...O'Donnell, remember the Kenny report? It was published more than half a century ago - 51 years ago. It told us there was a huge problem at the time and we needed to give local authorities power to acquire land at existing use value with a 25% bonus for the owners. It clearly pointed out that we needed to do something 51 years ago. If we fast forward to 1999, when I was elected, there...

Investment Funds Trading in the Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2024)

Catherine Connolly: ...that was set up more than three years ago or we ask it to produce a full report with an analysis of what it sees as being the reason for the crisis. We look at a city that has absolutely no overall plan or city architect. We have a Land Development Agency that is just about to complete negotiations with the port company to purchase public land at a high price so that it can construct...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...on HAP. Actually, the task force numbers are higher again. There is the same number of people on HAP in Galway as there is social housing. That does not even include long-term leasing. There is public land in Galway. A task force was set up. I heard Deputy Canney asking for a task force, but a task force was set up in 2019 because of the housing crisis. It has failed to deliver a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (7 Dec 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister of State for confirming that he will look at it. It is a real concern to me that 6 acres of public land is being sold in a deal that we know nothing about, including the price, with no commitment to public housing. The task force was set up in 2019, before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. We have had a serious housing crisis in Galway. The task force has become a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (7 Dec 2023)

Catherine Connolly: The Land Development agency was set up by the Government to deal with it.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Local Authorities (7 Dec 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...at Galway city, where rents have breached all records and gone up by 12.5%. There are no houses available under HAP. The only game in town is one available property. When Simon Communities of Ireland looked at the city in its three-day snapshot, no properties were available. There are people on the housing waiting list for up to 17 and 18 years. I am not given to exaggeration. On top...

Renters: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Dec 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...after scheme, like a jigsaw with no overall picture for where we are going as a society in terms of ensuring that the most basic unit in a democracy is that we have security of tenure and shelter. In Galway city, the latest headlines regarding the Land Development Agency suggest it is about to do a deal with the port, Galway Harbour Company, which owns the land in trust for the people of...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (5 Dec 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 97. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of any engagement she or her Department has had with Údarás na Gaeltachta in relation to the provision of housing on lands and property owned by the Údarás, and in particular the provision of public housing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53609/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: It has been reported in the Galway media that the Galway Harbour Company is about to complete a deal with the Land Development Agency. This is cause for serious concern to me because of what is proposed. There are six acres the subject of the transfer. I am not sure at what price that public land, held by the harbour company in trust for the people of Galway, is being transferred to the...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...company, VHI, is actively promoting private medicine. "Surreal" does not capture what successive Governments have done. Looking back to 2004, which is almost 20 years ago, the ESRI's report, Health Insurance in Ireland: Issues and Challenges, stated in its conclusions: Almost half the Irish population [at that time] now pay for private health insurance, one of the highest levels of...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...if my colleague is coming. We were told HAP was the only game in town. Between HAP, long-term leasing and the rental accommodation scheme, RAS, we are putting over €1 billion a year into the pockets of landlords. Once again, I will say that I am not here to condemn landlords. We need landlords but they need to be balanced by a Government policy in which Government plays a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Military Aircraft (7 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...was on contract to the US military using US Transportation Command call sign CMB504 and was likely to be on a mission to support the Israeli attacks on Gaza, and on its return journey to the USA it landed at US Naval Air Station Jacksonville; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47696/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (7 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 668. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government pursuant to section 9 of the Land Development Agency Act 2021, the details of any reports he has received to date from the Land Development Agency or a subsidiary DAC with regard to progress towards achieving the purposes of the Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48427/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (7 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 1279. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1046 of 20 September 2023, the status of the development of a primary care centre on Inisbofin; the status of the land transfer and if it has concluded to date; the expected timeline for the development of the primary care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48437/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Citizenship Applications (11 Oct 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...the Department to handle these applications? The backlog is unacceptable. I have a specific case in mind which is always helpful. That person has been waiting since March 2021 and is in limbo land - although we have abolished limbo - given the travel restrictions and all the consequences that follow from not having citizenship. I ask the Minister of State to be more specific with me....

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...on tax reduction or tax expenditure. We would all welcome that, except that it is at the expense of services. We are dealing with this budget having looked at the previous one. Social Justice Ireland does a great analysis, before and after. It tells us, as have many Deputies, that the gap between the rich and the poor is worsening. The CSO data show that in 2022 the richest 20% of...

Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...least would have teased out some of the issues here; I hope the committee will do that. In her speech, the Minister of State talked about context. I would like to give some fuller context. Ireland is a neutral country and we should have a voice commenting on the context of what we are doing here today. Some 108.4 million people are now displaced, which means 1.2% of the global...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (4 Oct 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...at the Donegal children's disability network teams. Deputy Gino Kenny - To discuss the medical cannabis access programme. Deputy Réada Cronin - To discuss access to, and State acquisition of, lands at Castletown. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire - To discuss lack of availability and access to respite and therapies at Carrigaline special school. Deputy Bernard Durkan - To discuss the...