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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (18 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated additional savings that could be made by not indexing income tax bands and income tax rates. [23764/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Living Wage (18 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 217. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cost of introducing a living wage set at €13.85 per hour for public and civil service workers. [23762/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (18 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated full-year cost of increasing the capitation grant at primary and secondary levels by 5%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23754/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (18 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reducing the pupil teacher ratio by one point at primary level. [23755/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (18 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reducing the pupil-teacher ratio by one point at second level. [23756/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 248. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected demand for school places at primary and second level for pupils with special educational needs for the school year commencing September 2023; and the estimated cost of providing sufficient places at primary and second level to meet this projected demand. [23757/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Paternity Leave (18 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 351. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of extending paternity leave by two weeks. [23758/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Parental Leave (18 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 352. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of extending parental leave by two weeks. [23759/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 356. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of making the fuel allowance available for 32 weeks per annum, 40 weeks per annum and 52 weeks per annum. [23760/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 357. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of reinstating the bereavement grant at a rate of €850. [23761/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 358. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of a €1 increase in each of the social insurance schemes, social assistance schemes, other weekly schemes and other schemes payments, in tabular form (details supplied). [23765/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Data (18 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 473. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the estimated cost of developing the 400 remote working hubs and the requisite support services identified in Our Rural Future and for additional remote working hubs in each of the 31 local authority areas across the country in 2024. [23752/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (18 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 475. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for a timeline on the implementation of rural proofing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23751/23]

Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members]: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I must now deal with a postponed division relating to Second Stage of the Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023, which took place on Tuesday, 16 May 2023. On the question, "That the amendment to the motion be made", a division was claimed, and in accordance with Standing Order 80(2), that division must be taken now.

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (Resumed) (17 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Do not mention names Deputy.

Message from Seanad (17 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Seanad Éireann has passed the Courts Bill 2023, without amendment.

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (17 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I could use the words "I welcome the opportunity", but "welcome" is not the word when we are talking about this topic. I wish we could monitor the implementation of the third strategy on a regular basis, and have an implementation discussion as opposed to statements. I have made statements continuously since 2016. Repeatedly, I acknowledge that progress has been made. I acknowledge...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Baineann mo cheist le mo chathair féin, cathair álainn dhátheangach ar imeall na Gaeltachta is mó sa tír ach cathair atá ag déileáil le fadhbanna ollmhóra, an ghéarchéim tithíochta agus géarchéim na dtranglam tráchta san áireamh. Eascraíonn na fadhbanna sin go díreach as polasaí na comhairle...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: First, a correction. An Bord Pleanála did not say, "No" to the ring road; the High Court said, "No" to the ring road because An Bord Pleanála acknowledged it failed utterly to consider climate change and our climate change obligations. That tells us something about An Bord Pleanála and the management that submitted such a plan. In the conference I mentioned, the chief...

Targeted Investment in the Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the motion and thank Deputy McNamara for bringing it forward. I also welcome the fact the Minister of State is not opposing it. That is positive. I also welcome that she is accepting the amendment tabled by the Social Democrats. I have a particular interest, coming from Galway, in the elective hospital, the salaried position for GPs and, following on...