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- Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)
Catherine Connolly: I was struggling to see where the Deputy was going with that. Anyway, the time is almost up.
- Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)
Catherine Connolly: I must again caution the Deputy in relation to due process. There is a separation of powers.
- Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)
Catherine Connolly: Well, okay.
- Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)
Catherine Connolly: I am not sure where the Deputy is going with this. There is a separation of powers. We do not comment on court cases. There is a whole appeal mechanism-----
- Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)
Catherine Connolly: Well, I am just-----
- Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)
Catherine Connolly: We are speaking on a Bill for the addition of judges. I ask the Deputy-----
- Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)
Catherine Connolly: I am not sure about that-----
- Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)
Catherine Connolly: I am not sure about my indulgence.
- Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome this short Bill. Depending on how you count it, there are four pages and seven sections. The purpose of the Bill - to provide for an increase in the maximum number of judges - has been outlined frequently. I welcome that and it is positive. However, this is being introduced following ongoing and serious concerns being expressed by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the...
- Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (19 Apr 2023)
Catherine Connolly: I hate to interrupt but we are discussing the Courts Bill, which relates to the appointment of judges.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (19 Apr 2023)
Catherine Connolly: Táimid thar am, a Theachta. An tAire Stáit anois-----
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (19 Apr 2023)
Catherine Connolly: B’fhéidir go mbeidh an Teachta in ann píosa ama a shábháil dom. Táimid taobh thiar den am.
- Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (19 Apr 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 Neasa Hourigan - to discuss ongoing maternity hospital restrictions. Deputy Matt Shanahan - to discuss the latest Department of Education initial teacher education policy document. Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív - the discuss...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (18 Apr 2023)
Catherine Connolly: 38. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress to date on the Government's commitment to doubling the number of refuge spaces for victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence over the lifetime of the third national strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17328/23]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (18 Apr 2023)
Catherine Connolly: My question is what progress has been made to date on the Government's commitment to doubling the number of refuge spaces available for victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence, DSGBV. I ask this question specifically in the context of the Government's commitment to a specific number of spaces, which falls far short of what is required under the Istanbul Convention.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (18 Apr 2023)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister and I would appreciate the table. This is really about acknowledging what it took to get to this point. The Minister's colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, has read out the names of the people who were victims. To put this in context, 12 women died in violent circumstances in Ireland in 2022, making it the worst year in a decade for violence...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (18 Apr 2023)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome that information and I will work with the Minister every step of the way. We had, however, a previous strategy. When the review of it was done and published in July 2021, it told us that the audit around DSGBV found a lack of effective oversight of implementation of the previous national strategy, a fragmented approach and a lack of action on decades of recommendations. On top of...
- Department Underspend and Reduced Delivery of Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 Apr 2023)
Catherine Connolly: It is the Minister of State and I again, at the end of a debate and a crisis that is deepening. I will pick up for a moment on something Deputy Harkin said. Let me outline the analysis that has been done on the help to buy scheme by many agencies. The original cost was €40 million. It is now €175 million and rising which is four and a half times the estimated cost. More...
- Finance Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Apr 2023)
Catherine Connolly: As fewer than ten Members have risen, I declare the amendment defeated. In accordance with Standing Order 82, the names of the Deputies dissenting will be recorded in the Journal of the Proceedings of the Dáil.
- Finance Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (18 Apr 2023)
Catherine Connolly: With the time permitted for the debate having expired, I am required to put the following question in accordance with an Order of the Dáil on this day: "That the amendments set down by the Minister for Finance, and not disposed of, are hereby made to the Bill; that Fourth Stage is hereby completed; and that the Bill is hereby passed." Is that agreed?