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Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Perhaps he might come back on another amendment.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I understand Deputy Funchion’s concerns, but the legislation clearly sets out that after five years, the scheme will cease and that is it. The issue is if we are interested in having a meaningful review, the review could come up with a recommendation that the scheme should go on for longer. I am fundamentally opposed to the Bill in the manner it is laid out. I am now tweaking...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I did not know that. An Cathaoirleach Gníomhach will have to guide us in that regard. Seven minutes were displayed on the clock.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I am sorry, and I would be the first to keep the rules, but I am simply going by what is on the clock.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: That is not helpful. We need to know when we start off. I constantly make mistakes in the Chair but-----

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I understand that.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I understand each person on the amendment can have a seven-minute contribution, uninterrupted.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I get confused myself; I am the first to put my hands up. I was referring to the chief deciding officer and the documents. If he or she requests further documents to help making a decision, there is no provision in the Bill for those documents to be shared with the person coming forward, the applicant. Perhaps the Minister could point out in which section can be found an obligation on the...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: It is noteworthy that the Minister is sitting on his own and there is not a single other Minister or backbencher beside him. That in itself tells a story about the Bill. In his seven-minute contribution the Minister outlined that no scheme will cover everything. The point about this scheme is that we are meant to have learned from the past. I spoke about the situation in 2012. Deputy...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: In my seven minutes, I would like to deal with the amendment, because when I am in the Chair, I make people deal with amendments with relevant contributions. It is difficult not to refer to the overall context of this amendment. We put our names to that amendment. I thank Deputy Sherlock for having the foresight to see that this amendment might be left in while the others were ruled out....

Council Development Levies: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Deputy Collins and her office for the work that has gone into this. I support the motion. I welcome that the Government appears not to have tabled an amendment and that it will accept the motion. This is positive. I am struck by the difference in language on this. I will go local for a minute and I will come back to the point on language. Lately all of the Deputies in Galway...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: We will suspend until Private Members' business.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Dia daoibh ar maidin. Is lá faoi leith é inniu, Lá Fhéile Bríde, bandia agus naomh a bhí inti agus beidh lá saoire againn dá barr. 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 Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire - To discuss the current crime...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of outstanding applications to an organisation (details supplied); the number of outstanding appeals; when it is expected that all applications and appeals will be finalised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5060/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the legislation to formally wind up an organisation (details supplied) will be introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5061/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Residential Institutions (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: 257. To ask the Minister for Health further to section 43 of the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Act 2012; the amount paid into the special account maintained by the Minister for Health to be used as contributions towards the costs of the National Children's Hospital to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5050/23]

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Fís TG4 agus na dúshláin atá roimhe: Plé (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Fair play don Chathaoirleach. Is faisean nua dúinn go léir é.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Fís TG4 agus na dúshláin atá roimhe: Plé (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Cuirim fáilte ar ais roimh na finnéithe. Déanaim comhghairdeas le hAnna Ní Ghallachair as a ról nua. Tá na ráitis tosaigh léite agam ach níl an rud eile léite agam fós. Gabhaim míle buíochas leis na finnéithe as a gcuid oibre. Tá éacht amach agus amach déanta acu in ainneoin go bhfuil lochtanna fós...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Fís TG4 agus na dúshláin atá roimhe: Plé (1 Feb 2023)

Catherine Connolly: Is tréimhse thar a bheith fada é sin sa bhfoirgneamh seo.