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World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Más mian leis an Teachta, is féidir leis labhairt anois.

World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: He will not get the two slots.

World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The Deputy gained both ways. He got in earlier and got a longer slot, given the topic in question.

South Coast Designated Maritime Area Plan for Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the opportunity. As previous speakers have said, it is not my area but the concerns belong to all of us. I have serious concerns that this is developer driven. I will come back to that in relation to Sceirde off the coast of Connemara. It has to be welcomed that we have a plan. However, that plan is being done in a vacuum where only 9% of our marine areas are protected. I...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I am glad the Tánaiste is here because I am raising once again the issue of Galway and the housing crisis. Back in February 2019, more than five years ago, a task force was set up, such was the seriousness of the problem and the emergency. I am on record as saying the housing crisis in Galway is worse than in Dublin. The Simon Community does quarterly reports. There are no properties...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I agree.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Galway has not met its targets.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I am jumping all over the place because many Members are not here. We might be able to take Question No. 91 because Deputy Martin Kenny is present to introduce it on behalf of Deputy Ó Laoghaire. Likewise, Deputy Darren O'Rourke is here to introduce Question No. 93 and Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan is here to introduce Question No. 98.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: By any stretch of the imagination, Question No. 98, in the name of Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan, was not expected to be reached.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Okay. We are in the same position regarding all the questions after that. We have Deputy O'Rourke and Deputy O'Sullivan in the Chamber. I understand the Minister of State's dilemma. Does Deputy O'Rourke want to refer briefly to Question No. 93?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I take the opportunity to welcome the students in the Public Gallery. Cuirim céad míle fáilte roimh na daltaí óga atá thuas staighre ag breathnú anuas orainn. Tá fáilte rompu.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Development Projects (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The Deputy will have to put in other supplementary questions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I apologise to Deputy O'Sullivan. I did not realise the questions were grouped.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I very much appreciate the good news. As I said, it has taken 20 years to get the land. Let me concentrate on the good news that it is now in the Department's possession and the project will go to the HSE. The process should be completed by November. I will then be able to take this issue to a different Department, depending on what the electorate says, to ensure the health centre is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Again, there is a long history to the projects on both islands. Inis Meáin, in particular, has gone through phases 1, 2 and 3. I can tell the Minister of State about the level of frustration on the ground. We have certainly felt it as TDs. Regarding Inis Oírr, the county council is currently examining the tenders. Is a business case being prepared simultaneously? What is the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 68. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 2696 of the 23 July 2024, the status of the transfer to her Department of land on Inishbofin on which the airstrip is situated and on part of which it is proposed to build a primary care centre; if the land transfer been completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40852/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: My question relates to Inishbofin off the coast of Galway, and specifically with regard to a transfer of land from the county council to the Minister of State's Department and then on to the Health Service Executive, to facilitate the building of a primary care or health centre. I followed this up with the senior Minister and in fairness, she took a hands-on approach to the matter. It has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (10 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 11. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps Ireland has taken to comply with the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on 19 July 2024 on Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territory, which states that member states are under a positive obligation “to abstain from entering into treaty relations with Israel in all cases in which it...