Results 561-580 of 33,749 for speaker:Catherine Connolly

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The system.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: No, it is okay.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: One final thing. Going back to Covid, the organisation got great praise, and rightly so, and I read all of the authority reports monthly. It was a point where people got back trust in the Garda. On the cars that were purchased at that time, there was a huge number of cars leased, was there not? Could the witnesses clarify the situation in that regard? They have set out how many new cars...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: But it went over a few years, did it not? Anyway, I will not take up any more time.

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: There is none. It is finished.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (26 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 97. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who have potentially been left infertile or at risk of cancer due to not receiving surgery for undescended testicles in a timely manner; the number of guardians and parents of potentially impacted children contacted to be made aware of these concerns; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34918/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (26 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 103. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the establishment of an ambulance base at Recess, County Galway; if the design team has now completed the tender documentation; if the project has gone to tender; the timeline for the delivery of the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34919/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Culture Policy (26 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for the €10.9 million underspend on subhead B7 ‘Cultural infrastructure and development’ projects in 2023; the details of all large-scale culture infrastructure and development projects that have not been progressed; the reasons therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Funding (26 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 154. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number and details of capital projects affected due to the €11.5 million underspend in 2023 of the large-scale sport infrastructure fund, with only 21% of its original approved capital funding being spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34915/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Film Industry (26 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 39 of 6 March 2025, for an update on his engagement with stakeholders on the matter of maintaining public ownership of the Pálás cinema in Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34912/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Swimming Pools (26 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 162. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for the underspend of €3.2 million in respect of swimming pool grants to local authorities; if there have been similar underspends in 2024 and 20025; the way in which his Department intends to fund and support municipal swimming pool construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34914/25]

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I do not support these motions. The legislation to which they relate sets out to tell us that the ordinary courts are inadequate to secure the effective administration of justice. I did not hear that declaration anywhere in the detailed speech the Minister made and I do not see any evidence at all for it. The Special Criminal Court is based on emergency...

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I want to speak in favour of this motion although I have concerns about parts of it. Overall, I agree with it and the focus it puts on the absence of infrastructure. I will not support the narrative on this side of the House to the effect that objections are causing the planning problems. That is a false, self-serving narrative. My office has just submitted a question to confirm the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (25 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if employer contributions to auto enrolment pension accounts will be exempt from PRSI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34669/25]

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Can I get the clock stopped for a minute to clarify something? I assumed we were letting Deputy Tóibín have his slot ahead of us and that we were sharing our own slot, which was six minutes each.

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion. It is brief and to the point. I have no problem with implementing the recommendations of the Fifth Report of the Convention on the Constitution, which was quite some time ago now, for all Irish citizens on the island of Ireland. I have no difficulty with that. To follow on from my colleague, Deputy Stanley, it is not in the programme for...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Here we go again about nursing homes. A scandal has given us cause to talk about nursing homes. All the details of that scandal have been outlined. I am not going to outline them again. It is bewildering that HIQA had a report on one of the homes, Beneavin, in November, and it was substantially compliant. That in itself is frightening. I looked to remember, because my memory is faulty,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The Taoiseach stands before us shamefaced today to tell us that the occupied territories Bill will not include services. He does this on a day when 21 people were shot like moving targets at a fair as they queued up for food this morning. We are told that 56,000 people are now dead in the genocide. The Lancet tells us the figure is much higher, as does the Harvard database, which puts the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: You should be.