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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Island Communities (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I have a question later on this and I am coming in now in case it is not reached. I am not sure why the question was not grouped but that is the privilege of the Department. I hear the Minister telling me that she listened to the islanders. When I visited a packed AV room meeting, they told me that for 38 years the islands have been fighting to be recognised as a subregional area and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 4. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 102 of 27 October 2022, the status of the new policy for the islands; if the policy and action plan are on track to be finalised by the end of 2022; the timeline for the publication of the new policy and action plan; the date of the last meeting of the interdepartmental committee; and if she will...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Baineann mo cheist arís eile leis an bpolasaí atá beartaithe do na hoileáin ar fud ár gcósta. Cá bhfuil an polasaí sin? Cá bhfuil an plean gníomhaíochta? I, along with my colleagues, will follow this up. Where is the policy for the islands? It has been promised over and over. It was to be published by the end of summer and then by...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I do not doubt the commitment of the Minister. I do not doubt that she is working very hard to see a policy produced but we have heard this for a very long time. In 2019 I tabled a motion in the Dáil. By comparison, in Scotland we see the population of the islands rising. We see a policy underpinned by legislation and proper resourcing. Here we have promises. I know the Minister...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister. Without a doubt there is positivity on the islands. What is lacking is positivity on the part of the Government-----

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Island Communities (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: -----notwithstanding the Minister's commitment. What I hear is the Minister telling me she will have the draft plan. The draft plan was there in October. It remains a draft almost three months later. I presume the Minister has not seen it yet and it has not landed on her desk. She is giving a commitment that it will be published. I would like this clarified. When will the action plan...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 91. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the analysis that his Department has carried out into the operation of the community category in RESS 1 and RESS 2; the reason that the discontinuation of the community category is being considered for RESS 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62565/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 119. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 48 of 8 November 2022, the status of the promised statutory guidelines for the implementation of local authority climate action plans, which will include the guidelines for the implementation of the local authority decarbonisation zones; the timeline for the publication of the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of all changes to the Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme that have come into effect since February 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62893/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 221. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has issued revised guidelines to local authorities in respect of the Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme, to take into account the changes to the scheme that came into effect in 2022; if these guidelines are publicly available; if not, his plans for their publication; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 222. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to update the application form for the Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme, in light of recent changes made to the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62895/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 223. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the 2021 review of the Tenant (Incremental) Purchase Scheme is publicly available; if not, his plans to publish the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62896/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (15 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 303. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the roll-out of the pandemic recognition payment to eligible Section 38 employees who have not yet received the payment; the steps they must take in order to receive the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62854/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Inland Fisheries (14 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: This Topical Issue matter is in the names of Deputies Ring, Fitzmaurice and Canney.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (14 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Amendments Nos. 38, 39 and 50 are related and may be discussed together. To give a little warning before amendment No. 38 is formally moved, we are going to run out of time. The Minister has the floor.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (14 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Unfortunately, we are out of time. The time permitted for this debate having expired, I am required to put the following question in accordance with an Order of the Dáil of 13 December: "That the Seanad amendments not disposed of are hereby agreed to in committee and agreement to the amendments is accordingly reported to the House."

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (14 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: A message will be sent to the Seanad acquainting it accordingly.

Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (14 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Seanad Éireann has passed the National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022, without recommendation. Seanad Éireann has passed the Tailte Éireann Bill 2022, without amendment. Seanad Éireann has passed the Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022, without amendment.

Water Environment (Abstractions and Associated Impoundments) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Amendment No. 1 is in the names of Deputies Ó Broin, Gould, Cian O'Callaghan and Matthews. Amendments Nos. 1, 2 and 4 are related and may be discusses together.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (14 Dec 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Amendments Nos. 13 to 15, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.