Results 41-60 of 33,025 for speaker:Catherine Connolly

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 964. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of reinstating the bereavement grant at the rate of €850 per person deceased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30692/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (10 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 1000. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 787 of 7 November 2023 the consideration given to extend the 2001 Temporary Protection Directive to Palestinian nationals living in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem; if he will provide details of the representations made at EU level since November 2023 in this regard; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Process (10 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 1032. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1517 of 29 April 2025, the reason he did not make available the draft report of the Review of Part 4 of the Sexual Offences Act 2017 in his reply, nor indicate where it could be accessed, nor deal with the reason it was not published; if he will outline the difference in the conclusions...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (10 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 1080. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of international protection applicants who have not been offered accommodation on arrival in each month in 2025 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30683/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (10 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 1081. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason data relating to the number of international protection applicants not offered accommodation when applying for protection has slowed from twice a week to once a month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30684/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (10 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 1082. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the policy of not offering accommodation to international protection applications will cease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30685/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (10 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 1083. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of providing an additional 335 domestic abuse refuge spaces to meet Ireland’s obligations under the Istanbul Convention. [30693/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The occupied territories Bill, however limited, has to be passed for goods and services. It is the least we can do. The constant refrain that Europe might take infringement proceedings against us is unacceptable. Let us face that if it happens. There is a genocide happening in our name while we stand here and talk, so we need to take action. The limited way that the Government is dealing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 169. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 37 of 11 February 2025, the timeline for the passage of the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 that incorporates a ban on imports and services from these areas, supported by the advisory opinion on the illegality of Israel’s occupation and settlements issued on 19...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I understand this question is in a group, such is Deputies' concern about the occupied territories Bill or, to give it its proper name, the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018, which incorporates a ban on imports and services from the occupied areas, supported by the advisory opinion on the illegality of Israel’s occupation and settlements issued on 19 July...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: When questions are grouped, the Deputy with the first question gets 30 seconds and everyone in the group gets the same time, thereafter, one minute. No one is deprived of time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Does the Tánaiste see the date on the occupied territories Bill? It is 2018. It is now 2025. I welcome that some progress has been made. However, it has taken the deaths and slaughter of 54,000 Palestinians, and that figure, which I read out this morning, is totally inaccurate. According to The Lancet, the figure is much higher than that. At the very least, this occupied...

Flood Relief: Statements (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister of State and I have had an engagement on this before. First, the scheme in Galway has not been prevented because of objections or bureaucracy. Second, the catchment flood risk assessment and management was the biggest flood risk assessment and it affected two thirds of the population. It was a brilliant piece of work. It was completed in 2018. Unfortunately, when the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I want to share with the Tánaiste a positive letter I got from Galway City Council. It is delightful. I am told the council is incredibly proud of the impact the energy retrofit programme is having in providing warmer and more efficient homes and helping to reduce energy poverty. It is a delightful letter except the family about whom I raised representations has gone on a waiting list...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: We all may well be appalled and sickened, but the Government is refusing to face the elephant in the room. Israel has an umbilical cord attachment to America. America, followed by the EU, is the biggest supplier of arms to Israel, and the Irish Government is waiting for a morally corrupt and inept EU to take action. The EU is the second biggest supplier of arms to the genocide. Let us...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: He can say a lot of things, and then we watch Shannon being used, an occupied territories Bill that is going nowhere and trade with Europe. Ours is a small country. It is time we led, given our history. It is time we called for an absolute ceasefire, led in the UN, made our words mean something and called out that narrative for what it is. Israel is a rogue state. It is not a democratic...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: You stand up-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: -----and account for what we are going to do when you say there are war crimes and a genocide.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I would be delighted.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Palaver?