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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Next month marks two years since the wonderful announcement of the go-ahead for a proposed new further education college in Galway city. After the announcement, we moved on to the preliminary business case. We all welcomed the announcement. It related to a college for the future, a campus and lifelong learning. My specific question is on the status of the proposed new further education...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister of State for the update. The news was great, but it was announced almost two years ago. Progress has slowed down a little, which is a concern. The project of Galway and Roscommon ETB, which used to be the vocational education committee, on which I sat, has been in planning for a very long time. Although we welcomed the announcement almost two years ago, it was after...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: What is the date for submitting the revised business plans?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Is the Minister of State aware of whether Galway and Roscommon ETB has submitted its business case?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Given the time allowed, I am sure I will be forgiven for being parochial. Did Galway and Roscommon ETB make its submission?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: They will be considered at the point.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: So they will not be at a disadvantage.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: And the robustness of all the business cases will be considered afresh. Will the Minister of State indicate the timeline? What will happen at the pre-tender and design stage? What time is envisaged for that?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the fact there were 2,195 public beds. Where, however, is the vision for this area in terms of State-owned student accommodation in order that we can bring the prices down? A market is once again being created for the vulture funds and anyone with money who can then do what they want during the summer, although we have tried to curtail that lately with limits on time. I come from...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: When is the strategy going to be published consequent on that plan?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 9. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 73 of 25 June 2024, for an update on plans to provide additional student accommodation units for students at the University of Galway; the status and location of the additional 403, work under way, and 1,669, planning obtained, purpose-built student accommodation bed spaces in Galway; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I am returning to this question again. A number of previous speakers have raised it. I am asking for an update on plans to provide additional student accommodation units for students in Galway; the status and location of the additional 403 and 1,669 planned purpose-built student accommodation spaces. I have read the answers and listened to the responses. I would love to tease this out....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Now that we have dispensed with that response, could we just tease out really where we are going in terms of student accommodation in this country? Are we going to learn from what we did with housing and HAP, which was an absolute disaster, and where we have put in literally millions and billions of euro to keep the market price of homes very high? We have done the same as regards students....

Spending of Public Funds by the Government: Motion [Private Members] (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Sin deireadh leis an díospóireacht. Is the amendment to the Government's amendment agreed?

Spending of Public Funds by the Government: Motion [Private Members] (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Is the Government's amendment to the motion agreed?

Spending of Public Funds by the Government: Motion [Private Members] (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: A division has been called and will proceed tomorrow night at the weekly division time.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 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 Brian Stanley - To discuss the provision of additional school places, classrooms and resources for St. Francis special school in Portlaoise. Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire - To discuss the regeneration of flats on Clashduv...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Some 441 approved housing bodies came back. More than 441 approved housing bodies exist and we wonder about accountability and the absence of it. I am talking about all of this in the context of Galway city, which has absolutely no hope to give applicants on the housing waiting list. I am not given to exaggeration. There is absolutely no hope. I have the minutes of the task force....

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill, which has three Parts and 16 sections. I will reiterate what my colleague has said. It is completely unacceptable there was no pre-legislative scrutiny, notwithstanding that the largest Opposition party agreed with that. It was absolutely essential to have pre-legislative scrutiny. There was also no regulatory impact analysis published....

Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) (Amendment) Bill 2024: First Stage (8 Oct 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Is the Bill opposed?