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Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I am reluctant to interrupt the Deputy but this Bill is on work-life balance.

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: They always do the work.

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy, I have given great flexibility.

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: It is not the time. The Deputy has plenty of time. The issue is with the relevancy. I have given great flexibility to every Deputy, but this is beyond the relevance of what is in the Bill or what should be put into the legislation.

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: The scope of a Second Stage debate allows Deputies not only to refer to what is in the Bill but to what could relevantly be put into it. The Deputy took a generous interpretation of that stipulation.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: It is important that all of the Deputies’ colleagues to get to their one minute.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I emphasise that these are questions on policy or legislation. Members have up to one minute to ask their questions. If they feel generous enough not to use the one minute, that would be great.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 98. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the development of the mother and baby institutions payment scheme Bill 2022; when the Bill will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50718/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Will the Minister update the House on the status of the mother and baby institutions payment scheme Bill? Forgive me if I am emotional, but also quite professional, on this matter. I have followed it at every level so far. I am asking my question in the hope that the Government has learned from the Ombudsman's report in 2017, which referred to a lost opportunity, and that we have learned...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome that the legislation is to be published and will appear before the Dáil. I welcome the change to the bands as well as the changes regarding the absences. However, the Minister is persisting with a scheme that maintains the imbalance of power and the division and is coldly and calculatedly directed at reducing costs. The Minister is excluding the babies who were resident for...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: One minute cannot do justice to this issue or to those who have suffered as a result of Government decisions and the behaviour of institutions. The Minister is persisting with a cold, calculated scheme that is based on reducing costs. He is excluding all of those who were boarded out. He is excluding the thousands who spent less than six months in an institution. He is ignoring scientific...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Rates (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: We will leave the last word to the Minister.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cost of Living Issues (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: We are over time and trying to squeeze in one last bit.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Deputy.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Community Employment Schemes (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I am moving on to Deputy Stanton as he wanted to come in on this.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cost of Living Issues (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I was going to say that the brevity this morning is because of the preponderance of female contributions, but that would not be fair to Deputy Berry who was also extremely brief.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 22. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of the school meals programme; the timeline for the completion and publication of the review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50745/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 65. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details of any analysis carried out by her Department into providing support with redundancy payments arising from the closure of local employment services and jobs clubs around the country as a result of the roll-out of the new local area employment services; if her Department has carried out any...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 133. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 83 of 7 July 2022, the status of the review of projected timelines for the implementation of a White Paper to end direct provision and to establish a new international protection support service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50721/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Bodies (13 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 148. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the work of the disability stakeholder group; the number of times that the group has met in 2022; the dates of these meetings; if the group has considered a report (details supplied) to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50720/22]