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Protection of Employees (Employers’ Insolvency) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (28 May 2025)

Cathy Bennett: This Bill will better protect employees’ unpaid wages and entitlements if their employer becomes insolvent. I would commend the Government on introducing it but let us be real. It is a matter of obligation more than choice. The Government did not push to protect worker entitlements when they were denied on foot of the Vita Cortex insolvency in 2011, nor did the Government spring...

Apology to Shane O'Farrell and his Family: Statements (27 May 2025)

Cathy Bennett: The death of any person on our roads is a tragedy. The death of a child is a tragic hardship that no parent should have to bear. Shane O'Farrell was just 23 years old when he was struck and killed while out cycling near his home in Carrickmacross. The driver fled and while the man who took Shane's life handed himself into An Garda the next day, it seems as if in the intervening 14 years...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Cathy Bennett: In 2009, then Sinn Féin TD for Cavan-Monaghan Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin described Fianna Fáil's closure of the accident and emergency department at Monaghan Hospital as a "mortal" blow for the people of Monaghan. He warned that lives "will undoubtedly be put at risk" as they then had to travel for up to an hour to Cavan hospital. The average wait time at Cavan hospital's...

Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (27 May 2025)

Cathy Bennett: By way of introduction, I was a councillor in Monaghan for the past 12 years and I was recently elected to the Dáil. Sinn Féin has appointed me as spokesperson on tourism and the diaspora, so I am delighted to be on this committee to see how we can work. I thank the Minister of State for coming in today and giving us his briefing. I am sorry I missed it. I had to run out for a...

Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (27 May 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Okay. I am just trying to get a handle on things to see where aid goes. Can we get the budget sheets on them to see what the money is spent on? Perhaps we could get that at some stage so we see where money is going. It is welcome that it goes to Gaza, Ukraine and Sudan. I would just like to see how it is spent, especially with the aid trucks not able to get into Gaza at the moment. Where...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Agreements (27 May 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his engagements regarding the Mercosur Trade Agreement and the negative impact it would have on Irish farming families. [25490/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (27 May 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 529. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children awaiting an assessment of needs in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the number waiting by three-month intervals; the number of who received an assessment to date in 2025; the number of whom received their assessment within six months of application, by county; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Bodies (27 May 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 654. To ask the Minister for Health the bodies that operate under the aegis of her Departments; those bodies which her Department funds on an annual recurring basis; those similarly funded by the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26927/25]

Broadcasting (Oversight of RTÉ Accounts) (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 May 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I acknowledge the work of Deputy Ó Snodaigh in preparing this Bill and Deputy Byrne for proposing it today. Those in RTÉ have wantonly squandered the public moneys with which they have been entrusted. They have spent money lavishly entertaining themselves. They have spent the money of ordinary people on flip-flops for themselves. RTÉ has paid so-called stars obscene...

Delivering a World-Class Education System: Statements (22 May 2025)

Cathy Bennett: The running of a school community is no easy task. We are fortunate in Ireland to have incredibly talented, committed and highly educated teaching and management staff who are passionate in their roles as educators. They do so too often in challenging circumstances not of their own making. These are challenging circumstances of the Government's making because successive Fine Gael and...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I thank everybody for coming today. Regarding the children's hospital, the public is completely outraged at what seems to be a ballooning budget all the time with no end in sight. I am trying to get a handle on the scale of the mismanagement. The National Paediatric Hospital Development Board was established in 2007 and in 2009, the then Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, announced that the...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Cathy Bennett: That is what was stated at the time, going back through the-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Cathy Bennett: That is what was stated at the time. In the 18 years since the board was established, as Mr. Gunning stated today, there have been 15 completion dates and the most recent cost estimate was €2.24 billion. From my calculations, we are now being told that the hospital will open in June 2026. BAM has been the contractors and claims and disputes have cost €853 million. Is that...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Cathy Bennett: When we go back, we can blame BAM for everything but I want to know who bears the responsibility for this and who gave this build-as-you-go contract that has left us in this situation. Was it the witnesses, the board or the Minister?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Cathy Bennett: A contract was signed for a blank cheque, therefore.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Cathy Bennett: It is-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Was that in addition to the first plans that went to-----

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Should that not have been budgeted for in the initial cost?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Cathy Bennett: It is a build-as-you-go contract being handed out by the board and the Minister. To go back to my question, was it Mr. Gunning, the board or the Minister who decided to go with this build-as-you-go contract that has a blank cheque?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I just want a name. I just want to know who is to blame.