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EirGrid, Electricity and Turf (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Question put and agreed to.

EirGrid, Electricity and Turf (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to look at this legislation. I am horrified by Deputy Leddin's comments and the ill-informed content of some of the debate. He talked about the data centre trove. I rarely personalise debate but I certainly find it a little worrying that information could be twisted in such a way by a Green Party Deputy. We have here legislation for which the date for amendments...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: The Taoiseach and the Minister for Health are fully aware of the crisis concerning home care hours. I raise this issue again in the context of a reply I just received. At this stage, figures mean nothing. People are waiting up to four years for home care hours. It is now over three months since a strategic workforce group was set up. Have there been any interim reports or recommendations...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: People are waiting up to four years for-----

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (28 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 101. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 11 of 12 May 2022, if he will provide an update on the independent review to examine the effectiveness of the policies, systems and procedures in place for dealing with bullying, harassment, discrimination, sexual harassment and sexual assault in the Defence Forces; the details of any monthly reports...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Gaeltacht Policy (23 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 28. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the promised guidelines on planning matters in the Gaeltacht; the status of the working group established to examine planning policy in the Gaeltacht; the membership of the group; the terms of reference of the group; the dates of all meetings of the group to date; when the next meeting is scheduled for; if the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (23 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 76. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 67 of 5 May 2022, the status of the Galway social housing taskforce sub-group on homelessness; the number of times the sub-group has met to date; if he has received correspondence to date from the subgroup; if the sub-group will produce a final report; the terms of reference of the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (23 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 109. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been brought to a report (details supplied) which details the impact of the operations of an Irish-headquartered company on indigenous communities and their lands in Colombia; the engagement he or his Departmental representatives have had with representatives of this company on foot of the issues raised in the report;...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (23 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 131. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagement he has had at bilateral level with his counterparts in Israel with regard to halting the demolition of Palestinian homes in the Masafer Yatta area of the West Bank; his plans to increase Irish aid funding to Palestinian human rights NGOs, particularly in view of the increasing legal constraints faced by such organisations...

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I must now deal with a postponed division relating to the motion regarding emergency services at Our Lady's Hospital, Navan. On Tuesday, 21 June 2022, on the question, "That the amendment to the amendment be made", a division was claimed and in accordance with Standing Order 80(2), that division must be taken now.

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (22 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Amendment No. 9 arises out of committee proceedings. Amendments Nos. 9, 14, 15, 17, 18, 50 and 94 are related and may be discussed together.

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (22 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Amendments Nos. 3, 112 and 117 and will be discussed together.

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (22 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Amendments Nos. 4 and 132 to 136, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (22 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Amendments Nos. 7, 12, 36, 38 and 65, are related and will be discussed together.

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (22 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Amendments Nos. 8, 142, and 149 to 154, inclusive, are related and will be discussed together.

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (22 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: These amendments are being discussed together. If Deputies do not discuss them now, they will not get a chance to do so later.

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (22 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: No, the Deputy had a few seconds left. In case there is a misunderstanding, all of these amendments are grouped and have to be discussed now. If the Deputies do not wish to discuss them, that is fine, but when we come to them later, we will simply be deciding on them.

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: From the Seanad (22 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: This 30-minute debate is simply on the four amendments.

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: From the Seanad (22 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Yes. A message will be sent to the Seanad.

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: From the Seanad (22 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: No.