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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: The Minister had double the time for his initial response.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: I do not decide what "should" be the case. I am just applying the rules that are in front of me.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: We are way over time now.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: I am using the question time directive now. We are over time. On the grouping of priority questions, it is a relatively new phenomenon that they have been grouped, following a decision taken by the Department. Until recently, each priority question was taken separately. The Department might wish to re-examine that in the context of the time allocated for responding to multiple members in...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: Before the Minister comes back in, I will bring in a number of other speakers.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: I am afraid that the Minister has one minute to conclude with all of those questions.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy Ó Laoghaire is down to take Question No. 72 but he may take his own question, No. 73.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the Deputy for his brevity.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Schools Building Projects (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: That was related.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: The Minister of State will get a chance to come back in.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: 76. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the engagement that she has had to-date in 2022 with school principals and boards of management with regard to the refined DEIS identification model; if there is a mechanism by which a school can register its criticism of the identification model, particularly in cases in which anomalies may occur; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of the July Provision programme which was commenced in 2019 but was paused due to Covid-19; if the review has been recommenced to date; the timeline for the completion of the review; the person or body that is carrying out the review; the terms of reference for the review; and if she will make a statement on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: 316. To ask the Minister for Health when the ban on water births will be lifted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23907/22]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: I thank the committee for allowing for this possibility. It is very important. I thank Dr. Boylan and Mr. McGarr. They have come in here and have done so in a very modest, moderate way to try to educate us. I appreciate that and all their effort on the ground. I have despaired at various stages of this, but that is for another day. I will to try to clarify some aspects. I have read all...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: I understand that but we do not own it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: Yes. I have seen it described as just a technical thing. Whether it is or not I want to put a few little things to bed here. It is a leasehold interest, so the HSE or the State will neither own the site nor the hospital.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: I thank Mr. McGarr. Moving to the use of the premises, in the context of things that have emerged - and I tried to listen as best I could to what happened yesterday and today - some of the premises will be used for private practice but we do not know how many rooms. Has that emerged?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (12 May 2022)
Catherine Connolly: It is correct. Is Dr. Boylan is aware of whether that is private practice for the consultants who have both a public and a private contract or is it open to private medicine?