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Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (28 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Can I speak on this? I was not sure what the format was. I want to support any Bill that gives supports to survivors. I am now in a dilemma as I cannot support this Bill. I will outline why this is the case. I will go back over 22 years of apologies. As usual, I thank the staff in the library for their wonderful work setting this out. I recommend it to any new TD. The library can set...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (28 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I will speak specifically on the amendment but first, regarding what the Deputy Ó Muirí just said, the Ombudsman's report on the Magdalen scheme was utterly scathing. It is worth reading what was said. While I am not going to read it again, it was utterly scathing of the way the scheme was administered. Prior to that, Mr. Justice Quirke, a High Court judge, had recommended that...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (28 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I have no difficulty with the technical amendments, but I will use my time now and at the end of the debate to say that I am most unhappy with the Bill. I cannot support it in its present form. The Minister said she is responding to the needs of survivors. We have a special advocate, and when that special advocate was appointed there was a press release which stated the Government would...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (28 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 300. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a visa application (details supplied) urgently needed to visit a very unwell family member undergoing cancer treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27900/25]

Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing this Bill to the House. I refer to the legal opinion the party received. The Minister might have looked at it. It said there was a strong argument for putting forward this Private Members' Bill based on public policy. They see no difficulty in putting that forward based on public policy. "Public policy" is a phrase the Minister did not use. The...

Independent External Medical Audit for Children's Health Ireland and National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh: Statements (27 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: This is our second report and we are waiting on a third one. In this second report, we are told the percentages of the pelvic procedures carried out not reaching the criteria are so high that a further inquiry is mandated. The Minister is doing this now in respect of a look back at all of the patients, and I welcome it. We then look at what the percentages were because we cannot repeat...

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

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the family. I wish we did not have to welcome them here. I welcome the apology and I welcome the changes that are proposed for a review of the bail laws, particularly that relating to a four-month time limit. I welcome that there will be a change in legislation regarding a direction from a judge to allow lesser charges to be put. I welcome that there has already been a change to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Gnó an Chomhchoiste (27 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Tá fáilte romhaibh go léir. Is iontach an tinreamh atá againn anseo. Tá súil agam go leanfaimid ar aghaidh mar sin. Ní bheidh an cruinniú seo rófhada inniu. Beidh sé gearr go leor. Mar sin tosóimid. Faoi Bhuan-Ordú 118(4), is é ceathrar an córam i leith an chomhchoiste. Chomh maith leis sin, tá gá go...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Gnó an Chomhchoiste (27 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta as ucht a bheith anseo. Tá a fhios agam nach bhfuil sé ina bhall den choiste ach tá an-suim aige agus is dócha go mbeidh sé anseo i gcónaí.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Gnó an Chomhchoiste (27 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Tiocfaimid ar ais go dtí an pointe seo.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Gnó an Chomhchoiste (27 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Go raibh míle maith agaibh. Leanfaimid ar aghaidh anois i seisiún príobháideach agus beimid in ann an clár oibre agus na hábhair uilig atá tábhachtach a phlé. Sin deireadh leis an seisiún poiblí.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Gnó an Chomhchoiste (27 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Tiocfaimid ar ais chuig an gceist seo sa seisiún príobháideach. Bhí sé deacair. Bhí na hamanna go léir imithe mar is é seo an t-aon am a bhí ar fáil i ndáiríre, seachas déanach sa tráthnóna.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (27 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the Corncrake LIFE Project; his plans to renew the project for a further five-year term given the vital role the project has played in improving the conservation status of the corncrake in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27484/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (22 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Will the strategy be published later this year?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (22 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the standardised design. It is very practical. That has been done all over England with great cost savings. Let us go back to Galway. Approximately 19,000 students are in what I still call the NUIG. Then there is the Atlantic Technological University, ATU. There are more than 40,000 students in Galway in just two third level institutions. I know the Minister does not like the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (22 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I am not straying into the housing area. I am putting the issue into the context of a city where we have a massive housing crisis. I do not exaggerate. People have been on a waiting list for 20 years. We jump for joy when someone gets a house after 15 years. That is the context. In addition, we have two universities. A disaster of a decision was taken years ago before the arrival of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (22 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the provision of student accommodation in Galway; when the new national student accommodation strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26176/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (22 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: My question relates to student accommodation in Galway. Where is the national strategy? I ask this in the context of a city where a recent survey found that almost one fifth of students at the University of Galway are living with family members or are in emergency accommodation. Those surveyed represented 8.5% of the student population. About 12% of respondents reported that they were...

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

Catherine Connolly: The witnesses are very welcome. I am back as a member of the Committee of Public Accounts, of which I was a member in the period before 2020. I noticed that Mr. Gunning referred to the report. It should not be necessary to have training for today. All the witnesses are doing a job and we should respect that. It is our job to question and it should stand on what the witnesses are...