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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the new employer apprentice grant will be available to local authorities as employers further to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12896/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (8 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 110 of 8 February 2022, when the SUSI review will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12897/22]

Report on Commission on Pensions: Motion (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: A Theachta Bríd Smith, are you sharing your time?

Report on Commission on Pensions: Motion (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I will leave it to you both.

Committee Report on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community: Statements (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome Senator Flynn. She said she came from a background of wheeling and dealing and she used those skills to great effect today when she went way beyond her time. Learning from that and building on those skills, maybe I will have the same success. She is the first Traveller ever elected to the Houses of the Oireachtas, which is significant, the first to address the Dáil, which is...

Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: Cuirim fáilte roimh an deis páirt a ghlacadh sa díospóireacht ó thaobh an Bhille seo. Is Bille thar a bheith tábhachtach é an Bille agus ceapaim gur cinneadh dearfach é agus go bhfuil céim chun cinn i gceist leis. Tá neart oibre déanta ag a lán daoine sa Roinn agus ag an Aire agus gabhaim buíochas dóibh ach cuirfidh...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Park-and-Ride Facilities (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 13. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 50 of 17 June 2021, 112 of 16 September 2021, 162 of 4 November 2021 and 82 of 16 December 2021, the progress made to date on the roll-out of park and ride facilities in Galway; the status of the ongoing detailed site options analysis and feasibility studies in Galway by the Park and Ride...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Park-and-Ride Facilities (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I am following up on some previous questions on park-and-ride facilities. I am asking a very straight question on the progress to date in rolling out park-and-ride facilities in Galway. What is the status of the ongoing detailed site options analysis and feasibility studies? Are they done? I know I am preaching to the converted but there has been no progress on rolling out park-and-ride...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Park-and-Ride Facilities (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I have read the response which, as I say, is one of the advantages of being in the Chair. These objectives were included in the city development plan in 2005 by the councillors. The Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, was there at the time. It was positive and proactive. We recognised that it was important. Yesterday or the day before, we saw the latest report from the Intergovernmental...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Park-and-Ride Facilities (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: I honestly fully agree with the Minister but we are beyond all of that. We did this in our time as councillors. We asked for an integrated traffic solution. All of the eggs were put in the basket of the outer bypass and nothing was done. Reading the response, I see that we are still talking about some distant time in the future while the west of the city has gone off the record...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Coast Guard Service (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: No. The Ceann Comhairle's office must be notified. Other Members cannot come in on priority questions. Members have asked me about speaking on priority questions. Members cannot come in on another Member's priority question. If there is a change, the Ceann Comhairle's office must be notified beforehand and permission given. Otherwise, we are back to the bad old ways of Members changing...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: We are beginning with Question No. 4.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 28. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 14 of 16 December 2021, the timeline for the upcoming review of the Galway Transport Strategy; the terms of reference for the review; the timeline and terms of reference for the feasibility study for light rail in Galway which will be undertaken as part of the review; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 137. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of any analysis carried out or commissioned by his Department into the impact of the lifting of the Covid-19 moratorium on evictions both nationwide and in Galway city and county; the analysis his Department has carried out or commissioned into the rise in homelessness figures in Galway city and county in 2021;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Derelict Sites (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 205. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the engagement he has had with Galway City and County Councils in 2021 and to date in 2022 with regard to addressing the issue of vacant houses in both local authority areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11944/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing units refurbished under the voids stimulus programme announced in May 2021 in the area covered by Galway City Council; the number of these refurbished social housing units which have been re-let as social homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12170/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing units refurbished under the voids stimulus programme announced in May 2021 in the area covered by Galway County Council; the number of these refurbished social housing units which have been re-let as social homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12171/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the promised national town centre first office; the timeline for the establishment of the office; the number of staff allocated to the office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12207/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the recruitment of a national director for town centre first; when he expects the position to be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12208/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (3 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the national oversight and advisory group for town centre first; the membership of the group; the terms of reference of the group; if the group has met to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12209/22]