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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (2 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 74. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to a decision by the Belgian Government to intensify its scrutiny of all goods originating in Israel in order to ensure that all products from illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory are excluded from preferential trade tariffs under the EU-Israel Association Agreement; if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (2 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 122. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the Strategy Development Group to develop the Autism Innovation Strategy; the membership of the group; the terms of reference of the group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59524/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Measures (2 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 123. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the legislation required to support excavation of the site of the former Mother and Baby home in Tuam will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59525/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Direct Provision System (2 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 124. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when HIQA will begin undertaking independent inspections of direct provision centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59526/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (2 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 125. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of the €41 million in additional funding allocated to Tusla in Budget 2022 that will be allocated to domestic violence supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59527/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Protection (2 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 126. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 737 of 31 March and 412 of 16 November 2021, the status of his engagement or plans for same with persons affected by illegal birth registrations in relation to the report of the Special Rapporteur titled Proposals for a state response to illegal birth registrations in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (2 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 182. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 435 and 436 of 13 June 2021, the status of the Strategic Assessment Report and Preliminary Business Case Report required in respect of the proposed emergency department and women and children’s block in University Hospital Galway; his plans to publish these reports; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (2 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 183. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 96 of 5 December 2018, the status of the proposed primary care centre for Galway city west; the location of same; when he expects the centre to be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59534/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (2 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 184. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the reconfiguration of the Galway Roscommon ASD service to the new Children’s Disability Network Services for Children and Young People; the engagement his Department has had with service users and their families with regard to the reconfiguration; the number of children who are currently on the waiting list for assessment; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (2 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 185. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 680 of 15 September 2021, the status of the development of a primary care centre on Inisbofin; if a site has been purchased to date; if an application for planning permission has been submitted in respect of the promised primary care centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59536/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (2 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 186. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the construction of the two orthopaedic theatres with ancillary accommodation for the provision of elective procedures in Merlin Park University Hospital; if he expects construction to be complete by the end of 2021 as previously planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59537/21]

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2021: Motion (Resumed) (1 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I must now deal with a postponed division relating to the motion on the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2021. On Tuesday, 30 November 2021, on the question, "That the amendment to the motion be agreed to", a division was claimed and in accordance with Standing Order 80(2), that division must be taken now.

Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (1 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Seanad Éireann has passed the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2021 without amendment.

Estimates for Public Services 2021: Message from Select Committee (1 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: The Select Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands has completed its consideration of Vote 37 for the year ending 31 December 2021.

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I move amendment No. 5: In page 11, after line 40, to insert the following: "Report on operation of the Act 11. The Minister shall, on an annual basis following the passing of this Act, lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas detailing— (a) the number of prosecutions not pursued due to a humanitarian defence, (b) the number of prosecutions pursued where a...

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Okay.

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: This is a very basic amendment and I would think the Minister of State would accept it. It is a factual amendment and we are asking that on an annual basis, the Minister would lay a report before both Houses of the Oireachtas detailing "(a) the number of prosecutions not pursued due to a humanitarian defence". I will come back to this, as it speaks to the matter that the Minister of State...

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I am not alone in being tired because it is late at night but I am speechless at the idea that the Minister of State cannot accept this amendment, given his bona fides and the arguments put by him that humanitarian organisations would not be prosecuted. He has argued that no Director of Public Prosecutions, either a he or a she, would ever see fit to have a prosecution in the case of a...

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 12 o’clock I move amendment No. 2: In page 11, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: "Protection from prosecution 9. A person shall not be considered to have committed an offence under section 6, 7 or 8, where the person engaged in conduct alleged to constitute an offence under section 6, 7 or 8— (a) in order to provide, in the course of his or her work on...

Criminal Justice (Smuggling of Persons) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I move amendment No. 3: In page 11, to delete lines 8 to 11 and substitute the following: "9. (1) It shall not be an offence under sections 6, 7 or 8 where a person engaged in behaviour alleged to constitute an offence under those sections—".