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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Bodies (30 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 216. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if CEOs of statutory organisations may hold board and or committee positions in other organisations in this or another jurisdiction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58772/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (30 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 325. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to facilitate leaving certificate students in the 2021-2022 academic year that wish to make use of either calculated grades or in-person examinations. [58491/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (30 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has conducted an analysis in relation to the number of college places available in the context of grade inflation. [58492/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (30 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has conducted an analysis in relation to the number of college places available in the context of grade inflation; and if she has consulted with the State Examinations Committee and or the CAO on this matter. [58493/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Records (30 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 585. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 240 of 3 May 2017, 1112 of 2 June 2017 and 1743 of 27 July 2021, if the files have been retrieved; if not, when the files will be made available given that it is now over four and a half years since the initial request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58706/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (30 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 619. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to delays in the processing of overseas applications at the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland; the steps he is taking to address such delays; the way in which the new digitised system MyNMBI, which was launched in September 2020, has contributed to these delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58754/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (30 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 620. To ask the Minister for Health if the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland is progressing applications to support the overseas nursing recruitment campaign, encompassing 300 nursing staff, being undertaken by the Saolta Group; the number of applications to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland received to date; the status of those applications in the Nursing and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (30 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 621. To ask the Minister for Health the number of registered ICU nurses recorded as practising in this area on the new digitised registration system MyNMBI that is maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, from September 2020 to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58756/21]

Message from Select Committee (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the Finance (European Stability Mechanism and Single Resolution Fund) Bill 2021 and has made no amendments thereto.

Estimates for Public Services 2021: Message from Select Committee (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: The Select Committee on Transport and Communications has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2021: Vote 31.

Mother and Baby Institutions: Statements (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Rural Independent Group for giving me this opportunity. On another occasion I may have a debate with Deputy Durkan on his analysis that we were all in this together, and the ignoring of the huge element of power and the imbalance of power that was there. As someone who proudly comes from Galway city, let me tell the Deputy that I was raised in a city that had two industrial...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I am sorry to interrupt the Deputy but we must move on to the next business. She will still be in possession when the debate resumes.

Supplementary Estimates for Public Services 2021: Messages from Select Committees (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimates for Public Services for the service of the year ending on 31 December 2021: Votes 12 and 17. The Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and the Media has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 27A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Marian Harkin - to discuss the issue of the siting of wind farms on mountainsides, especially in peaty soil; (2) Deputy Joe McHugh - to discuss what preparation has been undertaken to ensure the mica scheme is ready for...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Iontach. An bhfuil beart déanta ag an Aire maidir leis an litir mar tá siad ag gearán faoi seo le fada an lá agus is easpa airgid agus maoinithe atá i gceist leis? Nuair a bheidh an t-am ag an Aire, beidh sé in ann teacht ar ais chugam

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Go hiontach. Tá an litir anseo agam agus is é an rud is tábhachtaí atá le cur in iúl don Dáil ná an rud atá istigh sa litir nó an t-ionchur. It begins: "A chara. We refer to previous correspondence to you from the chief executive." We must bear in mind that there is an acting chief executive for a very long time. I might come back to...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Go hiontach. Gabhaim míle buíochas leis an Aire agus is é an pointe ata á dhéanamh agam ná go raibh orthu an stró seo a chur orthu féin chun a chur in iúl dúinne go bhfuil easpa airgid agus acmhainní i gceist le fada an lá i gContae na Gaillimhe. Is í sin an fhadhb agus an pointe faoi láthair. We go back now to policy and...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I also welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill and that I have more than the usual two or three minutes as well. The Acting Chair might not like this, but I am going to quote him. He said that the SHD policy was an unsuccessful and disastrous policy. I welcome those words. It was clear. I will move off the personal now, but I must add that he also said that Fianna Fáil had...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I apologise to Deputy Harkin. It is difficult with the crossfire.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I call Deputy Duncan Smith.