Results 10,321-10,340 of 33,581 for speaker:Catherine Connolly

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.

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

Catherine Connolly: This is unacceptable. You are eating into your colleagues' time. I call Deputy Duncan Smith.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: We have time limits.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat, a Theachta.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Thank you, Tánaiste.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: We are over time.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Tá mé ag bogadh ar aghaidh.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Táimid tar an am. Bhur dtacaíocht, más é bhur dtoil é. The next speaker is Deputy Cairns for the Social Democrats.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Thank you, Tánaiste.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Thank you, Deputy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Roimh na Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí, I must read out a health and safety note. Members and all in attendance are asked to exercise personal responsibility in respect of protecting themselves and others from the risk of contact contracting Covid-19. Members are strongly advised to practise good hand hygiene and observe the chequerboard seating arrangement. They should also maintain...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fishing Industry (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Gabhaim buíochas. Tá cúpla nóiméad fágtha agus glaoim ar an Teachta Ó Snodaigh.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I thought you were coming in on this question.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: It is. The Minister should look at her first tender to see who won the bid. Who was successful as opposed to who was unsuccessful? We must look at this again. If the Minister has any influence, now is the time to use it in view of the committee report. I thank the Minister. I am over time.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 5. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the analysis her Department has carried out into the lessons learned from the first phase of procurement for the new regional employment service model; her plans to publish this analysis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57995/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: What analysis has been carried out by the Department of Social Protection and what has been learned from the roll-out of the first phase of the procurement for the new regional employment service and equally important, will that analysis be published?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Employment Support Services (25 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister and I acknowledge her efforts in terms of changing some aspects of this. However, I cannot escape the conclusion that this is the privatisation of the service even though the Minister has stated, very often, that it is not. I wish to refer to the report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands, which was...