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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Policy (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I do not think I heard the date in January that the scheme would begin. Maybe I missed that. I am going back again to my earlier question. I am concerned, but I am not confused. I do not know where the confusion is, but there is confusion. The Pathways to Work Strategy 2021-2025, which was published in July 2021, proposed a pilot with a working age-based payment, or basic income...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 9. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht soiléiriú a thabhairt i dtaobh an phacáiste tacaíochta atá beartaithe chun cabhair a thabhairt do na coláistí samhraidh i mbliana; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [47902/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Gaeltacht Policy (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Is í seo ceist maidir leis na coláistí samhraidh. Is dócha gur thug an tAire Stáit freagra roimhe seo. Bheinn buíoch dá bhféadfadh sé é a rá arís, mar níl soiléiriú agam. Níl a fhios agam cén fáth go bhfuil moill ann ó thaobh na gcoláistí samhraidh de agus mar sin tá...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Arts Policy (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 63. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the basic income pilot for artists; the timeline for when the details of the pilot scheme will be finalised; the number of times the oversight group tasked with examining the manner in which the pilot scheme will be delivered has met to date; the membership of the oversight group; if the oversight group has produced...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: The advantage of being Leas-Cheann Comhairle is that I have read the answer. Forgive me, therefore, for being a little impatient because the Minister has not addressed my question. Does the Department intend to carry out an analysis, bearing in mind the 12 very succinct pages from the Comptroller and Auditor General, who pointed out that the Department had a nominee on the broad of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: The analysis being undertaken is costing €200,000. I asked about the Department. Let us consider what the Comptroller and Auditor General said. Recommendation 7.1 states that, "The Department should put in place robust controls to ensure compliance of future grantees with relevant grant management and reporting requirements". We have a situation where the Department is a nominee on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 5. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to commission research or analysis into the way the €15 million provided by her Department to Galway 2020 was spent; her plans to publish any such analysis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47905/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Baineann mo cheist le Gaillimh 2020. An bhfuil sé beartaithe aon anailís a dhéanamh ar an €15 milliún atá caite? My question relates to Galway 2020. Does the Department intend to carry out any analysis off its own bat with regard to the €15 million, given the recent chapter from the Comptroller and Auditor General?

Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Sinn Féin, in particular Deputy Funchion, for using its Private Members' time to introduce this motion, which I fully support. In the past 11 years, I have stood in three general elections - in 2011, 2016 and 2020 - and on two occasions, I had the privilege of being successful. I mention that because on each occasion the issues of housing, public health, public transport and...

Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Next is the Rural Independent Group. There are four speakers sharing time. I call Deputy Carol Nolan.

Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: The motion is on childcare.

Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021: Motion (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I will be as focused as I can. I will not be supporting this legislation. I did not support it initially. The only emergency legislation I supported was back in March of last year. I make my comments in the full knowledge that 5,249 people have died and that Covid-19 cases have risen again, with 1,124 new cases reported and 349 people in hospital. I make my comments fully aware of that...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Tá seirbhísí faoisimh agus seirbhísí ionad lae á ardú agam. I am raising respite services and day centres, particularly in relation to Galway and the units in Merlin Park. They are not functioning. There is no respite services. Níl Áras Mhic Dara, ar an gCeathrú Rua, ag feidhmiú fós agus tá na Proinsiasaigh i nGaillimh...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Except that was the whole point-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Can I respond or is that out of order?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat. The Minister's answer is totally unacceptable. The committee worked so hard for those hours because the Bill was so deficient. We forced a situation where we brought in amendments, the vast majority of which were ruled out of order. The Minister was to come back and discuss with us the new amendments to save time but that never happened. We are now in a position...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: We know the amendments but we do not know which ones are in and which ones are out. The main problem, in addition to that, is the limited time of three hours and 20 minutes. We have two problems: we do not know which amendments have been ruled in or out, and there is limited time.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Ba mhaith liom mo dhíomá agus mo chuid feirge a chur in iúl go bhfuil sé leagtha amach go mbeidh díospóireacht srianta againn amárach ar feadh trí uair agus fiche nóiméad. Tá sé sin scannalach agus maslach agus nílimid chun glacadh leis. Níl sé féaráilte. Táimid ag fanacht leis an mBille le fada....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Pleanáil Teanga (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 34. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht soiléiriú a thabhairt ar stádas na bpleananna teanga do na 26 Limistéir; cathain a mbeidh na 26 pleananna teanga ceadaithe; cé mhéid atá ag feidhmiú faoi láthair; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [47904/21]