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Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Yes.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: The time is running now for the wrap up.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: When I came in for the changeover, Deputy Carey had finished.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister, but I will have all the details. It is not a question of how much knowledge the Minister or I have. It is a question of the Minister including it in his speech four weeks ago. I know nothing about that now because I am still waiting. I ask the Minister to please give me a commitment that he will do that, and I will be happy with that. Mind you, I have got a...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Lovely. While the Minister of State is on her feet and regarding respite services, I know her heart is in the right place. However, more than a year later the families have no respite. They are going to go under. Surely, it is not beyond the ability of the HSE, or whatever is the appropriate organisation on the ground, to restore safe respite services

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: That is fine, but I am going to come back to this issue. I do not like doing this case-by-case, because I know that Ministers and Ministers of State are very busy. I must come back to it, however, because we have to know about the situation on the ground.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Turning to temporary accommodation for healthcare workers, I would like the Minister to address this issue. Briefly, why has this debacle arisen where two healthcare workers were sent home? I have tried raising this before referring to it here on the floor of the Dáil. I always try to do that first, but I have been told in a reply that that temporary accommodation scheme has not been...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: That was not my question. I had moved on from that. This is about an issue which arose, and that has been in the news on RTÉ and in various newspapers, about two healthcare workers being sent back to direct provision centres, as it happens, because temporary accommodation was not available. I have gone to the trouble of tabling questions on this issue and I am told that the temporary...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister will excuse me if I leave out the "thank yous". We are dealing with a pandemic where we have had almost 250,000 cases and the up-to-date figure for deaths is 4,856. I have always said that vaccination is part of an overall programme. I stand here week after week in utter frustration that there is no overall discussion. I do not blame the Minister for that. The Taoiseach...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I am not going to go through this and I will tell the Minister why. He included it in his speech four weeks ago. When he had finished his speech and I eventually got my turn, I asked him about that call centre. He said he would come back to me with the details. I emailed his office and it came back to say that it would tell us, but it did not. Then it came back to ask which call centre....

Planning and Development (Strategic Housing Developments) (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Is the Bill opposed?

Planning and Development (Strategic Housing Developments) (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: As this is a Private Members' Bill, Second Stage must, under Standing Orders, be taken in Private Members' time.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: We can start with the Minister of State, Deputy Mary Butler.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Let the Tánaiste respond.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Baineann mo cheist le Gaillimh agus an fáinne fí atá ar siúl, faraor géar, le fada an lá maidir leis an roinn timpistí agus éigeandála nua agus an t-ospidéal nua atá beartaithe. Tá neart eolais ag an Tánaiste faoi Ghaillimh. Is iar-Aire Sláinte é agus bhí sé i nGaillimh cúpla uair agus labhair sé...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: If the Tánaiste has difficulties understanding the replies, as I do, then that tells us something. It is time for leadership. An elective hospital came from an options appraisal. It was never exclusive to the plan for a new hospital on the Merlin Park site. It was to be step 1 in the phase. If the accident and emergency department is better suited to the new hospital in Merlin Park,...

Direct Provision: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the Minister's speech and his leadership. Hopefully this will be a transformative day where this matter is concerned. Direct provision coincides with my involvement in politics; I went for election in 1999 and direct provision was introduced in 2000. After 21 years we are finally grown up, in theory in any event. I hope the Minister actually makes this happen, with our...

Direct Provision: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: The Deputy is out of time.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (22 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 6. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 141 of 24 March 2021, the supports provided by his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department to Irish persons who purchased property as part of the French leaseback property scandal, particularly in view of the fact that these persons have been waiting for several years for the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Relief Schemes (21 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Before moving on, I remind Members if they are watching proceedings that we are moving through the questions pretty smartly, and they may miss their turn if close attention is not paid.