Results 101-120 of 33,025 for speaker:Catherine Connolly
- Independent External Medical Audit for Children's Health Ireland and National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh: Statements (27 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: This is our second report and we are waiting on a third one. In this second report, we are told the percentages of the pelvic procedures carried out not reaching the criteria are so high that a further inquiry is mandated. The Minister is doing this now in respect of a look back at all of the patients, and I welcome it. We then look at what the percentages were because we cannot repeat...
- Apology to Shane O'Farrell and his Family: Statements (27 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome the family. I wish we did not have to welcome them here. I welcome the apology and I welcome the changes that are proposed for a review of the bail laws, particularly that relating to a four-month time limit. I welcome that there will be a change in legislation regarding a direction from a judge to allow lesser charges to be put. I welcome that there has already been a change to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Gnó an Chomhchoiste (27 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Tá fáilte romhaibh go léir. Is iontach an tinreamh atá againn anseo. Tá súil agam go leanfaimid ar aghaidh mar sin. Ní bheidh an cruinniú seo rófhada inniu. Beidh sé gearr go leor. Mar sin tosóimid. Faoi Bhuan-Ordú 118(4), is é ceathrar an córam i leith an chomhchoiste. Chomh maith leis sin, tá gá go...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Gnó an Chomhchoiste (27 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta as ucht a bheith anseo. Tá a fhios agam nach bhfuil sé ina bhall den choiste ach tá an-suim aige agus is dócha go mbeidh sé anseo i gcónaí.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Gnó an Chomhchoiste (27 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Tiocfaimid ar ais go dtí an pointe seo.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Gnó an Chomhchoiste (27 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Go raibh míle maith agaibh. Leanfaimid ar aghaidh anois i seisiún príobháideach agus beimid in ann an clár oibre agus na hábhair uilig atá tábhachtach a phlé. Sin deireadh leis an seisiún poiblí.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Gnó an Chomhchoiste (27 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Tiocfaimid ar ais chuig an gceist seo sa seisiún príobháideach. Bhí sé deacair. Bhí na hamanna go léir imithe mar is é seo an t-aon am a bhí ar fáil i ndáiríre, seachas déanach sa tráthnóna.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (27 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: 384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the Corncrake LIFE Project; his plans to renew the project for a further five-year term given the vital role the project has played in improving the conservation status of the corncrake in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27484/25]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Will the strategy be published later this year?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome the standardised design. It is very practical. That has been done all over England with great cost savings. Let us go back to Galway. Approximately 19,000 students are in what I still call the NUIG. Then there is the Atlantic Technological University, ATU. There are more than 40,000 students in Galway in just two third level institutions. I know the Minister does not like the...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I am not straying into the housing area. I am putting the issue into the context of a city where we have a massive housing crisis. I do not exaggerate. People have been on a waiting list for 20 years. We jump for joy when someone gets a house after 15 years. That is the context. In addition, we have two universities. A disaster of a decision was taken years ago before the arrival of...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: 4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to increase the provision of student accommodation in Galway; when the new national student accommodation strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26176/25]
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Accommodation (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: My question relates to student accommodation in Galway. Where is the national strategy? I ask this in the context of a city where a recent survey found that almost one fifth of students at the University of Galway are living with family members or are in emergency accommodation. Those surveyed represented 8.5% of the student population. About 12% of respondents reported that they were...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: The witnesses are very welcome. I am back as a member of the Committee of Public Accounts, of which I was a member in the period before 2020. I noticed that Mr. Gunning referred to the report. It should not be necessary to have training for today. All the witnesses are doing a job and we should respect that. It is our job to question and it should stand on what the witnesses are...
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Has the board a full complement?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Has the chair been appointed?
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: I just want to know what is happening with the board.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: So there is no chair at the moment.
- Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Is the deputy chair here today?