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

Catherine Connolly: We are over time, Deputy. I call on the Minister to respond.

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

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister.

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

Catherine Connolly: Thank you, Minister.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: In accordance with Standing Order 80(2), the division is postponed until immediately prior to the taking of Committee Stage.

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

Catherine Connolly: Impím ar na Teachtaí go léir cloí leis na srianta ama. Please stick to the time.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I am required to call the Minister now because this debate is to conclude at 12 noon. The Minister has less than ten minutes.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: There are not ten minutes remaining owing to the way in which the debate was run.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Leaders' Questions are scheduled for 12 noon.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this legislation. While I welcome the introduction of quarantine, I deplore the fact that it is being introduced on a piecemeal basis. This makes absolutely no sense in light of the serious threat we face. A previous Fianna Fáil speaker used the term "bolt of lightning". There was no bolt of lightning here. To go into the background to this, on...

Message from Select Committee (24 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: The Select Committee on Justice has completed its consideration of the Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2020 and has made no amendments thereto.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Briefly, in the context of the programme for Government, there are many positive commitments one of which states that inclusion in and access to education is the foundation for a more just and equal society. I have tried everything before standing up here today. I have written to two Ministers, namely, the Ministers for Education and for Transport. I have tabled Dáil questions. It is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I support the Deputy's request on this matter. Language is meaningless if we accept what the Minister said today, that on the one hand he was not opposing the motion but, on the other, he gave no clarification regarding the extension of the commission. We need clarity and we can only have that in an open discussion in the Dáil, in which the Minister and Taoiseach clarify the matter and...

Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Social Democrats for using their time to put the spotlight on this topic. We need more than a spotlight. Continued light must be shone on it through the democratic process of Deputies asking questions and getting answers. I am afraid that I am not reassured by the Minister. I have a difficulty when things are personalised, but something somewhere is very wrong in the...

Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: I appreciate Deputy's interest in the topic but we are out of time. We will be in trouble in terms of the time for Leaders' Questions.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Prospecting Licences (24 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 45. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the checks and scrutiny processes his Department carried out when it considered and subsequently endorsed a company (details supplied) for prospecting licences in Connemara, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9550/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Seirbhísí Dátheangacha (24 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport cén fáth nach féidir coinne athnuachana ceadúnais tiomána leis an tSeirbhís Náisiúnta um Cheadúnais Tiomána a eagrú trí Ghaeilge ar líne; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [9989/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (24 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 154. To ask the Minister for Finance the impact assessment his Department has undertaken of the recent changes to the help-to-buy scheme which extends the scheme to end 2021 and allows new buyers to claim up to €30,000 under the scheme, particularly in view of research by the ESRI which predicts that these changes are likely to push up house prices; the engagement he has had with the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (24 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 155. To ask the Minister for Finance the analysis his Department has carried out into the cost of including boat tour businesses which are tied to one particular location and as such are not mobile businesses in the Covid restriction support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1837/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Invasive Plant Species (24 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 289. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions his Department is taking, pursuant to the Wildlife Acts and the European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations, to ensure the eradication, containment and management of Japanese knotweed on all lands owned by his Department and all lands owned by local authorities; if his attention has been drawn...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Special Areas of Conservation (24 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to protect the Rockabill to Dalkey Island special area of conservation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10506/21]