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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I am glad to have four minutes to address this matter. I will speak slowly to let the figures sink in. The outpatient waiting list for orthopaedic services at University Hospital Galway includes 6,487 patients. Some 80 of those have been waiting for more than four years. Some 292 patients have been waiting for between three and four years. The inpatient waiting list has 1,390 patients....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I will take the two paragraphs at the end of the Minister of State's statement, because that is the only part of his reply that addresses the question. I accept his bona fides. Covid-19 has nothing to do with this. How the replacement of two modular theatres has taken from September 2017 until the end of 2021 should be the subject of an inquiry. A brand new hospital could have been built...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Willie O'Dea - to discuss the appointment of a provisional liquidator to the Arcadia group and the impact of job losses Limerick city; (2) Deputy Neale Richmond - to discuss the status of funding for the Dundrum community...

Guerin Report: Statements (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: The Taoiseach has indicated that he wishes to make a statement, pursuant to Standing Order 55, in relation to Mr. Alan Shatter.

Guerin Report: Statements (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I have discretion in this matter if the Deputy wants to make a quick contribution. I will allow party leaders to come in.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Taoiseach. We are now eating into the time of the next questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: We may have done the Taoiseach out of some time there but, in any event, we will move on.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: The Deputy is eating into his colleagues' time.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: There can be no point of order.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: We are eating into the time of the Deputy's colleagues.

Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: Táim ag roinnt mo chuid ama le Deputy McNamara. I thank the Rural Independent Group for tabling this motion. I am conscious that I am making my contribution in the context of 2,134 deaths, 77,000 confirmed cases and we are still in the pandemic. I pay tribute to the people of Ireland who have led us, as they usually do and politicians follow. I hope that we have learned to take...

Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I hear the Deputy's point but it is nowhere in the motion. He has made his point and I ask him to address some aspect of the motion.

Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: The motion is very broad but it is not that broad.

Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I want to remind Members of the motion, notwithstanding the breadth of the motion.

Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy, speak to the motion.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 93. To ask the Minister for Finance if businesses in the activity sector are included in the Covid restrictions support scheme; if not, the reason; his plans to extend the scheme to include businesses in the activity sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43737/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 103. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is an obligation on civil servants to supply their written name, as opposed to their initials, in correspondence with members of the public; if exemptions exist on security grounds pursuant to the Civil Service Code of Standards and Behaviour; the specific civil servants, grades and Departments and-or sections of Departments...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (16 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 371. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of any and all communication from the European Commission in respect of Irish forestry legislation, in particular the Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020 and statutory instruments made in 2020 for forestry and their compliance with the Aarhus Convention, the environmental impact assessment directive, including...

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing this Bill before the House and for putting the focus on homelessness. The Bill seeks to provide a legal definition of "persons at risk of homelessness", as has been set out. I will not repeat what has been said. I support the Bill notwithstanding the deficits in it. It sets out to provide a definition, to put the focus on homelessness and to ensure that...

Homeless Prevention Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (15 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: The debate has moved quickly and, through no fault of their own, speakers from the Rural Independent Group and the Independent Group were not in the Chamber earlier to contribute. If it is acceptable to the House, I will allow those speakers in now. There are four speakers from the Rural Independent Group proposing to share time, beginning with Deputy Danny Healy-Rae.