Results 14,101-14,120 of 32,916 for speaker:Catherine Connolly
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Catherine Connolly: I must ask for everyone's co-operation with regard to time because we ran over time leading into Leaders' Questions.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Sep 2020)
Catherine Connolly: I know, but that was because everybody spoke over time this morning. I am trying to be fair to everybody.
- Taxi Industry: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)
Catherine Connolly: I thank Deputy Pringle. I call the Minister of State, Deputy Fleming. Congratulations and the best of luck to him.
- Taxi Industry: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)
Catherine Connolly: We are going to run out of time and it is important that everybody has an opportunity to speak. I call the Independent Group and Deputies Harkin and Pringle, who are sharing time.
- Taxi Industry: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)
Catherine Connolly: Deputies, please. We are interrupting the speaker.
- Taxi Industry: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)
Catherine Connolly: I will have to ask Deputies to stop, please.
- Taxi Industry: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)
Catherine Connolly: If you could speak through the Chair please, Deputy Tóibín. I am apologising. Can I have the other Deputies' co-operation, please? Continue on, Deputy Tóibín.
- Taxi Industry: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)
Catherine Connolly: Is the Deputy sharing time?
- Taxi Industry: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)
Catherine Connolly: The Deputy is, technically speaking, not allowed to move his amendment yet because the first amendment has already been moved by the Minister of State.
- Taxi Industry: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)
Catherine Connolly: We have to comply with the time rules.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (16 Sep 2020)
Catherine Connolly: Before we proceed to Private Members' business, the Chief Whip has an announcement to make regarding the Order of Business.
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (16 Sep 2020)
Catherine Connolly: Is the proposal agreed to?
- Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (16 Sep 2020)
Catherine Connolly: The explanation has been given. The Business Committee and the Dáil have agreed the Order of Business. We will move on to Private Members' business.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Weather Events (16 Sep 2020)
Catherine Connolly: 55. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the weather warning issued to Galway County Council in relation to the severe rainfall in the Connemara area on 1 and 2 September 2020; the time the weather warning was issued and to whom; the status of the weather warning; the analysis undertaken to establish the reason for the flooding, in particular the...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Coillte Teoranta (15 Sep 2020)
Catherine Connolly: 119. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an independent review and sustainability audit will be commissioned of forest business and other activities of Coillte, as recommended in the 2019 report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24007/20]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Coillte Teoranta (15 Sep 2020)
Catherine Connolly: My question relates to one of the recommendations in the report by the Joint Committee on Climate Action, namely, that an independent review be carried out of Coillte's activities. Is it the intention of the Government to carry out that independent review? If so, when will it be commissioned?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Coillte Teoranta (15 Sep 2020)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome the Minister of State. I am disappointed with her response because it is the same response to which I have been listening for four years, having heard previous responses from civil servants. The Joint Committee on Climate Action made a very specific recommendation based on very specific reasons. Since then, climate change and biodiversity emergencies have been declared. Coillte...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Coillte Teoranta (15 Sep 2020)
Catherine Connolly: I welcome the Minister of State's commitment, and that of the Government, but I think she is missing the urgency of this situation. We declared a climate emergency over a year ago. We have a biodiversity crisis and we have a serious problem with the way we proceeded with planting trees in Ireland, particularly Sitka spruce, although I am no expert. I know from sitting on the Committee of...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Coillte Teoranta (15 Sep 2020)
Catherine Connolly: I have two more minutes.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Afforestation Programme (15 Sep 2020)
Catherine Connolly: Deputy, please.