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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 921. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs when the final report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11413/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 1017. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount it would cost in a full year to provide two extra weeks of fuel allowance to persons in receipt of the allowance for those over 80 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11432/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Na hOileáin amach ón gCósta (16 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 1108. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ó thaobh beartas a fhorbairt do na hoileáin; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [11414/20]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I want to zone in on the private and the public hospitals in Galway and their underutilisation. I welcome the decision to review the contracts in question at the end of June. I have raised it many times already. The Minister described the virus as a villain. I do not think it is helpful to contribute human characteristics to a virus. A virus is a virus. It is a matter of our reaction to...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: It took years to make the rehab unit state of the art. My own family benefited from it. It has been closed down to benefit the private hospital to justify the Minister's contract that we never saw because it is commercially sensitive. To try to understand this, really it is like something from Kafka. We put its public patients into a private hospital. It is mind-boggling. I am not here...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the clarification that there will be an independent monitoring body. I do not agree with the Taoiseach that A Vision for Change ran out. The date ran out - 2006 to 2016 - but the vision contained therein and the implementation, and what they set out on every sector, and the fact that it was a partnership with the community and with families, and to rebalance the power in the...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: Ní mór dom a rá ar dtús go n-aontaím le ceannaire Fhianna Fáil agus leis na Teachtaí eile go bhfuil gá práinneach le cinnteacht ó thaobh ghruagairí na tíre. Ní mór dom a admháil go bhfuil coimhlint leasa agam mar tá sé deacair domsa. I agree with what was said by the leader of Fianna Fáil and the...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: Did the Department approve it?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I am sharing time. The Minister of State and I have disagreed in the past and we will disagree again today.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I am not sure where his 10,000 social houses are but there is no substantial number in Galway. The targets for acquisition and social housing have been reached in Galway because they was set so low. At something more than 100 units, one would have to reach it. Meanwhile, the Government is exceeding its targets for the housing assistance payment, HAP. It is putting people into HAP...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: Moving on to the Independent Group, are there three speakers?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: In terms of the time to be used, is it five minutes each?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister has one minute, literally.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I am really sorry but I must stop the Minister. The way the time was used was Deputy Naughten's choice, and each Member has that choice. I am really sorry but I must move on to the Rural Independent Group.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I must cut off the Minister there. Moving on to the Regional Group, I call Deputy Naughten.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: The next party to speak is the Social Democrats. I call Deputy Cairns.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: Deputy Durkan has left some time so the Minister might address the issues raised. If Deputy Durkan wants to come back in again he can.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: I am afraid the Deputy has run out of time. There may be a minute at the end. Is Deputy Durkan speaking?

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: Certainly, yes. The Minister is waiting for questions.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Catherine Connolly: The Minister has 20 seconds, if he wants them. I will be stopping him when the time is up.