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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Resume your seats.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Deputies, resume your seats.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (12 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37. Níl ann ach ceist amháin: Deputy Frankie Feighan - To discuss reform of the current school transport scheme. The Deputy has one 12-minute slot, not 48 minutes.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 12. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 18 of 25 April 2024, her plans to reconsider the introduction of a cost-of-disability payment; the details of her or her Department's engagement with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on this matter since the scrapping of the Green Paper; and if she...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: My question is very specific. It relates to the Minister's plans to reconsider the introduction of a cost-of-disability payment and the details of any engagement her Department has had with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on this matter.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome that there is a major emphasis on disability, the establishment of the Cabinet committee and so on. I ask the Minister to forgive my frustration, which arises because the Indecon report was only one in a long series of reports over decades. I have an interest in looking at reports and tracing how we got to the current point. We have had a number of reports over decades. Twenty...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Ireland signed the UNCRPD in 2007 and ratified it in 2008. We have utterly failed to ratify the optional protocol to the convention, which would allow people to take an action. For years, we have moved away from charity. I welcome changes the Minister has made, including the different bonuses that have been given. However, organisations working with people with disabilities have...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Disability Services (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Rightly so.

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion. I will zone in on the summer provision or, as it was called, July provision. I know there is another aspect to the motion. Indeed, one has always to give a context when speaking on disability. The report today, The State of Caring survey, is a damning indictment of the Government, notwithstanding the figures the Minister of State has given...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (11 Jun 2024)

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: Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - To discuss the release of the HSE property in Mahon from the ambulance service to Cork City Council. Deputy Robert Troy - To discuss the survey published by Family Carers Ireland outlining deficiencies...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: We have approximately ten minutes left.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Through the Chair, on the amendment, please.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Amendments Nos. 125 to 143, inclusive, 145 to 162, inclusive, 164 to 166, inclusive, 184 to 186, inclusive, 191 and 192 are related and may be taken together. Amendment No. 126 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 125. Amendments Nos. 139 and 140 are physical alternatives to amendment No. 138. Amendment No. 149 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 148. Amendment No. 186 is a...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: In the interests of clarity everybody has two minutes.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: You will have another two minutes afterwards as the proposer.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Gabh mo leithscéal. The Deputy has plenty of time, but the clock display has stopped. He has about three minutes left.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I might direct the Deputy back to the amendment.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Táimid thar am agus-----