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Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Let us move on to the Department and the oversight. That was another level that was put in because, obviously, notwithstanding all of these processes and procedures, it has not worked, notwithstanding its best efforts. An oversight body was then set up. I am taking this from the time it was set up, in 2013, to date. How is that functioning? If I get a chance, I would love to come back to...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Notwithstanding all of that architecture, there is no penalty for the builder when he or she does not deliver, as a result of a contract and difficulties that were identified way back in 2019 and before. The board is reporting to us that there is no penalty at all.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: If the developer delays and delays, he or she is paid anyway, eventually.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Absolutely, but if the contractor delays and then does it six months later, he or she is paid. There is no penalty for the delay.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I understand the three levers. They were there in the beginning in 2019 and it was to be terminated, but it was decided it would not be and here we are now. I hate the word "learning". Is there something wrong somewhere in the contract that there are no penalties?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board and Children's Health Ireland: Discussion (22 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: So there is a whole process-----

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 36. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the proposed new further education college in Galway city; if the evaluation which was scheduled to take place in the first week of April has now concluded; the outcome of that evaluation; the timeline for the delivery of the college; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26175/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Cuanta agus Céanna (22 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 83. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development an bhfuil an t-athbhreithniú ar an gcás gnó don obair atá beartaithe ar an gcé ar Inis Oírr críochnaithe; cad é an spriocdháta ó thaobh thús agus chríochnú an togra sin; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [26329/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Island Communities (22 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 105. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of each of the policy measures detailed in the ‘Our Living Islands -Action Plan 2023-2026’; when the updated progress report will be published; to report on the April 2025 meeting of monitoring committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26332/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (22 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 111. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the consideration that has been given to the annual rollout of the LEADER food initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26330/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Calafoirt agus Céanna (22 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 118. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development cad é stadás na hoibre atá beartaithe don dá ché ar Inis Meáin, an Córa agus Caladh Mór; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [26328/25]

Biodiversity Week: Statements (21 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I wish the Minister of State the best. I welcome his passion today and his invitation to all of us to go out into the country. There is a lot more than that to be done, however. He knows that more than anyone. If we go back, we declared biodiversity a climate emergency back in May 2019. The Minister at the time, Josepha Madigan, said that, “We are losing biodiversity around the...

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: It is okay.

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: There are two of us left, so it is-----

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: That is okay. I just wish to be fair to the other speakers. I know it is difficult for the Chair. I have attended many protests, as all my colleagues have done. There was a time when I was most uncomfortable with the chant "Israel is a terrorist state" because I am an absolute democrat. I have no such reluctance now and I am ashamed that I was not comfortable with that chant because...

Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support Schemes: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I dtús báire, ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis an ngrúpa teicniúil. I thank the technical group for once again putting the spotlight on the absence of services and the failure of successive Governments to recognise the invaluable work that caregivers give us. I am not going to use my own words. I am going to use the Policy Statement on Care published by...

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Every single member of the Opposition has put their name to this motion. I welcome Cara and her father. It is an indictment of this Government and previous Governments that Cara Darmody, a young teenager, has had to come back two years after she addressed an Oireachtas joint committee in November 2022. At that time, she said, "I am here to tell you what it is like to live in a family that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Inshore Fisheries (20 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 132. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 319 of 1 May 2025, given that it is over a year since the closure of the public consultation on trawling within Ireland's six nautical mile limit and given that trawling continues to take place in inshore waters, some of which are special areas of conservation, when the results of the public...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Programmes (20 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 180. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 11 of 2 April 2025, if the detailed project proposals have now been evaluated; the results of that evaluation; the status of an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25620/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Wind Energy Generation (20 May 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 246. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of a planning application (details supplied); when the planning application will be formally withdrawn following confirmation that the developers will no longer proceed with the project; the status of the marine area consent granted to the company in December 2022; details of the 'performance security'...