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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Facilities Provision (14 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 438. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when construction works on the new national velodrome and badminton centre will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20810/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Reviews (14 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 485. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to update the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20805/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: City of Culture Initiative (14 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 513. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 23 of 10 April 2019, the breakdown of sponsorship raised by Galway 2020 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20432/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Parks and Wildlife Service Expenditure (14 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 523. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the estimated full-year cost of recruiting 16 extra ecologists for the National Parks and Wildlife Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20808/19]

Report of Joint Committee on Climate Action: Motion (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the report and its 42 priority recommendations and 39 ancillary recommendations. I thank the Chairman of the committee, Deputy Hildegarde Naughton, my constituency colleague in Galway West, and all the members of the committee, including my colleague, Deputy Pringle, who represents the Independents 4 Change group. It is important to put all that positivity, which is wonderful,...

National Broadband Plan: Statements (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Tá mé ag roinnt mo chuid ama le mo chomhghleacaí, an Teachta Broughan. I have only six minutes so I will get straight to the point. I ask for sense to prevail here. I do not think the Minister will listen to me but it is important, for the sake of the people who elected me and for the public record, that I ask for sense to prevail. The Minister and his Government are...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sea Lice Controls (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I do not have a copy of the Minister's reply to hand but I asked what I said was a very straight question. What actions are the Department taking with the reporting of an unprecedented increase in levels of sea lice? The Minister's Department has been written to by the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment, which has pointed out the result of the monitoring system,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sea Lice Controls (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I do not mean to take the Minister by surprise as this matter is too serious for that. The Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment has written to the Minister's Department. I asked the actions taken by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and these will clearly include actions taken following input from the Department of Communications, Climate Action and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sea Lice Controls (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I appreciate that I am not entitled to ask another question but there has been some confusion. Will the Minister clarify if the response went from his Department to the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment by the required date?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sea Lice Controls (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: That is okay.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sea Lice Controls (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: 4. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions being taken to control sea lice levels at salmon farm sites which are having an adverse effect on the successful survival of salmon and sea trout smolts or kelts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20261/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sea Lice Controls (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: My question is straightforward and I would appreciate a straightforward answer. What actions are being by the Department to control sea lice levels at salmon farms which are having an adverse effect on the successful survival of salmon and sea trout smolts? I raise this question in the context of the commentary of the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment regarding an...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I was one of the members who agreed that the meeting should be deferred, partly for personal reasons in that I was attending a funeral, but I did not agree to it being deferred for political reasons. That would have been wrong. I think the Chairman is doing himself an injustice in that regard. It would have been the wrong precedent to set. The meeting was scheduled to take place yesterday...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: In fairness to the Chairman, we should never ever cancel a meeting for political reasons. Quite the contrary, it is the very day we should go ahead with it. We need more information. Broadband provision is an extremely serious matter. In fairness to Deputy Catherine Murphy who asked for it to be placed on the agenda, we learned an enormous amount which is not reflected in the report which...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: It certainly was not.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: We move on to correspondence No. 2131B from Dr. Donal McManus, chief executive officer of the Irish Council for Social Housing, dated 15 April, providing a breakdown requested by the committee of all tenancies. The information provided refers to 29,803 housing units offered by approved housing bodies, including a clarification of the length of the tenancies, the number of tenants with...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Mr. McCarthy for the clarification but I was simply relaying the content of the letter. Correspondence No. 2126C is from a medical doctor, dated 18 April 2019, with questions for the committee regarding the national children’s hospital. We will be meeting members of the hospital board next week. We will note this item and raise it next week, as appropriate. Is that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Is it agreed to hold this over until the report is published? Agreed. We will not take any further action at this point. No. 2132C isa copy of an email sent to a number of people from an individual, dated 24 April 2019, expressing concern regarding the enrolment policy of a school in Navan, County Meath. This matter is not within our remit. We will note the item. No. 2133C is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: Okay, I will continue. No. 2141C is from an individual, dated 29 April 2019, regarding recent commentary in the media on the rural Ireland action plan. Again, this matter is not within the remit of the committee and I propose we note the correspondence. Finally, No. 2143C is from an individual, dated 30 April 2019, regarding contractual arrangements relating to a tourism start-up project...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (9 May 2019)

Catherine Connolly: We will circulate it to members.