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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Táim ag díriú isteach ar ospidéal na Gaillimhe arís agus ar an méid othair atá ar thralaithe, 62 inniu. Tá daoine ag fulaingt agus ag fáil bháis ar thralaithe fad is atáimid ag caint is ag ceiliúradh torthaí na dtoghchán. I am glad the Minister is here today. He previously served as Minister for public expenditure and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 58. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 25 April 2024, to provide an update on the work of the wool council; if the €30,000 in departmental funding has been drawn down to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25540/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I am seeking an update on the work of the wool council. Of the €30,000 allocated to the wool council, how much, if any, has been drawn down? Where are we at with regard to the recommendations from the consultants who carried out a report on the potential for wool?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister of State for the update. The programme for Government contains a promise and an objective that the Government would explore the range of possibilities with wool. In the 21st century and in the face of climate change, it is just extraordinary that wool is classified as a waste product is just extraordinary. I am trying to get to a point where there is a thriving...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The demand is there. This was included in the programme for Government in 2020. It is now 2024. It took up to 1 July 2022 to get the report. It took another length of time to establish a council. There was an interim chair and now there is another interim chair. We are still wondering whether there is a demand but, in the 21st century, having declared a climate and biodiversity...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I would love it if the Minister of State shared the possibilities and the potential around wool.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fisheries Protection (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister. It is very important to give a timeline. The policy was good. The courts did not strike down the policy; in fact, they made it clear that they had no input at all into the policy. As far as they could see, it was a good, sustainable policy and the Government was entitled to do that. What happened was that eventually the Court of Appeal, and earlier the High Court on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fisheries Protection (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 46. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Question No. 89 of 25 April 2024, the status of plans for the introduction of measures to protect the sprat fishery, which is concentrated within the six nautical mile zone; to provide a status update on the review of trawling activity inside the six nautical mile zone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25539/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fisheries Protection (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I am returning to the issue of sprat. I ask the Minister for an update on the status of plans for the introduction of measures to protect the sprat fishery, which is concentrated within the six nautical mile zone, and to provide a status update on the review of trawling activity inside the six nautical mile zone.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fisheries Protection (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I certainly understand the background to this and I am on record as saying the policy was very good and the intent was great. Unfortunately, we have been through what we have been through, and the Minister mentioned 2018. Of course, it is important to say that sprat is not subject to a quota. As a forage fish, it is a vital source of food for other fish and mammals and it is vital for the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Closures (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: What will happen to the district hospital?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Closures (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 8. To ask the Minister for Health further to Question No. 33 of 2 May 2024, to provide an update on the recruitment of the required staffing resources to ensure Clifden District Hospital can remain open on a permanent basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25537/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Closures (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I am glad the Ministers are here. Táimid ar ais arís go dtí an ospidéal sa Chlochán. I am asking for an update for the recruitment of the required staffing resources to ensure Clifden District Hospital will remain open on a permanent basis. Will the Ministers zone in on that in their contributions?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Closures (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister of State. It is not a mutual admiration club but I want to pay tribute to her own hands-on approach. Having said that, this hospital has been limping from week to week. Back in October 2022, which is almost four years ago, it was announced that Clifden hospital would be closing. It was a terrible blow and all of the local representatives, those from Fine Gael, Fianna...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Closures (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Yesterday, there were 57 people on trolleys in Galway. I will be coming to this later in Leader's Questions. I give forewarning to the Minister there and to the Taoiseach that I will be coming back to Galway later. There were 57 people on trolleys. Have any of us spent time on trolleys? If we did, I think it would be sorted out very quickly. We go back again. There are beds empty in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Health Services Staff (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: It is Deputy Paul Murphy's question on nursing vacancies.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Tá muid ag dul ar ais go dtí Ceist Uimh. 5 in ainm an Teachta Gino Kenny.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Overcrowding (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Is féidir linn bogadh ar aghaidh go Ceist Uimh. 7 in ainm an Teachta Gino Kenny, arís.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Nursing Homes (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: For the attention of Members, I am moving on to other questions. We are finished with Priority Questions. I am starting but some Members are not here. I want to alert the House to that fact.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medical Aids and Appliances (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Connolly: Bogaimid ar aghaidh anois go dtí an chéad ceist eile, Ceist Uimh. 5 in ainm An Teachta Gino Kenny.