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Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I do not support these motions. The legislation to which they relate sets out to tell us that the ordinary courts are inadequate to secure the effective administration of justice. I did not hear that declaration anywhere in the detailed speech the Minister made and I do not see any evidence at all for it. The Special Criminal Court is based on emergency...

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I want to speak in favour of this motion although I have concerns about parts of it. Overall, I agree with it and the focus it puts on the absence of infrastructure. I will not support the narrative on this side of the House to the effect that objections are causing the planning problems. That is a false, self-serving narrative. My office has just submitted a question to confirm the...

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Can I get the clock stopped for a minute to clarify something? I assumed we were letting Deputy Tóibín have his slot ahead of us and that we were sharing our own slot, which was six minutes each.

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion. It is brief and to the point. I have no problem with implementing the recommendations of the Fifth Report of the Convention on the Constitution, which was quite some time ago now, for all Irish citizens on the island of Ireland. I have no difficulty with that. To follow on from my colleague, Deputy Stanley, it is not in the programme for...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Here we go again about nursing homes. A scandal has given us cause to talk about nursing homes. All the details of that scandal have been outlined. I am not going to outline them again. It is bewildering that HIQA had a report on one of the homes, Beneavin, in November, and it was substantially compliant. That in itself is frightening. I looked to remember, because my memory is faulty,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The Taoiseach stands before us shamefaced today to tell us that the occupied territories Bill will not include services. He does this on a day when 21 people were shot like moving targets at a fair as they queued up for food this morning. We are told that 56,000 people are now dead in the genocide. The Lancet tells us the figure is much higher, as does the Harvard database, which puts the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: You should be.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I am fully clear what it is about.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I am giving the Taoiseach the context, which is that a genocide is under way.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: We are talking about a genocide.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Then stop-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Twenty-one individuals were shot.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The Government has checked and inspected them, has it?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I will take out the "s" and say "airport".

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I actually blamed you.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: The letter to us is really contemptuous. I say that reluctantly. It is very important that we get accountability. Departmental officials will be before us today. We should have representatives from the board of the Peter McVerry Trust before us today, but we do not. Its accounts are also due. It would be opportune to go back to the trust to ask what the status of its 2023 accounts is,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 2 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Exceptional State Funding of the Peter McVerry Trust
Chapter 12 - Local Infrastructure Housing Activation Fund
Local Government Fund - Account 2023 (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I fully agree with Mr. Doyle on the scale of the work the Department does. I appreciate that work. It is huge and represents the public service at its best if it is done to a standard. I will be very constructively critical about the vision that is there, the targets being achieved and the reality on the ground. I will begin with the Peter McVerry Trust. I hope it will see sense and...