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Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Comhghairdeas leat, a Cheann Comhairle. Ní bhfuair mé deis é sin a rá ar an gcéad lá. Guím gach rath ort. An méid sin ráite, ní dóigh liom go mbeidh an tAire sásta leis an méid atá le rá agam, ach feicfimid. The arrogance of the Minister, Deputy Kelly, the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach is incredible in the...

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Catherine Connolly: A tenant or housing applicant, on becoming involved in this scheme, is removed from the waiting list and considered to be adequately house. This was mentioned earlier by one or two Members but it has not been mentioned thus far by anybody from the caretaker Government. There has been a fundamental change in housing policy but this Government has not learned anything, in particular, that the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child Abuse Prevention (6 Apr 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 604. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the child and adolescent sexual assault treatment service in County Galway is entering its second month of closure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6256/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Apr 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 732. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the tendering process for the new primary school in Furbo, County Galway, including the stage it is at and when construction will commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6258/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Land Transfers (6 Apr 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 783. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of residential zoned land transferred from various local authorities under the land aggregation scheme, by local authority; the dates of completion of the transfers; the number of transfers awaiting completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6257/16]

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Apr 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I take exception, as one of the Independents 4 Change Deputies, to being told that we are sitting here not participating, particularly by the Labour Party, but also by other parties in this House. It has been about seven weeks since the election, and seven is usually a significant number. It was considered the age of reason for a very long time, certainly throughout my childhood, and we...

Nomination of Taoiseach (Resumed) (14 Apr 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I did not interrupt the Deputy. She had plenty of time to talk. I will quote from another organisation that is not known as radically left-wing, Sherry FitzGerald. It tells us in yesterday's newspapers: "The property market is in crisis". It goes on to state: "Rising housing prices mask true dysfunction of property market". I have not heard one single proposal to deal in an integrated...

Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I want to tell the Minister that I am here as an Independent, not to lambast or pick up a cudgel, metaphorical or otherwise. I am here to articulate what the people elected me to, which is a different narrative from the one the Minister has articulated. In regard to the health service, people have told us repeatedly at the doors in Galway that they want a public health service based on...

Health Services: Statements (20 Apr 2016)

Catherine Connolly: There was one Minister here for most of the morning. I welcome the other colleagues who have now come into the Chamber. In regard to the Minister's speech, I deplore the lack of vision and the utter failure to recognise the crisis that exists in health, as it does in housing - two issues among a number of other issues that have driven me into the Dáil to have a voice. There is an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (20 Apr 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 347. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a situation (details supplied); the steps and resources he will put in place to avoid this ongoing situation in the cardiothoracic unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7664/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (20 Apr 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 438. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 732 of 6 April 2016, when the tender report was submitted to her; when the assessment will be completed; and when construction on the new school will begin given that a builder has been chosen and the current circumstances (details supplied), given the state of the existing school and that almost 16 years...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Illegal Dumping (20 Apr 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 474. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the situation in relation to Galway County Council and the number of fines issued by it for illegal dumping, in particular for the period 2014-15 when 746 fines were imposed but only approximately 38% of this number of fines was actually paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7665/16]

EU-UK Relations: Statements (21 Apr 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I am sharing time with Deputy Pringle.

EU-UK Relations: Statements (21 Apr 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I agree with Deputy Pringle that we should leave the sovereign state of England to make its own decision. It is noteworthy that we have given aside all of today to discuss, ostensibly in a neutral manner, the effect of the possible exit of Britain, when the real sub-text is, "Please, do not do this because we will be down". As Deputy Pringle said, we have had a discussion of the possible...

EU-UK Relations: Statements (21 Apr 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Twenty. I will conclude as it is late in the day. It is interesting that we gave this day to something over which we have no control, a vote of a sovereign people, but we did not give a day to water charges. We do not have time to discuss water charges, housing or health with a view to tackling the things over which we do have control.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (26 Apr 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 343. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 347 of 20 April 2016, the steps which will be taken to deal with the lack of beds in the intensive care unit in University College Hospital Galway. [8454/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (26 Apr 2016)

Catherine Connolly: 404. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the proportion of the 24 acre site in Claregalway, County Galway, purchased by her Department for a joint school campus which has been ear-marked for a new school for Claregalway Educate Together; and the status of the tender process in relation to this proposed new Educate Together national school. [8408/16]

Ireland's Stability Programme Update April 2016: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Catherine Connolly: If anything underlines the empty rhetoric of new politics, it is this empty Chamber. If anything underlines the emptiness of new politics, it is being given a document today with no time to read it. If anything underlines the emptiness of our ongoing celebration of our independence, it is being told that we can make no input into this document and that it is going to Europe with or without...

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Catherine Connolly: Yes, five minutes each.

Irish Water: Statements (27 Apr 2016)

Catherine Connolly: I am sufficiently new in the Chamber to still be aghast at the arrogant, contemptuous and self-serving content of the speech given by the Minister. I would have thought I would have seen a little humility and a hands-up acknowledgement of the mistakes made and the debacle of Irish Water as clearly outlined by various Deputies, in particular Deputy Smith who outlined the money that has gone...