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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (9 Oct 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 18. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1082 of 10 June 2025, the number of international protection applicants who have not been offered accommodation on arrival, by month, from May 2025 to-date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54232/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (9 Oct 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 49. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of additional refuge units delivered to-date under the zero tolerance strategy; the locations of same; to provide an update on the delivery of the promised refuge units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54231/25]

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I preface my remarks by using a few seconds to talk about the four people who are outside here on the 18th day of their hunger strike. We have passed a budget in one of the richest economies in the world and we have four people who have been 18 days on hunger strike outside. They have survived the industrial schools. They are survivors and they are now surviving a hunger strike because...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (8 Oct 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the rural housing guidelines; the timeline for publication of the guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53905/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: An Ghaeltacht (8 Oct 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 96. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government cad é stádas na dtreoirlínte pleanála don Ghaeltacht; cén uair a fhoilseofar na treoirlínte; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [53905/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (8 Oct 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 237. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he has taken to reduce the number families made homeless because of domestic/sexual/gender-based abuse. [53989/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (8 Oct 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 260. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people who are in the international protection application process who were directly contacted by email in relation to voluntary return further to the policy announcement made on 29 September 2025 and who are an unaccompanied minor, received a vulnerability assessment, and the number of people from the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (8 Oct 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 264. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of people who are in the international protection application process who were directly contacted by email in relation to voluntary return further to the policy announcement made on 29 September 2025. [53984/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (8 Oct 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 261. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the policy of not offering accommodation to international protection applications will cease. [53981/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (8 Oct 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 262. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of international protection applicants who have not been offered accommodation on arrival in each month, to date in 2025. [53982/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (8 Oct 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 263. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide details of the rough sleeper verification process by which an international protection applicant not offered accommodation would receive an offer of accommodation. [53983/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (8 Oct 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 265. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the international protection child payment will be introduced. [53985/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (8 Oct 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 266. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of return orders issued under section 51A of the International Protection Act 2015 (as amended) in total and individually to the United Kingdom. [53986/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (8 Oct 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 268. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of domestic/gender/sexual-based violent incidents reported to An Garda Síochána in each division of the Dublin Metropolitan Region for the years 2018 to 2024, and the latest figures for 2025. [54002/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (8 Oct 2025)

Catherine Connolly: 269. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken to ensure the collection of data on the number of families and individuals accessing domestic violence refuges nationally. [54001/25]

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Catherine Connolly: Ní leor é sin chun dul i ngleic leis na dúshláin-----

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

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Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I welcome the opportunity to say a few words. I absolutely agree with the contribution of Deputy Charles Ward. Nothing would have prepared me for the extent of, and the damage done by, the defective blocks issue in Donegal. I thought I knew it from listening to colleagues speak on the issue, including my previous colleague, Thomas Pringle, as well as members of Sinn Féin. Nothing...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (2 Oct 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I thank the Minister for her comprehensive reply. I will look at it in detail. When I look back at the history of this, the language keeps changing. There is now a strategic plan, a preliminary business case and the strategic assessment report. I welcome what the Minister has given me and the face we will make progress but in 2014, the then Minister, Leo Varadkar, said a new hospital and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (2 Oct 2025)

Catherine Connolly: I agree with the Minister. I know the hospital very well and I know about the very good services that are provided there. When people get a service, it is absolutely brilliant and I have no problem saying that. I am a committed believer in the public health system. My difficulty is that as we speak, there are 35 people on trolleys, or there was that number yesterday. It has been under...