Results 1-20 of 355 for speaker:Cathy Bennett
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Corps (12 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: 29. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason the Air Corps has reduced operations to a five-day work week. [31309/25]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Corps (12 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: 66. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when he was first apprised of the possibility of the Air Corps reducing its operational hours; if he received recommendations as to how the situation could be averted; and the actions he took to prevent the situation from arising. [31310/25]
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Does the Department of housing provide the funding?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Maybe the representatives could come in with the officials of the Department of housing, under the same remit.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: My views coincide with those of everybody else. Who funds HIQA, which is paid to carry out the oversight but it is not doing the job?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Whenever HIQA comes in, can we ask that the Department of Health would be called in also? It is supposed to have oversight of funding it pays out but that is not happening because HIQA is not doing its job to the correct standard. Perhaps the Department could come in at the same time as HIQA.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Does that mean there is oversight by the Department of Finance?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Yes.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional special classes that will be opened in County Monaghan in 2025. [31316/25]
- Ending the Central Bank’s Facilitation of the Sale of Israel Bonds: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: I acknowledge and commend the Irish Government on joining the case before the International Court of Justice against Israel taken under the Genocide Convention. I also commend the Government on the funding provided to UNRWA for humanitarian aid and for the recognition of the State of Palestine. However, that is where the commendation ceases. This Government has failed to implement a single...
- Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael have failed utterly to tackle the housing crisis. It is the number one issue in our country. Whether it be a renter's tax credit, a ban on no-fault evictions or limiting the level with which renters can be additionally burdened, in each incident the Government has dragged its feet in taking any action on this. What it has done has been too little and too...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: It is in black and white.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: To do his job.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Official Engagements (10 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: 140. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on his engagements with Eirgrid and the matters discussed. [30330/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: North-South Interconnector (10 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: 152. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will outline the meetings he has had and briefings received in respect of the North-South Interconnector. [30329/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Tourism Funding (10 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: 450. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the funding allocated from the shared island fund in support of tourism; and the purpose of any such allocations, by year, in tabular form. [29420/25]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Agreements (29 May 2025)
Cathy Bennett: 176. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will outline his engagements and position regarding the Mercosur trade agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27331/25]
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Cathy Bennett: I welcome the witnesses. I acknowledge that I previously worked in an arts venue. It was a local theatre in Monaghan. I am very familiar with the arts package the Arts Council is trying to get rid of. I agree it is a very difficult system to use and it needs to be upgraded. The systems are outdated and it is disappointing for the sector that the project was not a success. It is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025) Cathy Bennett: Just to allay my fears, the OGP framework was provided. Can Ms Kennelly provide us with that? Would we still have a copy of it?