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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (15 Feb 2024)

Catherine Connolly: 9. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 75 of 5 December 2023, the status of the drawdown of the €1 million in Galway 2020 legacy funding; the amount drawn down to date; the breakdown of where any funds drawn down to date have been allocated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6817/24]

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...entitled Business Case for Resources for the Planning Function of Local Authoritiesin 2022 [imagine it had to go to the trouble of putting forward a business case] which identified a shortfall of over 500 staff". Can you imagine trying to run an effective planning system? Notwithstanding that, the regulatory impact analysis tells us it did pretty well. That is a testimony to the staff...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...from Doctors Without Borders. It tells us the situation in Gaza is deteriorating even further. Intensive aerial and ground attacks by Israeli forces are continuing at a relentless pace. Some 16,250 people have died in two months. Women and children make up 70% of the death toll, yet the Taoiseach tells us that he will not or cannot go out on a limb. That is exactly what he needs to...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Nov 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...meant the insurance companies could have cherry-picked who they wanted. Prior to the market being opened up 30 years ago, the VHI had a monopoly. In June of this year, we learned that 2.46 million people, almost 50% of the population, or 47.6% to be precise, have health insurance, the annual cost is over €1,500 per year and so on. In 2022, the total premium income was...

Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (5 Oct 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...of State talked about context. I would like to give some fuller context. Ireland is a neutral country and we should have a voice commenting on the context of what we are doing here today. Some 108.4 million people are now displaced, which means 1.2% of the global population have been forced to leave their homes. Among that number are 32.5 million refugees and some 76% of them come from...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...when we had a committee that looked at the issue and came up with Sláintecare, so that we could stop this continuous raising of crises and waiting lists. That has not happened. Today, there are 561 patients on trolleys, 44 of whom are in Galway. Yesterday, there were 516 patients on trolleys, 46 of whom were in Galway. On 3 January this year, there were 77 patients on trolleys in...

Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Second Stage (24 Jan 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...the Bill and the time it has taken to come this far. It would not have made a huge dent into this time if a few days had been taken to look at this Bill. It covers so much in its six Parts and 105 sections. It really needed proper discussion. I do not know why prelegislative scrutiny was put aside. Part 2 provides for transplantation and brings in the concept of deemed consent, which...

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...for remaining for the whole length of the debate. It would be remiss of me not to acknowledge the amount of work that has gone into a Finance Bill that runs to 93 sections and approximately 215 pages. I recognise that some good steps have been taken in relation to the temporary business energy support scheme, which needs to be closely monitored, the extension of the 9% VAT for gas and...

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...we could function without hospitals and export all of our patients abroad. People would have the added advantage of getting vitamin D. Challenge 4 is exposure to corporation tax, which I will return to, and challenge 5 is the need to avoid adding to inflation. One euro in eight of tax comes from ten firms and one euro in four of tax receipts comes from foreign direct investment. I...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Culture Policy (21 Jun 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 20. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 45 of 5 May 2022 and 75 of 24 February 2022, the status of the legacy framework arising from Galway 2020; when the legacy framework will be published; if she will provide a breakdown of the way the remaining €1 million will be spent under the legacy framework; and if she will make a...

Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Apr 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...subject to the vagaries of the Dáil but I would like the Minister to state what time span he has in mind. It is clearly significant legislation. The Bill comprises 132 pages, six chapters and 145 sections. We would be misleading the Dáil if we said we read it in detail. I have tried to read the explanatory memorandum. I have looked at the Bill and all of the documents around...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...a circular economy is simply that business as usual is not sustainable, with global resource consumption outstripping the planet's natural resources. In economic terms, it is estimated that a mere 5% improvement in Ireland's circularity rate, which is the rate at which materials are recovered and fed back into the economy, would result in savings of €2.3 billion, at a conservative...

Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...been highlighted. I would like to see the details of those to discern whether some of the sanctions are self-serving or are they actually serving what they are setting out to do. I would also like to see the details for helping the people who come here. I welcome it and also the two €10 million amounts highlighted, although one of them is a matter for discussion on another day....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (24 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: 75. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 253 of 5 October 2021, the way in which the remaining €1 million in departmental funding will be spent; the role her Department has had in the legacy planning; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10315/22]

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (8 Feb 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...Ireland; (2) Deputy Ged Nash - to discuss the backlog of ophthalmic services for children and medical card patients in County Louth; (3) Deputy Chris Andrews - to discuss a breakdown of the €80 million announced in funding for Irish sporting organisations; (4) Deputies Mattie McGrath, Michael McNamara, Richard O'Donoghue - to discuss a review of the trolley crisis in University...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (26 Jan 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...of the basic qualifications required with a view to establishing a new qualifications threshold, recognising the increasing, invaluable and often complex role played by SNAs in our school communities; (5) Deputy Fergus O'Dowd - to ask the Minister to outline the rationale behind the continued failure to provide a Covid-19 test centre in Drogheda, the largest town in the country with one of...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (25 Jan 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...of toilet facilities at Muine Bheag train station in County Carlow; (4) Deputy Gary Gannon - to discuss the lack of affordable medicine for pregnant people suffering with hyperemesis in Ireland; (5) Deputy Michael Moynihan - to discuss the future funding of the Irish Community Air Ambulance based in Rathcoole, County Cork; (6) Deputy Fergus O'Dowd - to discuss the rationale behind the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (16 Nov 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...Works are planned for the Spanish Arch and the completion date for the work is nine years from now. That is of great concern. Works are also needed in County Galway. We know that almost 2 million people live within 5 km of the coast, and 40,000 live within 100 m of the coast. County Galway has a huge coastline. Therefore, we need specific answers in relation to timelines and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Funding (5 Oct 2021)

Catherine Connolly: 5. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to commission research or analysis into the way the €15 million provided by her Department to Galway 2020 was spent; her plans to publish any such analysis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47905/21]

Criminal Justice (Theft and Fraud Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...will be able to take action now in each country. I do not know whether it is good or bad, but I have concerns about the nature of our co-operation on something like that. The extent of the fraud and corruption involved is anybody's guess. The Library and Research Service tells us there are two estimates, from the Commission's own estimate of €404 million to the House of...