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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Town and Village Renewal Scheme (17 Dec 2020)

Catherine Connolly: 70. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 13 of 5 November 2020, the way in which the additional €2 million in funding for the development of master plans for up to 50 towns will be administered; the criteria for a town to be chosen as one of the 50 towns that will develop master plans; when the decision will be made as to the...

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Catherine Connolly: ...by our unequal system. That is not a good message. Equally, it is not a good message to send out in this time of Covid that people will be punished if they do not behave. What is needed is not punishment but education, encouragement and leadership. That leadership has been sorely lacking. I will turn now to some of the provisions in the budget. When the Government introduced the...

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Catherine Connolly: ...would have been wonderful to have that report so we could analyse its progressive nature. I fail to see it going through my notes, particularly when I come from a city where people are waiting more than 15 years on the housing waiting list without being offered a house. I say that to illustrate the extent of the housing crisis in Galway city, which has been evident for a very long time....

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (23 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...reflect on our policy as part of Europe. I will refer to the number of deaths per year. In 2014, a total of 3,162 people drowned in the Mediterranean Sea simply looking for a better life. In 2015 it was 3,522. In 2016 it was 3,780. In 2017, a total of 2,843 people drowned in the Mediterranean Sea. Last year 1,971 people drowned and so far this year 1,078 people have died. The only...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...list and clinically worsening. I will not read the entirety of what he had to say, but Mr. Reid can have a copy of the letter, if he so wishes. The hospital serves a region of almost 1 million people. Why do I mention that? Mr. Breslin spoke about answering parliamentary questions, which he does very efficiently, but some of them are redirected to various groups on the ground,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 - Prisons (17 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...are an issue I follow up on regularly at the committee. There is a significant allocation for that on page 13, under office equipment and external IT services. The estimate was over €4 million and the outturn was over €7 million. The Prison Service gives the reason for that as additional storage space. Does Ms McCaffrey see note 5? Can she clarify it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 10 - Funding and Oversight of Approved Housing Bodies
Vote 34 - Housing, Planning and Local Government
2017 Financial Statements - Housing Agency (25 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: €5 million. What does management and maintenance mean?

Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...in the coming years." That did not happen. I and other Deputies have repeatedly asked for an update of the SAVI report. The estimate provided in respect of the cost impact of such abuse was €1 million. In last year's budget, €5 million was provided for a spin unit but the Government could not provide €1 million to update the SAVI report. I imagine the Government...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 14 - Control of Ireland's Bilateral Assistance Programme
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade (21 Jun 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...that background, Mr. Burgess mentioned Syria. I want to look at Syria, Palestine and Myanmar, formerly Burma. We are giving very small amounts of money to Palestine. I think the figure was €5 million. Can Mr. Burgess put that in context for me?

Plastic and Packaging Pollution: Statements (19 Apr 2018)

Catherine Connolly: .... Management were led by the nose when the people of Galway showed what was possible and we reached 70% recycling in a pilot project. The engineers had told us it was not possible. They said 45% over five years was the maximum. The reality is different. Plastic manufacturing employs 1.5 million people in the EU and has a turnover of €350 billion. That accounts for only 18%...

Leaders' Questions (16 Nov 2017)

Catherine Connolly: .... I welcome the indication that the Government is in consultation with those experts but, at this point, there must be a clear admission that a SAVI-type report is absolutely necessary, more than 15 years since the last such report, so that we can develop policy and proper legislation to deal with the problem. The SAVI researchers spoke to both men and women and its findings are...

Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ..., I used my time during Leaders' Questions to raise the very serious issue of domestic violence. More specifically, I raised the failure of the Government to provide funding of approximately €1 million to review the groundbreaking study that was carried out in 2002, indicating over 3,000 victims of violence generally. This confirmed the extraordinary prevalence of violence in...

Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...of leadership, the need for something to drive the reduction and prevention of domestic violence, and the role of education in its prevention. He has not explained how he could allocate €5 million for spin and he has not explained the position on the €1 million. It is not academic research that SAFE Ireland is requesting. If the Taoiseach reads the documentation he will...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...stay with that analysis if one views the budget in isolation. The key to understanding the budget lies on page 132, though, on which we see that the strategic communications unit is being given €5 million. It was supposed to be cost-neutral. Significantly, and if the Minister of State might listen-----

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...why one might need a communications unit. Surely the Dáil is the place from which to send one's message and to outline a proper, just budget. We do not need spin doctors. We do not need €5 million to spin a story. It should be evident from the way that we are providing services. What I find even more ironic, if that is not a bad use of the word, is that one of the main...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2015
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 18 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
Finance Accounts 2015 (6 Jul 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...the economic challenges posed to our country by climate change in terms both of the direct effects and of the enormous fines we will be obliged to pay within few years, which range from €600 million up to more than €5 billion. We are talking monopoly money here. That is not built in the witnesses' statement. Why is Brexit the only risk outlined here? Am I in trouble, Chairman?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (23 Mar 2017)

Catherine Connolly: Gaelscoil de hÍde in Oranmore is one of the 15 and its value was more than €5 million. Will Mr. Ó Foghlú explain this?

Minerals Development Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (22 Feb 2017)

Catherine Connolly: ...2016, there were 10 extant State Mining Leases [and] 6 extant State Mining Licences". I know this legislation will change the duplication there. The report also states that on the same date, "567 extant Prospecting Licences" were held by 46 companies. Towards the end of the report, we learn that "the total amount of moneys collected by the Minister under or by virtue of any lease,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 35 – Army Pensions
Vote 36 - Department of Defence
Chapter 8 – Disposal of the Government Jet (26 Jan 2017)

Catherine Connolly: That is okay. Of the money that appears here in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report, it is €4 million or €5 million. Did that specifically go to flood victims?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (24 Nov 2016)

Catherine Connolly: ...to him as a director. We are all getting confused. He was a committee member in Northern Ireland who represented six debtors, which has already been pointed out, the debts of which represented 50% of the Project Eagle portfolio. When Ms O'Reilly and Mr. Stewart heard that Mr. Cushnahan was to receive £5 million or £6 million, did alarm bells not go off in their heads? Did...