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  • 2025-10-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health if her Department’s review of the development control plan and strategic assessment report for the University Hospital Galway campus has been completed to date; if not, the expected timeline for the review to be completed and the documents returned to the HSE; the details of the enabling works underway; the details of any further enabling works planned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52567/25]
  • 2025-10-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the status of the development of the promised new primary care centre on Inisbofin, following the transfer of land on which the airstrip is located from the Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht in October 2024; the timeline for the delivery of the primary care centre; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52337/25]
  • 2025-10-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the total bed capacity of a community nursing unit in Carraroe (details supplied); the number of beds currently in use in the unit; the number of beds currently closed in the unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52338/25]
  • 2025-09-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the timeline for the full roll-out of newborn screening for spinal muscular atrophy; the reason for the delay in including this condition in the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50780/25]
  • 2025-09-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the timeline for the full roll-out of newborn screening for severe combined immunodeficiency; the reason for the delay in including this condition in the National Newborn Bloodspot Screening Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50781/25]
  • 2025-07-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the supports available to ensure people with cerebral palsy can adapt their cars to continue living independent lives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38103/25]
  • 2025-07-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the consideration given to introducing an amendment to the primary medical certificate eligibility criteria to ensure people of various disabilities currently excluded from applying for the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme can do so into the future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38104/25]
  • 2025-06-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the number of children who have potentially been left infertile or at risk of cancer due to not receiving surgery for undescended testicles in a timely manner; the number of guardians and parents of potentially impacted children contacted to be made aware of these concerns; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34918/25]
  • 2025-06-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health for an update on the establishment of an ambulance base at Recess, County Galway; if the design team has now completed the tender documentation; if the project has gone to tender; the timeline for the delivery of the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34919/25]
  • 2025-06-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health to provide details on the services currently provided for adult patients with epilepsy at a hospital (details supplied); the number and grade of staff that are currently attached to this service at this site; the number of staff vacancies within this service; the number of epilepsy patients currently registered with this service; the number of patients currently awaiting first consultations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34146/25]
  • 2025-06-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health to provide details on the services currently provided for paediatric patients with epilepsy at a hospital (details supplied); the number and grade of staff that are currently attached to this service at this site; the number of staff vacancies within this service; the number of epilepsy patients currently registered with this service; the number of patients currently awaiting first consultations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34147/25]
  • 2025-05-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 6 March 2025, if the development control plan and the options appraisal process for the master plan for University Hospital Galway has now been completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23679/25]
  • 2025-05-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to ensure that Clifden hospital remains open on a permanent basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23680/25]
  • 2025-05-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 5 March 2025, the current staffing shortfall at the HSE’s Galway community audiology services; when the posts will be filled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24343/25]
  • 2025-05-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health in relation to home care assistants providing home support services, the official policy of the HSE in relation to home care assistants providing assistance with eating and drinking to clients with physical limitations on feeding; when, in what circumstances and on what terms, such assistance may be provided within each individual CHO, in tabular form; the reason for discrepancies between CHOs; the reason for the changes in such provision within the past year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22050/25]
  • 2025-05-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the number of employees that have not been released from their contracts within the time limit set out for post-recruitment release arrangements under the HSE HR Circular 001/2015; and having been offered a new position, the particulars of the positions; the steps being taken to ensure compliance with the circular; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22596/25]
  • 2025-04-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the status of the inquiry into the historical licencing and prescribing of sodium valproate in Ireland; when the inquiry began; if any interim reports have been published to-date; when it is expected to conclude; when the findings will be published; the terms of reference of the inquiry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20080/25]
  • 2025-04-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 5 March 2025, if the information on staffing shortfalls at the HSE Galway community audiology service can now be provided; if the posts have now been filled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20082/25]
  • 2025-04-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists for audiology services by community health organisation, local health office and length of time waiting, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20083/25]
  • 2025-04-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the staffing shortfalls in audiology services by community health organisation and local health office, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20084/25]
  • 2025-04-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 187 of 5 March 2025, if the reply will now be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16363/25]
  • 2025-04-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for audiology appointments and treatment in CHO Areas 6, 7 and 9, broken down by children and adults, in tabular form; the length of time each has been waiting for an appointment; the number of staff vacancies in audiology in each CHO Area; the steps being taken to reduce waiting times; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16367/25]
  • 2025-04-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1579 of 22 January 2025, if the reply might now be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16442/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1784 and 1785 of 9 September 2024, if the options appraisal process for the masterplan for University Hospital Galway which was due for completion in Q4 2024 has now been completed; if she will furnish a copy of the plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9919/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1784 and 1785 of 9 September 2024, the status of the Strategic Assessment Report/Preliminary Business Case (SAR/PBC); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9920/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health for an update regarding the implementation of the maternity model of care for women with epilepsy; when the appointment of clinical posts at each of the maternity hubs will be complete; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10238/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the current status of the epilepsy pregnancy register; the resources which have been allocated to this register; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10239/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the Statutory Instruments she envisages being brought forward and signed by her Department during the first six months of 2025; to highlight in particular those concerned with the transposition and or implementation of further implementation of EU law requirements; those Statutory Instruments concerned with commencement of existing legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10332/25]
  • 2025-03-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the current staffing shortfall at the HSE’s Galway community audiology service (details supplied); when these posts will be filled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9958/25]
  • 2025-03-04 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1086 of 5 February 2024, when hormone replacement therapy will be freely available to those with a prescription; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9540/25]
  • 2025-02-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the timeline for implementing the proposed changes to governance and safety regulations in the field of aesthetic medicine, with specific regard to dermal fillers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8877/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health in respect of each Bill for which her Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas and the time allowed for each Stage; if ministerial or Government amendments to other legislation were only included in the Bill via amendment, after the Bill had been initiated, bypassing earlier Stages; the number of pages in the Bill when initiated and when it completed the legislative process, or as it currently stands amended for any lapsed Bills; if the Minister or the Government changed the scope of the Bill after it was initiated, and at which Stage and in which House this was done; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4250/25]
  • 2025-02-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the reason the national plan to make hormone replacement therapy free to all women, which was due to be introduced on 1 January 2025, has not been implemented; when the scheme will be operational; the details of the engagement between her Department and an organisation (details supplied) on the rollout of the measure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2331/25]
  • 2025-02-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the number of medical evacuations to Ireland of Palestinians in Gaza and in the West Bank to date; her plans for future evacuations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3080/25]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health to confirm the care policy (details supplied); the reason for any difference in policy by CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1572/25]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the reason the HSE provides for different requirements of care in different CHOs; at what level of management and who is entitled to approve differentials in care between CHOs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1573/25]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the number and location of all private nursing homes taken charge of by the HSE in each of the past five years; the dates on which those nursing homes were taken over, from which provider, and the reasons therefor; the length of time such nursing homes were under the charge of the HSE and or whether that arrangement is ongoing, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44409/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health further to his statement of 18 September 2024 (details supplied), the number of children evacuated from Gaza to Ireland to date; the number of children identified who have yet to be evacuated; when it is expected that such children will arrive in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44603/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the reason a prescription is required for melatonin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42944/24]
  • 2024-10-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health his plans to develop healthcare infrastructure in Carraroe, County Galway, with particular reference to the development of a primary healthcare centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38975/24]
  • 2024-10-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2022 of 23 July 2024, if the workforce plan has now been completed for a community nursing unit (details supplied); the number and grading of staffing required to safely increase the available beds to 38; when those 38 beds will be occupied; the number of people waiting to access a bed in this nursing unit and or to transfer from another nursing home or unit to this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38976/24]
  • 2024-10-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health his views on a report (details supplied); if he will accept and implement the recommendations of the report; in particular, his plans to fully implement the recommendations on adequate staffing levels to safeguard vital cancer services into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39381/24]
  • 2024-10-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the staffing deficit at the radiation oncology centre for radiation therapy treatment in Saolta Centre Galway; the reason only three of the four linear accelerators are operating at full capacity; the reason only one of two CT scanners are operating to full capacity; his plans to ensure that all machines are operating at full capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39382/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the total value of funding expended by his Department through its medical card scheme and other Department-funded schemes on the purchase of medications manufactured by a company (details supplied) in 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36946/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health his plans to reduce expenditure on a company’s manufactured products (details supplied) and replace them with ethical alternatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36947/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2510 of 23 July 2024, to provide an update on the subject access request/public-benefit corporation by the project team and the University Hospital Galway (UHG) capital programme oversight board for the new emergency department, women and children’s block in UHG; the timeline for when it is expected to move to pre-tender stage; to provide an update on the master plan for the UHG campus; the timeline for when it is expected to be completed and published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35028/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health to outline the maternity facilities planned as part of the new women and children’s block in University Hospital Galway (UHG); the timeline for the completion of the new women and children’s block; the details of any interim maternity facilities planned for UHG, given the delays in the delivery of the new women and children’s block; the timeline for the delivery of any such interim facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35029/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2512 of 23 July 2024, for any update on the development of the new elective hospital in Merlin Park; the status of the appointment of the architect-led design team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35030/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the details of any assessment carried out by his Department or bodies under the aegis of his Department into the adequacy of existing maternity care facilities at University Hospital Galway; when was the assessment carried out; the details of any reports completed or published on foot of the assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35031/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Health the status of the opt-out register introduced as part of the Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Act 2024; when the register will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35032/24]
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• Justice 633 questions

  • 2025-10-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of approvals issued under the Afghan Admissions Programme; the number of persons that have arrived in Ireland to-date in 2025 under the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56973/25]
  • 2025-10-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to detail the supports in place to assist persons who arrived in Ireland under the Afghan Admissions Programme; if their sponsor can no longer financially support them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56974/25]
  • 2025-10-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the details of the path to Irish citizenship for persons who arrived in Ireland under the Afghan Admission Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56975/25]
  • 2025-10-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of applications received to the 2025 Humanitarian Admission Programme; the number of applications that have been approved; the number refused; the number of persons who have arrived in Ireland to date in 2025 under the programme; his plans to increase the number of spaces on the programme beyond the promised 50, given the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, and in particular the deepening women's rights crisis (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56976/25]
  • 2025-10-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of deportation orders issued to Afghan citizens in each of the years since 2021 and to date in 2025, by gender and whether the orders were issued to an adult or a child, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56977/25]
  • 2025-10-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of persons deported to Afghanistan in each of the years since 2021 and to date in 2025, by gender, and whether the person was an adult or a child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56978/25]
  • 2025-10-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of people who are in the international protection application process who were directly contacted by email in relation to voluntary return policy announcement made on 29 September 2025; and the number who are from the Occupied Palestinian Territories and who received such communication. [54556/25]
  • 2025-10-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration 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]
  • 2025-10-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration 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]
  • 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration 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 Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia and Afghanistan who have received such communication. [53969/25]
  • 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration when the policy of not offering accommodation to international protection applications will cease. [53981/25]
  • 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of international protection applicants who have not been offered accommodation on arrival in each month, to date in 2025. [53982/25]
  • 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration 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]
  • 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration 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]
  • 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration when the international protection child payment will be introduced. [53985/25]
  • 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration 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]
  • 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration 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]
  • 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration 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]
  • 2025-10-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the current processing time for family reunification applications under S.56 International Protection Act; the FTE staffing levels of the family reunification unit in each of the years 2024 and 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52255/25]
  • 2025-10-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to explain the 'final immigration checks' of a S56 family reunification application; who carries out these checks; the average processing time of these checks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52308/25]
  • 2025-10-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of S.56 family reunification cases that have been open for longer than two years, by nationality and number of beneficiaries included on applications, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52309/25]
  • 2025-10-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of deportation orders which have been signed in respect of persons who have been refused International Protection in 2025; the number of persons who have been refused international protection and who left the State independently after being issued a deportation order, as well as those who were escorted from the State by the Garda National Immigration Bureau in 2025; the number of persons who were refused International Protection and who departed the State by way of voluntary return without being issued a deportation order in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52310/25]
  • 2025-07-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of applications from Ukrainians for visas and asylum, for each of the years 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025; the number granted; and the number refused. [41991/25]
  • 2025-07-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of applications from Palestinians for visas and asylum, for each of the years 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025; the number refused; and the number granted. [41992/25]
  • 2025-07-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration his views on the reported plans to move 200 prisoners to Mountjoy west in the very near future (details supplied) and the violation of basic human rights that this represents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41993/25]
  • 2025-07-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration for an update on visa applications (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39020/25]
  • 2025-07-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the reason for the high rate of 'pending' visa applications from Iranian citizens in 2024, at 37% compared to, for example, 17% for applications from Afghanistan and 7% for citizens from the Russian Federation, which also have greater absolute numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38573/25]
  • 2025-07-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration his views regarding the refusal of student visas for all the applicants for the joint undergraduate accounting programme established between colleges (details supplied), which has been in preparation since 2O21, with this first group of students set to complete two semesters, commencing in the summer of 2025. [38574/25]
  • 2025-07-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to the findings of a report (details supplied) that front-line services were contacted 32,144 times, being an increase of 12% on 2023, that 44% of women surveyed were not satisfied with their initial engagement with An Garda Síochána and that its response to more than 65,000 contacts received last year was inconsistent, the urgent steps he is taking to achieve zero tolerance of violence against women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36323/25]
  • 2025-07-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration his plans to review the process whereby international protection applicants may, at very short notice, be moved from the communities in which they have established connections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36346/25]
  • 2025-07-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 1082 of 10 June 2025, the urgent steps he is taking to end the policy of not offering accommodation to international protection applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36345/25]
  • 2025-07-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration when the 2025 rounds of the International Protection Fund, the National Integration Fund and the Community Integration Fund will each be opened for applications; the amounts that will be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35249/25]
  • 2025-07-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the total number of families and the number of children with status, per county who have been issued with letters informing them that they will be moved to alternative IPAS accommodation if they have not sourced private accommodation by 4 July 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35360/25]
  • 2025-06-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of deportation orders enforced on commercial airlines; the number of deportation orders enforced by GNIB on charter flights, other removals enforced on commercial flights, in each of the past five years; the costs incurred and destination in respect of each flight, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32884/25]
  • 2025-06-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 787 of 7 November 2023 the consideration given to extend the 2001 Temporary Protection Directive to Palestinian nationals living in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem; if he will provide details of the representations made at EU level since November 2023 in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29309/25]
  • 2025-06-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration further to Parliamentary Question No. 1517 of 29 April 2025, the reason he did not make available the draft report of the Review of Part 4 of the Sexual Offences Act 2017 in his reply, nor indicate where it could be accessed, nor deal with the reason it was not published; if he will outline the difference in the conclusions in the final report produced by his Department and the analysis of the original reviewer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29986/25]
  • 2025-06-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of international protection applicants who have not been offered accommodation on arrival in each month in 2025 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30683/25]
  • 2025-06-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the reason data relating to the number of international protection applicants not offered accommodation when applying for protection has slowed from twice a week to once a month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30684/25]
  • 2025-06-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration when the policy of not offering accommodation to international protection applications will cease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30685/25]
  • 2025-06-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the estimated cost of providing an additional 335 domestic abuse refuge spaces to meet Ireland’s obligations under the Istanbul Convention. [30693/25]
  • 2025-05-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice the status of a visa application (details supplied) urgently needed to visit a very unwell family member undergoing cancer treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27900/25]
  • 2025-05-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 1516 of 29 April 2025, his views on the ‘Impact on Safety and Well-being’ chapter of the Review of the Operation of Section 7A of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 1993, specifically that sex workers who contributed to the review outlined that the legislation had made their circumstances more dangerous; the steps he intends to take in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24442/25]
  • 2025-05-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice his plans to review the process whereby international protection applicants may, at very short notice, be moved from the communities in which they have established connections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24441/25]
  • 2025-05-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice the recognition rates at first instance, and appeal stage, for all international protection applicants, for each month to date in 2025, in tabular form; if decisions made in any given month are indicative of a trend in decision-making; the current waiting time for appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22979/25]
  • 2025-05-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice if a review of the cultural mediators pilot project in the international protection process has been completed by the Department; the results of that review; the degree to which international protection applicants were consulted; if the review is publicly available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22980/25]
  • 2025-05-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice the process by which a person who is refused leave to land at Dublin Airport may indicate they are in need of international protection or be identified as same by an immigration officer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22981/25]
  • 2025-04-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice to make a statement in relation to the Review of Part 4 of the Sexual Offences Act 2017, and the acknowledgement in that review that there has been no impact on demand for the purchasing of sex since the enactment of the legislation, even though that was the key rationale for its implementation, and in that context, and the lack of any empirical evaluation being undertaken, to explain why the ’Nordic Model’ is being continued. [18687/25]
  • 2025-04-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice to make a statement regarding the status of the draft report on the review of Part 4 of the Sexual Offences Act 2017, submitted by the original independent expert commissioned to undertake that review in July 2020, with particular reference to where that report can be accessed, the reason it was not published, and the relationship between its conclusions and that of the final report produced by his Department. [18688/25]
  • 2025-04-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice the number of applications received from Iranian citizens for a visa; the numbers granted under the headings employment - crucial skills & scientific researcher, study - phd and masters, and join family in the period 11 December 2023 to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19728/25]
  • 2025-04-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Justice the number of applications received by Israeli citizens for a visa; the numbers granted under the headings employment - crucial skills & scientific researcher, study - phd and masters, and join family in the period 11 December 2023 to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19729/25]
  • …and 583 more questions on Justice
• Education 475 questions

  • 2025-10-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education and Youth the status of plans to open a speech and language class in Connemara, in order that families living in Connemara are not required to travel long distances to access a class; the details of analysis carried out by her Department, or bodies under the aegis of her Department, in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57645/25]
  • 2025-07-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on the status of the extension to a school (details supplied); the timeline for the delivery of the extension; when the project is expected to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39982/25]
  • 2025-07-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education and Youth the urgent steps being taken to ensure equality for school secretaries and caretakers; the details of her engagement to date with their trade union and with the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation in this regard; if the analysis of the survey undertaken by her Department to understand the current working patterns and the terms of work for school caretakers has completed; the results of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39983/25]
  • 2025-06-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 29 April 2025, the status of the development of a school (details supplied), currently at stage 2(b); the timeline for the completion of the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31299/25]
  • 2025-06-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of children with special educational needs without a place in a school, by county, in tabular form; the measures being taken to provide places for these children who do not have a school place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31300/25]
  • 2025-04-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the status of the development of a school (details supplied), currently at stage 2B; the timeline for the completion of the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19711/25]
  • 2025-04-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the plans for grade deflation of Leaving Certificate results since the introduction of grade inflation; if 2025 Leaving Certificate students will be adversely impacted as a result of grade inflation over that time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17740/25]
  • 2025-04-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education for an update on the status of the extension to a school (details supplied); if stage 1 has now completed; the timeline for the delivery of the extension; when the project is expected to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17119/25]
  • 2025-03-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education in cases in which a child with special needs is receiving home tuition and the home is not a suitable space, the supports that can be provided when an alternate space is found (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13038/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the Statutory Instruments she envisages being brought forward and signed by her Department during the first six months of 2025; to highlight in particular those concerned with the transposition and or implementation of further implementation of EU law requirements; those Statutory Instruments concerned with commencement of existing legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10326/25]
  • 2025-02-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education if any local representatives, councillors or TDs were consulted at any stage during the relocation process of the Donegal Education Centre, Donegal Town; if so, who, when and for what reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5506/25]
  • 2025-02-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education if she will confirm whether the management committee followed the procurement process for the leasing of new premises for the Donegal Education Centre, Donegal Town; if it was publicly advertised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5507/25]
  • 2025-02-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education to confirm that the Donegal Education Support Centre has a procurement policy; the date on which it was adopted; to confirm that it is in line with the public service guidelines; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5508/25]
  • 2025-02-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education whether different locations were looked at as part of the Donegal Education Support Centre, Donegal town, relocation; if guidelines were used to evaluate these other locations; if so, to detail those guidelines; if any effort was made to meet the stated growing need in the Donegal town area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5799/25]
  • 2025-02-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education if a cost analysis was conducted for the selected relocation of the Donegal Education Support Centre; if these findings were shared with the management committee, staff and stakeholders; if their views were taken on board in the making of the decision to relocate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5800/25]
  • 2025-02-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education if an open and competitive tender process was conducted for any building works or any lease arrangements for the Donegal education centre, Donegal town; if so, to provide an overview of the steps taken; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4968/25]
  • 2025-02-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the criteria used to select a contractor or builder for any proposed works in the relocation of the Donegal Education Centre to Letterkenny; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4969/25]
  • 2025-02-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education if an independent audit or review of the decision to relocate the Donegal Education Centre, Donegal town, was conducted to ensure that the procurement process complied with best practices and governance policies; if so, the date and outcome of this review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4970/25]
  • 2025-02-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education to detail all discussions and consultations that took place with staff before an announcement to relocate the Donegal Education Support Centre was made; if the views of staff were taken into consideration when making the decision; if so, the way in which they were so considered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4971/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education in respect of each Bill for which her Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas and the time allowed for each Stage; if ministerial or Government amendments to other legislation were only included in the Bill via amendment, after the Bill had been initiated, bypassing earlier Stages; the number of pages in the Bill when initiated and when it completed the legislative process, or as it currently stands amended for any lapsed Bills; if the Minister or the Government changed the scope of the Bill after it was initiated, and at which Stage and in which House this was done; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4244/25]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education if there is any provision, or policy in place, for families in situations where a child’s eligibility for local secondary schools in a new area of residence is affected by having attended a primary school outside of the new area of residence, particularly when the decision to keep the child in the former primary school was made in the child’s best interests; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44105/24]
  • 2024-09-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education further to the recognition of the State of Palestine by Ireland on 28 May 2024, her plans to update all educational materials, including the Irish primary atlas, to reflect this recognition; when all educational materials will be updated in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38047/24]
  • 2024-09-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education her views on an article (details supplied); when it is expected that the works will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37197/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education if she has received a pre-budget 2025 submission from an organisation (details supplied); her views on the three key objectives contained therein; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36473/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the steps being taken to address the shortfall in school transport places in Galway city and county; the specific steps being taken to ensure that pupils who are eligible for school transport will be provided with same; the total number of students without school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35765/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the steps being taken to address the shortfall in school transport places for children with special educational needs in Galway city and county; the specific steps being taken to ensure that pupils with special educational needs and who are eligible for school transport will be provided with same; the number of students with special educational needs without school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35766/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the number of special schools in Ireland, and the total number of students in attendance for the academic year 2023-24; the number which are hospital schools, and the number of students in attendance at these schools; the number which are attached to CAMHS units, and the number of students in attendance in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31377/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the number of children in special classes in mainstream schools for the academic year 2023-24; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31378/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education her plans for the recruitment of therapists in special schools across the country, to ensure that all students at special schools have access to necessary therapies onsite; her engagement in relation to same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31433/24]
  • 2024-07-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the number of children who will be left without a place on the summer programme this year; if her attention has been drawn to the practice of parents paying teachers privately to secure a summer provision space; if she has established the extent of this practice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29346/24]
  • 2024-07-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education when the policy on Irish-medium education outside of Gaeltacht areas will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29347/24]
  • 2024-07-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the timeline for updating the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29341/24]
  • 2024-07-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the number of children, by county, who availed of the home tuition grant scheme 2023-2024 special education component; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27874/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education her plans to address the lack of secondary school places for children with special needs in Dublin 7, where there are 11 special needs classes but only 5 at secondary level, meaning that some children may face not being able to continue their education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25383/24]
  • 2024-05-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the estimated full year cost of increasing the capitation grant at primary and secondary level by 5%. [24126/24]
  • 2024-05-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the estimated cost of reducing the pupil teacher ratio by 1 point at primary level. [24127/24]
  • 2024-05-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the estimated cost of reducing the pupil teacher ratio by 1 point at second level. [24128/24]
  • 2024-05-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the projected demand for school places in mainstream primary schools for pupils with special educational needs for the school year commencing September 2024. [24129/24]
  • 2024-05-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the projected demand for school places in mainstream secondary schools for pupils with special educational needs for the school year commencing September 2024. [24130/24]
  • 2024-05-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the projected demand for school places in special schools for pupils with special educational needs for the school year commencing September 2024. [24131/24]
  • 2024-05-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the estimated cost of establishing a special class in a mainstream school for students with special educational needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24132/24]
  • 2024-05-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the estimated cost of each additional place for a child with special educational needs in a special school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24133/24]
  • 2024-05-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the timeline for the operation of the Special Education Appeals Board; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24134/24]
  • 2024-05-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 122 of 16 April 2024, the status of her Department's engagement with schools in the Galway City School Planning Area with a view to providing additional first year secondary school places, in light of the ongoing enrolment pressures; her plans to review her Department's legislation and policy around school catchment areas to ensure that all students can attend school in their local area, particularly in light of Ireland's climate action obligations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23692/24]
  • 2024-05-28 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Oideachais de thoradh Cheist Pharlaiminte Uimh. 102 den 16 Aibreán 2024, an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar an dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir leis an bplean chun beartas cuimsitheach don Ghaeilge sa chóras oideachais, idir leibhéal an oideachais réamhscoile agus leibhéal an oideachais do mhúinteoirí, a fhorbairt agus a fhoilsiú; cathain a fhoilseofar an beartas nua; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [23691/24]
  • 2024-05-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 306 of 16 April 2024, her plans to develop a new policy on Gaeltacht education, to follow on from the 2017-2022 policy that was extended to the end of the 2023/2024 school year; the status of the research and evaluation study currently being undertaken by the Educational Research Centre to assess the impact and effectiveness of the Gaeltacht school recognition scheme in order to inform future policy and practice in schools; if the ERC will produce a final report of the study; the timeline for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23690/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the procurement process undertaken to appoint an organisation (details supplied) to provide independent advocacy services to assist individual survivors of residential institutional abuse; if no procurement process was undertaken, the reasons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22847/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the resources allocated to a company to provide independent advocacy services to assist individual survivors of residential institutional abuse (details supplied); the duration of the contract; the number of additional staff to be employed by the company and the areas to which they will be allocated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22851/24]
  • 2024-05-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education when a person (details supplied) can expect to have works completed further to a successful application and assurances from the Department that his case would be dealt with as a matter of priority; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22087/24]
  • 2024-05-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the reason all survivors of industrial and reformatory schools and certain residential institutions will not be eligible for supports under the Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21038/24]
  • …and 425 more questions on Education
• Children 437 questions

  • 2025-09-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 95 of 17 June 2025, for an update on efforts to secure further contributions from the religious organisations associated with the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49952/25]
  • 2025-09-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the details of actions underway to reduce waiting lists for assessment of needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49955/25]
  • 2025-09-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the progress to-date on development of the national plan to further the development of Irish language provision in the Early Learning and Care and school-age childcare; the timeline for the publication of the plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49956/25]
  • 2025-09-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the status of the promised delivery and monitoring committee for the National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030; the membership of the committee; the timeline for when the committee will be established; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49953/25]
  • 2025-09-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her Department’s plans to increase funding to the Ombudsman for Children, following reports (details supplied) that a lack of adequate resourcing is impacting on the Ombudsman’s ability to carry out their responsibilities; the details of her Department’s engagement with the Office of the Ombudsman for Children on this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49954/25]
  • 2025-09-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the total number of community disability network teams in the State; the locations of the teams; the number of CDNTs that are fully staffed; the locations of the teams; the number of WTEs in the CDNT workforce; the current vacancy rate in the CDNT workforce; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49941/25]
  • 2025-09-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the details of the evaluation of the national childcare scheme promised for 2025; the status of the evaluation; the timeline for completion of the evaluation; her plans to publish the final report of the evaluation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49942/25]
  • 2025-09-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently waiting to be seen by CDNTs in the CHO2 area, by team and number of weeks waiting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49943/25]
  • 2025-09-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children currently waiting for an assessment of need; the number of children in CHO2 who are currently waiting for an assessment of need; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49944/25]
  • 2025-09-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality her Department’s engagement with disabled persons’ organizations and other disability stakeholders in the preparation of the National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49940/25]
  • 2025-07-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the supports available to ensure people with cerebral palsy can adapt their cars to continue living independent lives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39916/25]
  • 2025-07-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the way in which a person can recoup from the State the charge levied on families to release a family member from country homes and or mother and baby home institutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37660/25]
  • 2025-06-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on efforts to secure further contributions from the religious organisations associated with the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32406/25]
  • 2025-06-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of payments made to date in each ‘number of days resident in relevant institution’ category of Schedule 2 and in each ‘number of days resident in relevant institution’ category of Schedule 3 of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023, by Schedule and by category, in tabular form; the number refused and the reasons therefor; the total value of payments made from the €800 million allocation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32405/25]
  • 2025-05-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of the 78 information sessions carried out by the Adoption Authority under section 17 of the Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 that relate to 'no contact' preferences, which were transferred from the national contact preference register. [22380/25]
  • 2025-05-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of the 78 information sessions carried out by the Adoption Authority under section 17 of the Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022 that relate to 'no contact' preferences that were registered on the national contact preference register established under the Act. [22381/25]
  • 2025-05-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for a breakdown of registration of the 'no contact' preferences that relate to the 78 information sessions which have been carried out to date by the Adoption Authority, under section 17 of the Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022, by year. [22382/25]
  • 2025-04-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps she will take in view of the publication of the report on negotiations with religious organisations associated with the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20527/25]
  • 2025-04-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the second phase of the commission of investigation (certain matters relative to a disability service in the south east and related matters), as required by Part II (a) (iii) and (iv) the terms of reference of that commission, will commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20526/25]
  • 2025-04-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown, by category of applicant in relation to requests made to TUSLA and the Adoption Authority for birth certificates and records under the Birth (Information and Tracing) Act 2022 since the commencement of the legislation in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19787/25]
  • 2025-04-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown, by category of applicant in relation to requests made to TUSLA and the Adoption Authority for tracing services under the Birth (Information and Tracing) Act 2022 since the commencement of the legislation in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19788/25]
  • 2025-04-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current waiting times in TUSLA and the Adoption Authority to obtain birth certificates and records under the Birth (Information and Tracing) Act 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19789/25]
  • 2025-04-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current waiting times for tracing services under the Birth (Information and Tracing) Act 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19790/25]
  • 2025-04-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of information sessions that have been carried out by the Adoption Authority under section 17 of the Birth (Information and Tracing) Act 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19791/25]
  • 2025-04-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of applicants who have refused to attend an information session under section 17 of the Birth (Information and Tracing) Act 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19792/25]
  • 2025-04-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the breakdown of the outcome of applications where the applicant has refused to attend an information session under section 17 of the Birth (Information and Tracing) Act 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19793/25]
  • 2025-04-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the 2025 rounds of the International Protection Fund, the National Integration Fund and the Community Integration Fund will each be opened for applications; the amounts that will be available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17818/25]
  • 2025-04-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of emergency reception and orientation centres currently operated by IPAS; the capacity and current occupancy of each, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17990/25]
  • 2025-04-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to purchase the remaining Bessborough grounds; her plans for memorialisation on the site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15042/25]
  • 2025-03-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline all efforts to advertise the mother and baby institutions payment scheme to date, in what countries beyond the UK, the budget committed to such efforts, the nature of such advertisements, that is, via social media, radio, print media, dissemination of information via Irish cultural-heritage centres, advertisements at bus shelters and so on, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13504/25]
  • 2025-03-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline specific efforts to advertise the mother and baby institutions payment scheme in the United States, in what States and or cities, the budget committed to such efforts, and the nature of all such advertisements that is, social media, radio, print media, dissemination of information via Irish cultural/heritage centres, advertisements at bus-shelters and so on, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13505/25]
  • 2025-03-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will instruct the Adoption Authority of Ireland to contact all registrants on the national adoption contact preference register, since its inception in 2005, to provide information about the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13506/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the Statutory Instruments she envisages being brought forward and signed by her Department during the first six months of 2025; to highlight in particular those concerned with the transposition and or implementation of further implementation of EU law requirements; those Statutory Instruments concerned with commencement of existing legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10324/25]
  • 2025-02-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to financially acknowledge those excluded from the mother and baby and other institutions redress scheme, in particular those who do not meet the 180-day requirement, those whose were boarded out, those subjected to vaccine trials, those who suffered additional abuse as a result of race or ethnicity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7544/25]
  • 2025-02-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of payments made to date in each category of Schedule 2 and each category of Schedule 3 of the Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Act 2023, by category, in tabular form; the number refused and the reasons therefor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7546/25]
  • 2025-02-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to increase staffing and training of additional therapists in children's disability teams; the current WTE staffing shortfall, by CHO area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7542/25]
  • 2025-02-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what review or analysis has been undertaken of the decision to exclude those who spent less than 180 days in a relevant institution from the mother and baby and other institutions redress scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7545/25]
  • 2025-02-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children waiting for services for each of the nine CDNTs in CHO2; the length of time children are waiting for initial contact from a CDNT; the waiting time for a child to receive an assessment of need after they receive an initial contact from each CDNT, by 0-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-12 months, 12-18 months, 18-24 months, and 24+ months, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7543/25]
  • 2025-02-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 589 of 11 June 2024, the steps she has taken to resolve the impasse between an organisation (details supplied) and the Decision Support Service whereby persons are unable to complete and enduring power of attorney (EPA) application following instruction by the organisation that solicitors are not to sign the EPA legal practitioner statement; the alternative available to such persons; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7455/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in respect of each Bill for which her Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas and the time allowed for each Stage; if ministerial or Government amendments to other pieces of legislation were only included in the Bill via amendment, after the Bill had been initiated, bypassing earlier Stages; the number of pages in the Bill when initiated and when it completed the legislative process, or as it currently stands amended for any lapsed bills; if the Minister or the Government changed the scope of the Bill after it was initiated, and at which Stage and in which House this was done; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4242/25]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 18 of 24 October 2024, the number of payments made in each category of Schedules 2 and 3 of the 2023 Act; the number of applications refused and the reasons therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44591/24]
  • 2024-10-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 41 of 2 October 2024, the number of applications to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme received to date; the number refused and the reasons therefor; the number where a notification of a positive determination has been made; the number accepted; of those accepted, the number fully completed; the number of payments made in each category of Schedules 2 and 3 of the 2023 Act; the average time from receipt of application to receipt of payment; if he is satisfied with the way in which the scheme is operating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43208/24]
  • 2024-10-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the proposed national centre for research and remembrance will open in Dublin; his plans for remembrance centres in other locations around the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43209/24]
  • 2024-10-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the urgent steps being taken to address the disproportionate disability employment gap in Ireland as compared with all EU member states; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43212/24]
  • 2024-10-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the Child Law Reporting Project; the annual cost of the project; to confirm that the necessary resources will remain in place to support this essential project into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42285/24]
  • 2024-10-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the State-owned reception and integration centres due to accommodate up to 13,000 international protection applicants; when the centres will be operational, the steps he is taking to ensure that all persons seeking international protection have their basic needs met and are offered accommodation on arrival and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39110/24]
  • 2024-10-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 291 of 18 June 2024, the number of applications to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme received to date; the number refused and the reasons therefor; the number where a notification of a positive determination has been made; the number accepted; of those accepted, the number fully completed and the value of each, in tabular form; the average time from receipt of application to receipt of payment; if he is satisfied with the way in which the scheme is operating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39111/24]
  • 2024-09-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he has received a submission (details supplied); his views on the requests therein; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37112/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a person who wishes to apply for an enhanced medical card or health supports payment under the mother and baby institutions payment scheme may do so without first making an application for a general payment, and, if accepted, thereby agrees to waive any right of action or discontinue any other instituted proceedings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36939/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an organisation has been tendered to provide a vulnerability assessment to international protection applicants, in line with the State’s obligations under the Reception Conditions Regulations; when the assessments will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34964/24]
  • …and 387 more questions on Children
• Housing 407 questions

  • 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage 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]
  • 2025-10-08 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage cad é stádas na dtreoirlínte pleanála don Ghaeltacht; cén uair a fhoilseofar na treoirlínte; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [53905/25]
  • 2025-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps he has taken to reduce the number families made homeless because of domestic/sexual/gender-based abuse. [53989/25]
  • 2025-09-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his Department remains committed to the development of retirement villages as a viable long-term solution to housing the increasing elderly population of Ireland; if so, to provide an updated indication of the Government's financial support towards their development; if he plans to introduce legislation aimed at protecting security of tenure for people living in purpose-built retirement villages while ensuring that the status of such developments cannot be changed under planning law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47779/25]
  • 2025-09-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will report on whether the Government remains committed to the identified objectives for retirement villages development as stated in 2019's 'Housing Options for our Ageing Population' report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47780/25]
  • 2025-07-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to introduce regulations to provide for a deposit retention scheme under section 61 of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015; the timeline for same; the measures being taken to strengthen tenants’ rights in respect of deposits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39659/25]
  • 2025-07-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the taxpayer is funding An Bord Pleanála to assess the planning application for the now discontinued Sceirde Rocks Wind Farm Scheme (case reference 321697) in light of the correspondence the Department received on 25 April 2025 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37302/25]
  • 2025-07-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of vacancies in all local authority planning departments, by local authority, in tabular form; the steps being taken to fill these posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35845/25]
  • 2025-07-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to the 2024 annual report of the special advocate for survivors of institutional abuse, the consideration given to the creation of an additional housing need category pursuant to Section 22 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and associated regulations to include the category of ‘survivor’ being a survivor of institutional abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35846/25]
  • 2025-05-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the Corncrake LIFE Project; his plans to renew the project for a further five-year term given the vital role the project has played in improving the conservation status of the corncrake in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27484/25]
  • 2025-05-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the plans for the development of Galway Harbour; the breakdown of residential accommodation in the mixed-tenure site, by accommodation type; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24803/25]
  • 2025-04-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage , further to Parliamentary Question No. 646 of 8 April, the reason the current outstanding strategic housing development application list waiting to be determined by An Bord Pleanála (ABP) is no longer available on the ABP website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19022/25]
  • 2025-04-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if it is necessary to apply for planning permission in circumstances where a wind turbine is dismantled and removed from a wind farm and it is intended to instal a replacement wind turbine at the same location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17736/25]
  • 2025-04-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current outstanding strategic housing development planning application list, setting out the number of housing units and locations involved, in tabular form. [17531/25]
  • 2025-04-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the extent to which planning authorities are required to consider whether a building can satisfy building control regulations before permission is granted for it to be built; if planning authorities are required to provide measurements for access routes; if a building that requires a disability access certificate may be built in advance of an application for such a certificate; if environmental concerns about car usage take precedence over disability access; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17548/25]
  • 2025-03-20 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Tithíochta, Rialtais Áitiúil agus Oidhreachta cad é stádas na dtreoirlínte pleanála don Ghaeltacht; cén uair a fhoilseofar na treoirlínte; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [12806/25]
  • 2025-03-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the tenant in situ allocations for each local authority in 2025; the number of acquisitions that, although the process had commenced, did not complete as a result of the Government decision to suspend the scheme, by local authority area, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12807/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 345 of 11 February 2025, if work has begun on the planning guidelines for the short-term letting sector to supplement the introduction of the revised and re-titled Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill General Scheme; details of further public or stakeholder consultations on these guidelines ahead of its publication; the current status and estimated publication date of the aforementioned planning guidelines and legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10284/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the Statutory Instruments he envisages being brought forward and signed by his Department during the first six months of 2025; to highlight in particular those concerned with the transposition and or implementation of further implementation of EU law requirements; those Statutory Instruments concerned with commencement of existing legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10333/25]
  • 2025-02-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to expand the rent pressure zone scheme to include additional designated areas in which rent increases are capped; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5499/25]
  • 2025-02-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to extend the rent pressure zone scheme beyond 31 December 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5500/25]
  • 2025-02-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 852 of 9 September 2024, if the review of the working group has been completed; if a Level 8 BSc in Construction Project Management is to be included in the list of approved qualifications for engineering roles within Local Authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6264/25]
  • 2025-02-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he intends to extend the temporary waiver of development contributions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5402/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas and the time allowed for each Stage; if ministerial or Government amendments to other legislation were only included in the Bill via amendment, after the Bill had been initiated, bypassing earlier Stages; the number of pages in the Bill when initiated and when it completed the legislative process, or as it currently stands amended for any lapsed Bills; if the Minister or the Government changed the scope of the Bill after it was initiated, and at which Stage and in which House this was done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4251/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the reason the tenant in-situ-scheme has ended in local authorities around the country; when the scheme will recommence in all local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4661/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications to the tenant in-situ-scheme received by both Galway City and County Councils after the announcement that the tenant-in-situ scheme had been suspended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4662/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when an announcement on allocations for the tenant in-situ-scheme for 2025 will be made; the anticipated allocations for Galway City and County Councils; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4663/25]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 80 of 19 September 2024, the steps being taken to address the crisis in homelessness in Ireland, given that 14,486 people, including 4,419 children, were in need of emergency accommodation in August 2024; the steps planned to reduce the number of people in emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42869/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of social housing units delivered by the local authorities in Galway city and county in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; the targets in respect of each of those years for each local authority; the number of same that are new builds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42870/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to detail the tender process for the provision of an update to the 2014 guidance to manage risk to marine mammals from man-made sound sources in Irish waters; the timeframe for completion of this work; if this is being expedited to reflect the increase in noise generating activities associated with offshore renewables; how and when public consultation will take place within this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41009/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage how applications for derogation licences are assessed; what provision is made for public consultation and participation in the process; how the public is notified on the award of derogation licences; the body of oversight that processes and reviews derogation applications and will do so going forward; the body for any enforcement measures regarding a breach of derogation licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41011/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the Government body in charge of receiving and reviewing marine mammal observer (MMO) reports and ensuring that MMO reports are filed and reviewed in a timely manner and that any issues are acted upon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41012/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when his Department last filed the most recent two-year derogation licence reports to the European Commission under article 54A(6) of the Habitats and Bird Directives, and having been filed, to share if they were fully compliant with the specifications of regulation 54A(7); if not, what non-compliances were present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41013/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to detail the marine mammal observer process as it relates to offshore wind development activities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38233/24]
  • 2024-09-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 388 of 18 September 2024, to detail the 6,200 hectares of development land liable to the tax, broken down by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37931/24]
  • 2024-09-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the urgent steps being taken to address the crisis in homelessness in Ireland, with 14,429 people, including 4,401 children, in need of emergency accommodation in July 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36718/24]
  • 2024-09-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 1173 of 23 July 2024, the status of the draft planning guidelines for Gaeltacht areas; when the guidelines will be published; when the consultation process will begin; the details of the consultation process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36717/24]
  • 2024-09-19 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Tithíochta, Rialtais Áitiúil agus Oidhreachta an bhfuil obair an ghrúpa idir-Rannach i dtaobh na dtreoirlínte pleanála don Ghaeltacht críochnaithe; an bhfuil tuarascáil ar fáil, agus cén uair a fhoilseofar í; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [36736/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the quantum of land zoned under the residential zoned land tax; the quantum of that land being actively farmed, if known; if it is not known, his plans to establish same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36536/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage his plans to ensure that local authorities will continue to be obliged to preserve public rights of way in their development plans as they currently are under section 10(2)(o) of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (as amended); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36720/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 1038 of 23 July 2024, to what extent, if any, MARA has a role in reviewing offshore wind farm planning applications on foot of the submission of a completed application to An Bord Pleanála; the way in which the appeals process will operate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34131/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications made to the local authority home loan scheme in respect of applicants in Galway city since January 2022; the number of these applications that have been approved; the number of these applications that have been refused; the average time from application to decision; the number of loans that have been taken up to date under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34690/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications made to the local authority home loan scheme in respect of applicants in Galway county since January 2022; the number of these applications that have been approved; the number of these applications that have been refused; the average time from application to decision; the number of loans that have been taken up to date under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34691/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total amount of money given out in loans to date under the local authority home loan scheme in Galway city since 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34692/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total amount of money given out in loans to date under the local authority home loan scheme in Galway county since 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34693/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the total amount of money given out in loans to date under the local authority home loan scheme in each local authority since 2022; the total amount of money given out in loans to date under the local authority home loan scheme nationwide since 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34694/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if successful applicants to the local authority home loan scheme can also avail of the help-to-buy scheme; if so, to provide the number of applicants who have done so in each of the years since 2022, in tabular form, by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34695/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if the local authority home loan scheme can be availed of in the purchase of a local authority house; if so, to provide the number of applicants who have done so in each of the years since 2022, in tabular form, by local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34696/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to Parliamentary Question No. 668 of 20 March 2024, for an update on the 2023 Interim Review of the State’s current nitrates action programme; the timeline for publication of the review; if he has signed the amended GAP regulations to date; if not, when he expects to sign them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34697/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the status of the report (details supplied) into allegations of malpractice at An Bord Pleanála; the expected timeline for the publication of the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34698/24]
  • …and 357 more questions on Housing
• Foreign 322 questions

  • 2025-10-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of his recent engagement at EU level with regard to suspending the EU Israel Association Agreement; if he will push for full suspension of the agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57191/25]
  • 2025-07-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland has offered assistance following the request of the International Criminal Court for support from the international community to help mitigate the recent cybersecurity attack on that court; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39027/25]
  • 2025-07-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason the import of trade in services from the occupied Palestinian territories, and exports from Ireland to the occupied Palestinian territories in both goods and services, have been excluded from the general scheme of the Israeli settlements in the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38299/25]
  • 2025-07-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade by whom Ireland will be represented at the emergency ministerial meeting of the Hague Group on 15 and 16 July 2025 in Colombia, to address Israel's international law violations; his plans for Ireland to join the Hague Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38300/25]
  • 2025-07-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason two US Air Force Hercules C130J aircraft numbers 14-5815 and 15-5832 were authorised to land at Shannon Airport about 19.30 on 3 July 2025, having come from Chania joint air base in Crete, and allowed to spend two overnights at Shannon Airport before flying on to Keflavik in Iceland on 5 July 2025; if any investigations or searches were carried out to establish whether these two specialised aircraft had been involved in recent US military operations in Gaza or Iran; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38531/25]
  • 2025-06-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is satisfied that an aircraft which landed at Shannon Airport on 21 May 2025 was not operating as a “state aircraft” with reference to the definition provided for by section 5 of the Air Navigation and Transport Act 1950, or as a "foreign military aircraft" with reference to the definition provided pursuant to S.I. No. 74/1952 - Air Navigation (Foreign Military Aircraft) Order 1952, in light of legal filings submitted by the United States Department of Homeland Security to the US Supreme Court, which described the aircraft as a “military flight” (details supplied); if he is satisfied that the landing of that aircraft without the prior approval by the Government did not amount to a breach of the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32758/25]
  • 2025-06-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he has taken to secure the release of an Irish woman detained by Israel in the West Bank (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31215/25]
  • 2025-05-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 37 of 11 February 2025, the timeline for the passage of the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 that incorporates a ban on imports and services from these areas, supported by the advisory opinion on the illegality of Israel’s occupation and settlements issued on 19 July 2024 by the International Court of Justice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27350/25]
  • 2025-05-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of all arms transferred through Shannon Airport or Irish airspace by any nation for use by the Israeli army; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27351/25]
  • 2025-04-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps Ireland is taking to fulfil its obligations under the Genocide Convention to take action to prevent acts of genocide in Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15514/25]
  • 2025-03-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the manner in which Irish embassies and consulates around the world are assisting with the dissemination of information related to the mother and baby institutions payment scheme for survivors throughout Ireland's diaspora; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13498/25]
  • 2025-03-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs to detail all efforts by the Irish Embassy in Washington, DC and Irish Consulates across the United States in disseminating information regarding the mother and baby institutions payment scheme for US-based survivors; the extent to which information has been shared with partner organisations in various US cities (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13499/25]
  • 2025-03-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs given that his Department remains the data holder for passports issued as part of the Ireland-US adoption scheme from the late 1940s through the 1970s, the efforts made by his Department to reach out to and contact families that adopted Irish children as part of the scheme and inform them of the Government's mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13500/25]
  • 2025-03-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs given that the Department of Foreign Affairs remains the data holder for passports issued as part of the Ireland-US adoption scheme from the late 1940s through the early 1970s, the efforts made by his Department to reach out to and contact US Catholic charities in each diocese where children were adopted, and to seek their assistance in disseminating information about the payment scheme for impacted families in their area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13501/25]
  • 2025-03-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs for updated figures on the number of Irish Passports provided for children travelling out of the State jurisdiction for adoption in a different jurisdiction since 1946; the updated list of countries where these children were travelling to for adoption; the number of children travelling to each country for adoption; the efforts to inform these families of potential entitlements under the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13502/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the Statutory Instruments he envisages being brought forward and signed by his Department during the first six months of 2025; to highlight in particular those concerned with the transposition and or implementation of further implementation of EU law requirements; those Statutory Instruments concerned with commencement of existing legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10330/25]
  • 2025-02-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the way in which Ireland is complying with the International Court of Justice’s non-binding opinion on the legal consequences arising from the policies and practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, 19 July 2024; the specific actions taken to comply with the UN General Assembly resolution calling for the illegal occupation of Palestine to be brought to an end within twelve months; the actions taken to address each of the fourteen actions to meet Ireland’s legal obligations in bringing an end to Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine before the UN General Assembly of 19 September 2025, in tabular form (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5430/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the basis on which, and by whom, the decision was taken to endorse the non-binding working definition of antisemitism; if that endorsement includes endorsement of the 11 'contemporary examples' of antisemitism by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4513/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the timeline for the passage of the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 that incorporates a ban on imports and services from these areas, supported by the advisory opinion on the illegality of Israel's occupation and settlements issued on July 19 2024 by the International Court of Justice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4514/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas and the time allowed for each Stage; if ministerial or Government amendments to other legislation were only included in the Bill via amendment, after the Bill had been initiated, bypassing earlier Stages; the number of pages in the Bill when initiated and when it completed the legislative process, or as it currently stands amended for any lapsed Bills; if the Minister or the Government changed the scope of the Bill after it was initiated, and at which Stage and in which House this was done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4248/25]
  • 2025-02-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 49 of 22 January 2025, to examine the documentation which indicates that the information being sought was in fact furnished on 8 November 2024 by registered and priority postage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2511/25]
  • 2025-02-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps he is taking to support displaced Palestinian persons and released detainees to return to their homes; the supports being offered to those whose homes have been destroyed, given that 463,000 or 92% of housing units in the territory have been destroyed or severely/partially damaged; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3079/25]
  • 2025-02-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs for an update on the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the West Bank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3083/25]
  • 2025-02-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs for an update on the humanitarian situation in Lebanon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3084/25]
  • 2025-02-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs for an update on the humanitarian situation in Sudan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3085/25]
  • 2025-01-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 95 of 24 October 2024, for an update on the processing of an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1408/25]
  • 2024-11-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs with reference to his account to Dáil Éireann on 10 October 2024 concerning reports of illegal transportation of weapons through Irish airspace and his confirmation that the Department of Transport is carrying out an examination to determine whether there may have been a breach of the applicable law, if he agrees that the current situation is extremely urgent in view of sustained Israeli bombing of the civilian population in Gaza, resulting in over 42,000 Palestinians killed and expansion of Israeli aggression against the population of neighbouring Lebanon with a resultant death-toll approaching 3,000; if he is aware of the recent statement the U.N. Human Rights chief that the darkest moment of the conflict in Gaza is unfolding in the north of the territory and that Israel's actions could amount to atrocity crimes; how much longer we must wait for an assurance that Ireland is not complicit in the supply of the means to carry out these acts of genocide; if he will immediately share the results of the examination, or provide a date by which we will receive it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45656/24]
  • 2024-11-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he is aware of recent unfounded, allegations against the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories; if he agrees that these spurious accusations deliberately misrepresent her criticism of Israeli acts of genocide and her defence of international human rights law; if he totally rejects these allegations; if he reaffirms the significance of the role and mandate of the UN Special Rapporteur in defence of international human rights law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45657/24]
  • 2024-11-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs with regard to the recent ICJ ruling which indicates that states have an obligation to abstain from entering into economic or trade dealings with illegal Israeli settlements, if he will provide a clear indication of the specific reasons there is now a need to delay the enactment of the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 further, in view of the fact that all political parties in Dáil Éireann have publicly expressed support for the Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45658/24]
  • 2024-10-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the likely timescale for completion of the processing of an application for an Irish citizenship foreign birth registration, and a replacement foreign birth certificate (details supplied); if there are any particular reasons for the time involved in processing them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43712/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs his plans to end the use of all Irish airports by foreign military aircraft; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40621/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps Ireland has taken to comply with the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on 19 July 2024 on Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territory, which states that member states are under a positive obligation “to abstain from entering into treaty relations with Israel in all cases in which it purports to act on behalf of the Occupied Palestinian Territory or a part thereof on matters concerning the Occupied Palestinian Territory or a part of its territory; to abstain from entering economic or trade dealings with Israel concerning the Occupied Palestinian Territory or parts thereof which may entrench its unlawful presence in the territory”; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40620/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the steps he is taking to bring an end to conflict in Sudan; the assistance provided to civil society organisations in the country in light of the humanitarian crisis; the number of Irish citizens resident in Sudan; the efforts to date and planned for their safe passage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40617/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 15 of 27 June 2024, the status of his engagement at EU level in relation to the February 2024 request seeking an urgent review of whether Israel is complying with its human rights obligations under the EU-Israel Association Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40618/24]
  • 2024-10-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of times his Department was contacted by the Department of Transport and or the Department of Justice in relation to determining if any foreign policy issues need to be considered in the context of an application for an exemption under the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Orders 1973 and 1989, since October 2023 to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40614/24]
  • 2024-10-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of permissions under the Air Navigation (Foreign Military Aircraft) Order 1952 sought and granted for military aircraft to overfly or land in the State going to or from the Middle East, either directly or indirectly, by month, since October 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40615/24]
  • 2024-10-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he had any discussions or engagement with any Israeli counterpart or any person with regard to preventing the passage of the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40616/24]
  • 2024-07-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if Ireland will offer international protection to a hospital in Gaza (details supplied) in order that it may continue to operate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29339/24]
  • 2024-06-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 118 of 9 May 2024, for a status update on his engagement at EU level to seek a review of whether Israel is complying with its human rights obligations under the EU-Israel Association Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27142/24]
  • 2024-06-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 87 of 9 May 2024, the details of his engagement to date, both at bilateral level with his Israeli counterpart, and at EU level, with regard to the designation in October 2021, which remains in place, of six Palestinian human rights organisations as terrorist groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27143/24]
  • 2024-06-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the reason the NATO flag was displayed at the annual EU Heads of Missions lunch in Ireland, at which the Tánaiste delivered the opening remarks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26259/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 28 May 2024, if he will publish the non-paper and the text of the letter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24834/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the value of frozen Russian assets in Ireland and in Europe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25559/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the status of the ‘urgent review’ of the EU-Israel Association Agreement requested jointly by Ireland and Spain on 14 February 2024; the response from the Commission to that ‘urgent review’ request; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25560/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs what assessment he has made of the implications for Ireland of the Council decision to use the proceeds from immobilised Russian assets to support Ukraine’s military activities to defend itself and to boost its military capabilities; if he is satisfied that Russian assets immobilised by Ireland will not support or be used for such military activities; if so, how so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25634/24]
  • 2024-05-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he can confirm Ireland's signature of a letter reported in the Austrian press (details supplied); if he will publish the text of this letter; if the details reported reflect the official policy of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24028/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he is aware of, and supports, Ireland's signature of a statement (details supplied); if the position outlined in same is reflective of official policy of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22525/24]
  • 2024-05-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 72 of 7 March 2024, the details of his engagement to date both at bilateral level with his Israeli counterpart, and at EU level, with regard to the designation in October 2021, which remains in place, of six Palestinian human rights organisations as terrorist groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20841/24]
  • 2024-05-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 71 of 7 March 2024, the details of his engagement at EU level to seek a review of whether Israel is complying with its human rights obligations under the EU Israel Association Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20840/24]
  • 2024-05-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 19 of 7 March 2024, the details of Ireland’s financial and in-kind assistance to Ukraine since February 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20855/24]
  • …and 272 more questions on Foreign
• Transport 281 questions

  • 2025-09-30 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport for a status update on the development of the Galway metropolitan area transport strategy; the timeline for the completion of the strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51768/25]
  • 2025-09-30 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport further to Question No. 137 of 24 June 2025, the progress to date on the roll-out of light rail for Galway, following the publication of the feasibility study on 30 October 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51778/25]
  • 2025-09-30 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport when the identified park and ride sites for Galway will be operational; the progress to-date on getting them up and running; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51864/25]
  • 2025-07-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport the consideration given to the inclusion of a light rail system for Galway in the upcoming review of the National Development Plan; when the plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39984/25]
  • 2025-06-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport the status of the review of the Galway metropolitan area transport strategy, launched in 2016; when the updated transport strategy for Galway will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33845/25]
  • 2025-06-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 77 of 8 May 2025, the progress made on the roll-out of light rail for Galway following the publication of the feasibility study on 30 October 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33846/25]
  • 2025-06-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport the steps his Department has taken to determine whether Gulfstream GV N588AT, which landed at Shannon Airport on 21 May 2025, was operating as a civil aircraft for the purposes of the Air Navigation and Transport Act 1946; if he is satisfied that the Gulfstream GV N588AT was not operating as a state aircraft with reference to the definition provided for by section 5 of the Air Navigation and Transport Act, 1950; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28952/25]
  • 2025-05-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport the steps he is taking to stop flights carrying weapons through Irish airspace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22720/25]
  • 2025-05-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport for an update on the roll-out of light rail for Galway following the publication of the feasibility study on 30 October 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22719/25]
  • 2025-05-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No 29 of 26 March 2025, the reason no inspections took place in that period under the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) (Amendment) Orders 1973 and 1989 in that period; if any such inspections have been undertaken since 26 March 2025 to-date in 2025; his plans to begin random inspection of civil aircraft to establish if they are carrying munitions of war; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22755/25]
  • 2025-05-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport when the identified park and ride sites for Galway City will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22756/25]
  • 2025-05-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No 290 of 8 April 2025, the current waiting time for driving tests in Ireland; the length of time people can expect to wait to be offered a test; the steps being taken to address the backlog; the systems in place to ensure that the 10-week waiting time target is achieved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22757/25]
  • 2025-04-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport the current waiting times for driving tests in Ireland; the length of time people can expect to wait to be offered a test; the steps being taken to address the backlog; the new systems being put in place to ensure that people are not waiting months to be offered a test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16708/25]
  • 2025-03-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport to provide details of all inspections that have taken place under the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) (Amendment) Order, 1989 to enforce the prohibition of the use of Irish airspace for the carriage of munitions of war, weapons, ammunition and dangerous goods by year since October 2023 to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14304/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport the Statutory Instruments he envisages being brought forward and signed by his Department during the first six months of 2025; to highlight in particular those concerned with the transposition and or implementation of further implementation of EU law requirements; those Statutory Instruments concerned with commencement of existing legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10340/25]
  • 2025-03-04 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport the progress made on the roll-out of light rail for Galway, following the publication of the feasibility study on 30 October 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9456/25]
  • 2025-03-04 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport the status of the proposed sites in Galway city and county for the roll-out of park-and-ride; if the sites have been identified; when they will be operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9455/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas and the time allowed for each Stage; if ministerial or Government amendments to other legislation were only included in the Bill via amendment, after the Bill had been initiated, bypassing earlier Stages; the number of pages in the Bill when initiated and when it completed the legislative process, or as it currently stands amended for any lapsed Bills; if the Minister or the Government changed the scope of the Bill after it was initiated, and at which Stage and in which House this was done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4258/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas and the time allowed for each Stage; if ministerial or Government amendments to other legislation were only included in the Bill via amendment, after the Bill had been initiated, bypassing earlier Stages; the number of pages in the Bill when initiated and when it completed the legislative process, or as it currently stands amended for any lapsed Bills; if the Minister or the Government changed the scope of the Bill after it was initiated, and at which Stage and in which House this was done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4258/25]
  • 2024-10-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 264 of 9 September 2024, the steps he is taking on foot of reports that aircraft carrying munitions of war operated in sovereign Irish airspace without exemptions, given that the air transportation of munitions of war across State airspace without an exemption is an indictable offence; the number, carriers or operators, origin, destination and volume of munitions on such flights identified to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41699/24]
  • 2024-10-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 264 of 23 July 2024, the status of the feasibility study for light rail in Galway, and the status of the roll out of park and ride for the west and east side of Galway city which are being undertaken as part of the Galway metropolitan area transport strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41700/24]
  • 2024-10-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport his plans to commence random inspections of civil aircraft to establish if they contain munitions of war; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41702/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport the number of flights carrying Israeli Defence Forces weaponry that have flown through Irish sovereign airspace without legal permission in each of the past five years; the steps taken in this regard given that the air transportation of munitions of war across State airspace without an exemption is an indictable criminal offence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35109/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport the steps being taken to ensure that Irish airports are not being used to facilitate the supply of military equipment to Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35110/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport the number of inspections that have been carried out on aircraft in Irish airports in each of the past five years and to-date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35111/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport the number of applications for exemptions for the carriage of munitions of war on civil aircraft received, the number granted, the number refused by month since October 2023 to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35112/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport if the US military, or any other body, has been authorised to transport munitions through Irish-controlled airspace since October 2023; if so, to provide details, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35113/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport to confirm, or otherwise, reports that Israeli-operated cargo planes flew through Irish sovereign airspace with explosives on 27 February 2024 and 1 February 2024 (details supplied); if applications for exemptions were received and granted by the Department; if not, the steps being taken in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35114/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport , further to Parliamentary Question No. 15 of 4 July, the status of the feasibility study for light rail in Galway, which is being undertaken as part of the Galway metropolitan area transport strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33071/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport the expected timeline for the public consultation on the draft Galway metropolitan area transport strategy; the expected timeline for the publication of the final strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33072/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport , further to Parliamentary Question No. 64 of 16 May, the status of the roll-out of park-and-ride facilities in Galway city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33073/24]
  • 2024-07-04 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 77 of 16 May 2024, the status of the feasibility study for light rail in Galway, which is being undertaken as part of the Galway metropolitan area transport strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28385/24]
  • 2024-06-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport his plans to introduce a 90-minute public transport fare in Galway, along the lines of the fare system currently in operation in Dublin; the details of any analysis carried out or commissioned by his Department on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26548/24]
  • 2024-05-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 189 of 20 March 2024, the status of the roll-out of park and ride in Galway city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21901/24]
  • 2024-05-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 77 of 21 March 2024, the status of the feasibility study for light rail in Galway, which is being undertaken as part of the Galway metropolitan area transport strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21900/24]
  • 2024-03-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 61 of 1 February 2024, the status of the feasibility study for light rail in Galway, which is being undertaken as part of the development of the Galway Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy; the details of the strategic roads feasibility study referenced in the NTA's reply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12836/24]
  • 2024-03-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 61 of 1 February 2024, the terms of reference of the strategic roads feasibility study; who is carrying out the study; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12837/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 53 of 1 February 2024, the status of the roll-out of park and ride in Galway city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12829/24]
  • 2024-02-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 6 of 30 November 2023, the status of the roll-out of park and ride in Galway city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4380/24]
  • 2024-02-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question 41 of 30 November 2023, the status of the feasibility study for light rail in Galway, which is being undertaken as part of the development of the Galway Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4381/24]
  • 2024-01-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport the details of any analysis carried out or commissioned by his Department, or bodies under the aegis of his Department, into the adequacy of rail services on the Athenry to Galway route; his plans to provide more frequent rail services on this route; his plans to put in place additional carriages on trains on this route; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2268/24]
  • 2024-01-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport if an aircraft (details supplied) was approved to carry weapons or munitions or US soldiers through Shannon Airport; the reason(s) such aircraft are permitted to refuel at Shannon airport on their way to the Middle East while war crimes are being committed in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1668/24]
  • 2023-12-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport the grounds on which aircraft on contract to the US military transportation command are being allowed by his Department to transit through Shannon Airport and through Irish airspace on their way to and from supporting wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, including Israeli bombardment of Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54354/23]
  • 2023-12-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport if his Department approved the transport of US soldiers, weapons or munitions on aircraft (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54355/23]
  • 2023-11-30 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 35 of 5 October 2023, the status of the roll-out of park-and-ride in Galway city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52832/23]
  • 2023-11-30 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 69 of 5 October 2023, the status of the feasibility study on light rail in Galway, which is being undertaken as part of the development of the Galway Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy; the details of the engagement between the National Transport Authority and local groups in the development of the draft strategy, and in particular the feasibility study on light rail; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52833/23]
  • 2023-11-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 185 of 24 October 2023, whether any steps were taken to establish if an aircraft (details supplied) was transporting US soldiers and/or weapons or munitions while travelling from the USA to the Persian Gulf, as this aircraft was on contract to the US military using US Transportation Command call sign CMB504 and was likely to be on a mission to support the Israeli attacks on Gaza, and on its return journey to the USA it landed at US Naval Air Station Jacksonville; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47696/23]
  • 2023-11-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport the reason two train stations, Balbriggan and Skerries, have been excluded from the TFI 90-minute €2-ticket scheme, resulting in an inequity for many commuters travelling to Dublin city centre (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47707/23]
  • 2023-10-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport if an aircraft (details supplied) which was on contract to the US military, was authorised to carry weapons or munitions through Shannon Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46715/23]
  • 2023-10-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 410 of 11 September 2023, for a status update on the rollout of park-and-ride in Galway city; for an update on the site location analysis; the expected timeline for the rollout of park-and-ride in the identified areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42976/23]
  • …and 231 more questions on Transport
• Rural 228 questions

  • 2025-09-30 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the membership of the Trading for Impact Stakeholder Engagement Group; the terms of reference of the group; the details of the meetings of the group to date, and the dates of same; the date of the next meeting of the group; when the minutes of meetings will be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51196/25]
  • 2025-07-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the total costs to date of the construction and operation, the current number of full- and part-time employees, and the full nature of the work of the hi-tech health facilities at the two Údaras na Gaeltachta industrial estates of GTeic An Spidéal, Páirc na Meán, An Spidéal, County Galway, H91CH01, and An Tulach 1, Eastat Tionscail na Tulaigh, Tully, Ballynahown, County Galway, H91AK24. [39135/25]
  • 2025-07-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht if the evaluation of the final business case for the redevelopment of Inis Oírr pier has completed; the outcome of that evaluation; the timeline for the delivery of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38297/25]
  • 2025-07-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht the status of the development of Céibh an Chóra and an Caladh Mór on Inis Meáin; the timeline for the delivery of the projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38298/25]
  • 2025-07-01 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Forbartha Tuaithe agus Pobail, agus Gaeltachta i gcomhthéacs cheisteanna 482 agus 483 a freagraíodh an 25 Feabhra 2025 cén dul chun cinn atá déanta leis an obair thaighde bunaithe ar fhoinsí éagsúla Stáit a bhí le foilsiú ag Údarás na Gaeltachta ag tabhairt léargas ar an nasc idir an Ghaeilge, an Ghaeltacht agus obair Údarás na Gaeltachta agus a Roinn féin; cén dul chun cinn atá déanta leis an dá chlár nua tacaíochta trí bliana a bhí i gceist a fhorbairt agus a sholáthar in 2025 chun tacú leis an Údarás san obair atá ar siúl ag an eagraíocht le húsáid na Gaeilge a spreagadh i measc lucht gnó sa Ghaeltacht; cad iad na torthaí atá bainte amach leis an gClár Tacaíochta Gaeilge do Ghnólachtaí ó thaobh úsáid na Gaeilge sa ghnó agus san idirghníomhaíocht idir na fostaithe, a gcustaiméirí agus iad féin agus cén méadú atá tagtha ar fheiceálacht na Gaeilge i mbailte aitheanta chun íomhá láidir Ghaelach a chothú agus a chur chun cinn; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [35946/25]
  • 2025-05-22 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Forbartha Tuaithe agus Pobail an bhfuil an t-athbhreithniú ar an gcás gnó don obair atá beartaithe ar an gcé ar Inis Oírr críochnaithe; cad é an spriocdháta ó thaobh thús agus chríochnú an togra sin; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [26329/25]
  • 2025-05-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of each of the policy measures detailed in the ‘Our Living Islands -Action Plan 2023-2026’; when the updated progress report will be published; to report on the April 2025 meeting of monitoring committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26332/25]
  • 2025-05-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the consideration that has been given to the annual rollout of the LEADER food initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26330/25]
  • 2025-05-22 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Forbartha Tuaithe agus Pobail cad é stadás na hoibre atá beartaithe don dá ché ar Inis Meáin, an Córa agus Caladh Mór; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [26328/25]
  • 2025-03-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the final business case for the redevelopment of Inis Oírr pier has now been received; and when approval will be granted to proceed with the project. [14535/25]
  • 2025-03-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 10 October 2024, the status of the development of Caladh Mór pier on Inis Meáin; whether the independent consultant has been appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14536/25]
  • 2025-03-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of each of the policy measures detailed in the ‘Our Living Islands – Action Plan 2023-2026’; when an updated progress report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14532/25]
  • 2025-03-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 68 of 10 October 2024, if the transfer of lands from the Department to the HSE has been completed; to provide an update on the plans for the remainder of the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14533/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the Statutory Instruments he envisages being brought forward and signed by his Department during the first six months of 2025; to highlight in particular those concerned with the transposition and or implementation of further implementation of EU law requirements; those Statutory Instruments concerned with commencement of existing legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10336/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas and the time allowed for each Stage; if ministerial or Government amendments to other legislation were only included in the Bill via amendment, after the Bill had been initiated, bypassing earlier Stages; the number of pages in the Bill when initiated and when it completed the legislative process, or as it currently stands amended for any lapsed Bills; if the Minister or the Government changed the scope of the Bill after it was initiated, and at which Stage and in which House this was done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4254/25]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 2696 of 23 July 2024, the status of the transfer to her Department of land on Inishbofin on which the airstrip is situated and on part of which it is proposed to build a primary care centre; if the land transfer has been completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40852/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 2698 of 23 July 2024, the status of the development of Caladh Mór pier on Inis Meáin; whether the independent consultant has been appointed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40481/24]
  • 2024-10-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 2697 of the 23 July 2024, for an update on the status of the development of Inis Oírr pier: if the contractor has been appointed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40480/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 40 of 20 June 2024, for an update on the work of the steering committee tasked with monitoring progress on the development of the piers on Inis Oírr and Inis Meáin; the date of the next meeting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33084/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 38 of 20 June 2024, the status of the transfer to her Department of land on Inisbofin on which the airstrip is situated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33085/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 159 of 19 June 2024, the status of the development of Inis Oírr pier; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33086/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 161 of 19 June 2024, the status of the development of Caladh Mór on Inis Meáin; the status of the appointment of a consultant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33087/24]
  • 2024-06-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 47 of 9 May 2024, the status of the transfer to her Department of land on Inishbofin on which the airstrip is situated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26981/24]
  • 2024-06-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 818 of 5 March 2024, for an update on the work of the steering committee tasked with monitoring progress on the development of the piers on Inis Oírr and Inis Meáin; the date of the next meeting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26519/24]
  • 2024-06-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 4 of 9 May 2024, the timeline for the publication of the progress update on the implementation of the policy for the islands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26518/24]
  • 2024-06-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 15 of 9 May 2024, for a status update on the development of Inis Oírr pier; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26511/24]
  • 2024-06-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 23 of 9 May 2024, to provide an update on the work of the monitoring committee for the implementation of the new policy for the islands; the date of the most recent meeting; the date of the next meeting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26512/24]
  • 2024-06-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 24 of 9 May 2024, the status of the development of Caladh Mór on Inis Meáin; the status of the appointment of the consultant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26513/24]
  • 2024-05-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update on the implementation to date of the policy for the islands; if she has received any reports or updates to date from the monitoring committee for the implementation of the policy for the islands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20765/24]
  • 2024-05-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 52 of 5 March 2024, for a status update on the development of Inis Oírr pier; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20761/24]
  • 2024-05-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 45 of 5 March 2024, the status of the monitoring committee for the implementation of the new policy for the islands; the dates of all meetings to date; the date of the next meeting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20763/24]
  • 2024-05-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 59 of 5 March 2024, the status of the development of Caladh Mor on Inis Meáin; the status of the preparation of the preliminary business case; if the consultant has been appointed to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20764/24]
  • 2024-05-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 49 of 5 March 2024, for a status update on the transfer to her Department of land on Inisbofin on which the airstrip is situated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20762/24]
  • 2024-03-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 97 of 30 January 2024, the status of the monitoring committee for the implementation of the new policy for the islands; the dates of all meetings to date; the date of the next meeting; her plans to publish the minutes of the meetings of the committee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10398/24]
  • 2024-03-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 of 26 September 2023, for a status update on the transfer to her Department of land on Inishbofin on which the airstrip is situated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10401/24]
  • 2024-03-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 99 of 30 January 2024, for a status update on the development of Inis Oírr pier; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10400/24]
  • 2024-03-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 87 of 26 September 2023, the details of the successful projects under the €20 million fund for the construction of new community centres; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10402/24]
  • 2024-03-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 99 of 30 January 2024, the status of the development of Caladh Mór on Inis Meáin; the status of the preparation of the preliminary business case; the timeline for the public consultation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10399/24]
  • 2024-03-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 99 of 30 January 2024, for an update on the work of the steering committee tasked with monitoring progress on the development of the piers on Inis Oírr and Inis Meáin; the date of the next meeting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10374/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 30 of 14 November 2023, the status of the monitoring committee for the implementation of the new policy for the islands; the terms of reference of the committee; the membership of the committee; the number of meetings held to-date and the dates of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3980/24]
  • 2024-01-30 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 23 of 14 November 2023, for an update on the work of the steering committee tasked with monitoring progress on the development of the piers on Inis Oírr and Inis Meáin; the date of the next meeting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3981/24]
  • 2023-11-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 26 September 2023, for an update on the work of the steering committee tasked with monitoring progress on the development of the piers on Inis Oírr and Inis Meáin; if the minutes taken in respect of the meetings are published; the date of the next meeting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49664/23]
  • 2023-11-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 4 of 26 September 2023, the status of the monitoring committee for the implementation of the new policy for the islands; the terms of reference of the committee; the membership of the committee; the number of meetings held to date and the dates of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49665/23]
  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 1394 of 13 June 2023, for an update on the rural proofing model promised in Our Rural Future; the details of the engagement her Department has had with other Departments to progress work in this area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41371/23]
  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question Nos. and 2104 and 2105 of 11 September 2023, the number of meetings to date in 2023 of the steering committee tasked with monitoring progress on the development of the piers on Inis Oírr and Inis Meáin, and the dates of same; if minutes are kept in respect of these meetings; the date of the next meeting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41369/23]
  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 103 of 13 June 2023, the status of the monitoring committee for the implementation of the new policy for the islands; the membership of the committee; the terms of reference of the committee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41372/23]
  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 2101 of 11 September 2023, the details of the State-funded bodies in respect of whom applications for the 2023 community centres investment fund were received by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41373/23]
  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 107 of 13 June 2023, for a status update on the transfer to her Department of land on Inisbofin on which the airstrip is situated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41370/23]
  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Question No. 2105 of 11 September 2023, the expected timeline for the completion of the phase 3 development of Caladh Mór on Inis Meáin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41363/23]
  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of Bills prepared by her Department in the 33rd Dáil to date; the number and title of those Bills that included a Regulatory Impact Assessment; the title of the RIAs published by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41596/23]
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  • 2025-10-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to introduce legislation to strengthen salmon farm licence regulations and enforcement, particularly in light of the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board determination of 12 September 2025 in the case AP1/2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56621/25]
  • 2025-10-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to take a judicial review in relation to the determination of 12 September 2025 by the Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board in the case AP1/2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56622/25]
  • 2025-07-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to confirm that the electricity generation test-site station on Galway Bay under foreshore lease (details supplied) is now fully decommissioned; that all structures, infrastructure, devices, items and or utilities included in the foreshore lease application have now been permanently removed from the Galway Bay marine test-site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39017/25]
  • 2025-07-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the ways in which he is supporting Irish wool and developing its market potential; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36343/25]
  • 2025-07-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 319 of 1 May 2025 and 132 of 20 May 2025, given it is over a year since the closure of the public consultation on trawling within Ireland's six-nautical-mile limit, and given that trawling continues to take place in inshore waters, some of which are special areas of conservation, when the results of the public consultation will be published; when he will make a decision on the matter; if he is committed to implementing the commitment made in the programme for Government to promote the sustainability of Ireland's fish stocks and to support the inshore fishing sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36344/25]
  • 2025-06-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to detail each fishery harbour centre that was allocated capital funding since 1 January 2023 to date in 2025; and the total amount allocated to each fishery harbour centre since that date, in tabular form. [34059/25]
  • 2025-05-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 319 of 1 May 2025, given that it is over a year since the closure of the public consultation on trawling within Ireland's six nautical mile limit and given that trawling continues to take place in inshore waters, some of which are special areas of conservation, when the results of the public consultation will be published; when he will make a decision on the matter; if he is committed to implementing the commitment made in the programme for Government to promote the sustainability of Ireland's fish stocks and to support the inshore fishing sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25621/25]
  • 2025-05-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 11 of 2 April 2025, if the detailed project proposals have now been evaluated; the results of that evaluation; the status of an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25620/25]
  • 2025-05-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine given that it is over a year since the closure of the public consultation on trawling within Ireland's six nautical mile limit, and given that trawling continues to take place within areas such as Kenmare Bay, which is part of the Kenmare River Special Area of Conservation, when the results of the public consultation will be published; when he will make a decision on this matter; if he is committed to implementing the commitment made in the Programme for Government to promote the sustainability of Ireland’s fish stocks and to support the inshore fishing sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21986/25]
  • 2025-04-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application (details supplied) to the European Innovation Partnership under call 6; when funding announcements will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13801/25]
  • 2025-04-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason mineral soils were included under GAEC 2, despite its intent to apply only to carbon rich soils, that is, peatlands and wetlands; if he intends to amend Ireland’s proposal to align with EU requirements and prevent detrimental impacts on small farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13802/25]
  • 2025-04-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 26 September 2024, the status of the report further to the public consultation on a review of trawling activity inside the six-nautical-mile zone which closed on 12 April 2024; when a decision will be made regarding the introduction of measures to protect the fishes concentrated within the six-nautical-mile zone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13799/25]
  • 2025-04-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications to the organic payment scheme received by his Department from Galway city and county to date; the number approved; the number refused and the reasons therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13803/25]
  • 2025-04-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of funding allocated to the Wool Council since its establishment on 5 April 2023; if all of the €30,000 allocated in seed funding to the Council has now been drawn down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13800/25]
  • 2025-03-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 26 September 2024, the status of the report further to the public consultation on a review of trawling activity inside the six-nautical-mile zone which closed on 12 April 2024; when a decision will be made regarding the introduction of measures to protect the fishes concentrated within the six-nautical-mile zone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13799/25]
  • 2025-03-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications to the organic payment scheme received by his Department from Galway city and county to date; the number approved; the number refused and the reasons therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13803/25]
  • 2025-03-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of funding allocated to the wool council since its establishment on 5 April 2023; if all of the €30,000 allocated in seed funding to the Council has now been drawn down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13800/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the Statutory Instruments he envisages being brought forward and signed by his Department during the first six months of 2025; to highlight in particular those concerned with the transposition and or implementation of further implementation of EU law requirements; those Statutory Instruments concerned with commencement of existing legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10323/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas and the time allowed for each Stage; if ministerial or Government amendments to other legislation were only included in the Bill via amendment, after the Bill had been initiated, bypassing earlier Stages; the number of pages in the Bill when initiated and when it completed the legislative process, or as it currently stands amended for any lapsed Bills; if the Minister or the Government changed the scope of the Bill after it was initiated, and at which Stage and in which House this was done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4241/25]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1260 of 9 September 2024, the status of the public consultation on a review of trawling activity inside the six-nautical-mile zone which closed on 12 April 2024; if the submissions have now been analysed; the timeline for publication of a report of the public consultation; when a decision will be made regarding the introduction of measures to protect the fishes concentrated within the six-nautical-mile zone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37936/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1249 of 09 September 2024, the updated number of salmon that escaped from a cage at a site in Killary Harbour in August 2024; if this represents a final figure; the outcome of efforts to recapture fish; the locations in which escaped fish have been detected; if a disease surveillance inspection has been carried out further to that of 17 May 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37935/24]
  • 2024-09-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the funding allocated to Galway County Council under the Brexit adjustment local authority marine infrastructure scheme 2022-2023 (details supplied) was drawn down; the status of these works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37903/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmed salmon that escaped from a farm (details supplied) on Sunday 11 August 2024; when the Department was notified of the escape; details of the comprehensive emergency plan in place, if any, by the licensee and or the Department to recapture the escapees as is required by the licensee in accordance with the conditions of their salmon farm licence; the number of escapees recaptured to date either by netting or anglers; when netting began in order to recapture the escapees; the sanctions, if any, to be imposed on the licensee or the operators of the salmon farm from which the farmed salmon escaped; if the escaped farmed salmon were infected with Amoebic Gill Disease or any other disease when they escaped; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34809/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1714 of 23 July 2024, the status of plans for the introduction of measures to protect the sprat fishery, which is concentrated within the six-nautical-mile zone; to provide a status update on the review of trawling activity inside the six-nautical-mile zone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34967/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for a national action plan for the development of an indigenous wool industry, arising from the Review of Market Opportunities for Irish-Grown Wool-Based Products, which was published in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34968/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the implementation of the recommendations of the 2022 Review of Market Opportunities for Irish-Grown Wool-Based Products; the details of any recommendations currently being followed up on by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34969/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if minutes are taken at the meetings of the Wool Council; if any minutes taken are published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34970/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if minutes are taken at the meetings of the management committee of the Wool Council; the plans for the publication of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34971/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount paid to the consortium led by the Agile Executive for carrying out the Review of Market Opportunities for Irish-Grown Wool-Based Products (2022); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34972/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 46 of 13 June 2024, the status of plans for the introduction of measures to protect the sprat fishery, which is concentrated within the six-nautical-mile zone; to provide a status update on the review of trawling activity inside the six-nautical-mile zone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33308/24]
  • 2024-06-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1593 and 1594 of 21 March 2023, the details of the health and safety assessment underpinning his Department’s position not to permit motor caravans from parking overnight in Ros a'Mhíl Fishery Harbour Centre and the other five fishery harbour centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26212/24]
  • 2024-06-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Question No. 89 of 25 April 2024, the status of plans for the introduction of measures to protect the sprat fishery, which is concentrated within the six nautical mile zone; to provide a status update on the review of trawling activity inside the six nautical mile zone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25539/24]
  • 2024-06-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 25 April 2024, to provide an update on the work of the wool council; if the €30,000 in departmental funding has been drawn down to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25540/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding approved by his Department for an organisation (details supplied) under the equine technical support scheme for the years 2019 to 2023, in tabular form; the proposed funding for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24833/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide an account of the distribution of Brexit adjustment reserve funds to enhance, upgrade, and develop Ireland's agri-food sector, the specific projects and costs involved, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22716/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of palm kernel expeller imported into Ireland each year since 2018 to date; the countries from which it was imported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22732/24]
  • 2024-05-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide, in tabular form, an account of the distribution of Brexit adjustment reserve funds to enhance, upgrade, and develop Ireland's coastal and marine infrastructure; the specific projects and costs involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21290/24]
  • 2024-04-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 129 of 21 February 2024, the status of plans for the introduction of measures to protect the sprat fishery, which is concentrated within the six-nautical-mile zone; to provide an update on the recent public consultation on trawling activity inside the six-nautical-mile zone and the baselines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18275/24]
  • 2024-04-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 74 of 22 February 2024, for an update on the work of the wool council; if the €30,000 in departmental funding has been drawn down to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18274/24]
  • 2024-04-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will detail, in tabular form, the number, type and outcome of Nitrate Action Plan derogation inspections for each year since 2022 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13572/24]
  • 2024-04-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of times and the specific dates on which he or his Department has formally requested the European Commission to allow for a derogation or temporary derogation to facilitate the import of seed potatoes from the UK, in particular from Scotland, since the introduction of a post-Brexit ban on the import of UK seed potatoes after 1 January 2021; if he or his Department has further sought a derogation in light of the Windsor Framework in March 2023 which enabled the resumption of trade in seed potatoes into Northern Ireland; if he is aware that the Canary Islands currently imports UK and in particular Scottish seed potatoes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13675/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to establish the drainage status of grassland peat soils in Ireland further to the findings of a study (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12134/24]
  • 2024-02-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of work to develop the new inshore fisheries sector strategy, in light of the fact that the previous one expired in 2023; the timeline for the publication of the new strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8250/24]
  • 2024-02-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 33 of 14 December 2023, for an update on the work of the wool council; if the €30,000 in departmental funding has been drawn down to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8243/24]
  • 2024-02-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 47 of 14 December 2023, the status of plans for the introduction of measures to protect the sprat fishery, which is concentrated within the six-nautical-mile zone; the total amount of sprat caught in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8217/24]
  • 2024-02-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the programme that will be put in place for the fisheries local action groups under the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund, to replace the previous programme; the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7197/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the name and location of all salmon farm sites in Ireland currently certified as organic; if any salmon farm sites either lost their organic certification or if any operators voluntarily withdrew from the organic certification bodies since 1 January 2022 to date in 2024; if so, to outline the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2420/24]
  • 2023-12-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 78 of 26 October 2023, for an update on the work of the wool council; if the €30,000 in Departmental funding has been drawn down to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55641/23]
  • 2023-12-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 204 of 16 November 2023, the status of plans for the introduction of measures to protect the sprat fishery, which is concentrated within the six-nautical-mile zone; if he has received the updated scientific advice from the Marine Institute and Bord Iascaigh Mhara to date; his plans for the publication of this advice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55642/23]
  • 2023-11-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 92 of 26 October 2023, for an update on plans for the introduction of measures to protect the sprat fishery, which is concentrated within the six-nautical-mile zone; when he expects to receive the updated scientific and economic advice from the Marine Institute and Bord Iascaigh Mhara on trawling within the six-nautical-mile zone; the details of any interim measures planned to protect the sprat fishery until a new policy is put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50329/23]
  • …and 171 more questions on Agriculture
• Defence 215 questions

  • 2025-07-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the procedures to be followed in order for Ireland to commit to the security action for Europe regulation further to his announcement on 27 June 2025 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37712/25]
  • 2025-06-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the basis on which the decision has been taken to legislate for the removal of the triple lock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31260/25]
  • 2025-06-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 206 of 8 May 2025, to provide details of the 2025 work programme of the Institute for Security Governance to be progressed throughout the year, which is costing the State €716,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31259/25]
  • 2025-05-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 5 February 2025, if the minutes of all meetings with an organisation (details supplied) will now be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18047/25]
  • 2025-05-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of fighter jets the Government intends to purchase; the estimated cost of each aircraft; the number of personnel required to operate and maintain each new aircraft; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18046/25]
  • 2025-05-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence when the draft Bill to dismantle the triple lock will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15515/25]
  • 2025-05-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the reason his Department has initiated tender-related processes (details supplied) calling for unmanned aircraft systems for search and rescue that can be adapted to strike targets; to outline the strike capability being called for; the use to which it is contemplated such drones are to be put; the reason(s) such UAMS must comply with all NATO integration standards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17728/25]
  • 2025-05-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence when a company (details supplied) was appointed to advise on expanding Ireland’s military; the terms of the contract, including the cost and duration of the contract; the way in which the company was identified as the preferred provider of such services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18048/25]
  • 2025-04-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if the Jadotville community were invited to make submissions when drafting the terms of reference for the tribunal in relation to examining the way in which complaints were made since 1983; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16766/25]
  • 2025-04-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence to clarify that a UN General Assembly resolution may authorise the deployment of Irish troops overseas under the Defence (Amendment) Act 2006; that such authorisation would not be subject to a UN Security Council veto or require changes to the triple lock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17135/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the Statutory Instruments he envisages being brought forward and signed by his Department during the first six months of 2025; to highlight in particular those concerned with the transposition and or implementation of further implementation of EU law requirements; those Statutory Instruments concerned with commencement of existing legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10325/25]
  • 2025-02-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence for an update on the progress of the Defence Forces tribunal; the details of the resources allocated to the tribunal; the number of support and administrative staff appointed to the tribunal; the details of the legal supports, if any, provided to people making submissions to the tribunal; the cost to date of the tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6077/25]
  • 2025-02-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence to outline the ways in which Ireland has cooperated and collaborated with NATO since it became a member of Partnership for Peace in 1999; to detail chronologically the escalating relationship between Ireland and NATO since that time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6079/25]
  • 2025-02-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 117 of 5 February 2025, if the minutes as requested will now be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6078/25]
  • 2025-02-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 5 February 2025, if Ireland intends to purchase military equipment from Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6080/25]
  • 2025-02-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the status of the proposed changes to the triple lock; if it is intended to remove the neutrality protection of the triple lock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6076/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas and the time allowed for each Stage; if ministerial or Government amendments to other legislation were only included in the Bill via amendment, after the Bill had been initiated, bypassing earlier Stages; the number of pages in the Bill when initiated and when it completed the legislative process, or as it currently stands amended for any lapsed Bills; if the Minister or the Government changed the scope of the Bill after it was initiated, and at which Stage and in which House this was done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4243/25]
  • 2025-02-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if reports (details supplied), despite commitments to the contrary, that Ireland is to purchase military equipment from Israel are accurate; if so, to detail all equipment to be purchased and the value thereof; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3081/25]
  • 2025-02-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if officials from his Department attended a briefing arranged by the Defence Forces and an organisation in November 2024 (details supplied); the number of times and the dates on which officials from his Department met with the organisation in the past three years; who was in attendance, to furnish minutes of each meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3082/25]
  • 2024-10-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the actions he has taken on foot of the revelations of a media outlet (details supplied) in relation to the illegal transportation of weapons through Irish airspace; the capacity of the Defence Forces to ensure that aircraft do not transit Ireland without the permission or knowledge of the State; the analysis undertaken to establish whether any such munitions were involved with the loss of life in Palestine and or Lebanon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41695/24]
  • 2024-10-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the status of the tribunal of inquiry into certain matters relating to the complaints process in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41697/24]
  • 2024-10-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the status of the peacekeeping Defence Forces members on duty in Lebanon in light of the deteriorating situation between Israel and Lebanon and more widely in the region; the plans in place to ensure the safety of Irish troops deployed with UNIFIL; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41694/24]
  • 2024-10-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the ways in which Ireland has co-operated and collaborated with NATO since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine; the details of the intelligence sharing, training and upskilling; the details of Ireland’s new agreement with NATO, the Individual Tailored Partnership Programme 2024-2028; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41707/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 148 of 9 September 2024, the rationale for the Minister for EU Affairs being appointed as Minister for State in the Department of Defence, as distinct from any other Department; the reason this decision was not made earlier but was made in April 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36765/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 158 of 23 July 2024, the reason the decision was taken to bring the Minister of State with responsibility for EU affairs under the Department of Defence, by whom and when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33997/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence when the office of Minister of State for EU Affairs became part of the Department of Defence; where this decision was taken, and by whom; the reasons and expected outcome of same in terms of the impact on the Minister’s portfolio; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32973/24]
  • 2024-07-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the details of his engagement with senior management in the Defence Forces with regard to the number of serving members who have convictions for gender-based violence; his plans to publish the recent audit by the Defence Forces carried out in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28181/24]
  • 2024-07-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 21 of 6 May 2024, the details of the resources allocated to the tribunal of inquiry to examine the effectiveness of the complaints process in the Defence Forces; the number of support and administrative staff that have been appointed to the tribunal; the details of the legal supports, if any, that will be provided to people who make submissions to the tribunal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28182/24]
  • 2024-06-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence to detail the extensive military support provided by Ireland to Ukraine further to his opening remarks at the annual EU Heads of Missions lunch (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26273/24]
  • 2024-06-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the way it is intended to continue the military support to Ukraine further to his opening remarks at the annual EU Heads of Missions lunch (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26274/24]
  • 2024-05-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the timeline for when the tribunal of inquiry to examine the effectiveness of the complaints process in the Defence Forces will be fully up and running; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22038/24]
  • 2024-05-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence his plans for a public consultation on his proposal to dismantle the triple lock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22040/24]
  • 2024-05-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the analysis, including any reports or supporting documentation, carried out by his Department leading to the decision to legislate for the dismantling of the triple lock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22004/24]
  • 2024-05-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 6 of 21 March 2024, the status of the tribunal of inquiry to examine the effectiveness of the complaints process in the Defence Forces; the details of how people can make submissions to the tribunal; what legal supports will be available to people who make submissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22003/24]
  • 2024-05-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the legislative and policy changes planned in order to proceed with his proposal to dismantle the triple lock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22039/24]
  • 2024-05-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence for a status update on the development of the revised Strategic Framework for the Defence Forces from 2025 onwards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21054/24]
  • 2024-05-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the status of the first update report of the Strategic Framework on the Transformation of the Defence Forces, which was promised by March 2024; if the report has been completed to date; if the report has been published to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20632/24]
  • 2024-04-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence when he expects to bring forward the legislation he has stated that he is preparing with regard to the Defence Act 1960 and changes to the Triple Lock arrangements; if he plans to bring this before the Houses of the Oireachtas prior to the summer 2024 recess; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14409/24]
  • 2024-03-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 78 of 23 January 2024, the status of the tribunal of inquiry to examine the effectiveness of the complaints process in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12835/24]
  • 2024-03-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 59 of 23 January 2024, the total military aid given by the EU to Ukraine since February 2022; the details of the contribution given by Ireland to-date; the details of the contribution given by Ireland towards common costs of the EU military assistance mission in support of Ukraine; the details of any contributions or donations made by the Defence Forces to Ukraine to-date since February 2022, and any contributions or donations planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12834/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the details of the new working group to develop a complaints process for civilian employees and civil servants who work with the Defence Forces; the membership of the working group; the number of meetings held to-date by the working group, and the dates of same; if minutes are taken in respect of the meetings of the working group, and if any minutes taken will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12832/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the details of Ireland's contribution to the German-led EU Battlegroup in 2024/2025; the total number of personnel posts to be filled by members of the Defence Forces; the number of posts filled to-date by members of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12833/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 65 of 21 November 2023, the total military aid given by the EU to Ukraine since February 2022, and the details of the contribution given by Ireland to date; the details of the contribution given by Ireland towards common costs of the EU military assistance mission in support of Ukraine; the details of any contributions or donations made by the Defence Forces to Ukraine to date since February 2022, and any contributions or donations planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2755/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 78 of 21 November 2023, the status of the tribunal of inquiry to examine the effectiveness of the complaints process in the Defence Forces; the timeline for same; to clarify if the tribunal will examine allegations of abuse in respect of which formal complaints were not made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2754/24]
  • 2024-01-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence his plans for the Defence Forces to participate in any overseas missions currently precluded by the neutrality protection provided by the triple lock; the details of any proposals received or made in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2762/24]
  • 2023-11-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the total military aid given by the EU to Ukraine since February 2022, and the details of the contribution given by Ireland to-date; the details of the contribution given by Ireland towards common costs of the EU military assistance mission in support of Ukraine; the details of any contributions or donations made by the Defence Forces to Ukraine to-date since February 2022, and any contributions or donations planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50891/23]
  • 2023-11-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the status of the Tribunal of Inquiry to examine the effectiveness of the complaints process in the Defence Forces; the timeline for same; the status of the terms of reference of the tribunal; the details of his engagement in the past month with a group (details supplied) with regard to the concerns they have raised over the terms of reference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50890/23]
  • 2023-11-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 125 of 3 October 2023, for an update on Ireland's involvement in the EU Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine; the number of Defence Forces personnel deployed to the mission to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50122/23]
  • 2023-10-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the status of the terms of reference for the judge-led tribunal of inquiry to examine the effectiveness of the complaints processes in the Defence Forces into workplace issues relating to discrimination, bullying, harassment, sexual harassment and sexual misconduct; the timeline for the publication of the terms of reference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42546/23]
  • 2023-10-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 12 of 16 May 2023, to provide an update on Ireland's involvement in the EU Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine; the number of Defence Forces personnel deployed to the mission to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42547/23]
  • …and 165 more questions on Defence
• Tourism 206 questions

  • 2025-05-08 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán cén pleananna atá aige chun scéim na ndeontas tithíochta Gaeltachta a reáchtáil arís de bhun Acht na dTithe (Gaeltacht) (Leasú), 2001, chun tacaíocht a chur ar fáil do chainteoirí Gaeilge a bheadh ag iarraidh teach a thógáil nó a athchóiriú sa Ghaeltacht; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [22816/25]
  • 2025-05-08 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán maidir le Ceist Uimhir 45 an 6 Márta 2025 agus Ceist Uimhir 9 an 19 Meán Fómhair 2024, an dtabharfaidh sé soiléiriú ar an dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le tionscnaimh thithíochta atá faoi chaibidil ag Údarás na Gaeltachta i gcúig shuíomh i Rinn Ó gCuanach, Contae Phort Láirge, ar an gCeathrún Rua, Contae na Gaillimhe agus i gCarraig an tSeascainn, Gaoth Dobhair, Contae Dhún na nGall; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [22792/25]
  • 2025-05-08 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán cad iad na ccad iad na chéad chéimeanna eile a bheidh á nglacadh aige ag eascairt as na cruinnithe a bhí aige leis an eagraíocht Bánúéad chéimeanna eile a bheidh á dtógáil aige ag eascairt as an cruinnithe a bhí aige leis an eagraíocht Bánú; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [22794/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the engagement he has had on the issue of maintaining public ownership of the Pálás cinema in Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9650/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media his plans for the permanent roll-out of the basic income for arts scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9635/25]
  • 2025-03-06 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán maidir le Ceist Uimhir 9 den 19 Meán Fómhair, an ndéanfaidh sé soiléiriú a thabhairt ar an tionscnaimh títhíochta atá faoi chaibidil ag Údarás na Gaeltachta i gcúig shuíomh i Rinn Ó gCuanach, Contae Phort Láirge, ar an gCeathrú Rua, Contae na Gaillimhe agus i gCarraig an tSeascainn, Gaoth Dobhair, Contae Dhún na nGall; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [9639/25]
  • 2025-03-06 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán cén uair a fhoilseofar na pleananna gníomhaíochta maidir leis an gcéad Phlean Náisiúnta um Sheirbhísí Poiblí Gaeilge; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [9637/25]
  • 2025-03-06 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán an ndéanfaidh sé soiléiriú a thabhairt ar stádas forbartha Choláiste Lurgan i gContae na Gaillimhe; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [9638/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media further to Parliamentary Question No. 345 of 11 February 2025, if his Department is working together with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on the simultaneous publication of the revised and re-titled Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill General Scheme and the Planning Guidelines for the Short-Term Letting sector; the current status and estimated publication date of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10283/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the Statutory Instruments he envisages being brought forward and signed by his Department during the first six months of 2025; to highlight in particular those concerned with the transposition and or implementation of further implementation of EU law requirements; those Statutory Instruments concerned with commencement of existing legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10339/25]
  • 2025-02-25 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán maidir le ceann de na príomhspriocanna sa Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge, 2010 – 2030, is é sin an líon cainteoirí gníomhacha Gaeilge sa Ghaeltacht a mhéadú, an dtabharfaidh sé soiléiriú ar an gcomhoibriú idir Údarás na Gaeltachta agus an Roinn chun a chinntiú go bhfuil na gníomhaíochtaí atá luaite sa Ráiteas Deireadh Bliana, 2024 de chuid an Údaráis ag cuidiú leis an sprioc seo; cé na critéir teanga agus coinníollacha atá leagtha síos ag an Údarás ina leith agus cé na táscairí feidhmíochta a úsáidtear chun a chinntiú go n-éireoidh le gníomhaíochtaí éagsúla an Údaráis sa Ghaeltacht; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [8026/25]
  • 2025-02-25 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán i gcomhthéacs an Ráitis Deireadh Bliana, 2024 ó Údarás na Gaeltachta, an dtabharfaidh sé soiléiriú ar an gcomhoibriú idir Údarás na Gaeltachta agus an Roinn chun a chinntiú go bhfuil an Ghaeilge á nascadh le forbairt na Gaeltachta; go bhfuil caiteachas an Údaráis sa Ghaeltacht ag réiteach leis an tionchar a bheidh aige ar an teanga agus chun an líon daoine a labhraíonn Gaeilge a mhéadú agus áit na Gaeilge mar theanga phobail a chinntiú; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [8027/25]
  • 2025-02-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if he has considered Galway city as a location for a pilot project for the roll out of a tourist bed-night tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4860/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas and the time allowed for each Stage; if ministerial or Government amendments to other legislation were only included in the Bill via amendment, after the Bill had been initiated, bypassing earlier Stages; the number of pages in the Bill when initiated and when it completed the legislative process, or as it currently stands amended for any lapsed Bills; if the Minister or the Government changed the scope of the Bill after it was initiated, and at which Stage and in which House this was done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4257/25]
  • 2024-09-19 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán le Ceist Pharlaiminte Uimhir 38 an 18 Aibreán 2024 agus Uimhir 4 an 30 Bealtaine 2024, an dtabharfaidh sí an nuashonrú i dtaobh an tionscnaimh tithíochta a cheadaigh an tÚdarás i mí na Nollag 2023 chun samhail le haghaidh tithíocht inacmhainne a fhorbairt do chainteoirí Gaeilge ar thailte de chuid an Údaráis i dtrí cheantar Gaeltachta, a bhí le tabhairt don Aire agus don Roinn i mí an Mheithimh; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [36737/24]
  • 2024-09-19 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte Uimh. 954 ón 23 Iúil 2024, an bhfuil an tuarascáil ar an obair athbhreithnithe ar na chéad deich bplean teanga a ceadaíodh faoi Acht na Gaeltachta, 2012 críochnaithe; cathain a fhoilseofar an tuarascáil; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [36735/24]
  • 2024-09-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media further to Parliamentary Question No. 957 of 23 July 2024, if the external evaluation and financial audit of the Legacy Programme has been completed; if the evaluation and audit have been published; her views on those reports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36738/24]
  • 2024-09-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the number of short-term lets in operation in Galway city and county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36734/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media her plans to address the ongoing lack of dedicated support for regional film and television production in Ireland; her plans to address the lack of strategy around regional screen production since the lapse of the section 481 regional film development uplift; if she will support a dedicated regional strategy as part of Budget 2025 to specifically address the development of the sector in the regions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36122/24]
  • 2024-09-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if she has considered a Budget 2025 submission by an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36123/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media further to Parliamentary Question No 959 of 23 July 2024, the date on which the confidentiality agreement around the sale of Arramara Teoranta by Údarás na Gaeltachta to a company [details supplied] in 2014, will cease; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35044/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media further to Parliamentary Question No 959 of 23 July 2024, the length of time covered by the confidentiality agreement around the sale of Arramara Teoranta by Údarás na Gaeltachta to a company [details supplied] in 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35045/24]
  • 2024-09-09 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte 954 den 23ú Iúil 2024, cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ar an obair athbhreithnithe ar na chéad deich bplean teanga a ceadaíodh faoi Acht na Gaeltachta, 2012; cathain a chríochnófar an tuarascáil; cathain a fhoilseofar an tuarascáil; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [35046/24]
  • 2024-09-09 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán stádas na tuarascála ón Choiste Comhairleach um Sheirbhísí Gaeilge, bunaithe faoin Acht na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú) 2021; an dáta a fuair an Roinn an tuarascáil sin; stádas breithniúchán na Roinne ar an tuarascáil sin; cén dáta a fhoilseofar an tuarascáil; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [35047/24]
  • 2024-07-23 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte Uimh. 14 ar an 30 Bealtaine 2024, an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar an obair athbhreithnithe atá déanta ag Údarás na Gaeltachta i ndáil leis na córais agus leis an gcur chuige atá i ngníomh ag an Údarás chun tacú le cur chun cinn na Gaeilge sna cliantchuideachtaí agus i ndáil leis na bealaí ina ndéantar an t-ábhar a bhaineann leo a riar; an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar stádas na scéime píolótaí; cé mhéad cliantchuideachta atá ag glacadh páirte sa scéim; an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar na téarmaí tagartha don scéim; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [33124/24]
  • 2024-07-23 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte Uimh. 35 ar an 30 Bealtaine 2024, cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ar an obair athbhreithnithe ar na chéad deich bplean teanga a ceadaíodh faoi Acht na Gaeltachta, 2012; cathain a chríochnófar an tuarascáil; cathain a fhoilseofar an tuarascáil; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [33125/24]
  • 2024-07-23 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte Uimh. 4 ar an 30 Bealtaine 2024, an dtabharfaidh sí sonraí faoin teagmháil a bhí ag a Roinn le hÚdarás na Gaeltachta maidir leis an tionscnamh tithíochta a cheadaigh an t-údarás i mí na Nollag 2023 chun samhail le haghaidh tithíocht inacmhainne a fhorbairt do chainteoirí Gaeilge ar thailte de chuid an údaráis i dtrí cheantar Gaeltachta; céard é stádas forbartha na samhla; cén uair a fhoilseofar an tsamhail; cén uair atáthar ag súil leis an tithíocht inacmhainne a sholáthar; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [33126/24]
  • 2024-07-23 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte Uimh. 42 ar an 30 Bealtaine 2024, an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar an bplean a d’eascair as an obair athbhreithnithe a rinne Údarás na Gaeltachta faoin bpunann iomlán mhaoine atá aige agus faoi na féidearthachtaí forbartha atá ann; an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar na hacmhainní airgeadais a bheidh ag teastáil chun an plean a chur i gcrích; an dtabharfaidh sí an t-eolas is déanaí ar aon teagmháil idir a Roinn agus Údarás na Gaeltachta maidir le tithíocht a chur ar fáil ar thalamh agus ar réadmhaoin atá faoi úinéireacht an údaráis; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [33127/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media further to Parliamentary Question No. 101 of 29 May 2024, the status of the drawdown of the €1 million in Galway 2020 legacy funding; the amount drawn down to date; the breakdown of the funds drawn down to date that have been allocated; the amount allocated via open calls for funding applications to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33128/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to clarify the contents of the confidentiality agreement concerning the sale of Arramara Teoranta by Údarás na Gaeltachta to a company (details supplied) in 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33129/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media if the confidentiality agreement around the sale of Arramara Teoranta by Údarás na Gaeltachta to a company (details supplied) in 2014 has now ceased; if so, the date on which it ceased; if the confidentiality agreement has ceased, to provide the details of the sale and a copy of the sales contract; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33130/24]
  • 2024-05-30 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte Uimh. 38 ón 18 Aibreán, an dtabharfaidh sí sonraí faoin teagmháil a bhí ag a Roinn le hÚdarás na Gaeltachta maidir leis an tionscnamh tithíochta a cheadaigh an t-údarás i mí na Nollag 2023 chun samhail le haghaidh tithíocht inacmhainne a fhorbairt do chainteoirí Gaeilge ar thailte de chuid an údaráis i dtrí cheantar Gaeltachta; céard é stádas forbartha na samhla; cén uair a fhoilseofar an tsamhail; cén uair atáthar ag súil leis an tithíocht inacmhainne a sholáthar; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [24256/24]
  • 2024-05-30 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte 16855/24, an raibh cruinniú leantach aici leis an mbrúghrúpa BÁNÚ maidir le heaspa tithíochta sa Ghaeltacht; an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar an gcruinniú is déanaí a bhí aici leis an mbrúghrúpa sin; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [24275/24]
  • 2024-05-30 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte 16856/24, an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar an obair athbhreithnithe atá déanta ag Údarás na Gaeltachta i ndáil leis na córais agus leis an gcur chuige atá i ngníomh ag an Údarás chun tacú le cur chun cinn na Gaeilge sna cliantchuideachtaí agus i ndáil leis na bealaí ina ndéantar an t-ábhar a bhaineann leo a riar; an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar stádas na scéime píolótaí; cé mhéad cliantchuideachta atá ag glacadh páirte sa scéim; an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar na téarmaí tagartha don scéim; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [24276/24]
  • 2024-05-30 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte 16895/24, cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ar an obair athbhreithnithe ar na chéad deich bplean teanga a ceadaíodh faoi Acht na Gaeltachta, 2012; cathain a chríochnófar an tuarascáil; cathain a fhoilseofar an tuarascáil; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [24277/24]
  • 2024-05-30 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte 16854/24, an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar an bplean a d’eascair as an obair athbhreithnithe a rinne Údarás na Gaeltachta faoin bpunann iomlán mhaoine atá aige agus faoi na féidearthachtaí forbartha atá ann; an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar na hacmhainní airgeadais a bheidh ag teastáil chun an plean a chur i gcrích; an dtabharfaidh sí an t-eolas is déanaí ar aon teagmháil idir a Roinn agus Údarás na Gaeltachta maidir le tithíocht a chur ar fáil ar thalamh agus ar réadmhaoin atá faoi úinéireacht an údaráis; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [24274/24]
  • 2024-05-30 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán an dtabharfaidh sí sonraí maidir le hanailís ar bith atá déanta ag a Roinn nó ag Údarás na Gaeltachta ar an tionchar ar chliantchuideachtaí Údarás na Gaeltachta atá ag an méadú atá tagtha ar an gcostas a ghabhann le gnó a dhéanamh; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [24278/24]
  • 2024-05-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media further to Parliamentary Question No. 35 of 18 April 2024, the status of the drawdown of the €1 million in Galway 2020 legacy funding; the amount drawn down to date in 2024; the breakdown of the funds drawn down to date that have been allocated; the amount allocated via open calls for funding applications to date in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24265/24]
  • 2024-04-18 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán i dtaca le Ceist Uimh. 7 den 15 Feabhra 2024, soiléiriú a thabhairt ar an bplean a d’eascair as an obair athbhreithnithe a rinne Údarás na Gaeltachta faoin bpunann iomlán maoine atá aige agus faoi na féidearthachtaí forbartha atá ann; soiléiriú a thabhairt ar na hacmhainní airgeadais a bheidh ag teastáil chun an plean a chur i gcrích; an dtabharfaidh sí an t-eolas is déanaí ar aon teagmháil idir a Roinn agus Údarás na Gaeltachta maidir le tithíocht a chur ar fáil ar thalamh agus réadmhaoin atá faoi úinéireacht an údaráis; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [16854/24]
  • 2024-04-18 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán soiléiriú a thabhairt ar aon teagmháil idir a Roinn, an Roinn Tithíochta agus brúghrúpa (sonraí tugtha) maidir leis na ceithre bhunéileamh atá acu faoin easpa tithíochta sa Ghaeltacht; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [16855/24]
  • 2024-04-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media further to Parliamentary Question No. 9 of 15 February 2024, 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; the amount allocated to date via open calls for funding applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16852/24]
  • 2024-04-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media further to Parliamentary Question No. 24 of 15 February 2024, the status of the Údarás na Gaeltachta housing initiative approved in December 2023 to develop a model of affordable housing for Irish speakers on Údarás lands in three Gaeltacht areas; the details of her Department’s role in this housing initiative; the expected timeline for delivery of the affordable housing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16853/24]
  • 2024-04-18 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte Uimh. 62 den 15 Feabhra 2024, maidir leis an obair athbhreithnithe atá déanta ag Údarás na Gaeltachta i ndáil leis na córais agus leis an gcur chuige atá i ngníomh ag an Údarás chun tacú le cur chun cinn na Gaeilge sna client-chuideachtaí agus i ndáil leis na bealaí ina ndéantar an t-ábhar a bhaineann leo a riaradh; soiléiriú a thabhairt ar stádas na scéime píolótaí; cé mhéad client-chuideachta atá ag glacadh páirt sa scéim; soiléiriú a thabhairt ar na téarmaí tagartha don scéim; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [16856/24]
  • 2024-04-17 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte Uimh. 17 den 15 Feabhra 2024, cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ar an obair athbhreithnithe ar na chéad deich bplean teanga a ceadaíodh faoi Acht na Gaeltachta, 2012; cathain a chríochnófar an tuarascáil; cathain a fhoilseofar an tuarascáil; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [16895/24]
  • 2024-02-15 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán maidir le Ceist Uimh. 81 den 5 Nollaig 2023, an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar an bplean a d’eascair as an obair athbhreithniúcháin a rinne Údarás na Gaeltachta faoin bpunann iomlán maoine atá aige agus faoi na féidearthachtaí forbartha atá ann; an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar na hacmhainní airgeadais a bheidh ag teastáil chun an plean a chur i gcrích; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [6814/24]
  • 2024-02-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media 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]
  • 2024-02-15 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte Uimh. 284 den 5 Nollaig 2023; cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ar an obair athbhreithniúcháin ar na chéad 10 bplean teanga a ceadaíodh faoi Acht na Gaeltachta, 2012; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [6815/24]
  • 2024-02-15 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte Uimh. 97 den 5 Nollaig 2023, an dtabharfaidh sí an t-eolas is déanaí ar aon teagmháil idir a Roinn agus Údarás na Gaeltachta maidir le tithíocht a chur ar fáil ar thalamh agus réadmhaoin atá faoi úinéireacht an Údaráis; an dtabharfaidh sí na sonraí a bhaineann leis an gcur chuige a d'ullmhaigh an tÚdarás agus a bhí le cur i láthair Bhord an Údaráis ag cruinniú na Nollag 2023; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [6813/24]
  • 2024-02-15 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Turasóireachta, Cultúir, Ealaíon, Gaeltachta, Spóirt agus Meán maidir le Ceist Pharlaiminte Uimh. 68 den 5 Nollaig 2023, cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ar an obair athbhreithniúcháin a rinne Údarás na Gaeltachta i ndáil leis na córais agus leis an gcur chuige atá i ngníomh ag an Údarás chun tacú le cur chun cinn na Gaeilge sna cliant-chuideachtaí agus i ndáil leis na bealaí ina ndéantar an t-ábhar a bhaineann leo a riaradh; cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ar an scéim nua tacaíochta dá chliaint le tacú leo an Ghaeilge a chur chun cinn sa ghnó; an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar an scéim nua; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [6816/24]
  • 2024-02-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media further to Parliamentary Question No. 623 of 13 June 2023, the status of the preparation of language plans in respect of the 16 towns identified as possible Gaeltacht service towns following the consultation process in 2014; for a breakdown of the language plans completed to date, the language plans approved to-date, the towns in respect of which language plans are currently in preparation and the towns in respect of which the preparation of language plans is yet to begin; the timeline for the completion of all language plans in respect of Gaeltacht service towns; the reason for the delay in delivering the plans; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6793/24]
  • …and 156 more questions on Tourism
• Enterprise 198 questions

  • 2025-10-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment his plans to increase the cap on the statutory redundancy payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57527/25]
  • 2025-10-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the status of the development of Ireland's collective bargaining action plan; if the plan is on track to be completed and published by the end of 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57528/25]
  • 2025-09-30 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the status of the action plan on collective bargaining; the timeline for the completion of the action plan; the timeline for the publication of the action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52042/25]
  • 2025-09-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the number and value of dual-use export licence applications, in respect of end-users in Israel, approved by his Department by quarter to date in 2025; the number refused in each quarter to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50786/25]
  • 2025-09-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 22 of 19 June 2025, the status of the preparation of the Second National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights; if the plan has been finalised; the timeline for publication of the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50785/25]
  • 2025-07-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment if he is aware of the proposed omnibus legislation which seeks to weaken the EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), which legislation was scrutinised by the Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment on 11 and 18 June 2025, and in relation to which Minister for State for International Development and Diaspora made a public commitment to defend core elements of CSDDD in Seanad Éireann on 19 June 2025; if he is aware that the European Council at its COREPER II meeting on 23 June adopted a general approach that nevertheless weakens even further the core elements of CSDDD; to clarify, in that context, whether or not Ireland's representatives at that meeting communicated the commitment made by Minister Richmond and rejected the proposal put forward by the Polish Presidency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40506/25]
  • 2025-06-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 28 of 1 May 2025, and 6 of 20 February 2025, if the action plan on business and human rights has now been published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32968/25]
  • 2025-06-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the analysis undertaken of the activities of a company (details supplied), which company continues to generate profit from tourism to illegal settlements, deemed illegal under international law; if he is concerned that despite the ruling by the International Court of Justice in July 2024 that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory is illegal and that all States must prevent trade or investment that supports the occupation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32972/25]
  • 2025-06-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the number and value of dual-use export licence applications, in respect of end-users in Israel, approved by his Department by quarter in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; the number refused in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32970/25]
  • 2025-06-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 20 February 2025, to detail the way in which, as outlined in the reply, officials carry out an assessment which includes a series of checks to ensure, as far as possible, that the item to be exported will be used by the stated end-user for the stated end-use and will not be used for illicit purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32971/25]
  • 2025-06-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the timeline for the publication of 'Enterprise 2035'; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32969/25]
  • 2025-05-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the implementation plan 2025-2026 of the White Paper on Enterprise has been published; the progress made to support indigenous enterprises since the publication of the white paper; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20529/25]
  • 2025-05-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 6 of 20 February 2025, if the action plan on business and human rights has now been published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20528/25]
  • 2025-05-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement he has had with the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in relation to diversifying our economy, with particular regard to the development of indigenous industries and the identification of markets for our goods and services outside of the United States; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16471/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the Statutory Instruments he envisages being brought forward and signed by his Department during the first six months of 2025; to highlight in particular those concerned with the transposition and or implementation of further implementation of EU law requirements; those Statutory Instruments concerned with commencement of existing legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10327/25]
  • 2025-03-04 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his attention has been drawn to the EU omnibus legislation which severely risks undermining critical sustainability legislation, including the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive; if he agrees that the omnibus would undermine the EU’s efforts to tackle corporate impunity and to prevent human rights and environmental abuses that disproportionately affect people in the Global South, particularly in light of government support for the CSDDD last year; his intention to act in Brussels to oppose the changes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9566/25]
  • 2025-03-04 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the consultation process on the employment regulation order governing the security industry will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9796/25]
  • 2025-02-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to report on the progress of the business and human rights stakeholder forum; the number of times and dates on which the forum has met; if the action plan is now in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6376/25]
  • 2025-02-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of dual-use export licence applications in respect of end-users in Israel approved by his Department in 2024 and to date in 2025; the value of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6377/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas and the time allowed for each Stage; if ministerial or Government amendments to other legislation were only included in the Bill via amendment, after the Bill had been initiated, bypassing earlier Stages; the number of pages in the Bill when initiated and when it completed the legislative process, or as it currently stands amended for any lapsed Bills; if the Minister or the Government changed the scope of the Bill after it was initiated, and at which Stage and in which House this was done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4245/25]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 71 of 23 May 2024, the number of dual-use export licence applications in respect of end-users in Israel approved by his Department in the period 7 October 2023 to end 2023, and to date in 2024; the value of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44332/24]
  • 2024-10-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 49 of 11 July 2024, the details of his engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs in respect of all dual-use and military export licence applications for goods manufactured in Ireland granted for export to Israel since October 2023; the number of times such applications were refused on foot of engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs or otherwise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43210/24]
  • 2024-10-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his plans to suspend the export of dual-use goods to Israel in light of the finding in the International Court of Justice of a case of plausible genocide being undertaken by Israel against the people of Palestine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43211/24]
  • 2024-10-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 480 of 9 September 2024, when the next meeting of the business and human rights stakeholder forum will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43357/24]
  • 2024-10-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 479 of 9 September 2024, the status of the development of the next Action Plan on Business and Human Rights; when the plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43213/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of consideration of the complaint by GLAN against the ESB to the National Contact Point for the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises, regarding the purchase of coal by the ESB from a mine (details supplied) in La Guajira, Colombia; the timeline for when a final statement will issue in respect of the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35130/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No 60 of 11 July 2024, the status of the development of the next Action Plan on Business and Human Rights; when the plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35134/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No 583 of 23 July 2024, when the next meeting of the business and human rights stakeholder forum will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35135/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 76 of 23 May 2024, for an update on plans to remove dental nurses from the ineligible occupation list; the engagement undertaken between his Department and an organisation (details supplied) in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33107/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 99 of 23 May 2024, if the decarbonisation roadmaps for Ireland's manufacturing industry and for Ireland's commercial build environment have now been published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33108/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the business and human rights stakeholder forum; its plans to meet with Údarás na Gaeltachta; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33109/24]
  • 2024-07-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to confirm that no dual-use goods manufactured in Ireland and granted an export licence have been used in the killing of Palestinian civilians since 7 October 2023; the number of referrals made to An Garda Síochána in circumstances where a criminal offence under the dual-use regulation is suspected, by year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29345/24]
  • 2024-07-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 23 May 2024, when the second national plan on business and human rights will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29344/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 71 of 23 May 2024, the names of the companies in respect of which fourteen individual dual-use export licences with a value of €52 million to end users in Israel in the period 7 October 2023 to 23 May 2024 were granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24835/24]
  • 2024-05-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 76 of 18 April 2024, the number of dual-use export licence applications in respect of end-users in Israel approved by his Department since 7 October 2023; the value of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23073/24]
  • 2024-05-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 100 of 18 April 2024, the total value of Ireland’s imports from Israel since 7 October 2023; the total value of Ireland’s exports to Israel since 7 October 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23075/24]
  • 2024-05-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 81 of 18 April 2024, for an update on plans to remove dental nurses from the ineligible occupation list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23074/24]
  • 2024-05-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of applications received for the cost of business support grant in Galway City Council, the number granted and the cost of same; the number of applications received for the cost of business support grant in Galway County Council, the number granted and the cost of same; the timeline for when all successful applicants will receive the grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23072/24]
  • 2024-05-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 102 of 18 April 2024, the status of his Department’s decarbonisation Roadmaps for Ireland’s manufacturing industry and for Ireland’s commercial built environment; the timeline for publication of the two roadmaps; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23076/24]
  • 2024-05-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of plans to bring forward a new Employment Regulation Order for security officers in 2024, in light of the ongoing low wages for these workers; if he has received a proposal from the Labour Court in relation to a new ERO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23325/24]
  • 2024-05-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 60 of 18 April 2024, for an update on his Department’s engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs with a view to developing a new business and human rights action plan and implementation body; his plans for independent oversight of the implementation of the new action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23077/24]
  • 2024-05-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the Annual Report on activity under the Control of Exports Act 2008, covering the period 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2023, will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21500/24]
  • 2024-04-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 37 of 8 February 2024, for an update on his Department’s engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs with a view to developing a new business and human rights action plan and implementation body; the number of meetings held to date by the stakeholder forum; the dates of same; the terms of reference of the stakeholder forum; the expected timeline for the new national plan on business and human rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16851/24]
  • 2024-04-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 30 of 8 February 2024, the status of the implementation of the West regional enterprise plan, REP, to 2024; the date of all meetings to date of the steering group; for an update on the most recent meeting of the steering group; if the West REP progress report, which was expected in quarter 1 of 2024, has been published to date; how many of the nine REP progress reports expected in quarter 1 of 2024 have been published to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16850/24]
  • 2024-04-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 27 of 8 February 2024, the number of dual-use export licence applications in respect of end-users in Israel approved by his Department since 7 October 2023; the value of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16847/24]
  • 2024-04-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 341 of 20 March 2024, for an update on plans to remove dental nurses from the ineligible occupation list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16846/24]
  • 2024-04-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the total value of Ireland’s imports from Israel since 7 October 2023; the total value of Ireland’s exports to Israel since 7 October 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16848/24]
  • 2024-04-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps being taken by his Department to assist businesses in Ireland to decarbonise, particularly in light of the findings of a report (details supplied) which found that 86% of businesses reported that they had no set commitments or targets in relation to carbon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16849/24]
  • 2024-04-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No. 149 of 7 February 2024, to provide an update on the implementation of the White Paper on enterprise; the status of the second update report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16897/24]
  • 2024-04-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the actions of a bank (details supplied) with reference to its intentions to lay off more than 168 workers in its Dublin headquarters; if he has met with the bank to ensure that they are fully compliant with all relevant redundancy legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15887/24]
  • …and 148 more questions on Enterprise
• Social 191 questions

  • 2025-09-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection pursuant to the Programme for Government commitment to introduce a permanent cost of disability payment, the timeline for the introduction of the payment; the details of the planned payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50759/25]
  • 2025-09-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to publish the report of the Interdepartmental Working Group which reviewed the system of means test for carer's payments; the timeline for the publication of the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50760/25]
  • 2025-09-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection pursuant to the Programme for Government, the status of plans to reform the disability allowance payment; his plans to remove the means test for disability allowance payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50763/25]
  • 2025-07-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No 150 of 19 June 2025, the reason for the difference between the €794 million estimate for the year-10 Exchequer contribution to auto-enrolment provided in that reply and the €539 million estimate for the year-10 Exchequer contribution to auto-enrolment provided in the regulatory impact assessment accompanying that legislation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35871/25]
  • 2025-06-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection if employer contributions to auto enrolment pension accounts will be exempt from PRSI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34669/25]
  • 2025-06-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection when the means test for disability allowance will be abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32965/25]
  • 2025-06-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 31 of 11 May 2023, if the discussions between his Department and the Department of Public Expenditure on the cost of administering the auto enrolment pensions system have taken place; if they have, the estimated cost to the exchequer of administering the scheme in 2025; the expected progression of that cost in 2026, in subsequent years and the number of years for which an exchequer subvention will be required to cover administration costs until the scheme is self-financing from charges on scheme members; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27768/25]
  • 2025-06-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection his plans to provide for more flexibility around the TÚS scheme to allow those under 20 years and unemployed to participate, to reduce the qualifying period for those aged 20-25 to six months, to reduce the mandatory minimum period of time between TÚS placements to two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26331/25]
  • 2025-06-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of extending paternity benefit by two weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30687/25]
  • 2025-06-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of making the fuel allowance available for 32, 40 and 52 weeks per annum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30688/25]
  • 2025-06-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of extending eligibility for the fuel allowance scheme to those in receipt of the working family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30689/25]
  • 2025-06-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of a €1 increase in each of the social insurance schemes, social assistance schemes, other weekly schemes and other schemes payments, in tabular form (details supplied). [30690/25]
  • 2025-06-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of equalising the jobseekers rates for under 25s to the current rate of €244 per week for jobseekers over 25; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30691/25]
  • 2025-06-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of reinstating the bereavement grant at the rate of €850 per person deceased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30692/25]
  • 2025-05-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection when the means test for carer’s allowance will be abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20503/25]
  • 2025-05-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection when the means test for disability allowance will be abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20504/25]
  • 2025-05-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection what engagement his Department had with the Department of Education in relation to additional expenses being incurred by island schools in the delivery of the school meals programme, whereby island schools are required to fund the transport of meals to the island and from the quay to the school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14534/25]
  • 2025-05-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No 160 of 9 April 2025, when the report on benchmarking and indexing working age social protection rates will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20505/25]
  • 2025-05-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of island schools receiving the school meals programme; if he is satisfied with the way in which the programme is operating on island schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17120/25]
  • 2025-04-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the examination of benchmarking of working age social welfare payments, as outlined in the Roadmap for Social Inclusion 2020-2025; when the examination will be concluded; if it is intended to publish the conclusions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17813/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the Statutory Instruments he envisages being brought forward and signed by his Department during the first six months of 2025; to highlight in particular those concerned with the transposition and or implementation of further implementation of EU law requirements; those Statutory Instruments concerned with commencement of existing legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10337/25]
  • 2025-02-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection when the means test for carer's allowance will be abolished; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8014/25]
  • 2025-02-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the review of community employment scheme supervisor remuneration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8013/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas and the time allowed for each Stage; if ministerial or Government amendments to other legislation were only included in the Bill via amendment, after the Bill had been initiated, bypassing earlier Stages; the number of pages in the Bill when initiated and when it completed the legislative process, or as it currently stands amended for any lapsed Bills; if the Minister or the Government changed the scope of the Bill after it was initiated, and at which Stage and in which House this was done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4255/25]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 126, 127, 128 and 129 of 23 October 2024, the number of staff coming to an end of career break in her Department in 2023 and 2024 who were not notified of an appropriate vacancy within 12 months of the end of career break; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44801/24]
  • 2024-11-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 126, 127, 128 and 129 of 23 October 2024, the length of time in months spent on career break by each of the 18 staff referred to; if any of those 18 spent longer than 60 months on career break; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44802/24]
  • 2024-10-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of staff coming to an end of career break in her Department in 2023 and 2024 who were notified of an appropriate vacancy in accordance with paragraph 39 of the 2013 circular Career Break Scheme in the Civil Service from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43386/24]
  • 2024-10-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of staff coming to an end of career break in her Department in 2023 and 2024 where there was no appropriate vacancy in accordance with paragraph 39 of the 2013 circular Career Break Scheme in the Civil Service from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform and the post was put on a redeployment panel in accordance with paragraph 40 of the 2013 Career Break Circular from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43387/24]
  • 2024-10-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of staff coming to an end of career break in her Department in 2023 and 2024 when it was not possible to make a reasonable offer within the 12 month period after the expiry of the career break; the number of staff in that situation where the possibility of facilitating the civil servant on a supernumerary basis was explored in accordance with paragraph 41 of the 2013 circular Career Break Scheme in the Civil Service from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43388/24]
  • 2024-10-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of times in 2023 and 2024 in which no offer was made to staff within the Department within the 12-month period after the expiry of the career break, where the post was not put on a redeployment panel and where facilitating the civil servant on a supernumeracy basis was not explored; the reason for such inaction, if any; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43389/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 528 of 29 September 2020, if she has had sight of correspondence dated 19 September 2024 concerning the corporate governance of the Citizens Information Service (details supplied); if she is satisfied that the ‘decisions register’ entry for the board meeting of that agency on 19 November 2014 accurately reflects what transpired at the meeting; if she is concerned at the apparent contradiction between what is stated in the decisions register entry and what is stated in the minutes of the board meeting of that date; to confirm the date on which the decisions registry for the Citizens Information Board meeting of 19 November 2014 was made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42625/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the pre-Budget 2025 submission to her Department by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development, and the Islands, and in particular to supplementary recommendation 41, which calls for each care-related credited contribution awarded while in receipt of carer’s benefit or carer’s allowance to have the same value and currency as a paid contribution and be considered as a qualifying contribution for the State pension (contributory) scheme; if she has raised or plans to raise this matter in pre-Budget 2025 discussions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35270/24]
  • 2024-07-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the timeline for the implementation of the pay agreement concluded on foot of a Labour Court recommendation on pay and conditions for employees at the National Advocacy Service; the reason for the delay in implementing the agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30769/24]
  • 2024-06-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection if the rural social scheme is currently under review; the number of participants and by extension the children supported under the scheme for 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26643/24]
  • 2024-06-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the options open to school staff who have to sign on for job seekers benefit during the school holidays, in the context that the payments often arrive after the holiday, making it impossible for them to pay bills, buy food, and so on, with particular reference to the reason the payment is so reduced and delayed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25849/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 18 of 25 April 2024, her plans to reconsider the introduction of a cost-of-disability payment; the details of her or her Department's engagement with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on this matter since the scrapping of the Green Paper; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25427/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 22 of 25 April 2024, to provide an update on the proposed automatic enrolment pension scheme; if the tender process has been completed to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25428/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the details of her engagement in 2024 with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Tusla, and foster carers’ representative groups, with a view to ensuring that foster carers will be eligible for state pension contributions in respect of their time spent fostering; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24853/24]
  • 2024-06-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the details of any analysis carried out by her Department as regards allowing for foster carers to be eligible for State pension contributions in respect of their time spent fostering; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24854/24]
  • 2024-05-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of extending paternity leave by two weeks. [24135/24]
  • 2024-05-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of extending parental leave by two weeks. [24136/24]
  • 2024-05-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of a €1 increase in each of the social insurance schemes, social assistance schemes, other weekly schemes and other schemes payments, in tabular form (details supplied). [24152/24]
  • 2024-05-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of making the fuel allowance available for 32, 40 and 52 weeks per annum. [24153/24]
  • 2024-05-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of reinstating the bereavement grant at a rate of €850. [24154/24]
  • 2024-05-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 53 of 20 February 2024, to provide an update on the long-term carers’ contribution scheme; the number of applications received to date; the number approved; the number rejected; the number pending; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20174/24]
  • 2024-04-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection if she will outline, further to the recent scrapping of the green paper on disability reform, her plans to introduce a cost of disability payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18376/24]
  • 2024-04-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection what value-for-money analysis has been carried out in relation to the different rates of participation in the proposed automatic enrolment pension scheme; the different rates of opt-outs; the different rates of suspension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18377/24]
  • 2024-04-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection with regard to the proposed automatic enrolment pension scheme, what analysis has been carried out regarding the consequences; if there are fewer participants than the 750,000/800,000 on which the scheme is predicated; what analysis has been carried out regarding the consequences of varying numbers of participants opting out of and/or suspending participation in the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18375/24]
  • 2024-04-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection her plans to widen eligibility to the long-term caring contribution scheme, to allow for caring periods under 20 years to be eligible for long-term caring contributions for the purposes of the State pension (contributory); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14281/24]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Social Protection the status of the independent external evaluation of the proposal that claims that higher financial returns can be achieved for automatic enrolment pension participants at lower costs; her plans to publish the report by the independent external evaluator; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12066/24]
  • …and 141 more questions on Social
• Environment 186 questions

  • 2025-05-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of a planning application (details supplied); when the planning application will be formally withdrawn following confirmation that the developers will no longer proceed with the project; the status of the marine area consent granted to the company in December 2022; details of the 'performance security' agreement between his Department and the company required by the offshore renewable electricity support scheme 1 contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25715/25]
  • 2025-04-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the extent to which the Oileáin Árann decarbonisation zone in County Galway has achieved the required 7% annual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions; the status of the implementation plan to achieve the reduction; the resources allocated to Galway County Council in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17823/25]
  • 2025-04-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 20 February 2025, the extent to which the decarbonisation zone in Galway city has achieved the required 7% annual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions; the status of the implementation plan to achieve the reduction; the resources allocated to Galway City Council in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17822/25]
  • 2025-03-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when the plans for the new Gas Networks Ireland, GNI, LNG gas jetty will be available; the way in which the plans will be subject to public scrutiny and review; if it is intended that GNI will purchase or lease a floating storage and regassification unit, FRSU, to be moored at the jetty in the long term; the way in which his Department will monitor the refilling of the FRSU to cater for boil-off; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13443/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the Statutory Instruments he envisages being brought forward and signed by his Department during the first six months of 2025; to highlight in particular those concerned with the transposition and or implementation of further implementation of EU law requirements; those Statutory Instruments concerned with commencement of existing legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10328/25]
  • 2025-02-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the work undertaken by his Department to ensure adequate resourcing of lead Departments for climate adaptation-related activities; his views on the report of the Climate Advisory Council’s Annual Review ‘Preparing for Ireland’s Changing Climate’ 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4898/25]
  • 2025-02-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide an update on the decarbonisation zone in Galway city; the status of the implementation plan; the resources in place to achieve the required 7% annual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions to 2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6437/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas and the time allowed for each Stage; if ministerial or Government amendments to other legislation were only included in the Bill via amendment, after the Bill had been initiated, bypassing earlier Stages; the number of pages in the Bill when initiated and when it completed the legislative process, or as it currently stands amended for any lapsed Bills; if the Minister or the Government changed the scope of the Bill after it was initiated, and at which Stage and in which House this was done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4246/25]
  • 2024-10-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 112 of 23 July 2024, if the final plan has now been submitted to his Department; the steps he is taking on foot of that plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42150/24]
  • 2024-10-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to detail the consequences of non-compliances with conditions of foreshore licences; how adherence to conditions is monitored and enforced; to provide details of the number of non-compliances, with regard to foreshore licences for offshore wind development survey work, notified in recent years; to detail any actual investigations of or penalties applied to breach of foreshore licence requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41010/24]
  • 2024-09-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the scope and objective of the INFOMAR hydrographic survey work being carried out under Marine Notice No. 6 of 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38232/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the details of his engagement with the ESB with regard to the establishment of a compensation fund for local communities in La Guajira, Colombia, who have been adversely affected by the exploitation of coal at a mine (details supplied) from which the ESB has purchased coal over the last two decades; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35224/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 14 May 2024, the status of the community-led projects that were successful in the renewable energy support scheme 2; the locations of all eight projects; if they are wind or solar projects; the details of the other two projects that are no longer in the process; if they were wind or solar; the reason they did not continue in the scheme; the number of projects that remain in the process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35267/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 77 of 14 May 2024, when he expects the remaining four community-led projects that were successful in the renewable energy support scheme 1 (RESS 1) auction to energise; the number that will continue in the RESS 1 scheme; the number that will energise via the second renewable energy support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35268/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 77 of 14 May 2024, the locations of all seven community-led projects that were successful in the renewable energy support scheme 1 auction; to clarify which are solar and which are wind; to clarify which of these projects have energised to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35269/24]
  • 2024-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 93 of 27 June 2024, the status of the terms and conditions of the export tariff phase of the second renewable energy support scheme; the timeline for when the scheme will be open for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35278/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of the review by his Department and Inland Fisheries Ireland of the Conservation of and Prohibition on Sale of Coarse fish Bye-Law No. 806 of 2006 and the Conservation of Pike Bye-Law No. 809 of 2006; when the review was initiated; the terms of reference of the review; the timeline for the completion and publication of the review; if he has received any interim reports in the meantime, and the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33347/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the details of his engagement with Inland Fisheries Ireland with regard to the long-term management plan for the great western lakes (March 2023) in relation to the high-level objectives set out in the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33348/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the details of the funding and resources allocated for the implementation of the long-term management plan for the great western lakes (March 2023); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33349/24]
  • 2024-06-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 75 of 14 May 2024, the status of the development by his Department of a monitoring and reporting system for the local authority climate action plans; the details of any engagement he or his Department has had to date with Galway City Council or Galway County Council with regard to their local authority climate action plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27151/24]
  • 2024-06-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 72 of 14 May 2024, if phase two of the small-scale renewable energy support scheme is now open for applications; if not, the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27150/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to detail the legal provisions in place to ensure the State is in compliance with Article 3(8) of the Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters; and if he would make a statement on the issue. [22672/24]
  • 2024-05-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 177 of 16 April 2024, the status of the community-led projects that were successful in RESS 2; the number that remain in the process; if these projects are on track to energise by 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21571/24]
  • 2024-05-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 146 of 25 January 2024, the status of the review by the CRU of gas and electricity connection policies for new large energy users; the timeline for the completion of the review and publication of the new decisions on the rules for future gas connections of large energy users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21574/24]
  • 2024-05-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 86 of 7 March 2024, the date on which the export tariff phase of the small-scale renewable energy support scheme will be launched; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21572/24]
  • 2024-05-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his Department’s role in the monitoring of the implementation of the Local Authority Climate Action Plans; the details of any engagement he or his Department has had to-date with Galway City or County Councils with regard to their LA CAPs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21573/24]
  • 2024-05-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 176 of 16 April 2024, the status of the community-led projects that were successful in RESS-1 and that remain in the process; the number of these that have energised to-date; the expected timeline for the remaining projects to energise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21570/24]
  • 2024-04-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of community-led projects successful under RESS 1 which have energised to-date; the number that remain in the process but are still due to energise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16511/24]
  • 2024-04-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of community-led projects that remain in RESS 2; for a breakdown of the number of these which are wind projects and the number which are solar; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16512/24]
  • 2024-04-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to provide details of the community-led projects in RESS 1 that have to-date received the enabling grant and the amount of grant funding received by each project, in tabular form; the details of the community-led projects in RESS 2 that have to-date received the enabling grant and the amount of grant funding received by each project, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16513/24]
  • 2024-03-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 122 of 25 January 2024, the date on which the export tariff phase of the small-scale renewable energy support scheme will be launched; the status of the work by economic consultants for his Department regarding the revision of the levelised cost of energy estimates required for small scale and community based generation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11059/24]
  • 2024-03-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of local authority climate action plans that have been completed to-date; the details of any engagement his Department has had with Galway City and County Councils in 2024 with regard to the development of their respective local authority climate action plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11058/24]
  • 2024-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No.123 of 25 January 2024, the status of plans for the Government to endorse the call for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11119/24]
  • 2024-01-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question 10 of 16 November 2023, the details of any engagement his Department, or bodies under the aegis of his Department, has had with Galway City and County Councils to date in 2024 with regard to the development of their local authority climate action plans, and in particular the preparation of their decarbonising zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3399/24]
  • 2024-01-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the date on which the export tariff phase of the small-scale renewable energy support scheme will be launched; to outline the supports that will be available to community projects under the SRESS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3398/24]
  • 2024-01-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications his plans for the Government to endorse the call for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3401/24]
  • 2024-01-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of the development of the roadmap by the Regional Assemblies to assist with developing a Regional Renewable Electricity Strategy for each region; the timeline for the publication of the roadmap; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3402/24]
  • 2024-01-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of the review by the CRU of gas and electricity connection policies for new large energy users; for details of any engagement he or his Department has had with the CRU in the carrying out of the review; the timeline for the completion of the review and publication of the new decisions on the rules for future gas connections of large energy users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3400/24]
  • 2024-01-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 83 of 28 September 2023, for an update on the work of the Just Transition Taskforce; if he has received any interim reports from the taskforce to-date; if he has received the final report of the taskforce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3319/24]
  • 2024-01-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 84 of 28 September 2023, the status of the development of the updated long-term strategy on greenhouse gas emissions reductions; the timeline for the publication of the updated strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3320/24]
  • 2023-11-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 72 of 28 September 2023, and subsequent follow-up, the details of the analysis carried out by his Department regarding the operation of the community-led category in RESS 1 and RESS 2, and in particular the challenges faced by community-led energy projects; the details of the analysis behind the decision to discontinue the community-led category in RESS 3 and to provide support instead under the small-scale renewable energy support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50115/23]
  • 2023-11-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 108 of 15 June 2023 , the details of any engagement his Department, or bodies under the aegis of his Department, has had with Galway City and County Councils in 2023 with regard to the development of their local authority climate action plans, and in particular the preparation of their decarbonising zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50116/23]
  • 2023-09-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to outline the work under way by his Department to support community-led renewable energy generation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41917/23]
  • 2023-09-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications what engagement he or his Department have had with a company (details supplied) with regard to plans for the building of three new data centres in Dublin; if he or his Department has raised energy security concerns in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41745/23]
  • 2023-09-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the timeline for the establishment of the Just Transition Commission, as committed to in the Climate Action Plan 2023 Annex of Actions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41744/23]
  • 2023-09-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 46 of 3 May 2023, the status of the development of the updated long-term strategy on greenhouse gas emissions reductions; the timeline for publication of the updated strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41743/23]
  • 2023-09-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question No. 106 of 15 June 2023, the status of the review of the security of energy supply of Ireland's electricity and natural gas systems for the period to 2030; the timeline for the publication of the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41741/23]
  • 2023-09-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the status of the development of the terms and conditions for the small-scale renewable electricity support scheme; the timeline for the publication of the terms and conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41742/23]
  • 2023-09-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to clarify how the revenues raised from the temporary solidarity contribution in the energy sector will be allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41737/23]
  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of Bills prepared by his Department in the 33rd Dáil to date; the number and title of those Bills that included a Regulatory Impact Assessment; the title of the RIAs published by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41588/23]
  • …and 136 more questions on Environment
• Finance 181 questions

  • 2025-07-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 60 of 29 May 2025, if the 2024 figure, due mid-year, in respect of the value of all State investment in Israel bonds, is now available; if Ireland, through the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, has now entirely divested itself of direct holdings of Israel bonds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39400/25]
  • 2025-07-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 39 of 29 May 2025, the progress made to fully divest from all Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) global portfolio investments in companies on the UN Human Rights Council database of business enterprises, given the value of direct and indirect investment in 13 companies remained at €10.65 million as at April 2025; the value of both direct and indirect investment divestment since that time; if the ISIF has increased its investment in any of these enterprises or any other enterprise on that database since the divestment process began; the timeline for divestment from these companies in entirety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39401/25]
  • 2025-07-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance the consideration given to introducing an amendment to the primary medical certificate eligibility criteria to ensure people of various disabilities currently excluded from applying for the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme can do so into the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39551/25]
  • 2025-07-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance if, in light of the estimate of the €200 million cost of extending the current employer tax relief to the auto-enrolment cohort contained in the 2022 regulatory impact assessment of the Pensions Auto Enrolment Bill, this additional employer tax relief will apply to the auto enrolment scheme ("My Future Fund") when it comes into effect on 1 January 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38081/25]
  • 2025-06-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance the expected revenue yield from an increase in the vacant homes tax to ten times the annual local property tax rate in a full year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30695/25]
  • 2025-06-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance the expected revenue yield from an increase in the residential zoned land tax to 5% of the land’s annual value in a full year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30696/25]
  • 2025-06-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance the adjustment made for indexation of income tax bands and income tax rates when calculating the budgetary stance for Budget 2026. [30697/25]
  • 2025-06-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance the amount of additional savings that could be made by not indexing income tax bands and income tax rates. [30698/25]
  • 2025-05-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 4 of 3 April 2023, the progress made to fully divest from all Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF) global portfolio investments in companies on the UN Human Rights Council database of business enterprises, given the value of direct and indirect investment in 13 companies remained at €10.65 million as at April 2025; the value of both direct and indirect investment divestment since that time; if the ISIF has increased its investment in any of these enterprises or any other enterprise on that database since the divestment process began; the timeline for divestment from these companies in entirety; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27767/25]
  • 2025-05-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance the value of all State investment in Israeli bonds; if he is concerned that a person (details supplied) told potential investors that purchasing bonds was the “best way” to help Israel support “the war campaign”, given that the Central Bank of Ireland is designated as the competent authority to approve prospectuses for Israeli bonds sold in the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27766/25]
  • 2025-04-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 95 of 4 July 2024, the timeline for the NTMA to fully divest from all Ireland Strategic Investment Fund, ISIF, global portfolio investments in companies on the UN Human Rights Council database of business enterprises; the details of the ISIF’s direct investments in companies on the UN database totalling €4.2 million; the details of the ISIF’s indirect investments in eight companies on the UN database totalling €9.4 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15674/25]
  • 2025-04-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 2 of 13 February 2025, the analysis to establish the impact that US tariffs will have on the economy; the preparations being made to deal with this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15673/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance the Statutory Instruments he envisages being brought forward and signed by his Department during the first six months of 2025; to highlight in particular those concerned with the transposition and or implementation of further implementation of EU law requirements; those Statutory Instruments concerned with commencement of existing legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10329/25]
  • 2025-02-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance the analysis undertaken to establish the impact that proposed US tariffs on the EU would have on Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4897/25]
  • 2025-02-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance if the National Treasure Management Agency has fully divested from all Ireland strategic investment fund global portfolio investments in companies on the UN Human Rights Council database of business enterprises; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4896/25]
  • 2025-02-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance when the long-term investment strategy for the infrastructure, climate and nature fund will be approved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4859/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance with regard to all investments made under the Ireland strategic investment fund, ISIF, in Israeli Government bonds, the dates the bonds were issued; details of the investments and the dates they were purchased by ISIF; the international security identification number in each case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4146/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas and the time allowed for each Stage; if ministerial or Government amendments to other legislation were only included in the Bill via amendment, after the Bill had been initiated, bypassing earlier Stages; the number of pages in the Bill when initiated and when it completed the legislative process, or as it currently stands amended for any lapsed Bills; if the Minister or the Government changed the scope of the Bill after it was initiated, and at which Stage and in which House this was done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4247/25]
  • 2024-09-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance if he has received a submission (details supplied); his views on the requests therein; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37113/24]
  • 2024-07-04 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 118 of 21 May 2024, his plans for the phasing out of the help-to-buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28387/24]
  • 2024-07-04 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 64 of 21 May 2024, the timeline for the NTMA to fully divest from all ISIF global portfolio investments in companies on the UN Human Rights Council database of business enterprises; the details of the risk analysis which led to the NTMA’s recent divestment from six such companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28386/24]
  • 2024-06-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance the options available to a person under the new guidelines for self-employed persons to allow for recognition as a self-employed sole trader without the necessity to register as a limited company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27505/24]
  • 2024-06-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance to provide details of the review undertaken in advance of the publication of the new guidelines for self-employed persons which obliges a sole trader to register as a limited company in order to be recognised as self-employed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27506/24]
  • 2024-06-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance the options available to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27507/24]
  • 2024-06-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance the total value of Ireland’s contribution to the Act in Support of Ammunition Production, intended to support the EU’s defence industry and to assist member states to increase their ammunition and missile production and to deliver ammunition and missiles to Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25961/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance to provide details of his engagement with the NTMA with regard to ensuring that the NTMA divest from all ISIF global portfolio investments in companies on the UN Human Rights Council database of business enterprises; the expected timeline for this divestment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22730/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 40 of 10 April 2024, the status of his Department's work to develop a new scheme to replace the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme with a modern, fit-for-purpose vehicle adaptation scheme as recommended by the National Disability Inclusion Strategy Transport Working Group; the details of the note submitted by his Department to the senior officials group in January 2024 outlining a proposal for a replacement scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22679/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 42 of 10 April 2024, his plans for the phasing out of the help-to-buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22680/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance his plans to remove sun cream factor 50 from VAT, in order to encourage people to use it in the context of the growth in skin cancer in the country and the important preventative role sun cream can play; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22445/24]
  • 2024-05-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance the details of his engagement at EU level with regard to revising the EU energy tax directive to require the aviation industry to pay excise duty and carbon tax on jet fuel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22674/24]
  • 2024-04-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance his plans to grant VAT exemption to counsellors and psychotherapists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16704/24]
  • 2024-04-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance for a status update on his Department's work to develop a new scheme to replace the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme with a modern, fit-for-purpose vehicle adaptation scheme as recommended by the national disability inclusion strategy transport working group; the number of meetings held by the senior officials group to date, and the dates of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14380/24]
  • 2024-04-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 110 of 1 February 2024, his plans for the phasing out of the help-to-buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14379/24]
  • 2024-04-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 142 of 1 February 2024, the status of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal; the number of appeal hearings that have taken place since the Board recommenced its work; the number of outstanding appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14355/24]
  • 2024-02-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 82 of 23 November 2023, his plans for the phasing out of the help-to-buy scheme; his plans in the interim to increase the minimum mortgage LTV to 80%, as recommended in a report (details supplied), and the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4282/24]
  • 2024-02-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 of 23 November 2023, for an update on the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal; to clarify if appeal hearings have recommenced to-date, and if not, the timeline for same; the number of people currently on the appeal hearing list; the expected timeline for the clearing of the backlog of appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4382/24]
  • 2023-11-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 100 of 5 October 2023, his plans for the phasing out of the help-to-buy scheme; the details of the analysis underpinning the decision to extend the scheme to the end of 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51364/23]
  • 2023-11-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 of 5 October 2023, if he will provide an update on the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal; when he expects the appeals process to re-commence; the expected timeline for the clearing of the backlog; what analysis his Department carried out into the reasons for the difficulty in recruiting the new board, as evidenced by the fact that it took four expression-of-interest campaigns in 18 months to fill the positions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51363/23]
  • 2023-10-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 22 June 2023, the status of the disabled drivers medical board of appeal; the details of any engagement between his Department and the National Rehabilitation Hospital with regard to resolving issues which led to the withdrawal of its services in February 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42980/23]
  • 2023-10-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 55 of 9 May 2023, his plans for the phasing out of the help-to-buy scheme; the details of any planned changes to the criteria of the scheme in the interim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42981/23]
  • 2023-10-04 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance his plans to include compliance with the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000, as well as the EU copyright directive, as a specified requirement in order to avail of the section 481 tax credit, in line with recommendation 8 of the May 2023 Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit by the Committee on Budgetary Oversight; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42941/23]
  • 2023-10-04 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance the details of any engagement between his Department and the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht and Sport and Media with regard to the establishment of a stakeholder forum, in line with recommendation 14 of the May 2023 Report on Section 481 - Film Tax Credit by the Committee on Budgetary Oversight; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42942/23]
  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance the number of Bills prepared by his Department in the 33rd Dáil to date; the number and title of those Bills that included a Regulatory Impact Assessment; the title of the RIAs published by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41589/23]
  • 2023-09-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance if he has received and considered the INTO’s pre-budget submission; if he will ensure that its four main demands are included in the upcoming budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40246/23]
  • 2023-06-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 70 of 9 May 2023, the status of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal; when he expects a new board to be in place; the details of the body that will provide the facilities and secretarial service to the board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30011/23]
  • 2023-05-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance the adjustment made for indexation of income tax bands and income tax rates when calculating the budgetary stance for Budget 2024. [23763/23]
  • 2023-05-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance the estimated additional savings that could be made by not indexing income tax bands and income tax rates. [23764/23]
  • 2023-05-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 128 of 7 March 2023, his plans for the phasing out of the help-to-buy scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21523/23]
  • 2023-05-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 76 of 7 March 2023, the status of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal; when he expects the new board to be in place; the details of the body that will provide the facilities and secretarial service to the board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21524/23]
  • 2023-03-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 240 of 24 January 2023, the status of the Disabled Drivers Medical Board of Appeal; the details of the body that will provide the facilities and secretarial service, in light of the recent decision by the National Rehabilitation Hospital to cease its involvement with the scheme; the timeline for when the appeals process will recommence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11107/23]
  • …and 131 more questions on Finance
• Culture 139 questions

  • 2025-10-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport for an update on his Department’s engagement with Galway City Council regarding the next steps for the Pálás cinema in Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52575/25]
  • 2025-10-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport for an update on the development of a permanent successor scheme to the basic income for the arts pilot; his plans to publish the cost benefit analysis paper; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52574/25]
  • 2025-09-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the progress made by the National Archives Ireland since the enactment of the Preservation of Certain Records Act 2024; the number of religious orders have they engaged with; the number of orders that have given National Archives Ireland a full inventory of records they hold in respect of institutional abuse and care, including their financial and administrative records related to the institutions under their auspice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44731/25]
  • 2025-06-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport further to his announcement that the basic income for the arts pilot scheme is to be extended by six months, his plans for the permanent roll-out of the BIA scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34911/25]
  • 2025-06-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the reason for the €10.9 million underspend on subhead B7 ‘Cultural infrastructure and development’ projects in 2023; the details of all large-scale culture infrastructure and development projects that have not been progressed; the reasons therefor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34913/25]
  • 2025-06-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the number and details of capital projects affected due to the €11.5 million underspend in 2023 of the large-scale sport infrastructure fund, with only 21% of its original approved capital funding being spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34915/25]
  • 2025-06-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 39 of 6 March 2025, for an update on his engagement with stakeholders on the matter of maintaining public ownership of the Pálás cinema in Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34912/25]
  • 2025-06-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the reason for the underspend of €3.2 million in respect of swimming pool grants to local authorities; if there have been similar underspends in 2024 and 20025; the way in which his Department intends to fund and support municipal swimming pool construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34914/25]
  • 2020-07-30 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta maidir le ceist uimhir 106 ar an 22 Iúil 2020, agus an costais €799,895 luaite aici i dtaobh pleananna a chur i dtoll a chéile le Páirc na Mara, an pháirc nuálaíochta mhuirí chomhaimseartha, a fhorbairt i gContae na Gaillimhe, cén foinse maoinithe a chur an costas €799,895 ar fáil; miondealú a thabhairt ar na costais atá san áireamh san fhigiúr seo i bhfoirm tháblach; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [19686/20]
  • 2020-07-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the Departments that will have responsibility for the islands with Irish as the main language, islands with English as the main language and all islands following the transfer of functions. [18351/20]
  • 2020-07-28 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta soiléiriú a thabhairt maidir le stádas Phlean Teanga Chathair na Gaillimhe; cén dáta a fhoilseofar é [19136/20]
  • 2020-07-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of Galway 2020; the amount paid to Galway 2020 to date in 2020; the way in which the funding has been spent; the conditions that will be attached to further allocations, including the reappointment of an Irish language officer; the status of the performance delivery agreement between her Department and Galway 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17298/20]
  • 2020-07-22 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil Campaí Samhraidh Gaeltachta 2020 a n-eagrú de réir an Comhairlre reatha um Sláinte Phoiblí (NPHET); má tá, cén fáth nach bhfuil campaí faoi dhíon ceadaithe; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [17384/20]
  • 2020-07-22 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an pholasaí atá beartaithe do na hoileáin agus cén uair a bheidh an polsaí sin foilsithe; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [17383/20]
  • 2020-07-22 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil sí ar an eolas maidir leis na deacrachtaí atá ag an Scéim Pobal Gaeilge, an scéim tacaíochta pobail is mó rath atá ag Foras na Gaeilge, de bharr easpa maoinithe agus an bhaoil mhóir atá ann dá bharr sin nach rachaidh an scéim ar aghaidh níos déanaí sa bhliain; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [17458/20]
  • 2020-07-22 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta maidir le ceist uimhir 16274/20, mionsonraí a thabhairt i dtaobh an chostais iomláin agus na hinfheistíochta suntasaí luaite atá déanta ag an Stát chun pleananna a chur i dtoll a chéile le Páirc na Mara, an pháirc nuálaíochta mhuirí chomhaimseartha, a fhorbairt i gContae na Gaillimhe; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [17489/20]
  • 2020-07-15 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta mionsonraí a thabhairt faoi cén fáth go ndearna an Stát Iarratas Pleanála (Uimhir Thagartha: 20683) i mBéarla amháin chuig Comhairle Contae na Gaillimhe i dtaobh Auqaculture Business Park a thógáil i nGaeltacht Chonamara; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [16274/20]
  • 2020-06-30 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the islands will not reopen for tourism before the end of July 2020, in view of the concerns of islanders; the protocols and directions that will be in place for the opening of the islands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13605/20]
  • 2020-06-16 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ó thaobh beartas a fhorbairt do na hoileáin; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [11414/20]
  • 2020-06-03 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta stádas an phróisis idirbheartaíochta atá ar siúl idir a Roinn, Údarás na Gaeltachta agus Coláiste Lurgan maidir leis an plean atá acu suíomh a fhorbairt in Indreabhán; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [9225/20]
  • 2020-05-27 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ó thaobh na mbeart agus na dtacaíochtaí atá beartaithe chun dul i ngleic leis an ngéarchéim i gceantair Ghaeltachta de bharr Covid-19, go háirithe na coláistí samhraidh agus iad curtha ar ceal. [8046/20]
  • 2019-12-12 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cad é stádas Bhille na dteangacha oifigiúla (leasú), 2017; cén dáta a fhoilseofar an Bille; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [51989/19]
  • 2019-12-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of times the legacy committee of Galway 2020 has met; the progress made in securing long-term arts infrastructure for the county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51991/19]
  • 2019-12-12 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an stádas agus sonraí, an praghas san áireamh, an chonartha maidir le ceannach Aerfort na Mine i gContae na Gaillimhe; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [51990/19]
  • 2019-12-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 38 of 12 June 2018, the steps she has taken to ensure that a circus (details supplied), which is due to play a critical role in a showpiece event of the Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture celebrations, will not close; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51993/19]
  • 2019-12-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the interdepartmental committee on the islands; the consideration given to having island communities directly represented on the committee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51992/19]
  • 2019-11-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding allocation to an organisation (details supplied) in each of the years 2016 to 2019; the projected funding for 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47310/19]
  • 2019-11-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the dates in 2018 and to date in 2019 she has visited each of the national culture institutions in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47311/19]
  • 2019-11-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 8 of 10 April 2019, if she has met with a theatre (details supplied); if so, the outcome of the meeting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46477/19]
  • 2019-11-06 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta maidir le Ceist Parlaiminte Uimhir 231 ar an 18ú Mean Fomhair 2019, soiléiriú a thabhairt maidir leis an gCoiste Idir-Rannach do na hOileáin, go háirithe o thaobh na dtéarmaí tagartha, na mball den choiste agus an phlean oibre; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [45412/19]
  • 2019-11-06 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta maidir le ceannach Aerfort na Mine i gContae na Gaillimhe, cén dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir leis an gcás gnó a mheas; cad iad na céimeanna atá glactha agus atá le glacadh go fóill; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [45411/19]
  • 2019-11-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 16 January 2019, the breakdown of sponsorship raised by Galway 2020 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45408/19]
  • 2019-11-06 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cad é stádas Bhille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú) 2017; cén dáta a fhoilseofar an Bille; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [45409/19]
  • 2019-11-06 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cad é stádas Phlean Teanga Chathair na Gaillimhe mar Bhaile Seirbhíse Gaeltachta; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [45410/19]
  • 2019-09-19 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cad atá beartaithe ag An Roinn ó thaobh na n-aighneachtaí práinneacha ar bhonn leanúnach atá faighte ó chomharchumainn agus ó chomhlachtaí pobail bunaithe maidir le maoiniú easnamhach atá ag cothú deacrachtaí do na heagraíochtaí ar an talamh; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [37930/19]
  • 2019-09-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of times the legacy committee of Galway 2020 has met; the membership of the committee; the terms of reference of the committee; the reports published to date; the engagement her Department has had to date with the committee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37931/19]
  • 2019-09-19 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta maidir le hAerfort na Mine i gContae na Gaillimhe, an bhfuil an cás gnó réitithe; cad iad na céimeanna eile atá tógtha maidir ceannach an Aerfoirt; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [37929/19]
  • 2019-09-19 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cén dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le hanailís bhreise a dhéanamh chun teacht ar bhunlíne maidir le líon reatha na gcainteoirí Gaeilge sa Ghaeltacht ionas gur féidir gníomhú chun é seo a mhéadú de 25% faoi 2030; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [37933/19]
  • 2019-09-18 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil tús curtha le féidearthachtaí na n-oileán a mheas agus tosaíochtaí straitéiseacha á gcur chun cinn i gcomhar le pobail na n-oileán sna réimsí cultúrtha, sóisialta agua eacnamaíochta; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [37939/19]
  • 2019-09-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the grades in which males and females are employed in her Department and the agencies under the remit of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37397/19]
  • 2019-09-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 426 of 10 July 2019, the companies in which Údarás na Gaeltachta holds shares or membership; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34716/19]
  • 2019-09-06 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta maidir le hAerfort na Mine i gCo. na Gaillimhe, cad é an staid reatha a bhaineann leis an bpróiseas ceannaigh; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [36882/19]
  • 2019-09-06 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cad é stádas Bhille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2017; cén dáta a fhoilseofar an Bille; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [36883/19]
  • 2019-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of reviews carried out by her Department pursuant to Standing Order 164A of Dáil Éireann; the pieces of legislation to which each review refers; the number and title of each piece of legislation in respect of which a review pursuant to Standing Order 164A has not been undertaken; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31626/19]
  • 2019-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way in which environmental awareness and sustainability are taken into account when arts organisations, artists and groups working with the arts are assessed by the Arts Council for funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33133/19]
  • 2019-07-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will provide details of all entities in which she or her Department holds shares; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30180/19]
  • 2019-07-09 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cén dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir leis an iarratas atá curtha isteach ag Gaillimh le Gaeilge chun tuilleadh acmhainní a fháil; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [29594/19]
  • 2019-06-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the bodies in the State that have statutory authority to function as the competent authority to make determinations under appropriate assessment legislation for terrestrial and marine environments. [26425/19]
  • 2019-06-11 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cad iad na strúchtúir eagraíochtúla atá i bhfeidhm chun monatóireacht a dhéanamh ar ghníomhaíochtaí aonair na Straitéise 20 Bliain; cé hiad na daoine atá páirteach sa mhonatóireacht; cad iad na ranna rialtais a bhfuil baint acu le monatóireacht ar an Straitéis ina hiomláine; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [23846/19]
  • 2019-06-11 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cultúir, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta cén dul chun cinn atá déanta maidir le coiste stiúrtha a bhunú a dhéanfaidh maoirseacht ar dhul chun cinn maidir le cur i bhfeidhm na ngníomhaíochtaí aonair sa Phlean Gníomhaíochta 2018-2023; cé hiad na daoine a bheidh ar an gcoiste sin; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [23847/19]
  • …and 89 more questions on Culture
• Further and Higher Education 123 questions

  • 2025-07-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to outline any contact with the President of Griffith College in relation to the years of preparatory work which was undertaken between Griffith College and Ferdowski University in Mashhad in the establishment of the joint undergraduate accounting programme between the two institutions which was due to commence this year with the first group of 18 students due to complete two semesters in Ireland, but all of whom have been refused visas despite paying large amounts of money; the way in which the matter can be resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38567/25]
  • 2025-07-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 4 of 22 May 2025, for an update on the developments made to increase the provision of student accommodation in Galway; when the new national student accommodation strategy due in quarter 2 of 2025 will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37606/25]
  • 2025-07-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to provide an update on the development of a borrowing framework for technological universities; the timeline for the delivery of the framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37607/25]
  • 2025-07-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 43 of 27 March 2025, if the position remains vacant; the number of positions in the university occupied by a person in an ‘acting up’ capacity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37608/25]
  • 2025-07-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 36 of 22 May 2025, for an update on the development of a new campus for further education and training in Galway city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37605/25]
  • 2025-05-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans to increase the provision of student accommodation in Galway; when the new national student accommodation strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26176/25]
  • 2025-05-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science for an update on the proposed new further education college in Galway city; if the evaluation which was scheduled to take place in the first week of April has now concluded; the outcome of that evaluation; the timeline for the delivery of the college; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26175/25]
  • 2025-03-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 11 of 8 October 2024, the status of the proposed new further education college in Galway city; if the revised business case, as requested, has been evaluated; to provide a breakdown of the €450 million national allocation over four years to four capital funding programmes announced on 14 February 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14544/25]
  • 2025-03-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the progress made on policy measure 2.10 of ‘Our Living Islands Action Plan 2023-2026’ to work with partners to actively promote apprenticeships and skilled trades as a valuable career path and ensure appropriate responses are in place to enhance capacity of the education and training system to meet green skills and construction skills needs of the islands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14547/25]
  • 2025-03-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if it has been brought to his attention that a president has not been appointed to the University of Galway; how long the position has been vacant; if the process to recruit a president has started; when it is expected that the process will conclude; what engagement the Minister has had with the university in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14548/25]
  • 2025-03-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science for an update on plans to provide additional student accommodation for the students of Galway; when the new national student accommodation strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14545/25]
  • 2025-03-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reason the Galway and Roscommon Education and Training Board was requested to reduce its floor space from 25,000 metres squared to 10,000 metres squared in its revised business case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14546/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the Statutory Instruments he envisages being brought forward and signed by his Department during the first six months of 2025; to highlight in particular those concerned with the transposition and or implementation of further implementation of EU law requirements; those Statutory Instruments concerned with commencement of existing legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10331/25]
  • 2025-02-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans to provide radiation therapy students with a payment and travel allowances during their final-year internship in line with supports offered to student nurses, particularly in light of the finding of the National Radiation Therapist Review that there is a 30% shortage of radiation therapists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6458/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas and the time allowed for each Stage; if ministerial or Government amendments to other legislation were only included in the Bill via amendment, after the Bill had been initiated, bypassing earlier Stages; the number of pages in the Bill when initiated and when it completed the legislative process, or as it currently stands amended for any lapsed Bills; if the Minister or the Government changed the scope of the Bill after it was initiated, and at which Stage and in which House this was done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4249/25]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 73 of 25 June 2024, for an update on plans to provide additional student accommodation units for students at the University of Galway; the status and location of the additional 403, work under way, and 1,669, planning obtained, purpose-built student accommodation bed spaces in Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40035/24]
  • 2024-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Question No. 75 of 25 June 2024, the status of the proposed new further education college in Galway city; if the preliminary business case has now been completed; if the evaluation by SOLAS and the Department has been completed; if the project has now moved to the pre-tender stage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40034/24]
  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if a Ukrainian beneficiary of temporary protection is eligible to participate in the Erasmus programme, particularly where Erasmus is a compulsory element of their university course; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31570/24]
  • 2024-06-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 39 of 23 May 2024, for an update on his plans to provide additional student accommodation units for students at the University of Galway; his plans for the building of additional student accommodation in Galway, in light of the recent scrapping of the proposal for the leasing of approximately 272 beds from the private sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27065/24]
  • 2024-06-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 48 of 23 May 2024, the status of the proposed new further education college in Galway city; the status of the review by Solas and his Department of the project proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27064/24]
  • 2024-05-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 50 of 27 February 2024, for an update on the plans to provide additional student accommodation units for students at the University of Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23053/24]
  • 2024-05-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 45 of 27 February 2024, the status of the proposed new further education college in Galway city; the status of the review by SOLAS and his Department of the project proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23052/24]
  • 2024-02-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 103 of 18 January 2024, the status of the proposed new further education college in Galway city; if the preliminary business case has been completed and submitted to Solas to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8904/24]
  • 2024-02-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 109 of 18 January 2024, for an update on the plans to provide additional student accommodation units for students at the University of Galway; the timeline for the delivery of the additional units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8905/24]
  • 2024-01-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 137 of 19 October 2023, the status the proposed new further education college in Galway city; if the preliminary business case has been completed and submitted to SOLAS to date; if the design team has been appointed to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1954/24]
  • 2024-01-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 126 of 19 October 2023, for a breakdown of the number of new affordable student accommodation units to be built and the number of units to be leased, in partnership with the University of Galway under the short-term activation measure; if he will provide an update on the construction of affordable student accommodation in Galway; the funding allocated to the University of Galway for the construction of new units under the short-term activation measure; the funding allocated to the University of Galway for the leasing of units under the short-term activation measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1953/24]
  • 2023-10-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science for an update on the funding for the construction of affordable student accommodation in Galway, announced in November 2022; to clarify if the State will own or partially own the units, once built; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45734/23]
  • 2023-10-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 21 September 2023, for a status update on the proposed new further education college in Galway city; the status of the development of the preliminary business case; if it has been completed and returned to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45733/23]
  • 2023-10-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the status of the development of the long-term policy approach to support the construction of student accommodation; the expected timeline for the publication of the policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45735/23]
  • 2023-10-04 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans to raise the PhD stipend level to €25,000 per year, as recommended in the National Review of State Supports for PhD Researchers: First Report (May 2023); the details of any analysis carried out by his Department with regard to the implementation of this recommendation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42998/23]
  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of Bills prepared by his Department in the 33rd Dáil to date; the number and title of those Bills that included a Regulatory Impact Assessment; the title of the RIAs published by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41591/23]
  • 2023-09-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science pursuant to the Public Service Apprenticeship Plan, the status of the commitment for all local authorities and the HSE to recruit at least five craft apprenticeships annually; to clarify how the implementation of this commitment will be monitored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40733/23]
  • 2023-09-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 121 of 1 June 2023, for a status update on the proposed new further education college in Galway city; the status of the development of the preliminary business case; if it has been completed and returned to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40732/23]
  • 2023-06-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans to provide PhDs classified as non-EU with updated residency visas with a four-year duration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30473/23]
  • 2023-06-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans to ensure that PhD researchers have access to PRSI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30474/23]
  • 2023-06-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans to ensure that PhD researchers have access to sick leave and/or parental leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30475/23]
  • 2023-06-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans to ensure that PhD researchers have access to the Workplace Relations Commission in order to resolve disputes with their university; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30476/23]
  • 2023-06-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans to establish minimum standards for the provision of funding for PhD researchers in Ireland, including minimum standards of pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30477/23]
  • 2023-06-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the consideration he has given to resolve the matter of employee status for PhD researchers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30478/23]
  • 2023-06-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide an update with regard to the technological university development fund, the proposed successor to the technological university transformation (TUT) fund; if this fund will be made available in advance of the expiration of the TUT Fund on 31 August 2023; the level of funding to be made available under the new TUT fund; if he will confirm that those technological universities (TUs) that merged more recently will be treated equally with the TUs that previously merged; if he will confirm that funding will be kept in place for existing supports which are in place at this crucial juncture in the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27596/23]
  • 2023-06-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 84 of 30 March 2023, if he will provide a status update on the proposed new further education college in Galway city; the status of the development of the preliminary business case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26560/23]
  • 2023-06-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 728 of 9 May 2023, the details of any engagement he or his Department has had with local authorities around the country in 2022 and to date in 2023 with a view to increasing the number of apprenticeships in local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26561/23]
  • 2023-05-30 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his intended timeline for the publication of the proposed students’ union Bill, as referred to in his speech relating to the Higher Education Authority Act 2022 in Seanad Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25574/23]
  • 2023-05-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of apprenticeships currently being undertaken in each local authority area; the disciplines in which those apprenticeships are being undertaken; the number of apprenticeships offered in each local authority area, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21595/23]
  • 2023-03-30 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 66 of 14 February 2023, if he will provide a status update on the proposed new further education college in Galway city; the status of the development of the preliminary business case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15752/23]
  • 2023-03-30 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide details of any engagement he has had with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine with a view to further expanding apprenticeships in the agricultural sector, for example, in the wool sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15753/23]
  • 2023-02-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 1 December 2022, the status of the proposed new further education college in Galway city; the status of the development of the preliminary business case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6945/23]
  • 2023-02-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science for details of any engagement he has had with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage with regard to increasing the uptake of apprenticeships in construction-related trades; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6946/23]
  • 2022-12-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the status of the proposed new further education and training campus on the grounds of a location (details supplied) in Galway city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59698/22]
  • 2022-10-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans to extend the SUSI grant to part-time students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51699/22]
  • …and 73 more questions on Further and Higher Education
• Communications 88 questions

  • 2020-06-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the trading online voucher scheme; if the scheme has been oversubscribed; the number of applications received and approved to date in 2020, by month and local authority area; the value of approvals made by local authority area; the number of applications received for a second voucher; the number approved; the value of such approvals made by local authority area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12550/20]
  • 2020-06-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason a fishery (details supplied) remains closed in view of the fact others have reopened; when it will reopen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12551/20]
  • 2020-06-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps being taken to reduce the number of single use wipes ending up in waters; the analysis undertaken by his Department or other agency of the problem in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11427/20]
  • 2020-03-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the grants available for electric cars in view of the fact that some models are excluded from the SEAI grant; the reason for same in further view of the fact that persons are being encouraged to reduce their carbon footprint; and his plans to address the matter. [2727/20]
  • 2019-11-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his policies in regard to the islands as requested by the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht with regard to the interdepartmental committee for island development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49601/19]
  • 2019-11-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of his policies on the islands as requested by the interdepartmental committee on the islands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49410/19]
  • 2019-11-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason prospecting licences are being granted in areas of Natura 2000 sites, national heritage areas, special areas of conservation and special protection areas in view of the fact that no mining licences are to be offered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48630/19]
  • 2019-10-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of a prospecting licence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39359/19]
  • 2019-10-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to request that a company (details supplied) surrender a prospecting licence in view of its declaration that it no longer has an interest in a project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39360/19]
  • 2019-10-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the Minerals Development Act 2017 will be commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39361/19]
  • 2019-10-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of times representatives of his Department have met mining companies in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39362/19]
  • 2019-09-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is satisfied with the standard of assessment of an ecological impact assessment carried out by a company (details supplied) in connection with the grant of a prospecting licence to a company to prospect for base metals in County Galway in view of the high sensitivity of the surrounding Natura 2000 sites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35112/19]
  • 2019-09-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of an application for a prospecting licence by a company (details supplied) to prospect for base metals in County Galway; his plans to grant the licence; the timeframe for same; the process involved in the grant or refusal of the licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36895/19]
  • 2019-09-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of an application for a prospecting licence by a company (details supplied) to prospect for base metals in County Galway; his plans to grant the licence; the timeframe for same; the process involved in the granting or refusal of the licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36896/19]
  • 2019-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of reviews carried out by his Department pursuant to Standing Order No. 164A of Dáil Éireann; the pieces of legislation to which each review refers; the number and title of each piece of legislation in respect of which a review pursuant to Standing Order 164A has not been undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31625/19]
  • 2019-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated full year cost of recruiting ten extra cyber security responders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32900/19]
  • 2019-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps being taken to ensure that plastic sent abroad by waste collectors here is recycled; the locations to which the plastic is being sent; if minimum standards for workers and or the environment at those locations are being met; the way in which the carbon footprint of the transport of materials is being measured; his plans to incentivise local or European plastic recycling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33097/19]
  • 2019-07-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide details of all entities in which he or his Department hold shares; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30179/19]
  • 2019-07-04 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the Galway cash for cans initiative; the reason for its suspension; when it will be reinstated; his plans to roll out the initiative nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28579/19]
  • 2019-06-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which marine ecosystems, including the growth and carbon storage capacity of kelp forests, informed the Climate Action Plan 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26315/19]
  • 2019-06-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the strategic environmental assessment under Directive 2001/42/EC, ensuring sustainable development of the Climate Action Plan 2019, has been completed; if so, his views on the outcome of the assessment of the Climate Action Plan 2019; the way in which persons can access the assessment of the action plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26652/19]
  • 2019-06-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce a nationwide ban on smoky coal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26738/19]
  • 2019-05-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeframe for implementation of the report of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Climate Action, Climate Change: A Cross-Party Consensus for Action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21786/19]
  • 2019-05-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he received, as requested, an update by 12 April 2019 on the actions the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is taking to resolve elevated sea lice levels; if he has received the response from the Department in relation to its requirements as set out in the correspondence which relate to its statutory responsibilities for the conservation of salmon and sea trout; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21785/19]
  • 2019-05-09 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cumarsáide, Gníomhaithe ar son na hAeráide agus Comhshaoil an ndearna sé plé le húdaráis RTÉ maidir le teip an stáisiúin a gcuid dualgas reachtúil i leith craolachán i nGaeilge a chomhlíonadh; cad iad na torthaí a bhí aontaithe; cad é an plean gníomhaíochta a aontaíodh agus cad é an amlíne chun é a chur i bhfeidhm; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [20193/19]
  • 2019-01-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the climate mitigation policy developments on foot of the 2019 climate change performance index which ranked Ireland as the worst performing country in Europe for action on climate change for a second consecutive year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3398/19]
  • 2019-01-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage range by sector by which Ireland is likely to miss 2020 greenhouse gas emissions targets to reduce emissions to 20% below 2005 levels; the estimated annual fines Ireland is likely to face as a consequence; the steps being taken to address these shortfalls; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3397/19]
  • 2018-12-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost in 2019 if the budget for the electric vehicle home charger grant scheme increased by 20%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53276/18]
  • 2018-12-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated cost in 2019 if the budget for local authority anti-litter, anti-graffiti awareness grants increased by 20%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53274/18]
  • 2018-12-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which the national energy and climate plan will be informed by the principles of climate justice and just transition, climate science and the goals of the Paris Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51544/18]
  • 2018-11-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of all costs incurred in the preparation of the foreshore lease application (details supplied) made by SEAI for an offshore site in County Mayo, including the costs of all consultations, studies, assessment documents and reports relating to the entire project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49913/18]
  • 2018-11-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the significant reduction in spend from RTÉ to the Irish independent production sector (details supplied); the steps being taken to ensure that this spend in the sector is increased back to 2007 levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48511/18]
  • 2018-11-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the aspects of the television licence fee reform the interdepartmental working group is reviewing; when he expects this report to be published; if there will be engagement by the group with stakeholders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48512/18]
  • 2018-11-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on public service broadcasting; his further views on licence fee reform; when he plans to publish his action plan points in these areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48513/18]
  • 2018-11-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he will meet with an organisation (details supplied) to discuss the Irish independent production sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48514/18]
  • 2018-11-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on appointing the Revenue Commissioners as the licence fee collection agent to help reduce evasion rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48515/18]
  • 2018-11-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of funding received to date by all involved in a collaborative ocean energy project (details supplied); the amount of funding received from outside the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44929/18]
  • 2018-09-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the ESB Westwave project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35813/18]
  • 2018-09-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding received by the ESB Westwave project to date; the way in which this funding has been used to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35814/18]
  • 2018-07-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on his visit to New York; the persons who travelled with him from his Department; the meetings he attended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33895/18]
  • 2018-07-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the discretion he has in the imposition of a levy for a broadcaster whose base year qualifying income is more than €250,000 pursuant to section 33 of the Broadcasting Act 2009 and S.I. No. 7 of 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34636/18]
  • 2018-07-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on section 33 of the Broadcasting Act 2009 and S.I. No. 7 of 2010, in view of the fact the income on which the levy is calculated is grant income; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34638/18]
  • 2018-06-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the likely penalties that will be paid by Ireland for failure to meet EU 2020 carbon emissions targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24489/18]
  • 2018-06-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to introduce a single use plastics levy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25267/18]
  • 2018-06-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to ban the use of single use plastics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25276/18]
  • 2018-05-24 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the responsibility of SEAI for the development and operation of the Galway Bay marine and renewable energy test site at An Spidéal, Contae na Gaillimhe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22982/18]
  • 2018-04-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress made in implementing the 12 key actions recommended in the national adaptation framework; the measures implemented to ensure the oversight and reporting recommendations (details supplied) at national level are fully functional; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18013/18]
  • 2018-04-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the publication of the national clean air strategy which was due to be published in the fourth quarter of 2017; the reason for the delay in its publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18014/18]
  • 2018-03-08 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Cumarsáide, Gníomhaithe ar son na hAeráide agus Comhshaoil an féidir leis poist ina Roinn féin a aistriú go ceantar Bhaile na hAbhann i bhfianaise an chinnidh atá déanta ag RTÉ seirbhís Nuachta RTÉ a bhogadh ó cheannáras TG4 i mBaile na hAbhann i gConamara go Domhnach Broc i mBaile Átha Cliath, ionas nach n-ísleofar an líon daoine atá fostaithe sa cheantar sin, ceantar a bhfuil tábhacht le gach post ann chun an pobal a choimeád; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [11108/18]
  • 2017-11-30 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the term of office of the director general of the Environmental Protection Agency; the recruitment process when the term of office expires; the length of time the current director general has been in the position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51378/17]
  • …and 38 more questions on Communications
• Public 80 questions

  • 2023-01-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of the new projects to be delivered in the northern and western region following the recent allocation of €217 million under the European Regional Development Fund programme; the details of any engagement between his Department and the Northern and Western Regional Assembly in the development of the 2021 to 2027 programme and, in particular, with regard to reducing regional inequality in Ireland, as highlighted at EU level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1885/23]
  • 2023-01-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 90 of 28 April 2022, the status of the Coirib go Cósta flood relief works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1884/23]
  • 2022-11-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of any analysis carried out by his Department into the impact of the ongoing rise in rental prices on the cost of the rented portion of the OPW's office accommodation portfolio; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56397/22]
  • 2022-11-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 81 of 4 October 2022, the status of Ireland’s partnership agreement for cohesion funding for the period 2021 to 2027; the timeline for the publication of the agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56396/22]
  • 2022-11-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 123 of 16 June 2022, if he will provide a status update on his Department's work on the implementation of the Official Languages (Amendment) Act 2021 to date; the progress on reaching the target whereby at least 20% of staff recruited to public bodies are competent in the Irish language to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56428/22]
  • 2022-11-15 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to develop a strategy for the repurposing of vacant OPW buildings and unused OPW sites for public housing or community use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56429/22]
  • 2022-10-04 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of Ireland's partnership agreement for cohesion funding for the period 2021 to 2027; when he expects to bring the agreement to the Government; when he expects to publish the agreement; the details of any engagement that he or his Department has had with the European Commission on the recently reported downgrading of the northern and western region of Ireland to a lagging region (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48382/22]
  • 2022-10-04 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions that have been taken or that are planned following the analysis and conclusions of the spending review 2022 report entitled An Assessment of the Balance of Current and Capital Expenditure - OPW Estate Management Portfolio; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48285/22]
  • 2022-10-04 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the modernisation of the office accommodation portfolio in line with the Office of Public Works estate strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48286/22]
  • 2022-07-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the review in relation to amending the occupational injury and illness scheme or public sector pay in relation to cases of long-Covid contracted in the workplace, particularly in relation to the possible recognition of long-Covid as an occupational illness or disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35925/22]
  • 2022-06-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of all projects costing more than €100 million approved under the public spending code in Galway in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30717/22]
  • 2022-06-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of his Department’s work to date on the implementation of the Official Languages (Amendment) Act 2021; if a representative of his Department has been appointed to the Irish languages services advisory committee to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30771/22]
  • 2022-06-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the development of the south Mayo flood relief scheme; if the OPW has concluded its consideration of the feasibility report carried out by Mayo County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30765/22]
  • 2022-06-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the engagement that he has had with Coirib go Cósta and Galway City Council in 2022 in relation to incorporating a cycle track into the planned Galway city flood relief scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30766/22]
  • 2022-06-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of all projects over €100 million approved under the Public Spending Code in Galway in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30767/22]
  • 2022-04-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 91 of 1 March 2022, the status of the Coirib go Cósta flood relief works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20080/22]
  • 2022-04-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the review of ethics in public office legislation; when he expects to receive the final review report; the details of any interim reports received by him to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20079/22]
  • 2022-03-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 41 of 20 January 2022, the timeline for the expected completion of the report of the Interdepartmental Group on Managing Coastal Change; if the final report will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11402/22]
  • 2022-03-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 62 of 23 September 2021, 108 of 16 November 2021 and 210 of 20 January 2022, the expected timeline for stage 2 of Coirib go Cósta, namely the submission of planning documentation to An Bord Pleanála and the completion of all environmental assessments and consents; the status of the Coirib go Cósta flood relief works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11403/22]
  • 2022-03-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans for a review of the Arterial Drainage Act 1945; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11469/22]
  • 2022-01-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the engagement he has had with the National Coastal Change Management Strategy Steering Group in 2021 and to date in 2022; if he will report on the work of the group; the number of times the group has met to date; the details of reports he has received from the Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2447/22]
  • 2022-01-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 108 of 16 November 2021, the status of the flood relief works in the Spanish Arch area of Galway city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2446/22]
  • 2021-11-30 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if CEOs of statutory organisations may hold board and or committee positions in other organisations in this or another jurisdiction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58772/21]
  • 2021-11-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of his Department’s overall strategy or master plan for countering the impact of rising sea levels and coastal flooding in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55883/21]
  • 2021-11-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the flood relief works in the Spanish Arch area of Galway city; the cost of same to date; the estimated total cost of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55882/21]
  • 2021-11-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the flood relief scheme in Clifden, County Galway; the public consultation that has taken place or is planned in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55940/21]
  • 2021-11-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 5 of 23 September 2021, the status of the review of the freedom of information framework; the terms of reference of the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55941/21]
  • 2021-11-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of times the natural water retention measures working group met in 2020 and to date 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55942/21]
  • 2021-10-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number and value all procurement contracts that took place by way of negotiated procedure without prior publication in 2020 and to date in 2021; and the date, value and purpose of each negotiated procedure contract in tabular form. [49735/21]
  • 2021-09-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the review of freedom of information, FOI, legislation; the person or body that will be carrying out the review; the terms of reference of the review; the timeline for the completion of the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45634/21]
  • 2021-09-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of flood defences in the Spanish Arch and docks area of Galway city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45633/21]
  • 2021-06-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the analysis his Department has carried out into the question of ensuring that local elected representatives will be covered by protections for whistleblowers under the forthcoming legislation transposing the EU whistleblowing directive into law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32126/21]
  • 2021-06-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of flood defences in the Spanish Arch and docks area of Galway city; the details of any public consultation taken to date or planned in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32125/21]
  • 2021-06-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 69 of 21 April 2021, the status of the flood relief scheme for Clifden, County Galway; the surveys of the catchment area of the Owenglin river that have been carried out or are planned as part of the flood relief scheme; the examination of natural flood management techniques in the catchment area of the Owenglin river that are planned or have been carried out to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32178/21]
  • 2021-05-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the drafting of legislation to transpose the EU whistleblowing directive into law; his plans to ensure that local elected representatives will be covered by protections for whistleblowers under the new legislation; his further plans to ensure that all public and private workers and volunteers will be covered by protections for whistleblowers under the new legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26061/21]
  • 2021-04-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the scheme to alleviate flooding from the Owenglin River in Clifden, County Galway; the details of the analysis carried out or commissioned by his Department into the environmental elements of this flood relief scheme; if he is satisfied that the recent tendering process adequately provided for these environmental issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20509/21]
  • 2021-04-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of flood defences in the Spanish Arch and docks area of Galway city; if a public consultation will be undertaken in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20510/21]
  • 2021-04-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the implementation of the OPW integrated workplace management system; the details of the system; if the property data included in the system will be publicly accessible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20557/21]
  • 2021-04-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the transposition into Irish law of the EU whistleblowing directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20558/21]
  • 2020-12-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there is an obligation on civil servants to supply their written name, as opposed to their initials, in correspondence with members of the public; if exemptions exist on security grounds pursuant to the Civil Service Code of Standards and Behaviour; the specific civil servants, grades and Departments and-or sections of Departments to which this exemption applies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43626/20]
  • 2020-11-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the analysis undertaken by his Department to establish the capacity of the OPW to undertake the functions and remit of the Land Development Agency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36704/20]
  • 2020-11-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the analysis his Department has carried out into the expected additional cost implications to the Exchequer as a result of our role in the planned European Peace Facility further to the spending review carried out by his Department on expenditure on overseas peace support missions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36703/20]
  • 2020-10-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost to his Department to date of all fines paid by Ireland for non-transposition of EU directives into Irish law; the breakdown, by directive of the lump sum cost and the daily cost of each fine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28616/20]
  • 2020-09-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the transposition into Irish legislation of the EU whistleblowing directive; when the findings of the consultation process which concluded in July 2020 will be published; when the directive will be fully transposed here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26682/20]
  • 2020-09-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of the engagement he has had with the Minister for Social Protection and other stakeholders with regard to resolving the issue of the community employment scheme occupational pension; when the 2008 Labour Court recommendation will be implemented for a pension scheme to be put in place for community employment supervisors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26681/20]
  • 2020-09-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 111 of 9 September 2020, the reason the flood defence system installed in 2014 failed in the Clifden area of County Galway on 1 and 2 September 2020; if the location was identified by Catchment Flood Risk Assessment and Management Programme as a flood risk; if so, if the details of same will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24827/20]
  • 2020-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the breakdown of the cost of the flood defence system installed in Clifden, County Galway, in 2014; if he will provide a copy of the Natura 2000 impact statement completed for the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22719/20]
  • 2020-09-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding will be made available for flood defences for Tawin Island, County Galway; if so, when such funding will be available; if a Natura 2000 impact statement has been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22720/20]
  • 2020-07-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the research undertaken on foot of the Spending Review 2018, Analysis of OPW Spending on State Rents, in particular on the balance between capital and current expenditure; the effectiveness of the current model in meeting accommodation requests; if value for money is being obtained; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16768/20]
  • 2020-03-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if construction works on the new forensic laboratory has commenced; if not, when the works will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3234/20]
  • …and 30 more questions on Public
• Employment 51 questions

  • 2020-07-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the analysis that has been undertaken of the consequences of the decision not to extend the pandemic unemployment payment to those over 66 years of age that lost employment as a result of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16304/20]
  • 2020-07-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans in respect of the provision of pensions for community employment supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16767/20]
  • 2020-07-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the cost-benefit analysis undertaken for the public services card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18991/20]
  • 2020-07-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of revocations of gender recognition certificates made by her pursuant to section 14 of the Gender Recognition Act 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14454/20]
  • 2020-07-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of inquiries initiated under section 14 of the Gender Recognition Act 2015; the number of such investigations which are ongoing; the number of such investigations which have now concluded; the investigations which have concluded; the number concluded with a decision to revoke; the number concluded with a decision not to revoke; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14455/20]
  • 2020-06-16 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated amount it would cost in a full year to provide two extra weeks of fuel allowance to persons in receipt of the allowance for those over 80 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11432/20]
  • 2020-05-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when sections 19, 24, 25 and 26 of the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Act 2018 will come into effect; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7129/20]
  • 2020-05-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the PPSN applications of international students that have recently arrived here will be expedited (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7341/20]
  • 2020-05-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to implement a specific emergency social protection payment for international students that are not eligible for the pandemic unemployment payment and do not have a PPSN or are not currently able to find work (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7342/20]
  • 2020-05-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the PPSN applications of international students that have recently arrived here will be expedited in view of the fact that many cases are being refused despite providing valid reasons for applying for a PPSN and in further view of the fact that successful applications are in some cases taking over a month to process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8038/20]
  • 2020-05-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a specific emergency social protection payment will be introduced for international students that are not eligible for the pandemic unemployment payment and do not have a PPSN or are not able to find work in view of the fact that the exceptional needs payment does not adequately address the precarious situation they are in; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8039/20]
  • 2019-11-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications awaiting assessment by the medical review and assessment section, in tabular form; the payments to which the applications refer; the length of time in months such persons are waiting; the counties from which the applications come; the length of time allocated for a medical review or assessment; if she is satisfied that there is an adequate number of medical assessors to undertake the assessments on hand; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44618/19]
  • 2019-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of reviews carried out by her Department pursuant to Standing Order No. 164A of Dáil Éireann; the pieces of legislation to which each review refers; the number and title of each piece of legislation in respect of which a review pursuant to Standing Order 164A has not been undertaken; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31629/19]
  • 2019-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons, by week and county, awaiting assignment of an inspector in respect of a disability allowance application in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31763/19]
  • 2019-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost if the weekly rate of qualified child allowance for children aged under 12 years of age increased from €34 to €37 and for children aged over 12 years of age from €37 to €43; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32896/19]
  • 2019-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason appeals in respect of carer’s benefit increased by 47.3% in 2018; the number of appeals to which the percentage corresponds; the grounds on which the appeals were made; the number of same that were successful, refused, withdrawn and or revised; the reasons therefor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33102/19]
  • 2019-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals in respect of carer’s benefit in each of the past five years; the number which were successful, refused, withdrawn and revised, respectively; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33103/19]
  • 2019-07-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will provide details of all entities in which she or her Department hold shares; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30183/19]
  • 2019-05-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to update the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20805/19]
  • 2019-05-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to address perceived discriminatory measures (details supplied) under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20085/19]
  • 2019-05-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to remove the barriers associated with the partial capacity benefit scheme and allow persons on invalidity pensions to participate in employment for rehabilitative or therapeutic purposes for up to 20 hours per week as permitted under pre-2013 exemption arrangements without the need to transfer to partial capacity benefit in view of ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the recent changes to the rules on disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20084/19]
  • 2019-03-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost if the island allowance of €12.70 per week was increased to €15.50 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11731/19]
  • 2018-11-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of correspondence requiring them to transfer to HAP from rent supplement; the number of persons whose rent supplement has been consequently terminated and are not in receipt of HAP, leaving them with no financial assistance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46884/18]
  • 2018-11-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons awaiting back payment of illness benefit payments; the number of weeks for which the payments are outstanding; the value of outstanding payments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46885/18]
  • 2018-09-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the services for which a public services card is required; the categories and details of data contained on the card; the Departments and or agencies with which such information may be shared; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38867/18]
  • 2018-09-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason childcare fees are not considered as an expense in the eligibility for the one parent family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36908/18]
  • 2018-09-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the findings of a report (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36909/18]
  • 2018-06-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to increase direct provision payments for adults and children in line with the supplementary welfare allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25266/18]
  • 2018-05-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons on jobseeker's payments are obliged to pursue the JobPath Seetec route if called upon to do so by her Department or if they have a choice not to go this route; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19215/18]
  • 2018-05-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of a jobseeker's payment in Galway city and county who have had their existing payment cut or withdrawn consequent on their decision not to choose the JobPath Seetec route; the number that have had their payment subsequently reinstated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19214/18]
  • 2018-02-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied that the public service identity database and the public services card fully comply with EU standards and the general data protection regulation due to take effect in May 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8440/18]
  • 2018-02-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to re-examine the requirement that persons that signed up to JobPath may not participate in a community employment scheme for up to one year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8441/18]
  • 2018-01-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average waiting time for decisions on carer's allowance and domiciliary care allowance payments; the number of persons awaiting decisions on such payments, including the length of time involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2133/18]
  • 2018-01-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for exceptional needs payments received in 2015, 2016 and 2017; the number granted; the number refused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2048/18]
  • 2018-01-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of invalidity pension and disability allowance applications received in 2015, 2016 and 2017; the number of refusals at first instance; the number granted on appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2047/18]
  • 2017-12-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is the sponsor or supervisor that has responsibility for the implementation for the daily running of community employment schemes, including the new welfare partners website; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53277/17]
  • 2017-12-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the additional training provided to sponsors, community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors in respect of the new welfare partners website; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53278/17]
  • 2017-12-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the additional training provided to sponsors, community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors in respect of additional responsibilities such as being responsible for and ascertaining the way in which coaching and mentoring takes place and providing evidence to their community development officer of this being done; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53279/17]
  • 2017-12-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reviews undertaken regarding the community employment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53280/17]
  • 2017-12-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to issues in relation to the helpline for community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53281/17]
  • 2017-12-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to restore annual leave for community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors to 21 days; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53282/17]
  • 2017-12-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address ongoing issues in respect of pension schemes for community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53283/17]
  • 2017-12-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding contracts of indefinite duration for community employment supervisors and assistant supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53284/17]
  • 2017-11-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the procedures and-or protocols in place to ensure women who have experienced or continue to experience domestic abuse are not obliged to seek maintenance payments from the other parent; her plans to establish a national maintenance agency; the details of the domestic abuse awareness training provided to her Department's staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50711/17]
  • 2017-11-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the overall cost to date of the public services card, including production, activation and all other associated costs; the life span of the card; the nature of the contract with the service provider; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50526/17]
  • 2017-11-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 1191 of 7 November 2017, the number of applications received in respect of the scheme; the number of applications refused; the reasons therefore; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48237/17]
  • 2017-11-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons aged 65 years of age and over that are in receipt of jobseeker's allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46865/17]
  • 2017-11-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the results of a cost benefit analysis that has been undertaken in respect of the public services card, PSC; the number of cards that have been issued to date.; the cost of same; the number that have been activated; the cost incurred to activate the cards; the business case presented for activation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46864/17]
  • 2017-11-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications received in relation to the artist's social welfare pilot scheme; the number of persons in receipt of welfare payments in respect of the scheme; the number of applications refused; the reasons therefor; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45833/17]
  • 2017-11-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the analysis that has been carried out in regard to the impact a company (details supplied) and Turas Nua has had on community employment schemes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46869/17]
  • …and 1 more questions on Employment
• Public Expenditure 49 questions

  • 2025-07-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation further to Parliamentary Question No. 100 of 13 February 2025, for an update on the Coirib go Cósta project; the timeline for its delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39985/25]
  • 2025-06-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation when funding will be made available to Galway County Council to complete the takeover and refurbishment of Dunguaire Castle, Kinvara, County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29310/25]
  • 2025-05-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 99 of 13 February 2025, for an update on the plans to review and strengthen the ethics in public office legislation, following the completion of the review of the statutory framework in December 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27769/25]
  • 2025-04-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to outline the monies claimed by Ireland under the Recovery and Resilience Fund; the programmes the funding was expended on; the extent of remaining monies due to be drawn down and by which programmes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17814/25]
  • 2025-04-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of candidates in the European elections 2024 who have been reimbursed electoral expenses to date; the number of candidates whose expenses have yet to be reimbursed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17816/25]
  • 2025-04-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 100 of 13 February 2025, for an update on the Corrib go Cósta project; if the design options have now been developed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16249/25]
  • 2025-04-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 99 of 13 February 2025, for an update on plans to review and strengthen the ethics in public office legislation following the completion of the review of the statutory framework in December 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16248/25]
  • 2025-03-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the Statutory Instruments he envisages being brought forward and signed by his Department during the first six months of 2025; to highlight in particular those concerned with the transposition and or implementation of further implementation of EU law requirements; those Statutory Instruments concerned with commencement of existing legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10335/25]
  • 2025-02-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform for an update on the plans to review and strengthen the ethics in public office legislation following the completion of the review of the statutory framework in December 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4899/25]
  • 2025-02-13 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform for an update on the Coirib go Cósta project; the timeline for its delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4900/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas and the time allowed for each Stage; if ministerial or Government amendments to other legislation were only included in the Bill via amendment, after the Bill had been initiated, bypassing earlier Stages; the number of pages in the Bill when initiated and when it completed the legislative process, or as it currently stands amended for any lapsed Bills; if the Minister or the Government changed the scope of the Bill after it was initiated, and at which Stage and in which House this was done; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4253/25]
  • 2025-02-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of European election candidates that have received reimbursement of their election expenses, in each of the three constituencies of the 2024 election, including the dates on which those payments were made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2188/25]
  • 2024-07-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Question No. 90 of 2 May 2024, for an update on the Coirib go Cósta project; if the project programme has now been finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29342/24]
  • 2024-07-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Question No. 90 of 2 May 2024, to outline the timeline for delivery of the Coirib go Cósta project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29343/24]
  • 2024-07-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform his plans to review and strengthen the ethics in public office legislation following the completion of the review of the statutory framework in December 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29340/24]
  • 2024-05-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the estimated cost of introducing a living wage set at €14.80 per hour for public and civil service workers. [24137/24]
  • 2024-05-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 48 of 23 April 2024, for an update on the engagement between the steering group and the consultants regarding the fee proposal for the Coirib go Cósta project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19531/24]
  • 2024-05-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 67 of 21 February 2024, for an update on the delivery to-date of National Development Plan 2021-2030 projects for County Galway; for an update on his Department's work on updating the NDP sectoral allocations to 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19532/24]
  • 2024-04-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the estimated cost of the revised Coirib go Cósta flood relief scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14382/24]
  • 2024-04-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 105 of 8 February 2024, the status of the review by the Coirib go Cósta steering group of the draft revised programme incorporating the additional scope for the Coirib go Cósta flood relief scheme; the timeline for the publication of the revised project programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14381/24]
  • 2024-04-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the expected timeline for the publication of the revised National Development Plan allocations out to 2028; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14350/24]
  • 2024-04-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to the review of the statutory framework for ethics in public office, the status of the development of the scheme for legislative reform in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14353/24]
  • 2024-04-09 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the status of the review of the freedom of information regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14354/24]
  • 2024-02-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the progress made in delivering National Development Plan 2021-2030 projects for County Galway for each year of the lifetime of the current Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8251/24]
  • 2024-02-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 27 of 28 November 2023, the status of the review by the Coirib go Cósta steering group of the draft revised programme incorporating the additional scope for the Coirib go Cósta flood relief scheme; the timeline for the publication of the revised project programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5487/24]
  • 2024-02-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the expected timeline for the next public consultation day for the Coirib go Cósta flood relief scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5488/24]
  • 2024-02-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the projected cost of the revised Coirib go Cósta flood relief scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5474/24]
  • 2023-11-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 38 of 26 October 2023, the status of the review by the Coirib go Cósta steering group of the draft revised programme for the Coirib go Cósta flood relief scheme; the timeline for the publication of the revised project programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52247/23]
  • 2023-11-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the details of his Department’s plan for assisting the recovery of communities in County Galway impacted by recent flooding, with regard to flood relief measures, flood defences and climate adaptation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52248/23]
  • 2023-11-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if, following a request to the OPW that the gates at Meelick and Lusma on 6, 10 and 12 July be opened in order to enable the river to flow freely, it was not until 15 July, being nine days after the initial request, that the gates were opened leading to devastating flooding in the Shannon Callows from Athlone to Meelick; the reason for the delay in opening the gates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49644/23]
  • 2023-10-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of vacant properties in the OPW property portfolio; the number of these which require refurbishment in order to be brought back into use; the status of plans for any such refurbishment; his plans to develop a strategy for the repurposing of these vacant buildings for public housing or community use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46981/23]
  • 2023-10-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 38 of 27 June 2023, the status of the review of the programme for the Coirib go Cósta flood relief scheme; if the additional flood relief works have been scoped and agreed to date; when the revised project programme will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46980/23]
  • 2023-10-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 33 of 27 June 2023, the status of the independent evaluation of national development plan priorities and capacity; if the work has been received by his Department; the timeline for publication of the evaluation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47052/23]
  • 2023-10-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 96 of 15 November 2022, the details of any analysis carried out by his Department into the impact of the ongoing rise in rental prices on the cost of the rented portion of the OPW's office accommodation portfolio; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47053/23]
  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of Bills prepared by his Department in the 33rd Dáil to date; the number and title of those Bills that included a Regulatory Impact Assessment; the title of the RIAs published by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41595/23]
  • 2023-09-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform pursuant to a Labour Court recommendation (details supplied), for a status update on the process to increase pensions in payment to all pensioners in the An Post superannuation scheme; the timeline for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39686/23]
  • 2023-06-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the details of the promised independent evaluation of national development plan priorities and capacity; the timeline for the evaluation to be carried out; the details of the individual or organisation tasked with carrying out the evaluation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31299/23]
  • 2023-06-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 41 of 11 May 2023, the status of the review of the programme for the Coirib go Cósta flood relief scheme; the status of the revised programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30904/23]
  • 2023-06-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the details of any analysis carried out by his Department into the expected impacts of the recent changes to the public spending code, and in particular the introduction of a-three stage approvals process on major projects that were already moving through the approvals process prior to the changes to the public spending code; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30905/23]
  • 2023-06-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the status of the implementation of the recommendations of the Report of the Review of Ireland's Statutory Framework for Ethics in Public Office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31300/23]
  • 2023-06-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform for details of the engagement his Department has had with the Department of Health and the HSE with regard to the recent changes to the public spending code, and in particular the introduction of a three-stage approvals process, and the impacts of these changes on an ongoing project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31301/23]
  • 2023-05-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the estimated cost of introducing a living wage set at €13.85 per hour for public and civil service workers. [23762/23]
  • 2023-05-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will clarify the role his Department will have in approving an automatic enrolment pension system; the expected overall cost to the State of the scheme; the details of the engagement his Department has had with the Department of Social Protection in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22155/23]
  • 2023-05-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 110 of 2 March 2023, the status of the review of the programme for the Coirib go Cósta flood relief scheme; the status of the revised programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22154/23]
  • 2023-05-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 62 of 1 March 2023, the status of his Department’s work to date on the implementation of the Official Languages (Amendment) Act 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22138/23]
  • 2023-05-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will provide a status update on the Claregalway flood relief scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22139/23]
  • 2023-03-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 131 of 19 January 2023, the status of the review of the programme for the Coirib go Cósta flood relief scheme; the status of the revised programme; if it has been completed to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10372/23]
  • 2023-03-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the engagement he has had with a group (details supplied) on its call for a stimulus package for the Northern and Western Region, as well as increased capital investment in the region’s infrastructure assets, in view of the classification of the region by EU bodies as a “region in transition” and a “lagging region”; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10373/23]
  • 2023-03-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 116 of 15 November 2022, the status of his Department's work to date on the implementation of the Official Languages (Amendment) Act 2021; if he will provide an update on his Department's role on the Irish Languages Services Advisory Committee, particularly in relation to the preparation of the national plan to increase the provision of services through Irish and survey the number of Irish speakers employed by the public service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10383/23]
• Arts 38 questions

  • 2017-07-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the steps that have been taken to ensure that the Heritage Council has adequate resources to provide a comment on the matter of foreshore planning consent for a high priority strategic project foreshore lease planning application on Galway Bay (details supplied) to construct an offshore electricity generating station, in view of the fact that the council had previously cited limitations on staff resources as the reason it could not comment on the application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35900/17]
  • 2017-07-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the steps that will be taken to ensure that the Heritage Council can formulate and provide an informed recommendation regarding the protection of national heritage to the appropriate Minister before the decision is made, as requested by her Department on 10 and 31 March 2016, in respect of foreshore planning consent on Galway Bay (details supplied) to construct an offshore electricity generating station; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35901/17]
  • 2017-07-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason the nature conservation unit of the National Parks and Wildlife Service did not accept her Department's invitation to participate in the marine licence vetting committee in addition to providing its observations on the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government's foreshore lease planning application to construct an offshore electricity generating station in Galway Bay in view of the fact that this application is noted as a high priority strategic project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36431/17]
  • 2017-07-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she is satisfied regarding the submitted observation in relation to a foreshore lease planning application (details supplied) on Galway Bay, in view of the fact that the council stated that due to limitations on staff resources, the Heritage Council will not be in a position to comment on this application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33326/17]
  • 2017-06-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the progress that has been made on the initiative to encourage increased residential occupancy in town and village centres as outlined in the action plan for rural development, by county; when the initiative is expected to commence; the funding made available for the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27614/17]
  • 2017-06-20 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta, Gnóthaí Réigiúnacha, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cá mhéad foirgneamh de chuid Údarás na Gaeltachta atá folamh; cé chomh fada agus atá siad folamh; cén áit a bhfuil siad; cad iad na pleananna atá ag an Údarás maidir leo; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [27611/17]
  • 2017-06-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs further to meetings between the Minister of State for Gaeltacht affairs and natural resources and his staff with a company (details supplied), the position regarding action 165 of the Action Plan for Rural Development specifically regarding the proposal to establish a residential education centre in Tullycross, Connemara, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27613/17]
  • 2017-06-20 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta, Gnóthaí Réigiúnacha, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cá mhéad plean teanga atá curtha faoina bráid agus atá ceadaithe aici; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [27612/17]
  • 2017-06-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the position regarding the proposed new town hall in Ballinrobe on the site of the old town hall; if the funding has been made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27615/17]
  • 2017-05-02 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta, Gnóthaí Réigiúnacha, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cad é stádas na bpleananna teanga; agus go háirithe, cé mhéad plean atá críochnaithe agus curtha os comhair an Aire; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [20429/17]
  • 2017-05-02 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta, Gnóthaí Réigiúnacha, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an bhfuair aon bhaile, atá suite i gcroílár Ghaeltacht Chonamara agus atá chomh tábhachtach sin d'inmharthanacht na Gaeltachta, aon chabhair faoin Scéim Athnuachana Bailte agus Sráidbhailte; agus má fuair, an gcuirfidh sí an bhliain inar tugadh an chabhair agus sonraí na cabhrach sin in iúl; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [20432/17]
  • 2017-05-02 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta, Gnóthaí Réigiúnacha, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cad é stádas Bhille nua na dTeangacha Oifigiúla atá beartaithe; agus go háirithe, cén dáta a fhoilseofar Ceannteidil an Bhille; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [20428/17]
  • 2017-05-02 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta, Gnóthaí Réigiúnacha, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an ndeimhneoidh sí go bhfuil athbhreithniú práinneach ag teastáil maidir leis an Straitéis Fiche Bliain i ndáil le torthaí an daonáirimh agus go háirithe an laghdú suntasach atá tagtha ar líon na gcainteoirí Gaeilge; an bhfuil an t-athbhreithniú seo tosaithe; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [20431/17]
  • 2017-05-02 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta, Gnóthaí Réigiúnacha, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar chinneadh Fhoras na Gaeilge bogadh as oifig laistigh d'fhoirgneamh Oifig na nOibreacha Poiblí, go háirithe ó thaobh ardú cíosa agus sarú an mheamraim airgeadais de; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [20430/17]
  • 2017-05-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the number of investigations into illegal gorse fires taking place in 2017; the procedures her Department currently follows to ensure section 40 of the Wildlife Act 1975, as amended, is adhered to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19320/17]
  • 2017-05-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 454 and 455 of 11 April 2017, the detail of the document being referred to as the proponents report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19509/17]
  • 2017-05-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason the nature conservation unit of the National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, declined to participate in the marine licence vetting committee assessing the Galway Bay marine and renewable energy test site in An Spidéal, County Galway (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19510/17]
  • 2017-04-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the reason the NPWS did not comment on the lack of an NIS and or an EIS in its observations advising on the protection of surrounding networks in relation to a foreshore lease application (details supplied) in view of the fact that the screening process identified likely significant effects on the integrity of sites (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17883/17]
  • 2017-04-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the rationale behind agreeing with the conclusion that no pathway exists by which a proposed test site (details supplied) could impact upon any adjacent designated site when the birds protected in the SPA can fly the short distance to the test site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17884/17]
  • 2017-03-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 48 of 7 March 2017, if the monitoring committee has been established; if not, the reason for the delay in its establishment; when its establishment is expected; the names and posts of the members of the committee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14953/17]
  • 2017-03-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 236 of 1 March 2017, if her Department's observations dated 13 May 2016 requested by the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government on an application (details supplied) are based on a thorough examination and robust scientific assessment of the application and its supporting documentation as a whole; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14151/17]
  • 2017-03-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 236 of 1 March 2017, if she is satisfied that her Department has properly advised the public and the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government on an application (details supplied) when officially consulted in March and April 2016 by the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, in view of the concerns raised by 555 public submissions and an organisation's observations on the application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14152/17]
  • 2017-03-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 236 of 1 March 2017, if her views on whether her Department's observations remain appropriate in view of the 555 submissions which include a submission from an organisation (details supplied) as stated in her reply; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14153/17]
  • 2017-03-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she will provide a list of all the in combination issues that were considered by the National Parks and Wildlife Service in its observations dated 13 May 2016 requested by the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government on an application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14154/17]
  • 2017-03-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the status of the clearing house forum to investigate the best ideas to advance economic and social progress in rural Ireland, as provided for under the programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11766/17]
  • 2017-03-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she has satisfied herself that the consideration and advice supplied by her Department in respect of foreshore lease application (details supplied) meets the statutory obligations with regard to the implementation of environmental EU and national laws, in view of the serious concerns regarding non-compliance with environmental legislation expressed by 555 public submissions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10761/17]
  • 2017-03-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if her Department has been in contact with the Department and Minister of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government regarding concerns conveyed to her Department by the public over the past number of months regarding possible non-compliance with national and EU environmental legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10762/17]
  • 2017-02-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she is satisfied that the response of the Heritage Council, when officially consulted regarding a foreshore lease application (details supplied) to construct an offshore electricity generation station on Galway Bay, meets her Department's statutory obligations, in view of the project's nature, size and location amid the sensitive and protected landscapes and seascapes of Connemara and the Burren; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9566/17]
  • 2017-02-28 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs if she is satisfied that the response given by the National Parks and Wildlife Service's development applications unit, when consulted regarding a foreshore lease application (details supplied) to construct an offshore electricity generation station on Galway Bay, meets her Department's statutory obligations, in view of the project's nature, size and location; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9567/17]
  • 2017-02-09 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta, Gnóthaí Réigiúnacha, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an bhfuil sí ar an eolas maidir leis na pleananna atá ag Foras na Gaeilge bogadh as Oifig na nOibreacha Poiblí agus foirgneamh príobháideach a fháil ar cíos; má chuireann an eagraíocht sin na pleananna sin i gcrích an mbeidh sí ag sárú a cuid dualgas faoin meamram airgeadais; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [6431/17]
  • 2017-01-24 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta, Gnóthaí Réigiúnacha, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an n-iarrfaidh sí ar Údarás Ollscoil na hÉireann, Gaillimh athbhreithniú a dhéanamh ar an gcinneadh gan líofacht sa Ghaeilge a bheith riachtanach don phost mar Uachtarán na hOllscoile as seo amach; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [3025/17]
  • 2016-10-20 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta, Gnóthaí Réigiúnacha, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta cé mhéid airgid a chuir an Rialtas ar fáil d'Údarás na Gaeltachta sna blianta 2015 agus 2016 agus i mBuiséad 2017; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [31149/16]
  • 2016-10-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs the amount of money that was made available to counties under the town and village renewal scheme in tabular form; specifically which towns and villages; of those funds made available, the proportion that was used; the review process and analysis in place for the effectiveness of the scheme; the results of such a review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31152/16]
  • 2016-10-20 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta, Gnóthaí Réigiúnacha, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta an féidir léi soiléiriú agus míniú a thabhairt maidir leis an laghdú 9% ó thaobh na teanga, na Gaeltachta agus na n-oileán de; cé na heagraíochtaí agus na scéimeanna a bheidh thíos leis an laghdú seo; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [31148/16]
  • 2016-10-20 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta, Gnóthaí Réigiúnacha, Tuaithe agus Gaeltachta ós rud é go ndúirt an Rialtas in 2007 go raibh siad ag glacadh le moltaí an SCT (Staidéar Cuimsitheach Teangeolaíochta), an bhfuil sé ar intinn acu na moltaí tábhachtacha a chur i bhfeidhm; go háirithe an bhfuil an moladh maidir le SLG (Scéim Labhairt na Gaeilge) a fhorbairt agus a fheabhsú le cur i bhfeidhm; cén costas a bhainfeadh le moltaí an SCT a chur i bhfeidhm; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [31150/16]
  • 2016-10-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs given the importance of job creation in helping to retain sustainable communities in Gaeltacht areas and given Údarás na Gaeltachta's confirmation that an increase in its capital budget to €12 million per annum would enable it to create an additional 1,000 new jobs over three years, if she will commit to this funding request; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22913/16]
  • 2016-07-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to bring funding for the arts in line with the European standard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19898/16]
  • 2016-06-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the process relating to the National Parks and Wildlife Service’s ongoing examination of compensatory measures with regard to alternative special areas of conservation, particularly in relation to the Galway Harbour extension; the criteria, guidelines and directions that are in place in relation to this process; and the proposed locations of potential alternative designated special areas of conservation. [15074/16]
• Business 26 questions

  • 2020-07-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation his plans to review and strengthen the co-operative legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15761/20]
  • 2020-07-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if Enterprise Ireland and his Department have conducted a review of the regional enterprise development fund to identify gaps in funding provision in support of regional enterprise development; if so, the findings of the review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15762/20]
  • 2020-07-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if a review of the policy with regard to data centres will be undertaken in view of the fact that data centre development is projected to add at least 1.5 million tonnes to carbon emissions here by 2020 and the obligations under climate change legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15975/20]
  • 2020-07-07 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the timeline for transposition of the representative action directive; the body to be named as qualified entity for the purposes of launching actions for injunction and redress under the directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14208/20]
  • 2020-06-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number and location of all HSA inspections that have taken place in direct provision centres; the findings of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9230/20]
  • 2020-06-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she is satisfied that the HSA is adequately staffed; if the HSA has made a request for additional staff; the number of staff taken on by the HSA as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9231/20]
  • 2020-05-27 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the estimated full-year cost if the budget for the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement increased by 25%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7102/20]
  • 2020-03-05 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the budget allocation for the Labour Court and the Workplace Relations Commission in 2018, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form. [3236/20]
  • 2019-12-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to have a trade and investment mission to Singapore early in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51659/19]
  • 2019-12-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the cost benefit analysis undertaken on the development of data centres pursuant to the Enterprise Strategy in view of the fact that data centre development is projected to add at least 1.5 million tonnes to carbon emissions here by 2030; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50096/19]
  • 2019-10-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the amount of funding her Department provided to Science Foundation Ireland in 2017, 2018 and 2019, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40925/19]
  • 2019-09-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation when Ireland will ratify the International Labour Organisation Convention and Recommendation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38936/19]
  • 2019-09-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation when the post of corporate compliance manager and two forensic accountant posts at the Office of Director of Corporate Enforcement will be filled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37365/19]
  • 2019-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number of reviews carried out by her Department pursuant to Standing Order No. 164A of Dáil Éireann; the pieces of legislation to which each review refers; the number and title of each piece of legislation in respect of which a review pursuant to Standing Order 164A has not been undertaken; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31623/19]
  • 2019-07-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she will provide details of all entities in which she or her Department holds shares; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30177/19]
  • 2019-07-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation when she last met the director general of Science Foundation Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27782/19]
  • 2019-01-31 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the county specific targets on job creation mandated for local enterprise offices in County Galway; the number of local enterprise supported jobs created to date in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51855/18]
  • 2018-10-02 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to have a trade mission to the east coast of the United States of America before the end of 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39768/18]
  • 2018-04-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the likely impact of the recently announced US Treasury sanctions against Russian oligarchs for both Irish and overseas companies operating here; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16873/18]
  • 2018-04-18 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the likely impact of the recently announced US Treasury sanctions against a person (details supplied) on a business; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16874/18]
  • 2017-12-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the position regarding the EU-Mercosur deal; if same is being deferred pending the human rights impact assessment being part of the sustainable impact assessment expected in 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53218/17]
  • 2017-12-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation if she has satisfied herself that the EU-Mercosur deal adequately addresses climate change; if so, the basis for that satisfaction; the extent to which climate change has been incorporated in each chapter of the EU-Mercosur deal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53219/17]
  • 2017-12-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the extent to which the precautionary principle enshrined in EU law as a cornerstone of its environmental policy has been incorporated in each chapter of the EU-Mercosur deal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53220/17]
  • 2017-11-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the Government's position on the potential inclusion of investor court mechanisms in a trade negotiation mandate with the UK post Brexit in view of the fact that the legality of such mechanisms is currently being challenged at the European Court of Justice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50856/17]
  • 2017-10-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the amount spent on the three year investment programme winning abroad which commenced in 2014; the value being obtained for this spend; the new sector and business opportunities which have been identified; the number of jobs that have been created; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43031/17]
  • 2017-10-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation the number and location of IDA sites in Galway city and county that are not in use; the length of time they have not been in use; the amount they were purchased for and when; if the empty sites have been used since their purchase; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43030/17]
• Taoiseach 19 questions

  • 2025-07-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach the value of both imports and exports of trade in both goods and services between Ireland and the occupied Palestinian territories in each of the years 2021 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37493/25]
  • 2025-03-19 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach the statutory instruments he envisages being brought forward and signed by his Department during the first six months of 2025; to highlight in particular those concerned with the transposition and or implementation of further implementation of EU law requirements; and those Statutory Instruments concerned with commencement of existing legislation. [10702/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach in respect of each Bill for which his Department had responsibility and that was initiated in 2024, or that was enacted in 2024, to specify in which House of the Oireachtas the Bill was initiated; the number of ministerial or Government amendments submitted at each legislative Stage of the Bill; if the guillotine was used on the Bill in either House of the Oireachtas and the time allowed for each Stage; if ministerial or Government amendments to other legislation were only included in the Bill via amendment, after the Bill had been initiated, bypassing earlier Stages; the number of pages in the Bill when initiated and when it completed the legislative process, or as it currently stands amended for any lapsed Bills; if the Minister or the Government changed the scope of the Bill after it was initiated, and at which Stage and in which House this was done. [4256/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach in respect of each Bill referred to the President for his consideration and signing in 2024; the dates on which each Bill was presented to the President for signing; and the number of Bills referred that had the possibility to overlap with the Bill, given the seven days afforded to the President for consideration were he to have taken the full seven days for each Bill. [4259/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach in respect of each Bill referred to the President for his consideration and signing in 2023; the dates on which each Bill was presented to the President for signing; and the number of Bills referred that had the possibility to overlap with the Bill, given the seven days afforded to the President for consideration were he to have taken the full seven days for each Bill. [4260/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach in respect of each Bill referred to the President for his consideration and signing in 2022; the dates on which each Bill was presented to the President for signing; and the number of Bills referred that had the possibility to overlap with the Bill, given the seven days afforded to the President for consideration were he to have taken the full seven days for each Bill. [4261/25]
  • 2025-02-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach in respect of each Bill referred to the President for his consideration and signing in 2021; the dates on which each Bill was presented to the President for signing; and the number of Bills referred that had the possibility to overlap with the Bill, given the seven days afforded to the President for consideration were he to have taken the full seven days for each Bill. [4262/25]
  • 2024-03-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach his plans for long-Covid to be included in the terms of reference for the upcoming Covid inquiry. [12139/24]
  • 2023-09-26 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach the number of Bills prepared by his Department in the 33rd Dáil to date; the number and title of those Bills that included a Regulatory Impact Assessment; and the title of the RIAs published by his Department [41598/23]
  • 2023-02-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach if it remains the case that the Central Statistics Office continues to publish crime statistics using data recorded on An Garda Síochána's PULSE system "under reservation"; the length of time the CSO has been dissatisfied with the quality of recorded crime data; and when it is expected that the crime data will be of a standard to enable its publication without requiring the "under reservation" qualifier. [5690/23]
  • 2022-09-14 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 152 of 10 May 2022, the status of the investigation into the leak of the report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation which was reported on in an article which appeared in a national newspaper on 10 January 2021; the details of any interim reports received to-date from the senior official in charge of the investigation; the terms of reference of the investigation; when it commenced; when it is expected to be concluded; the position of the person overseeing the investigation; the number of hours that have been spent on the investigation to date. [44193/22]
  • 2022-05-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach the status of the investigation into the leak of the report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation which was reported on in an article which appeared in a national newspaper on 10 January 2021; the structure of the examination; the terms of reference of the examination; when it commenced; when it is expected to be concluded; the position of the person overseeing the investigation; the number of hours spent on the investigation to date. [22691/22]
  • 2022-02-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 25 January 2021, the terms of reference of the investigation and examination of arrangements for the management of documents for Government meetings and their confidentiality. [4750/22]
  • 2022-01-25 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach the status of the investigation into the leak of the report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation; the details of any report received from the Secretary General his Department to date; the terms of reference of the investigation; and when the report will be published. [3180/22]
  • 2021-10-12 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach the number and value of all procurement contracts that took place by way of negotiated procedure without prior publication in 2020 and to date in 2021; and the date, value and purpose of each negotiated procedure contract in tabular form.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49738/21]
  • 2020-11-03 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach if his attention has been drawn to the fact that nearly 200 permanent and backup field interviewers in the Central Statistics Office are currently off the road and working from home and if his attention has been further drawn to the fact that these highly skilled interviewers are contracted to work only 27 hours per week. [32347/20]
  • 2019-07-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach the number of reviews carried out by his Department pursuant to Standing Order 164A of Dáil Éireann; the pieces of legislation to which each review refers; and the number and title of each piece of legislation in respect of which a review pursuant to Standing Order 164A has not been undertaken. [31637/19]
  • 2019-07-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach if he will provide details of all entities in which he or his Department hold shares. [30191/19]
  • 2017-04-11 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Taoiseach when the Fennelly commission report will be published. [17738/17]
• Media 11 questions

  • 2020-10-06 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Meán, Turasóireachta, Ealaíon, Cultúir, Spóirt agus Gaeltachta soiléiriú a thabhairt i dtaobh na hidirghníomhaíochta a bhí aici le RTÉ ó dheimhnigh an Coimisinéir Teanga in 2018 gur sháraigh RTÉ an dlí craolacháin maidir lena dhualgas i leith na Gaeilge agus 99.3% dá sceideal teilifíse i mBéarla amháin; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [28305/20]
  • 2020-10-06 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht the cost to her Department to date of all fines paid by Ireland for non-transposition of EU directives into Irish law; the breakdown, by directive of the lump sum cost and the daily cost of each fine; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28615/20]
  • 2020-10-01 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Meán, Turasóireachta, Ealaíon, Cultúir, Spóirt agus Gaeltachta maidir le ceist uimhir 310 ar an 28ú Iúil 2020, an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar stádas Phlean Teanga Chathair na Gaillimhe; an bhfuil an plean faofa aici; cén dáta a fhoilseofar é; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [27095/20]
  • 2020-10-01 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Meán, Turasóireachta, Ealaíon, Cultúir, Spóirt agus Gaeltachta maidir le cliantchomhlachtaí Údarás na Gaeltachta, an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar líon na bPleananna Teanga atá curtha le chéile ag an Údarás in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 agus 2020; an dtabharfaidh sí soiléiriú ar an gcórás monatóireachta atá i bhfeidhm chun a chinntiú go bhfuil an Ghaeilge á húsáid go nádúrtha agus go forleathan; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [27096/20]
  • 2020-10-01 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht further to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 22 July 2020, the status of the performance delivery agreement with Galway 2020; if the Irish language officer has been reinstated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27092/20]
  • 2020-10-01 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Meán, Turasóireachta, Ealaíon, Cultúir, Spóirt agus Gaeltachta cén dáta a fhoilseofar Bille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [27094/20]
  • 2020-09-15 D'fhiafraigh Deputy Catherine Connolly den Aire Meán, Turasóireachta, Ealaíon, Cultúir, Spóirt agus Gaeltachta faoi stádas an iarratais (sonraí tugtha) atá ós comhair na Roinne ó Chomhlacht Forbartha Inis Meáin; cén dáta a dhéanfar cinneadh ina thaobh; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [23529/20]
  • 2020-09-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht the local authorities employing biodiversity officers; the number of biodiversity officers employed by each of the local authorities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21690/20]
  • 2020-09-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht the local authorities employing heritage officers; the number of heritage officers employed by each local authority; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21691/20]
  • 2020-09-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht the breakdown in the expenditure of the local biodiversity grants scheme; the local authorities which are benefitting from the funding; the amount of funding provided under the scheme to each local authority involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21692/20]
  • 2020-09-08 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht the amount of funding allocated to date in 2020 under the grant scheme for county heritage and biodiversity officers; the way in which the funding was divided between biodiversity and heritage officers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21693/20]
• Jobs 9 questions

  • 2017-06-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures which have been taken to assist small and medium businesses in the Border regions to prepare for all eventualities of the Brexit negotiations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25608/17]
  • 2017-06-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement will be discussed in Dáil Éireann; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30461/17]
  • 2017-06-29 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the implications for CETA of the judgment of the ECJ regarding the competence of the European Union in respect of the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30462/17]
  • 2016-10-04 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to reflect and deliver on a public duty (details supplied) in her Department's statement of strategy due to be published in October 2016; the way in which her Department is engaging with the programme for a partnership Government commitment to equality and gender proofing in the departmental and budgetary process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28649/16]
  • 2016-07-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she is aware that IDA Ireland incurred expenditure totalling €10.4 million on a lease, comprising €1 million for rent and associated costs for office space, for a property that was not occupied during 2015, and that €9.4 million was paid in 2015 to exit the lease; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23054/16]
  • 2016-07-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the articles of the EU treaties the Commission is relying on when asking member states to sign a letter of intent prior to the qualified majority vote in relation to the provisional application of the comprehensive economic and trade agreement; if such a letter of intent has been signed and or if it is her intention to sign such a letter; in the event that such a letter of intent is signed, the legal recourse member states have to have it withdrawn; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23115/16]
  • 2016-07-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the measures she has put in place to deliver 135,000 jobs outside of Dublin as per the programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23116/16]
  • 2016-07-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the initiatives in place to assist women in the workforce given that more than 70% of those on minimum wage here are women; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23117/16]
  • 2016-07-20 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the European Commission is acting ultra vires having delivered on 6 July 2016 a proposal to the Council of Ministers to provisionally apply the entirety of the comprehensive economic and trade agreement. [23118/16]
• Community 8 questions

  • 2020-09-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Community and Rural Development and the Islands the amount of funding paid out by her Department for the commissioning of the pilot Town Centre Living Initiative report by a company (details supplied) which was published in June 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25757/20]
  • 2020-09-23 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Community and Rural Development and the Islands when the steering group which is to be established to review the suggested actions identified in the independent report on the pilot Town Centre Living Initiative will be operational; the details of the membership of the group; the terms of reference of the group; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25758/20]
  • 2020-09-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Community and Rural Development and the Islands her plans to roll out the town centre living initiative to other towns following the pilot project involving six towns; the criteria by which such towns will be assessed for inclusion in the initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24393/20]
  • 2020-09-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Community and Rural Development and the Islands the projects in receipt of funding through the town and village renewal scheme 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24396/20]
  • 2020-09-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Community and Rural Development and the Islands the status of Ireland’s town partnership as recommended by the Town Centre Living Initiative, Six Pilot Towns: Synthesis Report; if the partnership has been established; if so, the membership and duties of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24394/20]
  • 2020-09-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Community and Rural Development and the Islands the status of each of the recommendations of the CEDRA report; the number of recommendations implemented in full, in part and not at all, respectively; the anticipated date by which each of the outstanding recommendations will be implemented in full; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24398/20]
  • 2020-09-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Community and Rural Development and the Islands her plans to progress the national policy for the islands; the status of the islands policy; the findings of the consultation process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24395/20]
  • 2020-09-17 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Community and Rural Development and the Islands the membership of the interdepartmental committee devising the national policy for the islands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24397/20]
• Climate 6 questions

  • 2025-10-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment if Budget 2026 makes provision for Ireland’s required national co-financing contribution (estimated at approximately €220 million) to match the €663 million in EU funding available to Ireland under the Social Climate Fund from 2026; under which Vote or Departmental subhead this national contribution will be allocated; if he will report on the way in which this funding will support the implementation of Ireland’s Social Climate Plan and measures targeting vulnerable households and transport users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56751/25]
  • 2025-10-21 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the way in which his Department intends to ensure that national co-financing for the EU Social Climate Fund is directed towards new or scaled-up measures targeting energy poverty, building renovation, and clean mobility for low-income households and vulnerable transport users, in line with the Social Climate Fund Regulation; and if he will outline how duplication or double-funding with existing schemes such as the Climate Action Fund and SEAI programmes will be avoided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56752/25]
  • 2025-06-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 10 and 15 of 10 April 2025, when the implementation plans for decarbonisation zones in Galway city and county will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30105/25]
  • 2025-06-10 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the steps being taken to achieve the national target reduction of greenhouse gas emissions of 51% in light of the finding of the EPA that Ireland is projected to achieve only a reduction of up to 23% in total greenhouse gas emissions by 2030; the analysis undertaken to establish the value of potential financial penalties for failing to meet this target; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30106/25]
  • 2020-09-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Climate Action and Communication Networks the engagement he has had to date with the north Atlantic seaboard climate action regional office, particularly in respect of climate adaptation at local level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25145/20]
  • 2020-09-22 Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Climate Action and Communication Networks when the Climate Action Council will undertake a comprehensive review of the climate mitigation potential of forests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25144/20]