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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Building Energy Rating (21 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount of time individuals are expected to wait before receiving a BER assessment; if his attention has been drawn towards instances of excessively long waiting periods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22435/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Building Energy Rating (21 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 153. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current waiting times for a BER assessment, by scheme and local area, in tabular form. [22501/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Bodies (21 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 152. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to detail which companies are contracted to carry out works by the SEAI for each of its grant schemes; the work being conducted by each company; and the value of each contract. [22500/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (21 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the accommodation needs of the pupils and staff at a school (details supplied) will be reviewed; if she will meet with the school officials to discuss their concerns in relation to overcrowding; and to detail what steps her Department will take to ensure pupils and staff have adequate space. [22415/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the number of social homes acquired through long-term leasing in Cork; to provide detail on the length and cost of each leasing agreement, from 2020 to date, by year and local area, in tabular form. [22543/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (21 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide the number of social homes acquired through long-term leasing in Kerry; to provide detail on the length and cost of each leasing agreement, from 2020 to date, by year and local area, in tabular form. [22544/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (21 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 526. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of an application an (details supplied) for the mother and baby institution payment scheme. [22768/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Education and Training Provision (21 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 609. To ask the Minister for Health if psychology training courses will be funded for an intake of trainees September 2024; and if he has considered the impact on service provision of there being a fallow year for training courses as a result of the recruitment embargo, given widespread problems with recruitment and retention in disability, primary care and CAMHS services. [22769/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (21 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 610. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the assessment of need waiting lists of the north Lee, south Lee, west Cork and north Cork primary care psychology services; and the longest exact wait time for AON in each of these geographical areas, in tabular form. [22770/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (21 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 611. To ask the Minister for Health the details of efforts to recruit psychologists to the north Lee, south Lee, west Cork and north Cork primary care psychology services in the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; if additional staff were recruited or if existing staff were transferred between those services in each instance; and the number of psychology staff in-situ in each of the services at...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (21 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 612. To ask the Minister for Health the budgetary allocations to primary care psychology in CHO4 for each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. [22772/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (21 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 613. To ask the Minister for Health the budgetary allocations to CAMHS psychology in CHO4 for each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. [22773/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Maternity Leave (16 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 239. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department plans to bring forward legislative proposals to support a campaign by an organisation (details supplied) in order to allow new mothers who fall ill while pregnant to take sick leave and defer their maternity leave; if so, to provide an update on work conducted to date on this legislation; the...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: Almost 4,800 children are waiting for child psychology appointments across Cork and Kerry alone, with nearly 2,900 waiting for over a year. These young people are struggling. They have taken the crucial and difficult first step of asking for help and are being denied it. Many of these children are struggling with anxiety and depression and are in desperate need of early intervention before...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: When is the Government going to stop pretending that the recruitment embargo is not having an impact?

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: What is the Government going to do to address the crisis facing primary psychology services in this country?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Parental Leave (15 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 101. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will consider extending the Parental Leave (Amendment) Act 2019 from the age of 12 to 18 years. [22067/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: The Taoiseach reeled off a whole load of figures to say that he wants to give context to the situation but he left out the very important figures that give further context to the situation, which is record homelessness, record house prices and a record number of people stuck in their childhood bedrooms. That context is pretty important as well. He might be new to the job but Fine Gael...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: I respect the Deputy but I ask her to please not misrepresent my position at all. I never, ever said anywhere that there would be 50,000 homes built this year. Let us not try to create a rift where one does not exist. What I said very clearly is that this country needs to build 250,000 new homes between 2025 and 2030. It does, by the way. The Construction Industry Federation, which has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: It is now more than three years since the then Taoiseach, Deputy Micheál Martin, gave a very clear commitment. In response to questions from my colleague, Deputy Catherine Murphy, he said he was opposed to the State entering long-term leasing deals for social homes. To quote him directly he said, "No local authority should be on the other side of this, engaging in a long lease with...