Results 1-20 of 47 for going forward speaker:Holly Cairns

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...and for all. The Minister’s claims a food regulator would cut it have proven hollow. The beef tribunal in the early 1990s highlighted widespread improper relationships between the beef industry and Government. It also stressed the lack of regulation and the impact it had on the sector. Thirty years later we have not seen any changes. The system is still designed to enrich the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: I do not know whether the Tánaiste thinks people believe him when he comes to the House and says we do not put forward any solutions. In the past number of weeks alone, my colleague, Deputy O'Callaghan, has put forward 255 amendments to the planning Bill but the Government has just routinely voted them down. One of them was around zoning land for affordable housing. It was rejected....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (9 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...xe1;naiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what steps are being taken to alleviate the backlog in visa applications for family reunification; what steps are being taken to streamline the process going forward; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14341/24]

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: I thank Deputy Tully for bringing forward this motion. It is welcome that the Government has finally made a commitment to ratifying the optional protocol within the next 12 months. Ireland ratified the convention in 2018. We were the last country in the EU to do that and six years on, we have not ratified the optional protocol. The optional protocol is poorly named. Far from being an...

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

Holly Cairns: .... Repeated scandals have hugely damaged public service trust and confidence. Kevin Bakhurst and key members of the board are back in front of the Oireachtas committee today and there is a long way to go to rebuild trust in RTÉ. Senior management has an important role to play in this. We need a strong public service broadcaster that delivers important public service journalism in...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...scrutiny process is a mistake. As this is our Constitution, every single word and every punctuation mark potentially has an impact. Our role as TDs is to ensure the best possible wording is put forward to voters at a referendum to ensure that if we are asking voters to take time out of their day to vote on a proposed change to the Constitution, they are doing that for an actual reason;...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...' assembly were refused? The explanatory memorandum provided to us gives absolutely no detail on the rationale for the wording chosen, or the intended implications of the changes to the law on the policy going forward. We cannot do our jobs in this House without that information. Certainly, we cannot be expected to make amendments on Committee Stage without clarity on what the...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...Matters. We hear from people in that committee week-on-week about how their lives are torn apart and ruined and how there are missed opportunities for early intervention, which is the key thing in terms of whether or not you can live a full and independent life going forward. When the Department, the HSE and the Minister of State come in, hands are thrown in the air and we are ultimately...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...sea areas by 2030 and, ultimately, all ecosystems in need of restoration by 2050. At this point, however, we do not know what the finalised law will be or whether it will even be passed when it goes forward to a vote of all 705 MEPs on 11 July. If it is fatally undermined, there will be plenty of blame to go around because there has been an incredible level of scaremongering with...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...and kiteflying on proposed tax cuts at a time our disability and health services are shockingly understaffed. How many more Opposition motions do we need? How many more disabled people have to come forward and tell their story? How many more parents will have to save and sacrifice to afford private services that should be provided by the HSE? Those living with a disability in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: -----I am asking the Tánaiste please to revisit this. Now is the chance to address the issues in relation to food prices. There can be some management of this going forward, because it is not the primary producers, such as farmers, who benefit, and it is not the consumers.

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...scheme intentionally excludes whole categories of survivors, arbitrarily deciding that their suffering and human rights violations do not merit any kind of reparation. I am using this opportunity to again ask the Minister to do the right thing. The redress Bill will be going through the Seanad soon, so there is still time to listen to survivors, human rights experts and the general...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (1 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...opened clinics in Bantry, in my constituency, and in Tralee. These are welcome developments and we need more of them. We cannot tolerate a situation where, for example, victims of rape have to go two hours in a car before they get to one of the assessment units because, without going into too much detail around it, people cannot shower before they have those assessments and the further...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (18 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Minister of State for her response and for outlining all the actions the Government has been taking. I also thank her for telling her story about what happened today. Well done. She is right that such behaviour absolutely needs to be reported. A key point she raised is that for too long only half the population have been having this conversation. Girls and women know this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...weeks ago. It provides independent, professional and free advocacy services to adults with disabilities. How will the DSS interact with it? What does the DSS see as the role of those advocates going forward? What steps is the DSS taking to meaningfully involve disabled people's organisations, especially those representing the people most affected by the assisted decision making...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...impact of losing the parent-child bond, the weight of never knowing what happened to your child and the intergenerational trauma. No redress scheme could adequately compensate survivors but the Government's proposed scheme is shamefully minimal, exclusionary and insulting. Despite the wishes of survivors and the recommendations of UN human rights bodies, it seems the Minister is...

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...I am not a survivor. I am a small, yet mighty, resisting worker for justice." She has had to spend much of her life fighting for her rights, for her identity and for justice. Unfortunately, the Government, like its predecessors, is continuing to force people like Mary to fight in the courts. Thousands of survivors are excluded from the Government's scheme. Many of them will never...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General: Financial Resolution (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...for core welfare and a €500 one-off payment when obviously disability is a long-term permanent issue for people. It is not only highly cynical but deeply disrespectful to give disabled people and their families the impression it is going to recognise their struggles and then actually give them almost €700 less this year. Instead of €1,040 more every year, there is...

Autism Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: .... It also outlines the need for strong leadership, an awareness campaign and the training of State officials. The Bill outlines exactly the actions that Government should take. That it has to be put forward by an Opposition Party taken within Private Members’ time speaks volumes. The Department of Health document estimating the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders in the...

Proposal for a Directive on Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence: Motion (21 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...little infrastructure for male victims. The need for more domestic violence refuge spaces is abundantly clear but, instead of ensuring we meet the international benchmark, the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth refer to a clause in the convention that allows fewer refuge spaces. The Minister will, therefore, forgive me...