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Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...emphasised by representatives of the Irish Farming Association, IFA, at a meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, who highlighted the need to "prohibit the buying of food below the cost of production by food procurement managers in dominant positions." This would be a game changer for the food sector that would enable farmers and other producers to receive fair...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (11 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...important pillar of the PDS programme. As families wait for many of the forums to be established, they have formed their own networks and have tried to engage proactively with disability services management in community healthcare organisations, CHOs. They have had very little engagement. It is, in essence, impossible to meet with management in CHO 4. Children's disability network...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (3 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...regard to disability. So often the rhetoric is about support, progress, numbers and funding but then there is the reality of disability services in Ireland and the reports that say things like “wasted lives”. The rhetoric can be quite different from the reality. We hear a lot from all of the different communities on this committee and it is harrowing every week leaving...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: .... Funding for this comes in limited forms from the Departments of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and Housing, Planning and Local Government to local authorities. Having been a member of the coastal management committee on Cork County Council, I can tell the Minister how apparent underinvestment in small piers was. At the very first meeting, I had to point out that everyone fighting...