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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: I just-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: The Deputy conflated knife crime with migrants, and you welcomed his response.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: I condemn the awful scenes we saw in Citywest last night. One far-right account in advance of the riot posted online that "Citywest IPAS centre needs to be stormed." That was the clear goal last night, to overrun the accommodation centre. This was not done to protect children or the community, even if that is what the organisers claimed to the people they brought along with them. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: I genuinely welcome the Taoiseach's comments. I also hope he will practice a bit more of what he is preaching today because they are welcome. In comparison to yesterday, when Deputy Fitzmaurice raised increasing knife crime in the same breath as concerns about the asylum system, the Taoiseach's response was to thank him, and I quote, "for raising the issue in a responsible and fair way."...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Medical Aids and Appliances (22 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered mandatory training for the use of EpiPens in schools, as well as the provision ofEpiPens to schools as part of an emergency medical kit; the current first aid programme requirements in schools; and if she will consider embedding allergy awareness and response training in schools, particularly in regard to food provision....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: 198. To ask the Minister for Health if she has considered introducing access to oral immunotherapy for those with allergies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57550/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: 199. To ask the Minister for Health the work being carried out in her Department to improve access to EpiPens in local communities, schools, and childcare settings; and if she will consider including allergy awareness and response training as part of essential first aid programme requirements. [57551/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: I am hugely impressed by the courage shown by Niamh Kelly. Last year, she was viciously attacked by her ex-boyfriend and stabbed 50 times, leaving her with life-changing injuries. Yesterday, he was jailed for 14 years and Niamh has bravely spoken out. She has encouraged other women in toxic relationships to leave and get help. I welcome the measures the justice Minister brought to Cabinet...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Investigations (21 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: 647. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of instances of illegal tree felling and hedgerow removal that have been reported to his Department; the number of investigations conducted into same; and the number of offences determined to be found, from 2023 to date, in tabular form. [56799/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Investigations (21 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: 648. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of prosecutions taken by his Department in instances of illegal tree felling and hedgerow removal; and to provide details of enforcement actions conducted, from 2020 to date, in tabular form. [56800/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: National Parks and Wildlife Service (21 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: 649. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a National Parks and Wildlife Service report (details supplied); the actions his Department is taking to investigate this instance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56801/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (21 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: 650. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the circumstances in which farmers are required to apply for tree felling licenses, screening and consent from his Department; whether licenses, screening or consent has ever been issued by his Department retrospectively; and to outline the consequences for failures to comply with regulations. [56802/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Policies (21 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: 652. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his policy towards the European Commission's legislative proposals to reform rules on plant reproductive material and to deregulate new genomic techniques; the extent of his Department's engagement with the Commission in this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56892/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Policies (21 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: 653. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to address concerns that proposed reforms on plant reproductive material and new genomic techniques will threaten the conservation and circulation of the diversity of cultivated plants, significantly burden and exclude small scale seed producers, restrict farmers in harvesting, using, and exchanging their own seeds, and further...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (21 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: 798. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adult ADHD assessments which have been conducted annually from 2020 to date in 2025, by CHO, in tabular form. [56807/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (21 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: 808. To ask the Minister for Health the staffing numbers for adult ADHD assessment services for 2025, in tabular form. [56929/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (16 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: 276. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applicants for disability allowance appeals; and the number rejected over the past three years, in tabular form. [56466/25]

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: The answer to that, quite clearly, is "No".

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: For that reason, I and the Social Democrats do not have confidence in this Government.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: We got word last night that the Dáil schedule was being ripped up, not to address any of the crises gripping the country or to enact some critical legislation, but to spare the Government's blushes and to try to prevent a spotlight being placed on the Government's shameful treatment of people with disabilities. Aontú signalled yesterday that it was going to put down a motion of no...