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

Holly Cairns: Farmers, fishers and food producers have the most important roles in our society. Without them, we would have no food. Basically, everything begins with their vital work. Despite their significance, the primary producers and workers in this area, namely, the people who grow crops, rear animals, catch fish and make food, are often treated extremely poorly. While the Government pays lip...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: Vessels over 18 m continue to pair-trawl in inshore waters. They are allowed to do so due to the High Court overturning the policy directive in October 2020. We know this type of fishing is highly inappropriate. It not only damages the marine environment, but it also directly impacts on inshore fishers' livelihoods and tourism activities due to the reduction in stocks. Over two years...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: The court case was lost on a technicality.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: There is nothing wrong with the policy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: Why are they so annoyed?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: I want to know what the Tánaiste's Government knows about Coillte's plan to sell off vast tracts of rural Ireland to a British investment fund and when it first learned about it? Last November, the Government announced €1.3 billion in new forestry supports. I welcomed the announcement and thought it was a good news story for farmers, who would be encouraged to diversify and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: In one way, the silver lining from this issue arising is that we are finally having more of a discussion about agriculture. We do not have a Sláintecare for agriculture or the kinds of closely monitored targets such as those in housing to see how much progress the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine is making, but exactly the same playbook is playing out in agriculture as that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: It is a semi-State.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: The Tánaiste acknowledged the deal needs to be looked at. Is he-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank everyone for coming before the committee. Ratification of the optional protocol is obviously incredibly important. It is a matter that is raised continually by DPOs, disabled people and their advocates. This committee has asserted over and over again the need for immediate ratification. Frankly, I do not think the rationale that the Minister has given for the ongoing delay is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: The point I was trying to make is that there are loads of violations of the UNCRPD without the optional protocol. The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act was the excuse that was used for a long time. The Minister does not even know what the next excuse will be, but there is a scoping exercise in train to figure out what form it will take. At that point, we will again fail to ratify. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: Even though we can probably predict what will happen because it was recommended that the reservation be removed in the case of Canada, Kuwait and Singapore, the Government's position is that it disagrees with the UNCRPD committee and we will probably stand our ground anyway as a result. That is what I take from what the Minister said. If we hang on to that reservation, which, as the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: I agree 100%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: Is that only journalists or will there be an official record kept?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: Would it be possible for the Department to re-examine the matter - perhaps annually, every half-year or whatever - in order that in the early stages, it will be done a little sooner in order to see what is happening. In such circumstances, a standard would be established, but maybe a year later, and we would still lack any kind of standard being applied for the first while? I do not have...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 59. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on ensuring that Castletownbere is classified as a larger town within the Connecting Ireland plan to ensure that the Beara peninsula is assigned the necessary scale of routes. [2091/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 142. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the flood relief scheme in Bantry, County Cork. [2093/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to improve the recruitment and retention of staff in NCT centres. [2687/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will adjust the tax credit for renters to include students renting in a ‘rent-a-room’ or ‘digs’ type arrangement. [2683/23]