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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (5 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: 990. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of dietetics service to Cork south and west child and adolescent mental health service teams; if there is a plan to provide access to a dietetics team on a full-time basis; and if so, when this will be put in place. [45286/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (5 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: 1172. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a delay in the rollout of HPV vaccine to schools in the north east (details supplied) which were due in March 2024, cancelled and never re-scheduled; if he could establish how widespread this cancellation of vaccines was; and if he would establish a timeline for the rescheduling of this cohorts’ vaccine programme.” [44651/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: It is now more than a year and a half since the expert report was published recommending critical reforms to our abortion laws. Marie O'Shea was clear that the current legal regime is failing women in numerous ways. Her recommendations were equally clear. Among them were to remove the mandatory three-day waiting period, end the criminalisation of doctors and provide clarity in the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: What is your position for the general election?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Minister of State. I appreciate the reply and accept that there has been an infrastructure deficit over years, which means that Uisce Éireann is playing catch-up. Issues like this are concrete and need to be addressed. In addition, this case illustrates how communities do not feel heard. The local community and the EPA have raised concerns about this plant for nearly 15...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Wastewater Treatment (23 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: Since being elected, wastewater treatment has been a recurring issue raised by communities across Cork South-West. I am focusing on the issue of the wastewater treatment plant in Ballydehob this morning but almost every area of west Cork is feeling the pressure from crumbling water infrastructure. From an environmental and health perspective, the very least people should expect is the...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: Greyhound racing has been in decline for decades but the Government has handed the greyhound industry €94 million over its term in office. It has increased funding this year by €4.1 million. This year, like every other year, I have to ask why. Why is the Government so insistent on propping up this industry? Why is it so insistent that greyhound racing is an integral part of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: I will speak on the same issue. As we speak genocide is happening in Gaza. We will probably never know the full extent of the death toll of the people lying under rubble. It is shameful that this State maintains economic, diplomatic and travel relationships with Israel, a state that is unashamedly committing war crimes by the second. The people of this country have wanted action for a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: The figure the Taoiseach gives of 40,000 homes is disputed by the ERSI and the Central Bank. We know commencements are one thing and completions are another thing altogether. For the first six months of this year, completions are down nearly 10%. That is the reality. He mentioned the help-to-buy scheme. On this, the ESRI has stated that if this scheme was scrapped, house prices would...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: -----not banning the bulk-buying of homes, not addressing these issues has not worked.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: The Taoiseach has confirmed we will have an election in a matter of weeks, and with that, this Government’s disastrous handling of the housing crisis will be on the ballot. A vote for this Government will be a vote for record house prices, record rents, record homelessness and over 500,000 adults living in their childhood bedrooms. Every week, this crisis deepens and deteriorates....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tillage Sector (22 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: 596. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an update on the food vision tillage group report will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42634/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (22 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: 600. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a record of all investigations, sanctions or convictions in respect of a company (details supplied) by his Department to date; and the dates and details of each. [43013/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: I know the ICJ ruling on the illegal Israeli settlements was extremely important and welcome, but I repeat that we did not need it to act. I presume the Tánaiste agrees with that because if I am correct, Fianna Fáil brought forward the Bill in 2019.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: However, because the Government waited, we are now running out of time. I heard the Tánaiste on The Irish Times podcast say that we would have an election after critical pieces of legislation were passed. Does that mean there is an army of lawyers in the Attorney General's office and the Department of Finance working morning, noon and night to try to get the occupied territories Bill...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: I have run out of words to describe the horror unfolding in Gaza and now in Lebanon. This week, I and millions of other people, watched a young man in a hospital tent burn alive. He was still attached to an IV drip and was reaching out his hand for help. The Israeli army had targeted a missile strike on tents in the grounds of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. Not content with destroying all the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (17 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: 77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to upgrade the road infrastructure leading to Castletownbere port; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41897/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Agreements (17 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: 274. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reasoning for the decision to remove the 90-day visa-free travel to Ireland from South Africa for tourists; and whether she would reconsider this decision. [42323/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: Can the Minister answer my question about the budget?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: Services for disabled people are either threadbare or non-existent. These are services in areas like education, healthcare, social care and transport that are not optional extras. They are services that disabled people are entitled to as a right. If, eventually, they are provided, it is only ever after a fight. Funding shortfalls, staffing shortfalls and lack of resources are the only...