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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (8 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: 396. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the vulnerability assessment process for linking international protection applicants to healthcare services and supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12876/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: 433. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports in place to assist persons with disabilities to transition from second-level education to third-level education or employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13132/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: 434. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the planning his Department engages in to provide supports and places for students with disabilities transition from secondary education to third-level education and follow-on courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13133/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: 435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of post-secondary education follow-on courses that are available for persons with intellectual disabilities; the location of these courses; the primary discipline area covered by these courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13134/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Travel Documents (8 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: 461. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current processing time for travel documents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13135/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (8 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: 649. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the recruitment of a PrEP clinical nurse manager in the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital, Cork. [12879/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: 650. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new service users engaged with the Cork PrEP service every month between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021. [12880/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: 651. To ask the Minister for Health the public alternatives that have been put in place for new PreP service users who have been unable to engage with the PrEP service since 4 October 2021 in the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital, Cork. [12881/22]

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 71: In page 11, line 22, to delete “incorrect” and substitute “illegal”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 72: In page 11, line 22, after “information” to insert “or illegal birth registration information”

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 75: In page 11, line 23, after “registration” to insert “or an illegal birth registration”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 76: In page 11, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: “(c) the personal data of the relevant person whose birth was illegally registered;”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: To add briefly to what the other Deputies have said, these amendments are important to highlight the obligations of relevant bodies to provide information for adopted people. It is an important departure, providing proactive responses to the rights of adopted people. I will leave it at that.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: I will add ever so slightly to that with regard to amendment No. 228, which removes the restriction on adopted people being permitted access to specific items. The Minister has refused amendments based on the likely unavailability of information or even the existence of such information. This restriction falls into that category. In this case, the provision of items is dependent on...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 83: In page 13, line 6, to delete “incorrect” and substitute “illegal”.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: These are important amendments. Amendments numbers 93 to 101, inclusive, expand the definition of secondary information source to include the very wide range of actors that we know were involved in the adoption process. The current list does not make explicit reference to any persons or organisations involved in facilitating adoptions, the care of adopted people and family separation....

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: I also must go to the Chamber shortly to speak. It is quite telling that with the exception of Deputy Pringle, the only people here really speaking on the amendments are women and now we are all going to speak on International Women's Day so it is bad timing in terms of the schedule. I think the Chairman and everybody else is really aware of the highly contested issue around mandatory...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: I would like to come in on a couple of things the Minister said, including that this could be a constitutional problem. I do not think that anyone for a second believes we would have to change the Constitution to allow people to exercise a right they ultimately should and do already have. We had that conversation around the general data protection regulation, GDPR, and law. There is a...