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Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (19 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: I support the amendment. The Minister outlined the significance of the Bill and the positive impact it will have on wage equality. Surely we want to ensure that it comes into effect as soon as possible. The Bill currently allows an employer with fewer than 250 employees two years to adhere to the regulations and an employer with fewer than 150 employees three years. We all expect an...

Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (19 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: I agree with everything Deputy Funchion just said. Amendment No. 4 is entirely sensible. It removes ambiguity and ensures that employers must be serious about addressing any wage gap. It would require employers to set out the measures they are taking to address wage inequalities. If, in the context of this legislation, we are to be serious about addressing the wage gap, employers should...

Gender Pay Gap Information Bill 2019: Report and Final Stages (19 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: The Irish gender pay gap is 13.9% and it is estimated that at the current pace of change, it would take 55 years to close it. The gap is experienced most acutely by older women, women from ethnic minorities and women with disabilities. Pay transparency is an internationally recognised tool to help reduce pay gaps. It will ensure employees have access to the information necessary for them...

Water and Wastewater Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward this most important motion, which the Social Democrats fully support. The final draft of the Cork county development plan is open for consultation at the moment. Its section on water services is a stark warning of the investment needed in our drinking water and waste water treatment infrastructure. Out of 42 towns and villages, 22 are...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sustainable Development Goals (19 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 68. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress made to consider options available to identify those items of Departmental expenditure which support specific sustainable development goals as outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals National Implementation Plan 2018-2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26875/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Sustainable Development Goals (18 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 151. To ask the Taoiseach the progress made to include reference in all new statements of strategy to all sustainable development goal targets for which his Department has lead responsibility as outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals National Implementation Plan 2018-2020. [25757/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Sustainable Development Goals (18 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 152. To ask the Taoiseach the specific sustainable development goal targets his Department is responsible for implementing; and the progress made in implementing those targets since 26 April 2018. [25775/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Social Media (18 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 153. To ask the Taoiseach if he has engaged a third-party company to date in 2021 to conduct online and or social media monitoring and or provide reports on social media coverage of his Department; if so, the cost of same; and the name of the social media platforms being monitored. [25793/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Social Media (18 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 154. To ask the Taoiseach if officials in his Department are tasked with conducting online and social media monitoring and completing reports on social media coverage of his Department and his Ministerial activities; if so, the number of staff involved; the respective grades of each; and the estimated working hours committed to same. [25811/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Social Media (18 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 158. To ask the Taoiseach the percentage of posts made on each of his Departmental social media accounts and platforms that were exclusively in Irish between 1 May 2020 and 30 April 2021, inclusive; and the percentage of posts made on each of his Departmental social media accounts and platforms that featured bilingual translations in Irish and English between 1 May 2020 and 30 April 2021,...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 159. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the guidance for businesses that interact directly with the public regarding their obligations to employees for customers and clients to wear face coverings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25566/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (18 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 160. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if restart grants will be provided to assist SMEs reopen after Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25567/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Sustainable Development Goals (18 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 168. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the progress made to include reference in all new statements of strategy to all sustainable development goal targets for which his Department has lead responsibility as outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals National Implementation Plan 2018-2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25746/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Sustainable Development Goals (18 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 169. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the specific sustainable development goal targets his Department is responsible for implementing; the progress made in implementing those targets since 26 April 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25764/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Social Media (18 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 170. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he has engaged a third-party company to date in 2021 to conduct online and or social media monitoring and or provide reports on social media coverage of his Department; if so, the cost of same; and the name of the social media platforms being monitored. [25782/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Social Media (18 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 171. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if officials in his Department are tasked with conducting online and social media monitoring and completing reports on social media coverage of his Department and his Ministerial activities; if so, the number of staff involved; the respective grades of each; the estimated working hours committed to same; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 181. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to ensure that Covid-19 vaccine trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights waiver is addressed through the WTO TRIPS Agreement.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26396/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Social Media (18 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 187. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the percentage of posts made on each of his departmental social media accounts and platforms that were exclusively in Irish between 1 May 2020 and 30 April 2021, inclusive; the percentage of posts made on each of his departmental social media accounts and platforms that featured bilingual translations in Irish and English between 1...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (18 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 194. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to fulfil the Programme for Government commitment to invest in the network of monitoring stations to provide scientific evidence of air quality across different parts of the country including real-time and localised air quality information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25576/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sustainable Development Goals (18 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 200. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress made to include reference in all new statements of strategy to all sustainable development goal targets for which his Department has lead responsibility as outlined in the Sustainable Development Goals National Implementation Plan 2018-2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25747/21]