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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (25 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will consider measures to prevent the loss of a teacher at a school (details supplied) for the 2024-2025 academic year. [26990/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 241. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether child maintenance will be disregarded from the housing assistance payment and differential rent scheme assessment operated by local authorities, following the announcement that child maintenance will be excluded from all social welfare means tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27072/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: Yesterday, primary school principals were in the House pleading for help. Over the past two years, heating costs have risen by an average of 37%, electricity costs by 35% and insurance costs by 19%. Seven out of ten primary schools ran a deficit in the last 12 months. Almost three quarters do not even have enough money to pay for cleaners and caretakers. More than half have had to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: Respectfully, it is not my narrative. It is what the principals are telling us, and it is really important that we listen to it. They spoke about the things the Tánaiste just referenced, for example, the hot school meals programme and how welcome that is. However, one principal gave an example of a contract for the hot school meals programme costing €160,000, which is more than...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: Will the Tánaiste outline what the Government will do to address these issues?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: Is there anything the Minister can say today that will lead us to believe that it will actually be any different? I mean actions rather than promises, meetings and reports.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: Today, 13-year-old Cara Darmody will hold a protest outside the Dáil again. Cara is protesting for improved autism services and for the Government to live up to its promises to disabled people and their families. She has first-hand experience of the difficulties endured by people with disabilities. Her two younger brothers, Neil and John, are autistic and she and her family have had...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Minister for the congratulations. Respectfully, that is the kind of rhetoric that I am saying does not match up with reality. The Minister is talking about people reaching their full potential and people's needs being met. There is a stark contrast between that kind of language and the language that comes back in reports from the Ombudsman with titles such as "Wasted Lives"....

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion. It is always welcome to speak on the issues facing carers but particularly so given the report released by Family Carers Ireland last week. The findings of the report are shameful. It is another report about the disgraceful lack of support for carers and those for whom they care and another reminder that life is harder, more stressful and more...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (18 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: The way this pact has been handled is an insult to the Dáil and the people who elected us. At every step of the way, the Opposition has pleaded with the Government to treat this issue carefully and allow for sufficient oversight and debate. At every step, however, the Government has ignored those pleas. The only actual scrutiny of the pact before today was two three-hour sessions in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: At the outset, I wish the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, the very best as he announced he is stepping down as leader of the Green Party. He has always been sincere and helpful. He can be proud of his contribution to Irish public life. Domestic violence is a problem which is endemic, systemic and growing. Women's Aid recorded more than 40,000 disclosures of abuse last year. These figures...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (18 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 364. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 611 of 21 May 2024, for an exact breakdown of psychology posts, per grade, advertised for the north Lee, south Lee, west Cork and north Cork primary care child/adolescent psychology services in the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; the dates that these recruitment drives commenced and their outcomes, namely, the number...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (18 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 365. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 611 of 21 May 2024, for further details on the use of local interviews as opposed to the national recruitment panel for psychology recruitment to the north Lee, south Lee, west Cork and north Cork primary care child/adolescent psychology services in the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, in particular, the rationale for...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: The recent interview with the Minister for agriculture demonstrated everything that is wrong with the Government's approach to agriculture and climate change. When he was asked about the nitrates derogation, the Minister was clear. He said he was not even contemplating a scenario in which Ireland loses its derogation. How can a Minister proudly declare he is not going to plan for what is a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: When is the Government going to do its job and how will it support derogation farmers to change their ways?

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: The nature restoration law is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the EU to take action in respect of the massive losses of biodiversity in recent decades. The Social Democrats are very supportive of the nature restoration law. It is vital to restore damaged ecosystems to a healthy state in Ireland and across Europe, to attempt to stop the collapse of our wildlife and to slow the...

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: I welcome the opportunity to speak about special education. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. I receive correspondence every week, as does everyone in this House, from parents fighting and struggling to get their children the education and secure the supports they need. The systems in place simply are not good enough. There are nowhere near enough special schools,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: I would not usually bring such a local and specific issue to the notice of the Taoiseach, but he is not the first Taoiseach I have brought this matter to the attention of because it has been going on for so long and is so desperate. A village in my constituency, Shannon Vale, a gorgeous village next to Clonakilty, has a green space in its centre. It is the heart of the village, where...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: We have done that many times.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Taoiseach.