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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: Respectfully, I said people did not buy the rhetoric on carers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: What the Taoiseach just said is a really good example of how different the rhetoric is versus the reality of what people experience. The problem with what he is saying is that people have heard it all before. Carers have heard the same promises, not just from him but from his predecessor and the taoisigh before them. Instead of things getting better, they are getting worse. Already...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: You mentioned a report on respite.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: Counts are still taking place, so the elections are not quite over. One thing that was made clear to me on the doors is that people out there are not interested in the Punch and Judy show that often takes place in this House.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: They are not interested in petty, political one-upmanship or politics that values sound bites over substance.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: The people who voted for candidates who they met at their doors and who they put their trust in want representatives who will work hard, who are clear in what they can deliver and who can offer credible solutions to the many problems we face. We all know what those problems are, namely the housing disaster, the healthcare crisis, the climate emergency and threadbare disability services. ...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: Carers and their families were promised a lot. When will the Government actually deliver?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: When will carers have access to at least 20 days respite a year? Will the Government abolish the means test for carer's allowance?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 68.To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to detail funding and resources provided by Ireland to organisations for the maintenance and establishment of field hospitals in Gaza; whether his department has been approached in regards to providing support for the establishment of a field hospital in Al Mawasi; and to detail what support the state can provide to medical professionals in...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 176.To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider expanding the criteria for the primary health care certificate to include persons with a single upper body amputation; if there are plans to update the criteria more broadly to reflect modern living and working conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24809/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 285.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to reports from schools that this year's ancillary grant is insufficient to cover the cost of staff not on her Department’s payroll that is, cleaners; how the reduction in the ancillary grant has been calculated; if it took into consideration the move of school secretaries to her Department’s...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 286.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the cost-of-living grant awarded to schools can be used to cover shortfalls in the ancillary grant [24896/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 287.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a schedule of all upcoming grants for national schools; and if this schedule has been provided to schools. [24897/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 288.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are multi-annual financial plans open to national schools; and if not, if she will consider implementing such a measure in order to allow schools to plan ahead financially [24898/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 289.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of all upcoming grants for schools (details supplied); and the details of previous grants awarded in each school year since 2020. [24899/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 390.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to consider extending the remit of the Residential Tenancies Board to cover all tenants under the rent-a-room scheme; to detail any work undertaken by his Department on this issue to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24810/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 474.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an itemised breakdown of how the Budget 2023 allocation of an additional €1 million in funding to expand the provisions made under the Reasonable Accommodation Fund is being spent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25248/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 730.To ask the Minister for Health the reason the waiting-list initiative in operation in the Cork primary care child and adolescent psychology services; the date this initiative commenced; how it differs from standard efforts to work through waiting-lists in those services; if it constitutes a separate waiting-list; and if so, the number of clients and wait-times that apply to it. [24905/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 731.To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists, and their grade, recruited to the Cork primary care psychology waiting-list initiative for 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; the form of recruitment used that is, local or national panel; the rationale in each case; if psychologists were recruited to this waiting-list initiative, in each case, from other Cork primary care psychology...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 801.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question 204 of 22 May 2024, what data of clinical activity are recorded by individual psychologists of the CHO 4 primary care services; if the information in table 1 of the response refers to both individual and group client sessions; and if he could clarify if the figures cited in Table 1 of the response are limited to clinical...