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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: That is what I have been talking about for the past four years and why we have raised 255 amendments.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: Housing is often discussed in the Chamber but, too often, we do not discuss the reality of it and the real-life impact this crisis has on people's lives. The Irish Examiner spoke with some of these people this week. Kelly-Anne Healy is aged 37 and lives at home with her parents in Blackpool, Cork. She has worked since she was a teenager and always thought if she worked hard enough she...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: I do not know whether the Tánaiste thinks people believe him when he comes to the House and says we do not put forward any solutions. In the past number of weeks alone, my colleague, Deputy O'Callaghan, has put forward 255 amendments to the planning Bill but the Government has just routinely voted them down. One of them was around zoning land for affordable housing. It was rejected....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (18 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: 94. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports that will be make available for small businesses struggling with the increased cost of operating a business. [17042/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (18 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: 116. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his Department’s plans to implement the statutory sick pay scheme. [17043/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (18 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: 283. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the current lack of a mammogram service in west Cork; to provide a reasoning for the suspension of the availability of the mobile BreastCheck mammogram service in Bantry; and whether he would ensure the provision of a mammogram service in west Cork to ensure access to care for those unable to drive long distances. [17106/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: We are on course to spectacularly miss our climate targets. The latest person to sound the alarm about this impending failure was Mary Robinson. She cannot understand why funding that is available now to help reduce our emissions and meet our targets is not being used, and nor can I. We have so much work to do and so little time to do it. Inaction or insufficient action is not a credible...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: I thank Solidarity-People Before Profit for tabling the motion. I welcome the decision by the Government to scrap its Green Paper on disability reform. The proposals were highly insulting to disabled people and would have been a massive step backwards for disability rights. It should not have come as a surprise to the Government that there was such a strong backlash by disabled people,...

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

Holly Cairns: To hear that a year after a report was given to the Government it has not been considered is extremely worrying. I heard the Minster for Health say yesterday that we have to be cognisant of what people voted for in the repeal referendum and in any plan to reform the law and the Taoiseach referenced it now too. I do not know if they are suggesting that they think the majority of people who...

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

Holly Cairns: Stop the clock. I am just waiting for them to leave. The "RTÉ Investigates" programme about our abortion services that aired last night was harrowing. It was also infuriating because everybody in this Chamber is already aware of all of the problems with these services. The Government has been sitting on the expert report that pointed out these problems for 12 months. Instead of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Labelling (11 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: 184. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the current requirements for companies to label certain food products as choking hazards for children under five years; if his Department has considered introducing standardised labelling requirements for such products; and if his Department has engagement with the EU on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15769/24]

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: I begin by congratulating Deputy Harris on becoming Taoiseach. It is a huge honour and a proud day for him and his family, friends and supporters. I also acknowledge those who have been appointed and reappointed to the Cabinet and I wish them the very best in their respective portfolios. However, I also have to ask what we are really doing here today. We are reshuffling some of the...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: I want to start today by again wishing Deputy Leo Varadkar the very best in the future. A record of public service in this House that extends for nearly two decades, including 13 years in Cabinet and two terms as Taoiseach, has to be commended. It requires hard work, dedication and many personal sacrifices. Those sacrifices were not just borne by the outgoing Taoiseach but by his partner...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (9 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: 99. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if, following the CRU consultation on electricity generation and system services connection policy, he will support a second annual application window for renewable energy projects to connect to the electricity grid, in order to increase the number of grid connections; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (9 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: 176. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view that CIE RWS Scheme pensioners, receiving an average of €52 per week, have not had a pension increase since 2008, if he will consider increasing it in line with other similar scheme increases; if the cost-of-living element of the pay award given to Irish Rail and Dublin Bus staff will be passed on to retired staff also;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (9 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: 637. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a timeline is set for the process to recruit a Chief Executive Officer to Cork County Council; the term of the contract for the new CEO; and, if applicable, the number of candidates who have so far expressed an interest in the role. [14288/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (9 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: 642. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the evidence on which the decision was made to close voting at 8 pm on Whiddy Island for the recent referendum on 8 March 2024, considering the polling officer and polling clerk are residents on the island thus are not limited by bad weather or the ferry timetable, which could be altered as necessary to facilitate voting; to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (9 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: 876. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality what steps are being taken to alleviate the backlog in visa applications for family reunification; what steps are being taken to streamline the process going forward; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14341/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (9 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: 977. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Greyhound Racing Ireland still has no strategic plan in place almost 15 months after the last one expired, almost a year after it was quoted in a national newspaper claiming that such a strategic plan was in the process of being finalised by consultants (details supplied), and five months after he said a draft strategic...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (9 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: 978. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason Greyhound Racing Ireland is only now in March 2024 seeking submissions from stakeholders to help it in the process of drafting its strategic plan, almost 15 months after the last strategic plan expired, almost a year after it was quoted in a national newspaper claiming that such a strategic plan was in the process of...