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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Nov 2021)

Holly Cairns: 61. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on introducing a scheme that would cover the cost of burials and cremations for the families of deceased children. [57978/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (25 Nov 2021)

Holly Cairns: 110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she is taking to support community employment schemes during the continuing uncertainty in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. [57979/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (25 Nov 2021)

Holly Cairns: 135. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she is taking to address the recommendations concerning the international protection system in a report on the international protection process (details supplied). [57976/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (25 Nov 2021)

Holly Cairns: 162. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the immigration system will be reformed to protect the victims and survivors of domestic, sexual, and gender-based violence who are placed at additional risk given their residency is based on being a dependent or due to the fact they are undocumented. [57977/21]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Experiences of Migrant Communities Engaging with the Healthcare System and State Bodies: Discussion (16 Nov 2021)

Holly Cairns: How are we for time? If there is more time, I have more questions.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Agreements (30 Nov 2021)

Holly Cairns: This Friday is International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the day to promote the rights and well-being of people with disabilities and celebrate their contributions to communities and society. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this Topical Issue for debate. The optional protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, allows...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Agreements (30 Nov 2021)

Holly Cairns: I thank Minister of State. Of anyone in government, I do not doubt her commitment in this area. However, I am concerned at the conditionalities Departments keep putting up that supposedly block ratification. In 2015, it was the intention to ratify the convention and the optional protocol together. By 2018, however, it was just the convention. We then had to wait until after the first...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (30 Nov 2021)

Holly Cairns: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his response to the recent protests by organisations (details supplied) to the rates of fees in third level institutions. [58609/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (30 Nov 2021)

Holly Cairns: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to ensure that people with disabilities and persons with low incomes can attend higher and further education. [58610/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (1 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: 56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of community-led renewable energy projects operational in the country; the number which come under any other State-backed scheme broken down by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59395/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (1 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: 57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagement he has had with National Broadband Ireland with regard to the roll-out of high speed fibre broadband in County Cork, including the off-shore islands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59396/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bus Services (1 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: 61. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the provision of sheltered bus stops for Belgooly and Riverstick, County Cork. [59398/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Reviews (1 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: 232. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the review by his Department of the 2011 and 2017 European Impact Assessment Regulations (Agriculture) and their implementation is internal or external in nature; if the terms of reference of same will be made available to the public; and current the timescales for this review. [59394/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: Briefly, on that issue, I suppose it highlights the need for the repeal review to happen. Large trawlers of over 18 m are operating in inshore waters. This is an unsustainable practice. It is a significant issue for inshore fishers, the marine tourism sector and those concerned about coastal ecosystems. I am still regularly getting reports of those large vessels operating extremely...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (2 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the report of the review of the National Parks and Wildlife Service will be published. [59691/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Residential Institutions (3 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: 2. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way the proposals for the payment rates of the mother and baby institutions payment scheme were arrived at. [59652/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Residential Institutions (3 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: How were the proposals for the payment rates under the mother and baby institutions payment scheme arrived at? One of the most disgraceful aspects of the Government's redress scheme for survivors of these institutions is the payment rates. Mothers who spent less than three months in an institution are to receive a mere €5,000. These women could have endured human rights violations...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Residential Institutions (3 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: The Minister did not answer the question of how the Department arrived at the rate of potentially €5,000 for forced family separation. The proposed scheme is deeply flawed in many ways. The startling inadequacy of the proposed payment amount stands out. It is still unclear how these rates were decided. The figures suddenly appear in the interdepartmental groups report which was...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Residential Institutions (3 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: I agree with the Minister that no amount of money could compensate for it, but €5,000 is an insulting amount. One would get more in a compensation claim for a slip or a fall. The Department ran a consultation process inviting survivors to participate and many of them found the strength to do so in good faith. Why then were so many of their recommendations for redress ignored? The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (3 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: 44. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the process to end the direct provision system. [59328/21]