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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (16 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: 650. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her views on adding a requirement that all funding from her Department include provisions to meet and further the rights of persons with disabilities. [62828/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UNCRPD and Considering Future Innovation and Service Provision: Discussion ^ (2 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: I thank the witnesses for appearing before the committee today. Their experience and insight as service providers are essential to understanding how we improve disability supports, especially in the case where the majority of disability services are provided on behalf of the State by the voluntary sector. My first question is for the National Federation of Voluntary Service Providers. If I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UNCRPD and Considering Future Innovation and Service Provision: Discussion ^ (2 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: I appreciate the responses and I understand the reconfiguration is important. As Mr. Hennessy said, sometimes allocation of staff for that reconfiguration falls short. In one very populous area there is 0.5 of a nurse or 0.5 of a physiotherapist allocated. The concern is that even when those reconfigurations happen, without the funding the Department decided was required, the people will...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Experiences of Migrant Communities Engaging with the Healthcare System and State Bodies: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: As we are short on time, I have another question about what we are talking about. I thank Sr. Keenan and Mr. Killoran for those responses. We were talking about the need to streamline the information between the different Departments. This would prevent people having to go through these bureaucratic hoops from constantly filling in form after form, as well as the difficulties that arise...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: Is there time to ask one quick question before we wrap up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: Mr. Broadhead mentioned the ratification in July 2008 in Australia. Was that the ratification of the UNCRPD alone or of the optional protocol also?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: Ireland is yet to ratify the optional protocol and it took us ten years to ratify the UN convention. The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission was before the committee as was the UN special rapporteur. They both said that Ireland can ratify the optional protocol in the morning. There is no good reason for delaying any further. We consistently hear from the Department that it needs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning disability services with the UNCRPD and considering the future system and innovation: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: I thank the witnesses for attending the committee meeting today. It has been both informative and infuriating to hear from the different witnesses. I am particularly struck by the statement of Dr. Walsh and Ms Walsh. Being a Cork Deputy, I can attest to that. There is nothing my office is contacted about more than the absolute absence of support services in the area. They spoke about the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Poverty: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: I thank the witnesses for sharing their experiences and knowledge today. We know that close to 100,000 children in Ireland are in consistent poverty, with another 200,000 at risk. We know that this year, organisations such as Depaul have seen really worrying increases in calls for help. The submissions and experiences of the witnesses are essential in helping the committee to understand...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Poverty: Discussion (14 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Rialto Youth Project for its statement. It highlights both the barriers faced by young people in marginalised communities, but also people's capacity to thrive when supported properly. I want to ask about the kind of practical support that the project offers. Homework clubs help young people develop learning skills and also often provide a space to do homework, a luxury many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Personal Transport for People with Disabilities: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. More importantly, I thank them for all the work they do on disability matters and for highlighting the failures of the Government and the State. The discontinuation of the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant for new applicants in 2013 was disgraceful, but the fact that no adequate replacement has been developed in eight...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Personal Transport for People with Disabilities: Office of the Ombudsman (16 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: I have a quick follow-up question. It was quite disappointing that 18 people were initially decongregated. That was an incredibly low number given the incredibly high number of people who were inappropriately placed in those congregated settings. I know from different people we were dealing with in my office that it was not just in old persons’ homes but that people were also placed...

Violence Against Women: Statements (19 Jan 2022)

Holly Cairns: I would like to add my voice to all those who have expressed condolences with the Murphy family, to Ashling’s friends and boyfriend and to the wider Tullamore community. The vigils held across Ireland for Ashling were also for every victim of gender-based violence, for the 244 women who have died violently since our records began and the 18 children killed with their mothers, for the...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Jan 2022)

Holly Cairns: Before I begin it is important to address some of the comments from Deputy Murnane O'Connor on what she called "misinformation" related to the disquiet around the sealing of the archives back in October 2020 and the insinuation there that it was the Opposition drumming up false information or misinformation, as she called it. However, all she has to do is Google it-----

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Jan 2022)

Holly Cairns: -----and she would find the disquiet from survivor groups, the Opposition and all of the public came from direct quotes from the Minister and his Department about sealing the archives-----

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Jan 2022)

Holly Cairns: -----and she can look at that on the gov.ie website.

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Jan 2022)

Holly Cairns: Look at the gov.ie website Deputy.

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Jan 2022)

Holly Cairns: At the outset, it is worth noting the group of people this Bill refers to have endured an especially nasty and dehumanising form of abuse from the State that continues to a certain extent to this day. I refer to forced family separation along with practices of illegal adoption, the falsification of records and the imposition of secrecy on women and children. The State, as well as religious...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Jan 2022)

Holly Cairns: Why did individuals and groups have to make another submission, to share their story again only for it to be ignored in many instances, again? The committee report was published on 14 December. On 12 January, the Bill was published. That is just 14 working days, not to mention the Christmas disruption. Therefore, how much consideration was actually given to the recommendations of the...

Gender-based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2022)

Holly Cairns: I thank Sinn Féin for enabling this further discussion of gender-based violence. In recent weeks, we have seen the acknowledgement that domestic, sexual and gender-based violence is a national social problem. The tragic killing of Ashling Murphy and the visceral response from every community, city, town, village and even townland, obliges us to respond swiftly, meaningfully and...