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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Policy (5 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I would appreciate the Minister of State's reply and I thank him. I hope he can appreciate the frustration of the sector. Measures were first mentioned in the budget and launched separately but applications are starting months later and the funding is later again. The timely delivery of these supports would make a massive difference in ensuring the viability of so many venues. As well as...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (5 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to assist local authorities taking over housing estates and developments from private developers when these estates and developments need additional infrastructure investment for issues such as lighting, roads, and wastewater infrastructure. [22152/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (5 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: The Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, will be aware of the many families and homeowners who are left in limbo because neither the developer nor the local authority is taking responsibility for infrastructure in their estate. Lighting, footpaths and road quality are deteriorating and nobody is stepping in. While this is a matter for each local authority, due to the capital expenditure...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (5 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I appreciate that the Planning and Development Act locates this as a local authority issue but that is of little consolation to the thousands of people affected. Families and homeowners with whom I have been in contact in towns such as Clonakilty, Kinsale and Skibbereen are being left in limbo and somebody needs to step up to help them. The infrastructure in their housing estate is either...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (5 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: The Minister of State has to appreciate the frustration of families in these cases because they are continually pleading for assistance and too often the only solution proposed is for them to fund the works themselves and then the local authority can take over. The problem is this system is set up to leave nobody responsible. Developers, local authorities, Irish Water and the Department are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (5 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: Obviously not, or this would not be happening.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: Today is International Day of the Midwife. It is important to acknowledge the incredible work of our midwives. Unfortunately, the role of midwives in Ireland is greatly under-resourced. In many jurisdictions, midwife-led home births are the norm, but in Ireland, in some situations, women are forced into hospitals. In CHO 1, for example, covering Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Sligo and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to provide affordable and social housing for people with disabilities. [22153/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (5 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that has been made in addressing action 60 of the Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 (details supplied) review and to extend the regulations which exempt certain vacant commercial premises, such as over the shop-type spaces, from requiring planning permission for change of use for residential purposes in...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 4: “In page 10, line 36, to delete “ordinarily”.” As an opening, I want to say that it is extraordinary that in this discussion that concerns the legacy of Church-run institutions for their control of pregnant women and their children, the Government is simultaneously handing over a €100 billion maternity hospital to a religiously...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I appreciate that. However, to most people, if you stayed one night in a hotel or anywhere else, you would not in normal language consider that that person is ordinarily a resident there. Clarification on that would therefore be great. I thank the Minister for looking into that. If the term is to be included, perhaps a definition would be useful, so as to be clear that it does include...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 5: In page 10, line 36, to delete “and” and substitute “or”. These amendments stress another restriction in the Bill. Currently, interventions are limited to situations where a person died while ordinarily resident in an institution and where the person was buried in a manifestly inappropriate manner. There are two criteria: the person...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: The amendments seek to delete "and" and substitute "or" so it would not have to be the two requirements. It could be one or the other. How is it restricting it? It would not be the case that one would have to have been ordinarily resident and there was a manifestly inappropriate burial. It could be one or the other. If one is not ordinarily a resident in the site but there is a potential...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: For many people this Bill is also about intervention where what the Bill might not see as manifestly inappropriate is still a suspicious or unlawful death. There might be a mass grave. It is not like the situation in Tuam with the septic tank. It is not just about manifestly inappropriate burials; it is about suspicious or unlawful death.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Institutional Burials Bill 2022: Committee Stage (3 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: And ordinarily resident.