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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care Issues and the Loss of Positive Care Services: Engagement with Tusla (10 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: My final point related to the specific difficulty in recruiting foster families for older children and adolescents. Do our guests have any insight into that?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care Issues and the Loss of Positive Care Services: Engagement with Tusla (10 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: What are the specific ways we could support foster families in those instances?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care Issues and the Loss of Positive Care Services: Engagement with Tusla (10 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: Is it the case that two foster families receive respite at once? Is that how shared care works?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care Issues and the Loss of Positive Care Services: Engagement with Tusla (10 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: Can somebody who is not a parent foster? Do people have to have parented that age group?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care Issues and the Loss of Positive Care Services: Engagement with Tusla (10 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: With no children.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: The current structure of the summer programme for children with complex needs is not working and only a minority of schools are running it. This leaves children who desperately need it without educational and developmental support for two months, which we know is detrimental to their progress and well-being. Despite pleas from parents, the Minister has been unwilling to change the programme...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: Less than 20% of students can access it.

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: We have had incarceration, mass graves, forced family separation, physical, psychological and sexual abuse. The history of partnerships between church and State concerning maternity and women's healthcare represents some of the darkest parts of our past. It is a tragically recurring pattern when men in positions of power collaborate to make decisions about women's bodies. This oppressive...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (17 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 101. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her response to the key conclusion in the report, The Cost of Disability in Ireland that the levels of disability payments and allowances should be changed to reflect the very different costs of disability by severity and type of disability. [24357/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (17 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 134. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her response to a key conclusion in the report, The Cost of Disability in Ireland – that measures to address the additional costs of disability should be based on a multifaceted approach involving increased cash payments, enhanced access to service provision and specific targeted grant programmes. [24358/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Equal Opportunities Employment (17 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 158. To ask the Taoiseach the way that his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit meet their obligations for reasonable accommodation under the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015. [24315/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Equal Opportunities Employment (17 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 166. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way that his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit meet their obligations for reasonable accommodation under the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015. [24304/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Equal Opportunities Employment (17 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way that his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit meet their obligations for reasonable accommodation under the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015. [24305/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Equal Opportunities Employment (17 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way that his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit meet their obligations for reasonable accommodation under the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015. [24317/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Energy Policy (17 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify Government policy concerning the handling of fossil fuels from the Russian Federation at Irish seaports. [24351/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Equal Opportunities Employment (17 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 254. To ask the Minister for Finance the way that his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit meet their obligations for reasonable accommodation under the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015. [24306/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (17 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 258. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will remove the VAT associated with the purchase of AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators). [24344/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Equal Opportunities Employment (17 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 269. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way that his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit meet their obligations for reasonable accommodation under the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015. [24312/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Equal Opportunities Employment (17 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 275. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the way that her Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under her remit meet their obligations for reasonable accommodation under the Employment Equality Acts 1998-2015. [24316/22]