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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget 2023 (14 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: The Minister keeps referring to the Indecon report. Like I said, I agree with it. She said it recommends a targeted support rather than a bit for everybody. The motion we tabled called for a €20 cost of disability payment targeted at those people who need it the most. The Department's report and the Social Democrats' motion called for an action plan to implement that cost of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (14 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 45. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made on the Programme for Government commitment to establish a new authority called the national food ombudsman to enforce the Unfair Trading Practices Directive. [38549/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Public Procurement Contracts (14 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 47. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made on the Programme for Government commitment to introduce local food procurement policies for the public sector to encourage the availability of nutritious, locally sourced food in public sector areas such as schools, hospitals, government buildings, prisons and so on. [38551/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (14 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 50. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made on the Programme for Government commitment to support the small food producer, providing support for on-farm diversification enterprises and investment in local processing facilities, allowing farmers to sell their products into the local and wider domestic markets. [38550/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (14 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps that she is taking to increase disability allowance by €15 per week. [38581/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rights of People with Disabilities (14 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on a key conclusion in the Cost of Disability in Ireland – Research Report, that measures to address the additional costs of disability should be based on a multi-faceted approach involving increased cash payments, enhanced access to service provision and specific targeted grant programmes. [34519/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rights of People with Disabilities (14 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the key conclusion in the Cost of Disability in Ireland – Research Report, 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. [34518/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Refugee Resettlement Programme (14 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 610. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps that he is taking to assist Afghan refugees (details supplied) to secure their own independent accommodation [39547/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (14 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 862. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and young persons on waiting lists for an assessment of need in each HSE region [39548/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (14 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 863. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently on waiting lists for therapeutic care in each children’s disability network team according to each speciality; the average waiting time for an appointment;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39549/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Priorities (14 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 864. To ask the Minister for Health if he will set a national ambition to reduce the number of stillbirths and neo-natal deaths. [39550/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Priorities (14 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 865. To ask the Minister for Health if he will establish a committee/unit to study stillbirth and neo-natal death as a public health issue and to make recommendations for reducing the number of stillbirths and neo-natal deaths, including testing and screening for Group B Strep, vasa praevia, pre-eclampsia, and intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy. [39551/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Transport Schemes: Discussion (7 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: I apologise for not being here earlier. I needed to be in the Dáil for two oral questions to the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. I thank the witnesses for being here today and for helping us to understand multiple issues related to transport systems. We all know that accessible and inclusive transport is a really important enabler for participation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Transport Schemes: Discussion (7 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: Can someone elaborate specifically on the challenges for disabled people in rural areas? It would be valuable for the committee to hear that. The cost of disability report gave an overview of the additional mobility and transport expenses for people with disabilities. Would anyone like to share their lived experience because sometimes that is what people relate to most and sometimes spurs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Minister and his team for appearing before the committee today. Despite guarantees to access for education and employment in both the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, and national law, we know that people with disabilities are consistently under-represented in both. Approximately one third of disabled people have left education before they intended...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Minister for his reply. It is the last day of the Dáil and, given that there is a Minister in the committee, I would like to make an appeal. A lot of budgetary decisions will be made over the recess. As a committee, we have heard a lot from people over the past two years about the risk of social exclusion and other such things being much higher among people with...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: FUSS Ireland was outside Leinster House again today. We are two weeks into the new school year and there are many children and young people with special needs and disabilities who do not have appropriate school places. In Cork South-West I have been working with families since this time last year who warned the Department and pleaded for the resources to ensure their children could exercise...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: What do we say to these parents?

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Institutional Burials Act 2022 (Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam) Order 2022: Motion (14 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: The excavation of the Tuam site, the identification of victims and the dignified burial of remains will happen only because of the work of Catherine Corless, survivor groups, campaigners and their relatives and allies. Any attempts to intervene at Tuam and other locations have been resisted by governments and the State for decades. A rotten partnership between the State and the Roman...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (14 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: The proposed reduction in the number of beds in the mental health unit in Bantry General Hospital is extremely worrying. The unit provides a vital service for west Cork in treating people in their own locality. Since the news broke, many people have been speaking about the fantastic help they received in the unit including, in some cases, life-saving assistance. I cannot emphasise enough...