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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (29 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: I raised similar points with the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, last week but I am not convinced that the Government appreciates how many family-run businesses and SMEs are close to closing. It is likely that many will at least shut temporarily during the winter and some may not reopen without proper support. The VAT rate for the sector is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (29 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: While I acknowledge that there is lots of Government engagement with the sector, ultimately there is a significant discrepancy between what tourism and hospitality businesses in Cork south west are telling me and the messaging from the Minister of State, his Department and others. The Government must be getting similar briefings to the ones I am getting but the urgency and need is not being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Disability Matters
Accessibility in the Built Environment, Information and Communication: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: Today's discussion on accessibility in the built environment, information and communication is fundamental in terms of the capacity of individuals and whole groups to exercise their rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, UNCRPD. In this committee we have tried to foreground the social model understanding of disability. That is relevant to this discussion...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (28 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: 48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to assist communities in improving wastewater infrastructure. [47321/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: International Protection (28 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: 136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking regarding the long-term accommodation and integration of Ukrainian refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36286/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (28 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: 208. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to address the shortage of childcare and early education facilities in Kinsale, County Cork. [47569/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (28 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: 209. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to improve the recruitment and retention of childcare workers in County Cork. [47570/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (28 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: 291. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to address the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza. [47568/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Autism
Accessibility in the Built Environment, Information and Communication: Discussion (29 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: Today's discussion on accessibility in the built environment, information and communication is fundamental in terms of the capacity of individuals and whole groups to exercise their rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, UNCRPD. In this committee we have tried to foreground the social model understanding of disability. That is relevant to this discussion...

Defective Concrete Products Levy: Motion [Private Members] (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: The costs of construction are rising sharply. Yesterday, we learned that child homelessness increased by 40% over the past year in counties Cork and Kerry. In the middle of a housing disaster, with thousands of families homeless and a whole generation trapped in a cycle of ever-increasing rents, it is increasingly expensive to build a home. Somehow, the Government's response is to make it...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Family Resource Centres (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: Family resource centres provide invaluable services in communities across the country. They are a place that people can go to for assistance, support and information on everything from State services and training opportunities to counselling. They are a one-stop-shop for many vulnerable individuals and groups, including lone parent families, older people, people experiencing poverty and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Family Resource Centres (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Minister of State for his commitment to family resource centres. They are an essential public support service. The centres in Cork South-West represent the incredible success they can be in helping groups and individuals. However those same centres also illustrate the weakness in the model, with insufficient funding and reliance on local goodwill and circumstances, rather than...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 99. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the flood relief scheme in Bantry, County Cork. [46990/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 138. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to reform and streamline the recruitment process of non-European Union and European Economic Area nationals and the fast-tracking of the processing of critical skills employment permits relating to the shortage of healthcare professionals for the nursing home sector. [48085/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Burial Grounds (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 467. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the consideration that was given to the Vienna Protocols in the drafting of the procedures for the examination of sites of potential mass graves in State-run or funded institutions. [48081/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Burial Grounds (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 468. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the concerns of the many victims and survivors regarding the methodology of the appointment of the director, the advisory board and the establishment of the correct expertise concerning the forthcoming examination of the Tuam site under the Institutional Burials Act 2022; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Burial Grounds (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 469. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will publish, once available, the criteria for the post of director concerning the forthcoming examination of the Tuam site under the Institutional Burials Act 2022, along with any candidates' information also supplied to prospective applicants to demonstrate the experience that is required, particularly...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Burial Grounds (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 470. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on supporting the principle that validation through co-design and decision-making by an extended advisory board and or the wider consultation is necessary to establish a broad victim, survivor and public confidence in the processes defined by the Institutional Burials Act 2022 and its methodologies....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 612. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the progress made in meeting each of the objectives of Breastfeeding in a Healthy Ireland Health Service Breastfeeding Action Plan 2016 to 2021 as of 25 January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48087/22]