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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)

Holly Cairns: If Mr. Farrelly understands what is required, perhaps he or Mr. Kiernan will explain when this legal action went into place or when the situation in respect of what the Mental Health Commission can or cannot speak about publicly and under privilege changed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)

Holly Cairns: To be clear-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)

Holly Cairns: To be clear, the committee is charged with the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Under that convention, people with disabilities have the right to live in their community and independently. This clearly falls very much under the remit of the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)

Holly Cairns: Now that we have the understanding that Mr. Farrelly can speak about it and he has spoken about other specific situations, why did the commission take such a strong stance in respect of other issues that have similarities but not in respect of this one? It says it wants to keep people in their community but not that is not the case in east Cork. Why has the Mental Health Commission taken...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)

Holly Cairns: I did not state that the Mental Health Commission has the power to do that. I asked why it did not take a stance against the closure when it has done so very strongly in comparable scenarios.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)

Holly Cairns: Does Mr. Farrelly believe those residents should be able to stay in their community in Owenacurra?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)

Holly Cairns: We have just been through that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)

Holly Cairns: Once again, we have spoken about this already. We realise what powers the Mental Health Commission does or does not have but there is weight in its words. We have seen it coming out strongly against other situations relating to accommodation. How does Mr. Farrelly stand over taking a back seat and not saying anything in respect of people being moved from Owenacurra into ward-based settings...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)

Holly Cairns: Why does the Mental Health Commission not have a stance on that when it does on the other situations that I raised?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)

Holly Cairns: Yet Mr. Farrelly is able to speak to the Irish Examiner.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission (8 Dec 2022)

Holly Cairns: My time is nearly up. Mr. Farrelly is not really answering my question. I hope I will be able to come back in later in the meeting. The commission has stood over the transfer of Owenacurra residents to inferior ward-based settings, cutting them off from the community, but it has taken a different stance on other situations. Has that called into question the oversight of these things by...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Young People and the Built Environment: Carlow Educate Together (13 Dec 2022)

Holly Cairns: I thank the witnesses for visiting and sharing the results of our research. While we are called the children's committee, it is quite rare that we engage with children. This means that we talk about children but not with children. It is important that the witnesses are with us. They can help us to understand why it is important that their voices are heard at this committee. All I have...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Young People and the Built Environment: Carlow Educate Together (13 Dec 2022)

Holly Cairns: Dulcie and Rachel spoke about the importance of having more art on the streets. Art can help to brighten a place up and make it feel more welcoming. I was delighted that they had some examples from Cork. As part of the arts festival in Skibbereen, we hire an artist to produce murals to make the town livelier and more colourful. I love the Waterford walls, which are famous now for being so...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Young People and the Built Environment: Carlow Educate Together (13 Dec 2022)

Holly Cairns: I have a final question for anyone who wants to answer it. What was the witnesses' favourite part of doing the project?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Young People and the Built Environment: Carlow Educate Together (13 Dec 2022)

Holly Cairns: Well done to everyone. It is so great to have them here. Fair play to their teachers.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (18 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: Last week was the first anniversary of Ashling Murphy's murder. Since then, a further 16 women have been killed on the island of Ireland, including two already this year, namely, Bruna Fonseca, and Maud Coffey. NGOs and campaigners have rightly called this an epidemic of gender-based violence. More than 250 women have been violently killed since 1996 and in the vast majority of resolved...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (18 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Minister of State for her response and for outlining all the actions the Government has been taking. I also thank her for telling her story about what happened today. Well done. She is right that such behaviour absolutely needs to be reported. A key point she raised is that for too long only half the population have been having this conversation. Girls and women know this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: I want to know what the Tánaiste's Government knows about Coillte's plan to sell off vast tracts of rural Ireland to a British investment fund and when it first learned about it? Last November, the Government announced €1.3 billion in new forestry supports. I welcomed the announcement and thought it was a good news story for farmers, who would be encouraged to diversify and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: In one way, the silver lining from this issue arising is that we are finally having more of a discussion about agriculture. We do not have a Sláintecare for agriculture or the kinds of closely monitored targets such as those in housing to see how much progress the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine is making, but exactly the same playbook is playing out in agriculture as that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: It is a semi-State.