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Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: Under Standing Order 83(3)(b) I propose that the vote be taken by other than electronic means.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: These amendments - I am speaking to amendment No. 50 in particular - seek to ensure applications are processed in a timely manner. The current wording is too ambiguous and allows for too much scope. Survivors have waited years for any form of justice, and it is essential those who are eligible receive their redress as soon as possible. The only way this is possible is by adding this limit....

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: After that can we come back in?

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: That is what I mean, though. The debate will not be finished. We can come-----

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 26: In page 14, to delete lines 19 to 22. This amendment seeks to remove another exclusion based on spending a minimum amount of time in an institution. The section relates to people who make another application to the scheme in the unlikely situation that another institution is added to the list of institutions, and the arbitrary six-month criteria is relevant here...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (2 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to increase the number of places in secondary schools for young people with autism in County Cork. [4782/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (2 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: We need more secondary school places for children with disabilities in Cork South-West. In particular, there are insufficient specialised units for young people with autism, or autistic young people. The lack of proper spaces and adequate supports is a breach of their rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and it is a source of considerable concern for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (2 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: Respectfully, all of those figures mean nothing to families who cannot find a place or an appropriate place. The Minister of State says there are 15 special schools in County Cork. That is wonderful but there is not one special school in all of Cork South-West although it is one of the biggest constituencies in the country. The inadequacy of education and healthcare supports for children...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (2 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Minister of State for her reply but I am just not convinced from her answer that she fully grasps the scale of the urgency of the issue. The Minister of State highlighted there that there is more of a problem with secondary school places but that does not make any sense. We know how many people are coming through the primary school system so I do not understand how forward...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Disability Services: Discussion (31 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for being willing to share their experiences. Regrettably, PDS and CDNTs are failing children and families every day. Ultimately, the witnesses should not have to come before this committee to share their stories. I am really familiar with the incredible work of West Cork Down Syndrome Support and Down Syndrome Cork and I have no doubt about the...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Disability Services: Discussion (31 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: It was quite powerful when Ms O'Donovan was speaking about the difference in services before 2013. Most of the issues in terms of waiting lists etc. are coming down to the progressing disability services, PDS, plan and the issues with children's disability network teams, CDNTs. Different professionals in the industry and different speech and language therapists seem to have different views....

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Disability Services: Discussion (31 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: I want to make a final point particularly in relation to Senator Ruane's questions. It really comes down to staffing in the HSE in terms of the waiting lists. It is something we discuss at the Joint Committee on Disability Matters too. We had a joint sitting of these two committees and it is important at the end of the discussion to have a sense of the crux of the problem. Where has it...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Disability Services: Discussion (31 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: Absolutely.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Disability Services: Discussion (31 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: Either Ms. Moran or Ms Flanagan suggested that there could be a shorter training course particularly for paediatric speech and language therapists. Those are the kind of solutions the HSE needs to look into.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to increase the lack of places in primary and secondary schools for young people with special educational needs and disabilities. [4783/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank the witnesses for being with us and for their opening statement. I have to admit that from working in this committee and in disability services before you think you have some idea of what it is like but unless you or a family member have a disability there is so much to learn about the constant barriers and challenges. Nonetheless, the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I have one final comment rather than a question. It sounds as if there is a real need for an information campaign for individuals and families around the logistics of this when the changes come in. Particularly with regard to the courts, if there is going to be a backlog, what situation will families and individuals be in? That is the information we really need. At a recent meeting with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: There is uncertainty.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I will be brief. I thank Ms Gallagher for taking the time to share her experience and expertise with us. Her contribution when she spoke in September really stayed with me. I do not think I am the only one who felt like that. I thank her for again raising the issue of individuals and families being forced to share their stories to access basic services that they are entitled to. Ms...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: On Friday, I visited St. Finbarr's Boys' National School, Bantry, which is working with the local mixed-ability sports club, the West Cork Jesters, which is one of the first clubs of its kind, to develop an all-weather pitch for the whole community. The students believe strongly in having an inclusive school and I hope there will be support for that application for funding. That visit was...