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Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (15 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: 213. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nursing home residents who availed of the fair deal scheme; the total cost to the Exchequer annually for the years 2018 to 2022, inclusive; the average payment per patient per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7752/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (15 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: 214. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE-run nursing homes and privately run nursing homes that have participated in the fair deal scheme annually for the years 2018 to 2022, inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7753/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (15 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: 215. To ask the Minister for Health the total funding for HSE dental services in the past five years in all LHOs in CHO4; the number of children waiting for dental services in these LHOs; their waiting times; the location in which children in these LHOs can have orthodontic treatment carried out; the number of orthodontists available to the HSE in these areas; the criteria being applied that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Womans Health Services (15 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: 216. To ask the Minister for Health the opening hours of each specialist menopause clinic by location, in tabular form as of 1 February 2022. [7755/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Proofing and Data: Discussion (16 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank all of our guest speakers for appearing before the committee today and for sharing their insights on disability-proofing and data. It is a very important topic, but probably not on the face of it because people do not very much realise how important it is. Disability-proofing is simply ensuring people with disabilities are considered and included in the development and...

Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (21 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: While I greatly welcome this motion establishing the Citizens’ Assembly on Drugs Use, it is truly shocking that it has taken this long. There are almost two drug-related deaths in Ireland every day, and this rate is almost five times the figure for those who die in road traffic accidents and twice the European average. Now that we have the assembly, it is essential that it is...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: These amendments are about ensuring applications are processed in a timely manner. The current wording states that a deciding officer will assess an application "as soon as practicable". That is completely unacceptable. The amendment in my name and that of other Deputies insists that this be replaced with "within 28 days". These amendments are necessary because survivors and campaigners...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: Yes.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I warmly welcome everybody in the Gallery this evening. I extend the same warm welcome to anybody who is watching at home. If I were watching on and not a Member of this House, I would find what is happening confusing. I just want to explain to people the reason we are talking about very technical amendments at this stage of the progress of the Bill. Perhaps those watching did not hear...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: May I come in on that? This is the first time we are speaking on these amendments.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I just want to come in on amendments Nos. 34 to 38, inclusive. Amendment No. 56 is in this grouping. Is that not correct?

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I am sorry, amendment No. 56 is the one I want to come in on. I thought that amendment No. 34 was grouped with amendment No. 56.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: The grouping list reads: 34 to 38, inclusive; and 39, 43, 44, 48, 49 and 56.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: That is fine.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: Is this amendment No. 56? I am sorry; I cannot hear the Chair.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I find the Minister's amendment No. 56 particularly rich. I think it is distasteful and representative of this entire situation. It can be directly contrasted to amendments by me and others which sought to ensure that applications are processed in a timely manner. The Minister has insisted the deciding officer and staff administering the scheme are permitted to be given an open-ended...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I am sure I am not the only person feeling the absence of Deputy Connolly tonight. I am glad Deputy Pringle read something out on her behalf. I wish to acknowledge the amazing work she has done on this. The people watching at home will be wondering where she is this evening, but as Deputy Pringle said, she could not be here because she is unwell. I pay tribute to all of her work.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 50: In page 25, line 23, to delete "as soon as is practicable" and substitute "within 28 days".

Temporary Business Energy Support Scheme: Motion (22 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: The announcement of yesterday's cost-of-living package was an admission that the budget was not enough. Let us not forget that this budget was billed as a giveaway budget and yet it still failed to protect the most vulnerable in our society. Last September, the Social Democrats warned that the budget was not enough. It was not enough to provide sustainable relief to struggling households,...

Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (Resumed) (22 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 2: To delete all words from "policy and operational changes the State could make to significantly" down to and including “increasing resilience, health and well-being; and;” and substitute the following: "improve its response to drugs use and abuse, and the outcomes in relation to drugs use and abuse, to reduce the harmful impacts of drugs and the...