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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 174. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that the national gender service engages with patient advocacy groups on matters relating to transgender healthcare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15508/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (30 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 22. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to provide respite services for disabled people and children with disabilities and their families in County Cork. [15564/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (30 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 29. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide details of his engagements with survivor and relative groups concerning potential interventions at the sites of former mother and baby homes. [15562/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Resource Centres (30 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 38. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to provide capital funding to family resource centres. [15565/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (30 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 44. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to address staffing shortages among children's disability network teams in County Cork. [15563/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (30 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 233. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to clarify what are the policies for State bodies (details supplied) responding to mothers' requests for their records, under the Birth Information and Tracing Act, including information about their child and are these policies publicly available; how are mothers being informed and notified about their rights;...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (30 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on an application for family reunification for a refugee (details supplied). [15820/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 283. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that the pandemic special recognition payment which has been transferred to a private agency (details supplied) has been passed on to the relevant staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15818/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Deaths (30 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 284. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking in response to a disproportionate overrepresentation of a group (details supplied) in the 13 maternal death inquests held between 2007 and 2021 which returned verdicts of medical misadventure. [15819/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Climate Crisis and Disability: Discussion (30 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank the witnesses for attending. Mr. Kearns has given a lot of time to this committee. It is nice to thank him in person today rather than remotely. It is great to have the Department here to get an understanding of where it is at on these issues. The intersections of climate and disability are an increasingly important topic which does not get enough attention. We know that disabled...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: A projected budget surplus of up to €16 billion has been announced for next year, which is in addition to the €8 billion budget surplus for last year and the €10 billion for this year. The Government has all this money to solve the housing disaster but somehow its problem is spending it. We know the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage has failed to spend...

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: We are in a housing emergency and the Government's housing policy is a disaster. Almost 12,000 people, including more than 3,300 children, are now living in emergency accommodation. Rents are skyrocketing - up 13.7% in 2022 - while at the same time the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage has failed to spend more than €1 billion from his capital budget. The Government...

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

Holly Cairns: The housing disaster is causing devastation among workers and families all over the country. Increasingly it is an enormous problem for businesses too. Every major business group has now pointed to housing being their most serious concern. Chambers Ireland recently warned that the acute shortage of housing was causing companies to take drastic action. It said big businesses are now...

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

Holly Cairns: I did not say no one could afford a home but that only those on the highest incomes can do so. I am not judging the Minister on one year in government but on 12 years of Fine Gael Governments. He was Minister for housing during that time. The criticisms of the Government’s housing delivery are not just coming from the Social Democrats and other Opposition parties; they are coming...

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

Holly Cairns: I am saying they are concerned about housing.

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

Holly Cairns: You just told me they were not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 6. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to recruit more staff for the out-of-hours GP cover, SouthDoc, in counties Cork and Kerry. [18353/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: The Minister will be aware of the major pressures GP out-of-hours services face across the country. SouthDoc, which is the Cork and Kerry service, is having issues with recruiting staff, especially in rural areas. That has resulted in some of the services not running. Local GPs and their staff are already overstretched and they cannot be expected to also provide out-of-hours cover. What...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: I acknowledge the Minister's statement about the forum, which is great, but I wonder when it will happen. I am not feeling a sense of urgency from the Minister in relation to this matter. There needs to be a greater priority given to recruiting and retaining doctors in these services, especially in rural areas like west Cork. As the Minister said, I previously raised with him the case of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: This matter needs to be more of priority because this service provides vital care and is needed by people not just in west Cork but in other rural areas. I understand these things can take time but there is also a lack of joined-up thinking and utilisation of resources, which can be frustrating for people in those areas. SouthDoc services are under pressure and, at the same time, Bantry...