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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 82. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions he is taking to prohibited pair trawling inside the six-mile limit. [18344/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: I am regularly contacted by residents in west Cork concerned about trawling in Bantry Bay and Kenmare Bay. I have to explain to them that this is permitted even though it is in the programme for Government. We know it is legally sound. Since the court ruling in October 2020 overturned the policy directive, I have repeatedly asked the Minister to resolve the issue by bringing the directive...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: When the Minister says his team now has to assess the situation, I am not really sure what needs to be assessed at this point. He says he is committed to banning this, but the issue remains that inshore trawling is currently permitted and will be for some time until the Minister resolves the matter. The Government says constantly that it is committed to banning this activity. Inshore...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: But the Minister knew for two years that that ruling was coming.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: Respectfully, the Minister has had a month to act but he has had two years to assess or to plan or whatever he is saying the Department is doing now. I thank him for the reply but, in essence, it is the same kind of holding response I have got for two years at this stage. Will he just confirm that he will begin the process to establish the policy directive, and when will that be? What...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: Exactly. We already know that.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: Now I would like a different response.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. Yesterday, we had an extraordinary spectacle at the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach. One of the most senior and highest paid civil servants in the State engaged in an arrogant two-hour dismissal of an independent expert report commissioned by his line Minister. The Secretary General of the Department of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: Will the Tánaiste answer the questions?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: Respectfully, the Tánaiste just talked around all those questions for the entire time of his reply. I asked him how Mr. Watt's position can be tenable and whether the Tánaiste or the Government intends to take any action to make him accountable. Another aspect of this whole fiasco is deeply troubling. In April of last year, Mr. Watt refused to appear before the finance...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: I will go back to my previous questions. The Tánaiste did not answer them. Does the Tánaiste think Mr. Watt's position is tenable? What is the Government doing to hold him to account?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: This is not relevant.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: We will take that as a "No".

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (18 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 53. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he is taking in response to the Joint Committee on Justice Report on Women’s Shelters and Domestic Abuse Refuges recommendation that ‘the commissioning of a comprehensive strategy for move-on or long-term accommodation for victims of domestic abuse needs to be developed and incorporated into future...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (18 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 132. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking in response to increased tensions in Jerusalem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17701/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (18 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 138. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the steps he is taking in response to increased tensions in Jerusalem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17959/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Change Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide his response to the recommended actions on cutting rates of pollution and reducing energy poverty contained in a report (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16833/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Usage (18 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 219. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to develop a portal that enables households to use the information from their smart electricity meter to assist them in understanding their solar PV requirements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17954/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (18 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 220. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will ensure that an individual (details supplied) receives the electricity account credit. [17955/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: International Agreements (18 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 221. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to ensure that the State leaves the Energy Charter Treaty. [17957/23]