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Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Referral to Joint Committee (15 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: It is not agreed.

Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: Child protection is a really important issue for every organisation in the country, including political parties. As politicians, we routinely hold others to account. It is unfortunate that the leader of Sinn Féin has now left. I appreciate that she came here today to bring more transparency to what is happening in her party but I have to highlight her glossing over of the glowing...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward the motion. I want to touch on the budget because every year on budget day we go through the same farce again and again. The Government announces a high-level figure for investment in disability services. This year it claimed the figure was €336 million, only for us to find out days later that this money will largely pay for services...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: ----- might finally be ratified-----

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: -----with days left? Over the years, we have heard from different experts, including the UN special rapporteur, who have clearly said the optional protocol could be ratified in the morning. Disabled people should not have had to wait this long. They should not have to wait any longer for the ability to vindicate their rights and hold the State accountable for its failures. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: Services for disabled people are either threadbare or non-existent. These are services in areas like education, healthcare, social care and transport that are not optional extras. They are services that disabled people are entitled to as a right. If, eventually, they are provided, it is only ever after a fight. Funding shortfalls, staffing shortfalls and lack of resources are the only...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: The Minister is very confused about it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: The Minister says he is keenly aware of that boy and that girl. When looking at the budget figures, it does not feel like it. He does not have to take my word for it. The ESRI said it thinks the budget will push more disabled people into poverty. Instead, the Government decided to try to splash the cash around indiscriminately in a brazen attempt to try to buy votes rather than invest in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: Can the Minister answer my question about the budget?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: I have run out of words to describe the horror unfolding in Gaza and now in Lebanon. This week, I and millions of other people, watched a young man in a hospital tent burn alive. He was still attached to an IV drip and was reaching out his hand for help. The Israeli army had targeted a missile strike on tents in the grounds of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. Not content with destroying all the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: I know the ICJ ruling on the illegal Israeli settlements was extremely important and welcome, but I repeat that we did not need it to act. I presume the Tánaiste agrees with that because if I am correct, Fianna Fáil brought forward the Bill in 2019.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: However, because the Government waited, we are now running out of time. I heard the Tánaiste on The Irish Times podcast say that we would have an election after critical pieces of legislation were passed. Does that mean there is an army of lawyers in the Attorney General's office and the Department of Finance working morning, noon and night to try to get the occupied territories Bill...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (17 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: 77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he plans to upgrade the road infrastructure leading to Castletownbere port; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41897/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Agreements (17 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: 274. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reasoning for the decision to remove the 90-day visa-free travel to Ireland from South Africa for tourists; and whether she would reconsider this decision. [42323/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (15 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: 248. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when works on improving the culvert system in Bantry will begin; the stage of the process the works are currently at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41560/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (15 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: 249. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to detail all of the flood protection projects currently underway in Cork; the stage of the development process each are currently at; the expected timeline for completion of each; and the expected costs associated with each, in tabular form. [41561/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (15 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: 268. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the supports which will be made available for businesses in Cork which were affected by recent flooding; and when they will be open for application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41559/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (15 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: 349. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that local councils are continuing to include child maintenance as part of the income calculation when people apply for social housing and in the calculation of the rent due (details supplied). [40947/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (15 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: 517. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions his Department has taken as part of its investigation into the abuse of calves exposed in a television exposé (details supplied) in July 2024; the reason action was not taken to prosecute those filmed abusing animals during the 12-month window for conviction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41554/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (15 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: 518. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide detail of all inspections carried out on the marts mentioned in a television exposé (details supplied) in July 2024; the dates on which each were conducted; the grade and profession of those present from his Department during each inspection from July 2023 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter....