Results 721-740 of 7,457 for speaker:Holly Cairns

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agrifood Sector (1 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 806. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps his Department is taking to encourage Irish whiskey producers to source the barley for their produce from farmers within the island of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40181/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agrifood Sector (1 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 807. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider requesting to amend the Irish whiskey protected geographical indication, PGI, technical file to state barley for Irish whiskey must be sourced on the island of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40182/20]

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: Needless to say, we should not be having this debate. There should be no need for it. We should be paying our student nurses and midwives for the work they do in our overstretched and understaffed hospitals. Students on mandatory placements are effectively working as staff for no pay, which is simply unacceptable. The practical and vocational nature of nursing and midwifery means their...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 100. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number and amounts of capital grants for the provision of domestic violence and abuse refuges between 1 January 2016 and 1 November 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40782/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Special Educational Needs (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to address the shortage of ASD units in west County Cork (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41054/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 291. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the capital grants for the provision of domestic violence and abuse refuges between 1 January 2016 and 1 January 2020 as a percentage of the annual budget on domestic violence and abuse services of Tusla; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41052/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 292. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that staff in domestic violence and abuse services are on different pay scales and working conditions; if such funding originates from Tusla or HSE funding streams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41053/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 323. To ask the Minister for Health the way testing for Covid-19 is being carried out in meat processing plants; the number of tests carried out; the number of plants in which tests have been conducted between 1 August and 30 November 2020; the procedures for when a person is found to have Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41060/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 324. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to cases of Covid-19 in meat processing plants in county Cork between 1 August and 30 November 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41061/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 377. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which response times for HSE ambulance services are calculated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41055/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 378. To ask the Minister for Health the mechanism by which the close contacts of a person who has tested positive for Covid-19 are informed of same; the time frame it takes for close contacts to be informed on average after the diagnosis is made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41056/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 379. To ask the Minister for Health if partners or accompanying persons will be permitted to attend with patients attending maternity services in circumstances in which maternity services know that distressing or potentially distressing information is being presented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41057/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Contraceptive Services (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the commitment in the Programme for Government to provide free contraception starting with women aged 17 to 25 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41058/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Contraceptive Services (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 381. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the research by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41059/20]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: Plans for a strategic housing development and apartment blocks at Bessborough mother and baby institution have been lodged. More than 900 children died while in the care of nuns at Bessborough and the burial place of more than 800 of those children is still unknown. The proposed development is to be built on an area that has been documented as a children's burial ground. Needless to say,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: On that basis, will the Taoiseach intervene?

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (8 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 33. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the beef task force and his response to criticisms from farming organisations on its slow pace and lack of engagement with farmers. [41695/20]

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (8 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: The Minister must be aware that beef prices continue to be unacceptably low. I am sure he will tell me about the leadership the task force is providing, the agreement in principle to support the protected geographical indication, PGI, application and the Bord Bia market price index. The reality, however, is the task force is a talking shop. It is unclear exactly how PGI will benefit...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (8 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: The negativity the Minister points out I am expressing is with regard to the PGI in terms of how it can benefit farmers. It is not regarding the bigger picture the Minister is painting. I believe the broad reaction is that this is about them. The reason we can get a PGI is because of their practices but it is not benefiting them. That is where the negativity lies. It is important to...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Beef Industry (8 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: As I said, I do not reject the idea or the prospect of the PGI status. I believe it is important. My point was to ask how does it benefit farmers. We still have not realised how that will happen. The core issue remains the industry is out to get as much profit as possible and continues to give low prices to farmers and treat workers poorly. This is facilitated by Government after...