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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (22 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on providing financial support for students returning from Erasmus who have to mandatorily quarantine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20876/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Transport Policy (22 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit encourage and facilitate employees to use active travel to commute to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21053/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Transport Policy (22 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: 121. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which her Department and agencies under her remit encourage and facilitate employees to use active travel to commute to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21056/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Proposed Legislation (22 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: 123. To ask the Minister for Health the date to which his Department is working towards to introduce the nursing home support scheme (amendment) Bill to the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20872/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme (22 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: 124. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the cross-Departmental report on Prader-Willi syndrome; when it is expected that the report will be published; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20873/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (22 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: 125. To ask the Minister for Health the progress in making a gene therapy (details supplied) available and publicly funded for persons diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20874/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: 126. To ask the Minister for Health the way the appeals system for those in mandatory quarantining operates; the grounds on which appeals can be made; the time scale involved; the number of persons who have appealed their mandatory quarantining; the outcomes of those appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20875/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Transport Policy (22 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit encourage and facilitate employees to use active travel to commute to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21054/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (22 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: 214. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on increasing the resources and staff of the forestry appeals and licensing process to ensure that all licences and appeals are processed in a timely manner including the clearing of the substantial backlog. [20862/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (22 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: 215. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the average waiting times for licensing applications and appeals in the forestry appeals and licensing process between 1 September 2020 and 31 March 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20863/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (22 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: 216. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the provisions that have been made for forestry planting under the new organic scheme and the new REPS scheme including the potential impact on backlogs in the forestry appeals and licensing process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20864/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Transport Policy (22 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: 230. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way in which his Department and agencies under his remit encourage and facilitate employees to use active travel to commute to work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21045/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Transport Policy (22 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: 232. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way in which her Department and agencies under her remit encourage and facilitate employees to use active travel to commute to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21058/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of a Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: I am in Leinster House. I want to touch on what Ms Coughlan said. Understandably, there is so much fear around people's stories being exposed against their will. This committee will work to balance the right to privacy with the right to access data. In Ireland, this has always been weighed very heavily in favour of privacy but there are international best practice standards we can refer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of a Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: I want to follow on from what Mr. O'Brien said, as well as what Ms Larkin said on the coroner and the existing law being enforced. I agree and I do not understand why it has not been enforced up until now and why this is treated like something different. We know the coroner is obliged to act. The Coroners Act 1962 states that when remains are found in a coroner's district he or she is...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: I echo some of the sentiments expressed in respect of to the marine spatial planning framework. The Taoiseach said it has been in development for four years, but nobody has consulted the inshore fisheries community and, as Deputy Ó Broin said, there has been no proper scrutiny of it. The fisheries community and all of us acknowledge the importance of wind energy. What the community...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: While I also welcome the Taoiseach's response to the devastating scenes caused by Covid-19 in India, the real solution is very obviously to allow the global production of vaccines. We had all hoped that the pandemic would lead to a new solidarity. However, the EU, US and others refuse to allow a waiver on vaccine patents. The TRIPS waiver, as it is referred to, would allow countries in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: At the meeting on Friday, what position will Ireland take on pushing for intellectual property rights to be waived?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: What stance will the Government take on Friday?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: My question was not answered.