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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Litter Pollution (13 Jul 2021)

Holly Cairns: 201. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 15 June 2021, the amount allocated to each local authority from the €5 million additional funding for litter prevention and cleaning announced on 5 May 2021. [37416/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Local Authorities (12 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount each local authority will receive from the €5 million additional funding for litter prevention and cleaning announced on 5 May 2021; the rationale for the assignment of funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25155/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Litter Pollution (15 Jun 2021)

Holly Cairns: 202. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 51 of 12 May 2021, the amount allocated to each local authority from the €5 million additional funding for litter prevention and cleaning announced on 5 May 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31324/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Digital Hubs (20 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 817. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way in which the €5 million in the budget for town and village hubs will be deployed to assist 2020 students participate in third level education remotely. [31771/20]

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Holly Cairns: Just one last point. Sorry, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. To give context of a previous budget, Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind was allocated €886,000. It had to raise €5 million itself. Why is it not getting a fraction of what the greyhound racing industry is getting?

Greyhound Industry: Motion [Private Members] (25 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: ...: “That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the Irish greyhound industry receives substantial public funding; — in 2021, the Exchequer will subsidise greyhound racing in Ireland by €19.2 million, an increase of €2.4 million from 2020; — the industry has received approximately €280 million in taxpayer funding since 2000; —...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion and giving us an opportunity to discuss this important issue. The Social Democrats will be supporting the motion. I did not believe the figure of €64 million of additional expenditure for investment in disability services when I first read it in the budget document. It is a pitiful investment into improving services with so much unmet...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...measures. However, these payments are awarded on the whim of the Government rather than in any benchmarked and reliable manner. Core rates were increased for the first time in three years by €5 in the last budget and now, in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis, there is an increase of only €12. In real terms, a significant proportion of the population is worse off under...

Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...and Department of Health seem to have in improving dental services. The Minister has not even turned up for this debate. What little has been done is nothing short of insulting. Some €5 million was allocated in the budget to address the backlog in school screening. However, this money cannot be used to hire more public dentists. How exactly does the Government intend to fix...

Data Centre Moratorium: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2021)

Holly Cairns: ...and warnings of winter power shortages. We know data centres are resource-hungry projects, using the same amount of energy as a large town or a small city like Kilkenny, and consuming between 500,000 and 5 million litres of water a day. This is deeply worrying and deeply unfair. Data centres are being quietly promoted by Government Departments, with little understanding of their impact....

Community and Voluntary Sector Workers: Motion [Private Members] (12 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...public sector counterparts. In our alternative budget, the Social Democrats called for an increase in the allocation across services budgets for section 39 organisations, Tusla-funded section 56 organisations and section 10 homeless services of a total of €80 million as a first step to addressing this disparity. Instead of investing in this sector and recognising highly skilled...

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...7th December, 2021, and found that the additional cost of disability ranged between €8,700 and €12,300 per annum; - the report found that meeting these higher costs was particularly difficult for the 152,000 people on the disability allowance, which is paid at a rate of just €208 per week; - an Economic and Social Research Institute report entitled "Headline Poverty...