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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (30 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 44. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he is taking to address staffing shortages among children's disability network teams in County Cork. [15563/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (30 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 233. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to clarify what are the policies for State bodies (details supplied) responding to mothers' requests for their records, under the Birth Information and Tracing Act, including information about their child and are these policies publicly available; how are mothers being informed and notified about their rights;...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (30 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 271. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on an application for family reunification for a refugee (details supplied). [15820/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (30 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 283. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that the pandemic special recognition payment which has been transferred to a private agency (details supplied) has been passed on to the relevant staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15818/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Deaths (30 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 284. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking in response to a disproportionate overrepresentation of a group (details supplied) in the 13 maternal death inquests held between 2007 and 2021 which returned verdicts of medical misadventure. [15819/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Climate Crisis and Disability: Discussion (30 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank the witnesses for attending. Mr. Kearns has given a lot of time to this committee. It is nice to thank him in person today rather than remotely. It is great to have the Department here to get an understanding of where it is at on these issues. The intersections of climate and disability are an increasingly important topic which does not get enough attention. We know that disabled...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: Several of these amendments relate to gender-based violence leave. I wholeheartedly welcome the right to access leave for domestic and gender-based violence. It is significant that people now have that statutory right, but the provisions fall short of what is required. Most obviously, the Bill only allows for five days' leave, when the Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability,...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: I will skip my last point if the Ceann Comhairle wants me to move on more quickly. Is there a reason we are under time pressure?

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: It is related to the amendments. The Bill must be met with improvements in the provision of accessible and affordable childcare under the care services. In this context, the least we can do is ensure people have the right to flexible working arrangements as an acknowledgement of the poor provision of childcare and social and healthcare. One area of concern in the Bill was covered by...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: As the Bill is on the last Stage, we can speak about it.

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: There are a lot of amendments, so I will be speaking in respect of them. I welcome this and any Bill that helps to improve situations for workers, employers and families. It has many benefits in transposing into Irish law, the European directive of 2019 on work-life balance for parents and carers. However, many of the flaws identified at the pre-legislative scrutiny stage remain and...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: From the Seanad (29 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: What I am saying is around amendments Nos. 20, 22 and 23. That is what I am getting to. I am supporting the point I am trying to make.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: The report by the independent review group about the Defence Forces is disturbing. Much of the abuse and behaviour detailed throughout the report is not just horrific but criminal. Almost nine out of every ten women who responded to the review group reported that they had experienced sexual harassment. The report stated there was a discernible practice of rape and sexual assaults in...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: There are tens of thousands of vacant homes in the country that would come back into use with an effective vacant home tax.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: Crucially, we need to build State homes on State lands. Enough is enough.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: The Social Democrats have no confidence in the Government.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: This is the second vote of no confidence in the Government on the subject of housing in the past three months. In December there was a motion of no confidence in the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien. Today there is a motion of no confidence in the Government. Both motions are inextricably linked to the housing disaster. Even if the Government...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (29 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will establish an additional hourly service on the Cork-Kinsale 226 route that does not include the airport, to facilitate local passengers and commuters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15511/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (29 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 87. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the funding opportunities that are available for sports clubs to assist them in facilitating children and young people resident in direct provision centres participating in club activities, including funding for transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15510/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (29 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: 154. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of family reunification applications under the terms of the International Protection Act 2015 received by his Department in 2022, by month received, in tabular form; if he will provide the number of decisions issued per month on family reunification for the same period; and if he will make a statement on the...