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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: 252. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide children with Down's syndrome with early intervention facilities and accompanying home tuition, similar to the schemes available to children with ASD and autistic children [6181/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: 468. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a medication for hyperemesis (details supplied) is made available through the drugs payment scheme with a prescription from a GP. [6184/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (8 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: 469. To ask the Minister for Health the average response time of ambulances in west County Cork; the number of ambulances ordinarily based at each location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6185/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (2 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Minister of State for her reply but I am just not convinced from her answer that she fully grasps the scale of the urgency of the issue. The Minister of State highlighted there that there is more of a problem with secondary school places but that does not make any sense. We know how many people are coming through the primary school system so I do not understand how forward...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (2 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to increase the number of places in secondary schools for young people with autism in County Cork. [4782/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (2 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: We need more secondary school places for children with disabilities in Cork South-West. In particular, there are insufficient specialised units for young people with autism, or autistic young people. The lack of proper spaces and adequate supports is a breach of their rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and it is a source of considerable concern for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Special Educational Needs (2 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: Respectfully, all of those figures mean nothing to families who cannot find a place or an appropriate place. The Minister of State says there are 15 special schools in County Cork. That is wonderful but there is not one special school in all of Cork South-West although it is one of the biggest constituencies in the country. The inadequacy of education and healthcare supports for children...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to increase the lack of places in primary and secondary schools for young people with special educational needs and disabilities. [4783/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank the witnesses for being with us and for their opening statement. I have to admit that from working in this committee and in disability services before you think you have some idea of what it is like but unless you or a family member have a disability there is so much to learn about the constant barriers and challenges. Nonetheless, the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I have one final comment rather than a question. It sounds as if there is a real need for an information campaign for individuals and families around the logistics of this when the changes come in. Particularly with regard to the courts, if there is going to be a backlog, what situation will families and individuals be in? That is the information we really need. At a recent meeting with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: There is uncertainty.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Living with a Disability: Discussion (2 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I will be brief. I thank Ms Gallagher for taking the time to share her experience and expertise with us. Her contribution when she spoke in September really stayed with me. I do not think I am the only one who felt like that. I thank her for again raising the issue of individuals and families being forced to share their stories to access basic services that they are entitled to. Ms...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: These amendments - I am speaking to amendment No. 50 in particular - seek to ensure applications are processed in a timely manner. The current wording is too ambiguous and allows for too much scope. Survivors have waited years for any form of justice, and it is essential those who are eligible receive their redress as soon as possible. The only way this is possible is by adding this limit....

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: After that can we come back in?

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: That is what I mean, though. The debate will not be finished. We can come-----

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 26: In page 14, to delete lines 19 to 22. This amendment seeks to remove another exclusion based on spending a minimum amount of time in an institution. The section relates to people who make another application to the scheme in the unlikely situation that another institution is added to the list of institutions, and the arbitrary six-month criteria is relevant here...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: Under Standing Order 83(3)(b) I propose that the vote be taken by other than electronic means.

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: It is completely disingenuous to give that justification for excluding people who spent less than six months in institutions from the scheme. Some people highlighted time spent in institutions as a matter to look into in the context of redress. It is completely disingenuous. The Minister is completely and blatantly ignoring all the concerns that have been raised in the House, and all the...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: -----and that we would all be talking today about the fact that somebody might get €3,000 or €5,000 for something like being separated from their parent or child at birth, or that people might get that amount for being incarcerated, for forced labour, for illegal adoptions and all the horrors, including illegal vaccine trials on children. People might get €3,000 or...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: It was incredible and somewhat excruciating to watch the Minister speak for almost seven minutes and not reference the main concerns that were raised in the Chamber, particularly the concerns raised by Deputies Boyd Barrett and Connolly. The Minister is right to highlight that this is one aspect of what has been going on in regard to mother and baby homes. For the past three years on the...