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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Family-Centred Practice and Parent Training Interventions: Discussion (26 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: There are different ways to address a crisis and to perceive something as a crisis or a problem. There are hierarchies within the issues the State is dealing with. There is the idea that because we are now focusing on assessment we are losing out on intervention. Basically, there are not enough resources. We always hear it comes down to staffing, we cannot get the staff and we are looking...

Inshore Fishing: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Rural Independents and welcome this rare opportunity to talk about inshore fishing. Despite being the largest segment of our fishing sector and providing the most employment, it is too often overlooked. This is a timely discussion as the National Inshore Fishermen's Association has finally, thanks to its members’ tireless efforts, achieved producer organisation status....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cancer Research (25 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Minister of State for her response and for her commitment. I would appreciate an update on the laboratory. The Minister of State is also right to highlight that awareness and accessibility are essential to the success of the programme and ultimately to the prevention of deaths. The Department of Health and the HSE must continue to promote and explain the relevance of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cancer Research (25 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: Every year in Ireland around 290 women get cervical cancer. Almost 90 of those women die from it. In women aged from 25 to 39 years cervical cancer is the second most common cause of death due to cancer. It is the responsibility of individuals, families, communities and the State to do everything possible to drive this number down. This week is European Cervical Cancer Prevention Week and...

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: The proposed partnership between Coillte and a UK-based investment fund is a bad deal for multiple reasons. It is also symptomatic of this and the previous Government's disastrous approach to forestry. The forestry sector has been in crisis for years. The Government is only reaching one quarter of its own afforestation targets and its agricultural policies are pushing farmers away from...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (24 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance what steps he is taking to reform the provisions of flood insurance. [3064/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (24 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 152. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he is taking to reduce the cost of insurance for the hospitality sector. [3063/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (24 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 192. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how his Department will support persons with long-term incontinence with respect to the disposal of medical incontinence wear; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3125/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Equality Issues (24 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 446. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on a report (details supplied) concerning students with disabilities on placement. [3124/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (24 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 593. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify that the contract for the national standardised list of community-funded aids and appliances and prescribing criteria is in place; and if he will outline the requirements for the equitable distribution of aids and appliances in each CHO for people who are blind or vision-impaired. [3126/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (24 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 594. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with an organisation (details supplied) to address the ongoing risk of medicine shortages. [3127/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Deaths (24 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 595. To ask the Minister for Health if a group has been established by his office or any other institution of his Department or HSE for the purpose of carrying out investigations into maternal deaths; if so, if he can clarify the rationale for such a group; the reason that such investigations are not conducted, as a matter of course, by HIQA; the budget for this group; the source from which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (24 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 596. To ask the Minister for Health if he will immediately provide the necessary capital funding to retain 18 beds in the acute mental health unit in Bantry Hospital. [3129/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Supports (24 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 659. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of European Union Brexit funding that has been made available to the fishing sector, including a breakdown of all the relevant schemes; and his plans to provide further funding from EU Brexit funding to the sector. [3120/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (24 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 660. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of funding provided for afforestation annually for each of the years 2018 to 2022 inclusive, in tabular form, including a breakdown of the amounts provided to farmers, private forestry companies, community/non-profit groups, public/semi-state bodies, and any other relevant category. [3122/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (24 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 661. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the call by a fishing representative organisation (details supplied) to provide for specific small-scale fisher infrastructure investment to improve facilities in landing areas, strengthen short supply chains and food security, and prioritise decarbonisation of the small-scale fleet. [3123/23]

Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: Farmers, fishers and food producers have the most important roles in our society. Without them, we would have no food. Basically, everything begins with their vital work. Despite their significance, the primary producers and workers in this area, namely, the people who grow crops, rear animals, catch fish and make food, are often treated extremely poorly. While the Government pays lip...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: Vessels over 18 m continue to pair-trawl in inshore waters. They are allowed to do so due to the High Court overturning the policy directive in October 2020. We know this type of fishing is highly inappropriate. It not only damages the marine environment, but it also directly impacts on inshore fishers' livelihoods and tourism activities due to the reduction in stocks. Over two years...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: The court case was lost on a technicality.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: There is nothing wrong with the policy.