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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...

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

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 2: In page 5, between lines 24 and 25, to insert the following: “Report on operation of Scheme 2.(1) The Minister shall cause a report on the operation of the Scheme to be commenced on the day that is six months after the establishment day and to be laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas as soon as practicable after its completion. (2) A report under...

Council Development Levies: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank Deputies Joan Collins, Pringle and Connolly and their teams for this motion. It is a very effective and simple solution to the lack of basic community infrastructure across the country. The ring-fencing of development levies for amenities and material improvements is a common-sense approach that will help enhance localities and provide people of all ages with facilities to socialise...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (1 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Minister of State. I have no doubt that she understands the significance of this area. I urge her to speak to the Minister for Health about how the HSE can develop increased capacity and geographical spread to deal with this horrific epidemic. I draw attention to the fact that the initial data show that one fifth of those who attended these units last year - over 200 people -...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (1 Feb 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Leas Cheann-Comhairle for facilitating the discussion of this Topical Issue matter. The Central Statistics Office, CSO, recorded 2,892 victims of sexual violence in 2021, with roughly 80% of these being girls and women. For that same year, Women's Aid received 1,104 disclosures of sexual abuse, including 411 disclosures of rape. This is a specific and serious dimension of the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: The National Ambulance Service has been under-resourced and overstretched for years. We have an insufficient number of operational vehicles and paramedics are being forced to work dangerously long shifts due to staff shortages. It is no exaggeration to say that it is costing lives. This issue has a particular impact on rural populations. I have constituents in west Cork who are fearful...