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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.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: Why are they so annoyed?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: I want to know what the Tánaiste's Government knows about Coillte's plan to sell off vast tracts of rural Ireland to a British investment fund and when it first learned about it? Last November, the Government announced €1.3 billion in new forestry supports. I welcomed the announcement and thought it was a good news story for farmers, who would be encouraged to diversify and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: In one way, the silver lining from this issue arising is that we are finally having more of a discussion about agriculture. We do not have a Sláintecare for agriculture or the kinds of closely monitored targets such as those in housing to see how much progress the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine is making, but exactly the same playbook is playing out in agriculture as that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: It is a semi-State.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: The Tánaiste acknowledged the deal needs to be looked at. Is he-----