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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank everyone for coming before the committee. Ratification of the optional protocol is obviously incredibly important. It is a matter that is raised continually by DPOs, disabled people and their advocates. This committee has asserted over and over again the need for immediate ratification. Frankly, I do not think the rationale that the Minister has given for the ongoing delay is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: The point I was trying to make is that there are loads of violations of the UNCRPD without the optional protocol. The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act was the excuse that was used for a long time. The Minister does not even know what the next excuse will be, but there is a scoping exercise in train to figure out what form it will take. At that point, we will again fail to ratify. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: Even though we can probably predict what will happen because it was recommended that the reservation be removed in the case of Canada, Kuwait and Singapore, the Government's position is that it disagrees with the UNCRPD committee and we will probably stand our ground anyway as a result. That is what I take from what the Minister said. If we hang on to that reservation, which, as the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: I agree 100%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: Is that only journalists or will there be an official record kept?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: Would it be possible for the Department to re-examine the matter - perhaps annually, every half-year or whatever - in order that in the early stages, it will be done a little sooner in order to see what is happening. In such circumstances, a standard would be established, but maybe a year later, and we would still lack any kind of standard being applied for the first while? I do not have...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 59. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on ensuring that Castletownbere is classified as a larger town within the Connecting Ireland plan to ensure that the Beara peninsula is assigned the necessary scale of routes. [2091/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 142. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the flood relief scheme in Bantry, County Cork. [2093/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 201. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to improve the recruitment and retention of staff in NCT centres. [2687/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 211. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will adjust the tax credit for renters to include students renting in a ‘rent-a-room’ or ‘digs’ type arrangement. [2683/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Quarrying Sector (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on introducing regulations concerning the use of rock-breaking equipment. [2685/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 270. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will facilitate persons living on offshore islands to remotely sign on for jobseeker's payments. [2686/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 384. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to retain and recruit recent nursing graduates to address the staffing shortage in the HSE. [2684/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 398. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the call by a fishing representative organisation (details supplied) regarding the differentiation of small-scale fishery products in the market through traceability, community-supported fisheries and direct, short-chain marketing schemes, empowering fishing organisations to become price makers. [2682/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (18 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Minister of State for her response and for outlining all the actions the Government has been taking. I also thank her for telling her story about what happened today. Well done. She is right that such behaviour absolutely needs to be reported. A key point she raised is that for too long only half the population have been having this conversation. Girls and women know this...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (18 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: Last week was the first anniversary of Ashling Murphy's murder. Since then, a further 16 women have been killed on the island of Ireland, including two already this year, namely, Bruna Fonseca, and Maud Coffey. NGOs and campaigners have rightly called this an epidemic of gender-based violence. More than 250 women have been violently killed since 1996 and in the vast majority of resolved...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (18 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 54. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will add fishers to the critical skills occupations list to enable them to be eligible for employment under the critical skills permit system, reflecting skills and worker shortages in this vital area. [2268/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (18 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the microgeneration scheme. [2422/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (18 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: 132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the low-interest loans to enable homes to retrofit will be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2287/23]