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Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: This is our only opportunity to discuss these aspects of the redress scheme. The Minister has just said again that this is not the only part of a response to survivors and that there is the birth information and tracing legislation etc. Realistically, however, he knows, I know and everybody watching this meeting knows that that is not redress. Birth information and tracing legislation is...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: Will the Minister outline why the people who spent less than six month in an institution do not get a payment?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: Why does a person who spent less than six months in an institution not get a payment?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: Why?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: Why six months?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: Will the Minister outline where the six months came from?

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: That is not an answer.

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 8: In page 9, to delete lines 19 to 21 and substitute the following: “(5) The Chief Operating Officer may appoint suitably qualified staff as he or she may determine to the staff of the Office of the Chief Deciding Officer to assist in the performance of his or her duties.”. The amendment seeks to ensure that suitably qualified professionals assist...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: With regard to amendment No. 9, we know that many of those entitled to redress no longer reside in the State. It is, therefore, essential that any public information campaign has an international element. The OAK report makes special reference in several places to survivors living abroad, in some cases due to their experience in mother and baby homes or being boarded out. It should also be...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 18: In page 15, line 17, to delete “, as soon as practicable,” and substitute “, within 28 days,”. This amendment seeks to ensure that applications are processed in a timely manner. The current wording is too ambiguous and allows too much scope. Given that survivors have had to wait decades for justice, it is important to ensure that...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (15 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: 106. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an update on the flood relief scheme in Bantry, County Cork. [56220/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (15 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: 115. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps being taken by the OPW to ensure buildings it has responsibility for are fully accessible for persons with disabilities, including having a suitable toilet and changing places facilities. [56221/22]

Report of the Joint Committee on Disability Matters on the UNCRPD: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: Article 19 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is one of the sections of the convention cited most often. It calls for "the equal right of all persons with disabilities to live in the community, with choices equal to others, and...[for] appropriate measures to facilitate full enjoyment by persons with disabilities of this right and their full inclusion and...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: This legislation is long overdue. We know the negative impact of hate speech and incitement to violence. We also know these are often targeted at vulnerable or minority groups. While I welcome the Bill, it would be wrong to think that it can eradicate the disgusting beliefs and attitudes that lead to hate speech. It is important that as we bring in much-needed criminal law for this...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: The RTÉ documentary on the sexual abuse at Blackrock College highlights the murky history of abuse and cover up in our education system. The redress scheme for survivors of sexual abuse in schools only came about through the bravery of Louise O'Keeffe who went to the European Court of Human Rights. The scheme, however, is intentionally restrictive and even with last year's changes it...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Unions (10 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: Many households and businesses are in crisis and credit unions are ready to provide vital assistance. Are the Minister or the Minister of State, Deputy Fleming, looking into what measures they can bring in immediately to allow them to take advantage of the place of credit unions in the community and their balance sheets? I realise the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Fleming, are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Unions (10 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: I encourage the Minister to look at the reforms that could be brought in quickly. The Minister will be aware that the credit unions have again topped the customer experience ranking for the eighth year in a row and they have even improved on their scores in the process. They are also continuing to innovate and adapt to changing circumstances. For example, the cultivate programme offers...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Unions (10 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps that he is taking to fulfil the commitment in the programme for Government for credit unions to become a key provider of community banking. [55634/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Unions (10 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: Credit unions are more important than ever. As households and family businesses are experiencing the cost-of-living crisis, credit unions are providing vital services to help people get through. However, they are still constrained by an outdated policy framework that is limiting their capacity rather than helping them serve their communities. I appreciate the work the Minister has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol: Discussion (10 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: In discussing the importance and necessity of ratifying the optional protocol of the CRPD, this committee has heard several times from experts that the Government could at any time ratify it and has delayed the process unnecessarily. The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022 was used as the excuse for this. The Bill has taken considerably longer than planned; the...