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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 99. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the flood relief scheme in Bantry, County Cork. [46990/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 138. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps he is taking to reform and streamline the recruitment process of non-European Union and European Economic Area nationals and the fast-tracking of the processing of critical skills employment permits relating to the shortage of healthcare professionals for the nursing home sector. [48085/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Burial Grounds (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 467. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the consideration that was given to the Vienna Protocols in the drafting of the procedures for the examination of sites of potential mass graves in State-run or funded institutions. [48081/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Burial Grounds (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 468. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on the concerns of the many victims and survivors regarding the methodology of the appointment of the director, the advisory board and the establishment of the correct expertise concerning the forthcoming examination of the Tuam site under the Institutional Burials Act 2022; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Burial Grounds (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 469. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will publish, once available, the criteria for the post of director concerning the forthcoming examination of the Tuam site under the Institutional Burials Act 2022, along with any candidates' information also supplied to prospective applicants to demonstrate the experience that is required, particularly...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Burial Grounds (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 470. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his views on supporting the principle that validation through co-design and decision-making by an extended advisory board and or the wider consultation is necessary to establish a broad victim, survivor and public confidence in the processes defined by the Institutional Burials Act 2022 and its methodologies....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 612. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the progress made in meeting each of the objectives of Breastfeeding in a Healthy Ireland Health Service Breastfeeding Action Plan 2016 to 2021 as of 25 January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48087/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 613. To ask the Minister for Health the actions that he has taken since taking office to ensure progress in reaching the objectives of the Breastfeeding in a Healthy Ireland Health Service Breastfeeding Action Plan 2016 to 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48088/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: 614. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the availability of dedicated private spaces for breastfeeding and expressing breast milk in each acute and community hospital in each CHO. [48089/22]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: We are all here today because of the continued refusal of the Minister, this Government and the State to respect basic principles of justice and laws, as the will and preference of survivors in relation to the mother and baby institutions. At all stages, survivors have been met with paternalism, disregard, disrespect and attempts to undermine their position. In June 2021 the Minister...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: I apologise if the Minister did not say he brought a proposal to Cabinet. I heard him talking about the issue on the radio so he certainly brought the proposal to the national airwaves. I spoke on the radio after the Minister and asked what he will do if we have two reports, one of which states there is no evidence of illegal adoption or incarceration, all of the things we know happened,...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: In his opening speech, the Minister said the Government cannot by a non-statutory process retrospectively alter or interrogate an independent commission's findings. That means it can be done in a statutory way. Will the Department consider that?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: There are consequences-----

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: I am not clear. The Minister just acknowledged that there is a mechanism to add to the report. Why is he not pursuing that?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: I do not think so.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: That is right. So there is a mechanism for survivors to get an amendment to it. Is there a mechanism for the Minister to do that?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: Why can individuals do it but not the Minister?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: I am not asking about the reason for the amendment. I am asking about the amendment itself. An amendment can be made. There is a mechanism there for this to be done. That is established because it has happened and it is available in the Oireachtas Library as an amendment.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: But it could be for other reasons. There is a mechanism to add this to it. Why is the Minister not pursuing that approach, not in the same way obviously because it may not be one of the survivors?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: Is it possible there could be another reason other than being identifiable, for example that the findings of the report would be factually incorrect?