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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: The Minister stated that there is no assessment in respect of SNAs. Perhaps I said "assessment" but I meant to say "allocation". Surely when people go to the appeal and exceptional review process they are appealing something, be it an allocation or an assessment. As I stated, 50% of those appeals are granted. The allocation is not working. It is being put back on schools and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: The Minister said that I articulated that this provision somehow reduced the stress or burden on parents. I did not say that at all. From what I have experienced in my constituency office, I know that these parents are worried, stressed and at the end of their tethers. They know that there is a short period for intervention in order that their children can live full and independent lives....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (15 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: 32. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that he is taking to fast-track the processing of critical skills employment permits relating to healthcare professionals for the nursing home sector. [44962/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Rights of People with Disabilities (15 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: 73. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps that he is taking to improve the employment rates among persons with disabilities. [44963/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Offshore Islands (15 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: 93. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the Islands’ Action Plan. [44965/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (15 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: 106. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her views on increasing the annual funding for the CLÁR programme. [44966/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (15 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: 114. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the Programme for Government commitment for an expanded town and village renewal scheme to bring vacant and derelict buildings back into use and promote residential occupancy; when communities can start applying for this funding; and the estimated amount available to each local authority. [44964/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (15 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: 143. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her views on increasing the annual funding for the Leader programme. [44967/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (14 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: I think the Ceann Comhairle's analysis is accurate. Unfortunately, that was not a very reassuring response from the Minister of State. Rhetoric like Sharing the Vision around mental health services is utterly irrelevant when we are talking about a reduction from 18 beds to 11. Like the Ceann Comhairle said, these people will be moved somewhere else but facilities like Carraig Mór do...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (14 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: The proposed reduction in the number of beds in the mental health unit in Bantry General Hospital is extremely worrying. The unit provides a vital service for west Cork in treating people in their own locality. Since the news broke, many people have been speaking about the fantastic help they received in the unit including, in some cases, life-saving assistance. I cannot emphasise enough...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Institutional Burials Act 2022 (Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam) Order 2022: Motion (14 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: The excavation of the Tuam site, the identification of victims and the dignified burial of remains will happen only because of the work of Catherine Corless, survivor groups, campaigners and their relatives and allies. Any attempts to intervene at Tuam and other locations have been resisted by governments and the State for decades. A rotten partnership between the State and the Roman...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: FUSS Ireland was outside Leinster House again today. We are two weeks into the new school year and there are many children and young people with special needs and disabilities who do not have appropriate school places. In Cork South-West I have been working with families since this time last year who warned the Department and pleaded for the resources to ensure their children could exercise...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: What do we say to these parents?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (14 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: 61. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures that he is proposing to support SMEs struggling to meet rising energy bills. [45127/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (14 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: 83. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures that he is proposing to support SMEs struggling to meet rising operational costs. [45128/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Industry (14 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: 120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will extend the submission period for observations and objections to the granting of a prospecting licence (details supplied). [45123/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Exploration Industry (14 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: 121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of prospecting licences that he has granted since taking office, including the locations covered by each licence. [45125/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (14 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: 122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on introducing a windfall tax on energy companies in order to provide support for households and SMEs experiencing substantial energy bill increases. [45126/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (14 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: 176. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a grant payment comparable to the fuel grant associated with the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme for persons who qualify for the scheme but who have electric vehicles. [45129/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Energy Policy (14 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: 177. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on introducing a windfall tax on energy companies provide support for households and SMEs experiencing substantial energy bill increases. [45130/22]