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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rights of People with Disabilities (13 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 594. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way that her Department and public bodies and agencies under her remit are implementing action 32 of the National Disability and Inclusion Strategy 2017-2021 (details supplied). [38743/22]

Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: The importance of a well-resourced and co-ordinated approach to asylum and integration has been strongly reinforced since we discussed this fund in February. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has resulted in a massive humanitarian crisis, with millions of displaced people. We can be proud of the speedy response from people in the State. Whole communities have mobilised to provide assistance...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (12 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 136. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to provide public chiropody services in Cork south west. [37592/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (12 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 162. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to recruit and retain staff for children’s disability network teams. [37593/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (12 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 335. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on introducing a tax break for sports coaches who qualify through coaching courses by their governing bodies. [38115/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Wards of Court (12 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 691. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the wards of courts system will be replaced with a system compliant with international human rights obligations. [38113/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Legislative Process (12 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 692. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide his response to a letter from a United Nations official (details supplied) concerning the way that he represented that official’s remarks during the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages. [38114/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (12 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 1110. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to recruit recent psychology graduates for roles in children’s disability network teams. [38116/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (12 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 1111. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to encourage psychologists who are Irish nationals working in other jurisdictions to take up roles in children’s disability network teams. [38117/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (12 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 1112. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No 573 of 23 June 2020, the number of adults with an intellectual disability residing in acute or long-stay psychiatric settings in CHO4 between January 2016 and June 2022, in tabular form; the basis on which this information on unidentified service-users could constitute a breach of their GDPR rights, as suggested in the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (12 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 1113. To ask the Minister for Health the basis on which HSE posts (details supplied) were competed for through local interview and not the nationally agreed recruitment panel process that applies to posts for these care groups; if the HSE's national recruitment service sanctioned the process involved in these appointments; if so, the national recruitment service personnel that sanctioned...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (12 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 1114. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 666 of 1 March, 840 of 5 April, 308 of 18 May and 234 of 22 June 2022, the way that fairness and transparency could be attributed to a process of expressions of interest in appointments by transfer of mental health psychologists in CHO4 (details supplied); his views on whether these public appointments took place in a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (12 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 1115. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 825 and 826 of 1 February 2022 and 1091 of 22 March and 310 of 18 May 2022, the precise specialisms in adult mental health psychology; the exact criteria referred to in the response which are eligible for a bypassing of the national recruitment panel system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38121/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (12 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 1116. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 825 and 826 of 1 February 2022, 1091 of March 2022 and 310 of 18 May 2022, if particular specialisms in adult mental health psychology have been agreed to by the HSE national human resources department and trade unions as constituting exceptions to the national recruitment panel system for HSE psychologists; if so,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (12 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 1117. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 842 of 5 April 2022, 308 of 18 May 2022 and 233 of June 2022, the percentage of appointments to senior psychologist posts in the adult mental health services in CHO4 between August 2017 and January 2021 that took place via unadvertised transfers; the exact service locations and the dates of each of these...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Parliamentary Questions (12 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 1118. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the degree to which Parliamentary Questions on matters relating to the Cork mental health services are not being answered and have to be resubmitted repeatedly; and the recourse Deputies have in cases in which Parliamentary Questions are repeatedly not answered. [38124/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: On that exact point, national aid forestation rates have actually decreased since the Green Party entered Government. The programme for Government set out a target of 8,000 ha of new forest per year, but somehow we are only planting 2,000 ha. The licensing system is still not fit for purpose and afforestation incentives are not competitive with other farm subsidies. Despite the fact that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Provision (7 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: Ultimately, this comes back to the need for quality, accessible early years and school-age childcare. Privatisation and the neoliberal model are failing everybody - children, families and workers in the sector. While I recognise the changes that have been made, I must point out that they were not sufficiently targeted at those most disadvantaged under the current system. Lone parents,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Provision (7 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 87. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the childcare supports available to one-parent families. [36287/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Provision (7 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: The recent Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, report entitled Headline Poverty Target Reduction in Ireland and the Role of Work and Social Welfare found that lone parents and working-age adults with disabilities experienced distinctively higher rates of income poverty, deprivation and consistent poverty. In light of that, yesterday the Social Democrats tabled a motion calling for...