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Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: From the Seanad (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: For clarity, is it the case that we cannot vote on the Bill in its entirety now? Is it just the amendments?

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: From the Seanad (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: Is the legislation then passed with no-----

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: From the Seanad (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: In that case, I will put on record my opposition to the Bill in its current form without the changes we spoke about.

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: From the Seanad (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: Is that normally the case?

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: From the Seanad (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: Does the Bill come back to the House again for a final vote?

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: From the Seanad (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: It just passes automatically.

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: From the Seanad (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: I welcome the Seanad amendments and any changes that will help to improve this highly problematic legislation. I acknowledge the adopted people and their advocates who have been fighting for the most basic changes, and the Senators who argued for the improvements as well. We all wanted to get behind this Bill but, regrettably, the major defects and injustices remain. The mandatory...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: I thank Deputy Connolly and the Independent Group for bringing forward this motion, which the Social Democrats fully support. I welcome this opportunity to discuss respite care. This motion goes to the heart of how the incredible role of carers is continually overlooked and undervalued by the Government and the State. The inadequacy in the provision of respite care is a symptom of a much...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: 18. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps that he is taking to ensure that all public buses or buses operating public service contracts have the capacity to carry bikes. [33180/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Natural Heritage Areas (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: 66. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his response to the concerns raised by an organisations (details supplied) concerning the natural heritage and biodiversity of Moylisha Hill in Counties Carlow and Wicklow. [33179/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: 113. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications that were made monthly between 1 January 2018 and 31 May 2022, inclusive; the number of passport applications in each of those months that were considered not completed by the applicant; and the number of passport applicants who experienced a delay for another reason for those same months; and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: 131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that she is taking to provide an alternative leaving certificate exam for students who cannot sit the regular exams due to illness or medical appointments. [33177/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: 148. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the long-term plans for the accommodation of Ukrainian refugees currently staying in a hotel (details supplied). [33176/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: 228. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to recruit recent speech and language therapist graduates for roles in Children’s Disability Network Teams. [33183/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: 229. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to encourage speech and language therapists who are Irish nationals working in other jurisdictions to take up roles in Children’s Disability Network Teams. [33184/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Priorities (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: 230. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to add spinal muscular atrophy to the new-born heel prick test. [33185/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: 231. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that he is taking to fill the optometrist role in Cork University Hospital which has been vacant since February 2022. [33186/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: 232. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clinical staff, including breakdown of consultants, in-consultant hospital doctors and therapeutic staff on each CAMHS team in CHO4. [33187/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: 233. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 842 of 5 April and 308 of 18 May 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 details of each of those appointments by unadvertised transfer, that is, the exact service...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: 234. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 666 of 1 March, 840 of 5 April and 308 of 18 May 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 which were not made known to all candidates through annual personal development plan meetings or by...