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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Employment and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I believe it was about the personal assistant, PA, support. It is something that comes up a great deal and it can be a difficult process to get that for a person.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Employment and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: Yes, absolutely. I am conscious that I am using a great deal of time. Has the National Learning Network encountered any difficulties with businesses in respect of presumptions, or incorrect presumptions, or those kinds of things?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Employment and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: Mr. Murphy believes that an awareness campaign would very much help with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Employment and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I wanted to ask Mr. Porter if he has any experience of that and how he found access to transport. Does he use public transport in west Cork to get to work or is he driving?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Employment and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: Mr Porter was living where he was working then, as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Employment and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: That is great.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Employment and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I was going to ask Mr. Porter to elaborate a little on the course he did in the National Learning Network and how it helped him?

Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I thank Deputy O'Callaghan and his team for their work on this Private Members' motion. At present on daft.iethere are 11 properties advertised for rent in Cork South West. There are fewer than 80 homes to buy for under €250,000 between all of the major towns in west Cork. It is a beautiful part of the world with strong communities. It is the type of place people want to live in....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (18 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 291 of 4 May 2022, if she will meet with a teaching organisation (details supplied) in relation to her announced changes to the leaving certificate. [25322/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (18 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 150. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps that he is taking to ensure that early childhood care and education funding is equally distributed to non-full-day care providers and full-day care providers. [25318/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (18 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 151. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the definition of reasonable profit as outlined in the Independent Review of the Cost of Providing Quality Childcare Services in Ireland. [25319/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (18 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 152. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when details of the nurturing skills package for the early childhood care and education sector will be released. [25320/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (18 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 153. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a new FAQ document on core funding in the early childhood care and education sector will be released. [25321/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (18 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 308. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 842 of 5 April 2022, the percentage of appointments to permanent senior psychologist posts in the adult mental health services in CHO4 between August 2017 and January 2021 that took place via unadvertised transfers, irrespective of whether the transferring psychologists already had permanent contracts in other HSE...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (18 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 309. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 666 of 1 March 2022 and 840 of 5 April 2022, his views on the contention by a number of psychologists in the Cork mental health service that they were not informed at their personal development plan meetings or otherwise, of opportunities to transfer into posts outside of the nationally-agreed recruitment process over...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (18 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 310. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 825 and 826 of 1 February 2022 and 1091 of 22 March 2022, the precise specialisms in adult mental health psychology and the exact criteria referred to in the response which warrant a bypassing of the national recruitment panel system for HSE psychologists; if these specialisms and criteria have been agreed to by the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (18 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 311. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1091 of 22 March 2022, the way that a public appointment to a HSE psychology post can be both in line with the legislation governing recruitment and not covered by HR policy; the exact reference from the legislation in question which allows for appointments to HSE psychology posts that have not been advertised to...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: Hear, hear.

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: We have had incarceration, mass graves, forced family separation, physical, psychological and sexual abuse. The history of partnerships between church and State concerning maternity and women's healthcare represents some of the darkest parts of our past. It is a tragically recurring pattern when men in positions of power collaborate to make decisions about women's bodies. This oppressive...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: Less than 20% of students can access it.