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Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: There are challenges within our immigration and asylum system but they are challenges of the Government's own making. They are not the fault of people seeking asylum or of migrants seeking to build a life for themselves and their families here in Ireland. We simply would not function as a country without migration. We would not staff our public services or our private enterprises. We...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: Will the Taoiseach answer the question?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: At the weekend, 11 ministers in the Israeli Government attended a conference calling for Israeli settlement in the Gaza strip. Detailed maps were displayed which showed the areas of the Gaza strip where settlements would be established. Among the ministers to attend was the national security minister, Ben-Gvir, and the finance minister, Smotrich. This will not come as any surprise. Both...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: It was €2.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: Speaking down the clock and talking about how I am apparently being disingenuous really says it all. I literally said at the beginning that the Government voted down our motion, which called on it to intervene "at the earliest possible opportunity". I literally highlighted, in my speech just before the Tánaiste spoke, that we want the work to start now. We do not signal our intent and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: Will the Tánaiste answer the question?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: Last night this Government voted against supporting South Africa’s case against Israel in the International Court of Justice at the earliest possible opportunity. Instead it amended the Social Democrats motion to say the Government will only consider supporting the case at some point in the future. We now know the preliminary ruling is due tomorrow. But even then the Government has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: I am asking that he signal his intention and start the preparatory work to intervene now because we all know that you do not signal your intent and walk into the ICJ tomorrow. There is a lot of work that goes on in advance of that. When bombs are being dropped indiscriminately in densely populated areas, a man-made famine and aid cannot get in and when 250 people are being killed every day...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: I said at the earliest opportunity.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: I said signal intent. Read the motion.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: It is also not what is in the motion.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: I want to raise the issue of many of our restaurants and cafés around the country that are closing their doors. Many more are at tipping point. A restaurant near me, Budds of Ballydehob, put out a post about this on social media, and the outpouring of support was immense. As the Taoiseach knows, in towns and villages in Cork South-West the café might be the heart of the community...

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: I was not expecting much from the Government today, but it actually managed to sink beneath my already low expectations. I am shocked it decided to amend our motion in this way. Not only did it amend the motion, it rewrote it in its entirety. I would encourage people to read our motion. It contained a series of indisputable and horrifying statistics about the depths of the slaughter and...

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — nearly 100,000 Palestinians have been killed, reported missing or wounded in Gaza since Israel began its military operation three months ago; — among this number are nearly 25,000 people who have been confirmed dead, two thirds of whom are women and children; — 85 per cent of the population has been displaced,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, on a point of order, I ask the Taoiseach to correct the record. He said we did not mention Hamas in our Dáil motion. That is incorrect. We did and we referred to its acts on 7 October as an atrocity. Please correct the record.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: It is interesting that the Taoiseach mentions the case of Ukraine. The Tánaiste had no such reluctance when it came to Russia. Less than two months after Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine he labelled it a genocide. The double standard beggars belief. Israel claims that it is doing everything in its power to protect civilians in Gaza. It says that while it is dropping 2,000-pound...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: When will the Government act to prevent a genocide in Gaza? In just over 100 days, more than 25,000 people in Gaza have been killed. As a result of a man-made famine, 80% of the world's hungriest people are now in Gaza. Contagious disease is sweeping through the nearly 2 million displaced people. The healthcare system has been obliterated. Not only are senior Israeli Government...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: The Minister's defence is, quite frankly, pathetic. All he does is come in here and mislead the Dáil about housing objections. He knows that what he said is not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: It says a lot about the absence of a real defence on this.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: The Minister tries to bamboozle people with figures when he comes in with his replies. Here is a figure: the Minister promised 55,000 affordable homes in 2023. He delivered 4% of that by October.