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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care Issues and the Loss of Positive Care Services: Engagement with Tusla (10 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I thank all the witnesses for coming before the committee. I think we all appreciate the incredible work that foster families offer to young people. It is an invaluable service that is often, I think, underappreciated. It happens quietly in communities all over Ireland, and it is important to acknowledge the work of those families and the difference they make in the lives of individuals as...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care Issues and the Loss of Positive Care Services: Engagement with Tusla (10 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: My final point related to the specific difficulty in recruiting foster families for older children and adolescents. Do our guests have any insight into that?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care Issues and the Loss of Positive Care Services: Engagement with Tusla (10 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: What are the specific ways we could support foster families in those instances?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care Issues and the Loss of Positive Care Services: Engagement with Tusla (10 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: Is it the case that two foster families receive respite at once? Is that how shared care works?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care Issues and the Loss of Positive Care Services: Engagement with Tusla (10 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: Can somebody who is not a parent foster? Do people have to have parented that age group?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care Issues and the Loss of Positive Care Services: Engagement with Tusla (10 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: With no children.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: Today is International Day of the Midwife. It is important to acknowledge the incredible work of our midwives. Unfortunately, the role of midwives in Ireland is greatly under-resourced. In many jurisdictions, midwife-led home births are the norm, but in Ireland, in some situations, women are forced into hospitals. In CHO 1, for example, covering Cavan, Monaghan, Donegal, Sligo and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (5 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: Obviously not, or this would not be happening.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (5 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to assist local authorities taking over housing estates and developments from private developers when these estates and developments need additional infrastructure investment for issues such as lighting, roads, and wastewater infrastructure. [22152/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (5 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: The Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, will be aware of the many families and homeowners who are left in limbo because neither the developer nor the local authority is taking responsibility for infrastructure in their estate. Lighting, footpaths and road quality are deteriorating and nobody is stepping in. While this is a matter for each local authority, due to the capital expenditure...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (5 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I appreciate that the Planning and Development Act locates this as a local authority issue but that is of little consolation to the thousands of people affected. Families and homeowners with whom I have been in contact in towns such as Clonakilty, Kinsale and Skibbereen are being left in limbo and somebody needs to step up to help them. The infrastructure in their housing estate is either...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (5 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: The Minister of State has to appreciate the frustration of families in these cases because they are continually pleading for assistance and too often the only solution proposed is for them to fund the works themselves and then the local authority can take over. The problem is this system is set up to leave nobody responsible. Developers, local authorities, Irish Water and the Department are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Policy (5 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 6. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps she is taking to ensure that the supports offered under the live performance support scheme 4 are being distributed as quickly as possible to prevent the permanent closure of venues. [22151/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Policy (5 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: The Minister is very aware of the main challenges faced by the arts, culture and live entertainment industry during the pandemic. While the live performance sector welcomes the Minister's support, a major issue has been the rate at which funds are being distributed to venues. Will the Minister of State outline the actions taken to ensure the live performance restart grant scheme is being...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Policy (5 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Minister of State for the response. The specific issue is on when the much needed funding is allocated. While everyone welcomes any support for this hard-pressed sector there seems to be misalignment between the demands of the live performance sector and the manner in which the Department operates. There are many great venues in my constituency in Cork South West, such as...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Arts Policy (5 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: I would appreciate the Minister of State's reply and I thank him. I hope he can appreciate the frustration of the sector. Measures were first mentioned in the budget and launched separately but applications are starting months later and the funding is later again. The timely delivery of these supports would make a massive difference in ensuring the viability of so many venues. As well as...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 94. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to provide affordable and social housing for people with disabilities. [22153/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (5 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 151. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that has been made in addressing action 60 of the Rural Development Policy 2021-2025 (details supplied) review and to extend the regulations which exempt certain vacant commercial premises, such as over the shop-type spaces, from requiring planning permission for change of use for residential purposes in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (4 May 2022)

Holly Cairns: 105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the pending survey of the Dunmanway area under the National Broadband Plan will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22360/22]