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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (28 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: 87. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps being taken by the OPW to ensure that buildings it has responsibility for are fully accessible for people with disabilities, including having suitable toilet and changing places facilities. [21418/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (28 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: 185. To ask the Minister for Finance the criteria that are used in assessing the incapacitated child tax credit regarding the requirement in cases in which there is a reasonable expectation that the child will be unable to maintain themselves when over 18 years of age; the forms of evidence that are acceptable in such cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21649/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (28 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: 186. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on broadening the criteria for the incapacitated child tax credit to include children who may have temporary or partial incapacitations. [21650/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (28 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: 201. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the steps he is taking to trial natural flood management as part of flood relief schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21657/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (28 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: 202. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of trees that have been planted as part of each flood relief scheme nationally since 1 January 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21658/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (28 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: 216. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if sexual and reproductive health and rights have been integrated into Ireland’s humanitarian response in Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21651/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (28 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to address the shortage of safe pass courses. [21652/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (28 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons who have participated in safe pass courses monthly since 1 January 2019, in tabular form. [21653/22]

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: Is there any chance the Minister would consider amendment No. 59?

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: I welcome the changes the Minister has made to the legislation and all the work he and his Department have done on it. Is there any chance of that last change being made in respect of the mandatory information session? If we accept the Minister's argument that it has to be there, a really good compromise would be if the way it was carried could be achieved through Deputy Bacik's amendment....

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 58: In page 23, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(6) When a relevant person applies under sections 11 and 12 for information and/or when a relevant person applies for their personal data, the relevant body or the Authority will make available all medical records to the relevant person regardless of whether they have explicitly requested those...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: Firstly, the Minister's insinuation that I dispute parents being able to register a no-contact preference is ridiculous. That is evident in the fact that we are not debating amendments to remove the no-contact preference. We are debating amendments on removing a mandatory information session for adopted people. The Minister bringing that into it is evidence of the non-existence of...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: The amendments tabled by Deputy Bacik seek to address one of the most significant barriers in the Bill, which is the mandatory information session. The committee's pre-legislative scrutiny report was unambiguous in recommending that the mandatory information session should be removed from the legislation and that alternative appropriate safeguards should instead be provided for, such as the...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: The Minister just spoke about the need for a culture change in the context of releasing information to adopted people. We all know the history of that not really happening and of bodies trying to keep it hidden under the carpet. The Minister then said that his Department will be tasked with trying to change that culture not only within the Department itself but within organisations like...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: The amendment states that "Under this Act, all records relating to the adoption or informal care arrangement of a relevant person are considered to be that person’s personal data, regardless of whether that data are shared with another person. Personal data in relation to a relevant person, includes but is not limited to" and so on. The Minister has said that we are better off...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, should I have moved amendment No. 58?

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: Thank you.

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: Amendment No. 15 ensures the Bill includes the broadest possible definition of personal data. This comes back to guaranteeing beyond a shadow of a doubt that adopted people and their relatives will be entitled to access information. Given the manner in which this access has been denied and continues to be, as well as the levels of distrust in how this Bill will be interpreted by State...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: For the hundredth time, what we are asking for is that illegal adoptions be included alongside the other types of adoption. It is not fair to say that that would limit this to illegal adoptions. We are asking for illegal adoptions to be included alongside the other forms of adoption. Just pretending we have not said that every time is frustrating to the people watching this as well as to...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (27 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: Do I speak to amendment No. 58 now or do I wait-----