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Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Gender Equality (5 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: 143. To ask the Taoiseach the steps he is taking to identify and address gender pay disparity in his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit. [17369/22]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Transport Policy (5 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: 144. To ask the Taoiseach the steps he is taking to encourage active travel modes to and from work in his Department and public bodies and agencies that operate under his remit. [17388/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Offshore Islands (5 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: 217. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding streams that are available to invest in infrastructure to improve access for persons with physical disabilities and mobility impairments to offshore islands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18127/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (5 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: 837. To ask the Minister for Health the number of family forums that are planned to be established as part of progressing disability services in each CHO; the number of family forums which have been established in each CHO; the number of persons on each of the established family forums; the means by which persons can join family forums; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18119/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (5 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: 838. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to recruit occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and psychologists for children's disability network teams. [18120/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (5 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: 839. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 669 of 1 March 2022, the reason a local interview was used as the method of recruitment to a senior psychologist adult mental health post in St. Stephen's Hospital, Glanmire and the Fermoy home-based crisis team in March 2017 instead of the relevant national recruitment panel; the reason the relevant national...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (5 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: 840. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 666 of 1 March 2022, the way in which mental health psychologists in County Cork were informed of opportunities to transfer into posts outside of the nationally agreed recruitment process for the years 2014, 2016 and 2017, given that personal development planning meetings were not scheduled by HSE management for those...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (5 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: 841. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 666 of 1 March 2022, the number of HSE psychologists in CHO4 that expressed an interest in writing in availing of opportunities to transfer into posts for each of the years 2014 to 2021; the number of HSE psychologists in CHO4 that were facilitated in each of these years to transfer into posts that were not first...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (5 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: 842. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of appointments to permanent contract senior psychologist posts in the adult mental health services in County Cork between August 2017 and January 2021 that took place through unadvertised transfers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18124/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (5 Apr 2022)

Holly Cairns: 973. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding streams that are available to invest in infrastructure to improve access for persons with physical disabilities and mobility impairments to offshore islands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18126/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: The cattle are already calving now. The Minister is aware of the pressing need for farmers to be supported, but this situation raises larger points about our food sovereignty. The pandemic should have been a wake-up call to pivot towards a more secure position. In 2020, our vulnerabilities to food supply chains were clearly exposed. Now, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has highlighted...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: How does the Minister propose to reduce emissions when he has not done anything to achieve that?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: 117. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the progress that has been made in securing funding to improve national food security. [17313/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: Despite the prominent role of agriculture in Ireland, it is a fragile system exposed to disruption in international supply chains. We are net importers of many vegetables and we are highly reliant on industrial fertilisers. Will the Minister provide an update on his meetings with farm organisations to improve our national food security this year? What policy changes does he propose to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: I acknowledge the Minister's efforts to address the issue. What policy changes are we looking at to address food sovereignty? Farming organisations have outlined that very few farmers have the capacity to grow the grain we need. What consideration is being given to supporting the existing tillage sector to have the knowledge and capability to encourage planting of more grain? With...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (31 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: 17. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to provide chiropody services for public patients in an area (details supplied). [17038/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Costs (31 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: 156. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on, and response to, the high price of fertiliser, which is having a major impact on farming families. [17040/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: 179. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to improve national food security and sovereignty. [17043/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (31 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: 182. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on, and response to, the sale of Ballymartle forest, Riverstick, County Cork. [17041/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: 187. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to address the rising costs for food producers. [17042/22]