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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (9 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: 331. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the promised provision of adult inpatient beds for eating disorder treatment; to provide the current number of adult inpatient beds for eating disorder treatment available; to detail the location and applicable catchment area for each; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54356/25]

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: Before I begin, I want to acknowledge that five Irish citizens have been kidnapped and detained by Israel today. If the Taoiseach and Tánaiste were here, I would appeal to them to do everything possible to secure their safe release and ensure Israel faced consequences for its actions. Instead, I appeal to the two Ministers of State present to relay that to the Taoiseach and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: I should not be surprised by this Government's approach to the budget. Time and time again, we have seen Fianna Fáil's and Fine Gael's approach to these things. It is just that no matter what, it is hard to understand how, at a time when the number of children living in consistent poverty doubled last year, the Government chose not to introduce a second tier of child benefit. I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: Can you answer the question, please? The cost-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: We are asking you about disability and the cost of disability payment.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: On the cost of disability-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: How much the Taoiseach ignored disability in his reply is representative of how much it has been ignored in the budget. The Disability Federation of Ireland said it too; the Taoiseach does not have to take my word for it. It described the budget as a betrayal of disabled people, stripping away vital supports and deepening poverty. I recognise there was increased funding in the budget for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (7 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: 666. To ask the Minister for Health the current number and location of respite beds in Cork; the staffing numbers for respite services in Cork; and the number of unfilled posts, in tabular form. [53545/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (7 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: 667. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting lists for respite services, by LHO or the smallest possible area; and the waiting times for respite services, by LHO or the smallest possible area, in tabular form. [53546/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (7 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: 668. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department will accept the recommendations of a report (details supplied) into abortion services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53547/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: There is less than a week to go before the budget is announced and it is apparently "elbows out" at the Cabinet table, or at least that is what the newspapers are reporting. We are told there are battles going on behind the scenes as Ministers try to secure money for their Departments. You would swear this was a Government that made every single penny count. Of course, then we read the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: I do recognise the big surpluses, and something the Social Democrats highlight every year at budget time and, indeed, throughout the year is that they need to be spent wisely because they are not necessarily forever. It is exactly a year ago today since the previous budget, a giveaway on steroids basically to try to buy the election. Now that there is no election on the horizon, the...

Abolition of Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: I thank Deputy Quaide for all his hard work on this motion. There should be no need for this debate. We are all in agreement that the means test for carers needs to be abolished, so the question is: why do we not just do it now? It is extremely insulting to reduce the work of carers down to numbers on a spreadsheet. It is the only type of work that is means tested like this. Carers who...

Global Sumud Flotilla: Motion (30 Sep 2025)

Holly Cairns: I welcome the families of the brave Irish citizens on board the flotilla, who are in the Gallery today. I cannot imagine how proud they must be, and how scared they must be for their safety. We are all here today united in our demands that the genocide in Gaza must end, that the blockade must be lifted, that aid should be allowed to flow freely, and that no harm should be done to those on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Sep 2025)

Holly Cairns: I will ask again: will the Government support the Social Democrats motion tomorrow on abolishing the means test for carers and will it be done in this budget?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Sep 2025)

Holly Cairns: The Taoiseach is acknowledging the need to abolish the means test for carers, from what I can gather. There is a commitment to abolish it over the term of this Government. The question is this: why wait? The Taoiseach says we do not acknowledge the work being done. I am acknowledging that this kind of work - these incremental reforms and the piecemeal things he is talking about - are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Sep 2025)

Holly Cairns: This Government constantly tells us that it values the work of carers. It has a chance to prove that in the budget next week. So far, carers have never been prioritised by this Government or previous governments. The Taoiseach does not have to take my word for that. A report from Family Carers Ireland last year was damning. It found that an overwhelming majority of carers - 70% - find it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (30 Sep 2025)

Holly Cairns: 842. To ask the Minister for Health the number of lactation consultants currently in position across the country, by area, in tabular form; the number of lactation consultant positions that remain open but unfilled; and the way in which it is intended to reach the target as set out in the national breastfeeding action plan. [51180/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2025)

Holly Cairns: You are the Government.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2025)

Holly Cairns: On behalf of all of the Social Democrats team I also want to thank Julie for everything. I wish her huge congratulations on her retirement. Before I begin, I want to say my thoughts are also with all those on the Global Sumud Flotilla, including Members of the Oireachtas, who were hit by drone strikes overnight. This is just another example of Israel operating in blatant breach of...