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Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Residential Institutions (3 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: I agree with the Minister that no amount of money could compensate for it, but €5,000 is an insulting amount. One would get more in a compensation claim for a slip or a fall. The Department ran a consultation process inviting survivors to participate and many of them found the strength to do so in good faith. Why then were so many of their recommendations for redress ignored? The...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Residential Institutions (3 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: 2. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the way the proposals for the payment rates of the mother and baby institutions payment scheme were arrived at. [59652/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Residential Institutions (3 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: How were the proposals for the payment rates under the mother and baby institutions payment scheme arrived at? One of the most disgraceful aspects of the Government's redress scheme for survivors of these institutions is the payment rates. Mothers who spent less than three months in an institution are to receive a mere €5,000. These women could have endured human rights violations...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: Briefly, on that issue, I suppose it highlights the need for the repeal review to happen. Large trawlers of over 18 m are operating in inshore waters. This is an unsustainable practice. It is a significant issue for inshore fishers, the marine tourism sector and those concerned about coastal ecosystems. I am still regularly getting reports of those large vessels operating extremely...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (2 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the report of the review of the National Parks and Wildlife Service will be published. [59691/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UNCRPD and Considering Future Innovation and Service Provision: Discussion ^ (2 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: I thank the witnesses for appearing before the committee today. Their experience and insight as service providers are essential to understanding how we improve disability supports, especially in the case where the majority of disability services are provided on behalf of the State by the voluntary sector. My first question is for the National Federation of Voluntary Service Providers. If I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UNCRPD and Considering Future Innovation and Service Provision: Discussion ^ (2 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: I appreciate the responses and I understand the reconfiguration is important. As Mr. Hennessy said, sometimes allocation of staff for that reconfiguration falls short. In one very populous area there is 0.5 of a nurse or 0.5 of a physiotherapist allocated. The concern is that even when those reconfigurations happen, without the funding the Department decided was required, the people will...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (1 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: 56. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of community-led renewable energy projects operational in the country; the number which come under any other State-backed scheme broken down by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59395/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (1 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: 57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the engagement he has had with National Broadband Ireland with regard to the roll-out of high speed fibre broadband in County Cork, including the off-shore islands; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59396/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Bus Services (1 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: 61. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the provision of sheltered bus stops for Belgooly and Riverstick, County Cork. [59398/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Reviews (1 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: 232. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the review by his Department of the 2011 and 2017 European Impact Assessment Regulations (Agriculture) and their implementation is internal or external in nature; if the terms of reference of same will be made available to the public; and current the timescales for this review. [59394/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Agreements (30 Nov 2021)

Holly Cairns: I thank Minister of State. Of anyone in government, I do not doubt her commitment in this area. However, I am concerned at the conditionalities Departments keep putting up that supposedly block ratification. In 2015, it was the intention to ratify the convention and the optional protocol together. By 2018, however, it was just the convention. We then had to wait until after the first...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Agreements (30 Nov 2021)

Holly Cairns: This Friday is International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the day to promote the rights and well-being of people with disabilities and celebrate their contributions to communities and society. I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this Topical Issue for debate. The optional protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, CRPD, allows...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (30 Nov 2021)

Holly Cairns: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his response to the recent protests by organisations (details supplied) to the rates of fees in third level institutions. [58609/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (30 Nov 2021)

Holly Cairns: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to ensure that people with disabilities and persons with low incomes can attend higher and further education. [58610/21]

Mother and Baby Institutions: Statements (25 Nov 2021)

Holly Cairns: This redress scheme comes after years of shocking headlines and devastating revelations. It comes after countless survivors bravely telling their stories, incredible work by journalists and researchers, a deeply flawed commission of investigation and a consultation process run by the current Minister. After all of that, it is simply unbelievable that the scheme does not do survivors...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2021)

Holly Cairns: I am talking about young people aged under 30.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2021)

Holly Cairns: This is no country for young people and we have more evidence of that today. A new report has shown that the number of first-time buyers aged 30 or under has collapsed in the past 16 years, falling from 60% in 2004 to just 27% in 2020. These figures, while shocking, are just further confirmation of what we have all known for some time, which is that young people in Ireland have been handed...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2021)

Holly Cairns: It is very telling that in response to three very important questions, the Tánaiste used his time trying to slate the Social Democrats in regard to what our approach to housing might be in government. He says he believes in home ownership and the Government's policy is aiming for that and will achieve it. However, its big idea to boost affordability for young people is the shared...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Nov 2021)

Holly Cairns: Will he please answer my questions?