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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 176.To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider expanding the criteria for the primary health care certificate to include persons with a single upper body amputation; if there are plans to update the criteria more broadly to reflect modern living and working conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24809/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 285.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to reports from schools that this year's ancillary grant is insufficient to cover the cost of staff not on her Department’s payroll that is, cleaners; how the reduction in the ancillary grant has been calculated; if it took into consideration the move of school secretaries to her Department’s...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 286.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the cost-of-living grant awarded to schools can be used to cover shortfalls in the ancillary grant [24896/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 287.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a schedule of all upcoming grants for national schools; and if this schedule has been provided to schools. [24897/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 288.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are multi-annual financial plans open to national schools; and if not, if she will consider implementing such a measure in order to allow schools to plan ahead financially [24898/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 289.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of all upcoming grants for schools (details supplied); and the details of previous grants awarded in each school year since 2020. [24899/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 390.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to consider extending the remit of the Residential Tenancies Board to cover all tenants under the rent-a-room scheme; to detail any work undertaken by his Department on this issue to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24810/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 474.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an itemised breakdown of how the Budget 2023 allocation of an additional €1 million in funding to expand the provisions made under the Reasonable Accommodation Fund is being spent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25248/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 730.To ask the Minister for Health the reason the waiting-list initiative in operation in the Cork primary care child and adolescent psychology services; the date this initiative commenced; how it differs from standard efforts to work through waiting-lists in those services; if it constitutes a separate waiting-list; and if so, the number of clients and wait-times that apply to it. [24905/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 731.To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychologists, and their grade, recruited to the Cork primary care psychology waiting-list initiative for 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; the form of recruitment used that is, local or national panel; the rationale in each case; if psychologists were recruited to this waiting-list initiative, in each case, from other Cork primary care psychology...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 801.To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question 204 of 22 May 2024, what data of clinical activity are recorded by individual psychologists of the CHO 4 primary care services; if the information in table 1 of the response refers to both individual and group client sessions; and if he could clarify if the figures cited in Table 1 of the response are limited to clinical...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 815.To ask the Minister for Health for an itemised breakdown of how the 2023 mental health budget allocation was spent; what percentage of the allocation was spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25246/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 816.To ask the Minister for Health for an itemised breakdown of the cost of funding one adult eating disorder team; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25247/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Jun 2024)

Holly Cairns: 830.To ask the Minister for Health the number of clients referred to the north Lee, south Lee, west Cork and north Cork primary care child and adolescent psychology services for each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [25277/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: On the same issue, the EPA stated that even if every measure in the Government's climate action plan was implemented, the reduction in emissions would only be 29% by 2030. As the Taoiseach knows, the legally binding target is 51%. We are no closer to meeting our targets than we were 12 months ago. His colleague Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications was on the defensive...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: I warmly welcome the Palestinian ambassador and everyone in the Gallery. I am proud to stand here with the Palestinian flag raised outside as we officially recognise the State of Palestine. It is more important than ever that we take a stand as a country to make our support for the people of Palestine clear. I was struck by the words of Charlotte Phillips, a Palestinian footballer who...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: The rhetoric is great-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: I am blue in the face acknowledging it but what we are asking for is action that is proportionate. The Taoiseach is talking about wanting the EU to use every lever available to it and that is precisely what I am asking him to do. There actions we can take as a sovereign State, while the EU has not come round to the very obvious breach of the human rights clauses in the EU-Israel trade...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: Every week I think we have witnessed the limits of human cruelty and depravity when it comes to Israel's genocide in Gaza. Each week, I am proven wrong. Israel's missile strike on Sunday evening on a tented refugee camp in Rafah was not just a despicable human rights violation; it was depraved and inhumane. On Sunday night, displaced men, women and children cowering in tents were...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (28 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 105. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of households that were included in the NBP intervention areas, in error (details supplied); what engagement they have had with households, NBI and commercial providers on this issue; and the steps being taken to resolve it. [23708/24]