Results 6,721-6,740 of 7,457 for speaker:Holly Cairns

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Proposed Legislation (8 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 451. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the general scheme of the certain institutional burials (authorised interventions) Bill. [41373/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (8 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 809. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the actions he is taking as a result of the High Court ruling that overturned policy directive 1 of 2019. [41371/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Fisheries Policy (8 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 810. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); his views on its recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41372/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 100. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number and amounts of capital grants for the provision of domestic violence and abuse refuges between 1 January 2016 and 1 November 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40782/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Special Educational Needs (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to address the shortage of ASD units in west County Cork (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41054/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 291. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the capital grants for the provision of domestic violence and abuse refuges between 1 January 2016 and 1 January 2020 as a percentage of the annual budget on domestic violence and abuse services of Tusla; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41052/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 292. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his attention has been drawn to the fact that staff in domestic violence and abuse services are on different pay scales and working conditions; if such funding originates from Tusla or HSE funding streams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41053/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 323. To ask the Minister for Health the way testing for Covid-19 is being carried out in meat processing plants; the number of tests carried out; the number of plants in which tests have been conducted between 1 August and 30 November 2020; the procedures for when a person is found to have Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41060/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 324. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to cases of Covid-19 in meat processing plants in county Cork between 1 August and 30 November 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41061/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 377. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which response times for HSE ambulance services are calculated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41055/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 378. To ask the Minister for Health the mechanism by which the close contacts of a person who has tested positive for Covid-19 are informed of same; the time frame it takes for close contacts to be informed on average after the diagnosis is made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41056/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 379. To ask the Minister for Health if partners or accompanying persons will be permitted to attend with patients attending maternity services in circumstances in which maternity services know that distressing or potentially distressing information is being presented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41057/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Contraceptive Services (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the commitment in the Programme for Government to provide free contraception starting with women aged 17 to 25 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41058/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Contraceptive Services (3 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 381. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the research by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41059/20]

Pay for Student Nurses and Midwives: Motion [Private Members] (2 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: Needless to say, we should not be having this debate. There should be no need for it. We should be paying our student nurses and midwives for the work they do in our overstretched and understaffed hospitals. Students on mandatory placements are effectively working as staff for no pay, which is simply unacceptable. The practical and vocational nature of nursing and midwifery means their...

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2020: Motion (1 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: Since our motion last week to reverse the increase in funding for the commercial greyhound racing industry I have heard little legitimate defence of the sector from its proponents. I have seen no serious effort to address the loss-making nature of the industry or animal welfare concerns or even acknowledgement of them. Instead, I have seen attacks of a personal nature on those of us who do...

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2020: Motion (1 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: He is a board member of a State organisation whose wages are paid out of the staggering €19.2 million the industry will receive in 2021. He is paid by the taxpayer, by all of us. I was not deeply hurt or offended by the man's comments - I will not say his name from now on. My initial reaction was to ignore it. I instinctively felt it did not deserve any energy or thought. Indeed,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Appointments to State Boards (1 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 188. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if any of the four newly appointed persons to the board of the Road Safety Authority were known to him before he appointed them; if so, the capacity in which they were known to him; if any were members of the Green Party; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40183/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (1 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 729. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to plans to record a new series of the Rotunda in 2021; if this is considered sensitive to the ongoing restrictions in maternity hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40184/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agrifood Sector (1 Dec 2020)

Holly Cairns: 805. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of the barley used to make Irish whiskey that is Irish-grown barley; if genetically modified barley grown outside Ireland is used in the production of Irish whiskey; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40180/20]