Results 6,761-6,780 of 7,457 for speaker:Holly Cairns

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 635. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether an overreliance on the private market for student accommodation has contributed to the issues students and their families are facing regarding getting refunds on accommodation costs and deposits. [38884/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 686. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether an overreliance on the private market for student accommodation has contributed to the issues students and their families are facing regarding getting refunds on accommodation costs and deposits. [38879/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 687. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to ensure that student perspectives and experiences will feature in the full-scale review of SUSI; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38880/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 688. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the full-scale review of SUSI will include engagement with the Department of Social Protection to review the back to education allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38881/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 673. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a series (details supplied) on the working conditions in the higher level education sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38530/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 674. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the 440 academic staff in universities and institutes of technology that were in continuous employment in excess of two years but not on a contract of indefinite duration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38531/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 675. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the 11,200 lecturers working on a temporary or casual basis in recent years across universities and institutes of technology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38532/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Employment Rights (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 683. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to address workers' rights for postgraduate researchers in universities and institutes of technology, ITs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38876/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Employment Rights (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 689. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to postgraduate students being required to engage in unpaid teaching in some HEIs; and the steps he is taking to address this practice. [38882/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 684. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the NPHET advice on restrictions for third level institutions will be regularly shared; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38877/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Nursing Staff (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 685. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will work with the Minister for Health to ensure all student nurses and midwives are paid for the work they do in hospitals as part of mandatory placements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38878/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Higher Education Institutions (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 690. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to continuing staffing gender gaps in third level education institutions including that in 2019 more women work in part-time temporary academic jobs with the gap increasing in recent years to 71% in universities and 63%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38883/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Social Media Regulation (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 720. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 171 of 10 September 2020, the number of officials engaged in social media listening as part of their communications duties; the grade of each; the way in which she has reacted effectively to issues as they arose relating to services being provided across the justice sector; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 738. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to persons being updated on their application for a stamp 4 by a post-it affixed to their passport; if this is standard practice; the action being taken as a result; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38522/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 739. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the rationale for the practice of international protection seekers denied leave to remain being summoned monthly to the Irish Naturalisation and Immigration Service, INIS, or the Garda National Immigration Bureau, GNIB, at Burgh Quay, Dublin 2 during level 5 restrictions to report for possible deportation; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 815. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the visiting restrictions in nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38105/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 816. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which the implementation of the immediate priority to ensure that short-term additional supports are available for persons who are making the transition from CAMHS to GAMHS at 18 years of age given the issues and vulnerabilities that can prevail as outlined in Sharing the Vision: A Mental Health Policy for Everyone; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 884. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 214 of 17 September 2020, the number of officials engaged in actively listening to public views and concerns from the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic collating commentary on social and traditional media; the grade of each official; the way in which decision-making in his Department has been impacted by this process; and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wildlife Protection (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 972. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to an incident of inappropriate snaring of animals (details supplied) in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38109/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wildlife Protection (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 973. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the guidelines under which Department employees or those working on behalf of his Department set snares or other traps for badgers will be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38110/20]