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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]

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

Holly Cairns: 806. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps his Department is taking to encourage Irish whiskey producers to source the barley for their produce from farmers within the island of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40181/20]

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

Holly Cairns: 807. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider requesting to amend the Irish whiskey protected geographical indication, PGI, technical file to state barley for Irish whiskey must be sourced on the island of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40182/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (26 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 283. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students on the waiting list for a secondary school place in secondary schools in Bandon, County Cork for the 2021-2022 school year; and the steps she is taking as a result. [39505/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff (26 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the low levels of persons with disabilities employed in third level education institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39503/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (26 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 336. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the progress of the family courts Bill, including its expected passage through the Houses of the Oireachtas. [39504/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Proposed Legislation (26 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 403. To ask the Minister for Health the consideration given to the risk of image-based sexual abuse occurring when the HSE issued advice for persons not living together to have sex online to stop the spread of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39506/20]

Greyhound Industry: Motion [Private Members] (25 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: I will start by addressing some of the blatant misinformation aired by Deputies this morning. Sinn Féin and the Government stated that €302 million is generated for the economy by the greyhound industry. There were 1,606 race meetings last year and the average attendance was 288. Are we to believe that every meeting generates €188,000? The other claim is that some of...

Greyhound Industry: Motion [Private Members] (25 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: I move: “That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the Irish greyhound industry receives substantial public funding; — in 2021, the Exchequer will subsidise greyhound racing in Ireland by €19.2 million, an increase of €2.4 million from 2020; — the industry has received approximately €280 million in taxpayer funding since 2000;...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 175. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress his Department has made on addressing the actions relevant to his areas of responsibility outlined in the Private Members’ motion of 16 November 2016 on the post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38527/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 176. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress his Department has made on addressing the actions relevant to his areas of responsibility outlined in the Private Members’ motion of 16 November 2016 on the post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38529/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (24 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: 196. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress his Department has made on addressing the actions relevant to his areas of responsibility outlined in the Private Members’ motion of 16 November 2016 on the post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38526/20]