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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: You could enact the Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: Powerful countries in the West, all of which claim to value human rights and international law, have been revealed by the war in Gaza as immoral hypocrites. They only value international law when their enemies and not their allies are in breach. Their shameful record in Gaza amounts to the normalisation of mass murder and devastation. They wag their fingers at the Israeli Government...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: In January, an investment fund bought up 85% of the homes in a Dublin housing estate. Back then, the Minister for housing said-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: In January, an investment fund bought up 85% of the homes in a housing estate in Dublin. Back then, the housing Minister said that he would review the useless 10% stamp duty on the bulk purchasing of homes. Two months on, nothing has happened. The Government has not acted, and this week we have yet another report on the disastrous impact of vulture funds snapping up homes. According to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (6 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: 5. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department will consider cooperating with other states in conducting air drops of food and other aid into Gaza. [10839/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (6 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: 179. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth in relation to prioritising the elderly in the redress scheme for survivors of mother and baby homes, what will the age criteria be; and if survivors will be entitled to redress even if they previously received redress for time spent in a mother and baby home as a person under the age of 18, but not for the...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: I thank Deputy Tully for bringing forward this motion. It is welcome that the Government has finally made a commitment to ratifying the optional protocol within the next 12 months. Ireland ratified the convention in 2018. We were the last country in the EU to do that and six years on, we have not ratified the optional protocol. The optional protocol is poorly named. Far from being an...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: Last year the Government marked International Women's Day by announcing that it would be holding a referendum to remove the constitutional reference to a woman’s role in the home, and that it would take place this year on International Women's Day. Here we are three years after the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality, and with completely different language from what was recommended....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: Israel is continuing its relentless attack on Gaza. More than 30,000 people have been killed and starvation is being used as a weapon of war. At the weekend, distressing images of a ten-year-old child with cerebral palsy, Yazan al-Kafarneh, circulated online. He needed a specialised diet that he was not able to get, so, reduced to skill and bone, he starved to death alongside 20 other...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: EU Funding (5 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: 88. To ask the Taoiseach to provide a breakdown of all EU funding made available to his Department which has not yet been allocated; and the purpose for which this funding has been made available by the EU. [9814/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (5 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: 152. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to relocate the NCT centre in Skibbereen; and if so, if he could provide details of the relocation and the rationale for doing so. [9960/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bus Services (5 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: 263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view that the rate of pay for school bus escorts is continually under review, what date will the next review be; will the pay increases under the proposed public service pay deal be extended to school bus escorts; and will she strongly consider awarding school bus escorts a pay increase in line with the pay increases for other school...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (5 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: 339. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide details on the arrangements for the national famine commemoration this year. [9819/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (5 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: 383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to address the remaining trihalomethanes non-compliances in drinking water, in respect of the ECJ ruling that Ireland has failed to meet its obligations under the EU directive on safe drinking water since at least 2012. [9961/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (5 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: 384. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, in light of the numerous referenda and elections being held in 2024, he will consider alternative locations for polling stations to national schools to reduce the need for repeated school closures and many parents being forced to take unpaid leave; and if these considerations will be taken before the next referendum....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hen Harriers (5 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: 385. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to restore all critical breeding and wintering sites for hen harriers; what steps he is taking to guarantee absolute protection for all nationally important hen harrier breeding and wintering grounds from afforestation, forestry activities, and wind farm development; and how he aims to provide support...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (5 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: 537. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the ratification of the Optional Protocol of the UNCRPD. [9818/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (5 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: 617. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update from the HSE on the proposed cuts to allowances for post-mastectomy products for survivors of breast cancer; and what measures he will take to support those financially impacted by these proposed cuts. [9965/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (5 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: 618. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider reinstating HSE funding for the understanding and managing adult ADHD programme (UMAAP) which has ceased operating following a decision to cut funding for 2024; if he will reinstate HSE funding for St. Johns of Gods hospital which has stated they will have to close some facilities due to funding cuts; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (5 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: 798. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the phase 6 training for electrical and instrumentation in SETU Carlow is still scheduled for April 2024; why notification of the training has not been issued yet; and if he will give a date by which notification of training will be issued to apprentices so they can plan accordingly. [10053/24]