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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (22 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: It is just not good enough that larger boats are supported by Government in so many ways and that inshore fishers tend to be ignored. They pay a higher cost for fuel in the first place. Fuel costs in bigger ports are lower due to demand and supply for bigger vessels. Small boats operating from small piers and harbours have to buy it at local petrol stations at much higher costs. The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agriculture Schemes (22 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: I was glad to hear the announcement earlier this month that an interim payment will be paid to tranche 1 participants in the ACRES scheme. This was something that I and members of other Opposition groups had been calling for since the delays in payments were announced. Many people who rely on those payments were in touch with us. Commitments were made to farmers to support them when...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (22 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: 45. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what measures his Department is taking to assist small scale fishers with fuel costs. [8554/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (22 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: Small-scale fishers operate on very tight margins. The ongoing rise in fuel costs over the past few years has impacted these boats significantly. Other countries such as France and Spain have supported small scale fishers with high fuel costs through the European Maritime Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund. Will the Minister introduce a similar scheme to assist small scale fishers with fuel costs?

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2024: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: The Social Democrats are fully supportive of continuing the accommodation recognition payment scheme. Some 25% of Ukrainians who have sought protection in Ireland are in host accommodation and pledged properties. Over 21,000 people are currently being hosted in nearly 10,500 homes across the country. The EU average for hosting is approximately 8% to 9%. The level of support and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: Last night, the Minister for disability, Deputy O'Gorman, said that Ireland is "falling down in terms of our response to disabled people". For one, Ireland is not falling down. It is the Government. Then, the Minister suggested that a specific referendum on disability rights might be required to prevent this in the future. At this point, I am not sure if the Government is aware of this,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: The Government could bring pay parity to children's disability network teams. It could provide adequate personal assistance hours. It could, a decade on from scrapping it, introduce a transport scheme.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: The list goes on. If the Taoiseach has any interest in addressing these shortcomings, he could start by ratifying the optional protocol to the UNCRPD. Will he do that before the family and care referendums?

Healthcare Provision in Rural Communities: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: I want to extend my sympathies to Deputy Michael Collins on the tragic loss of his nephew. My thoughts are with Michael's family and friends and the wider community. I am grateful for the opportunity to talk about the provision of healthcare and GP services in rural areas. In Cork South West, we are very familiar with the pressures on and failures relating to health services in rural...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: This is the kind of spin I am referring to when I say that people feel that sense of hopelessness, because the Taoiseach is talking about going from an A to a B in all of these different categories. As I said, child homelessness is up by 55% since this Government took office. This is the main figure that needs to be addressed. On the eviction ban, in almost every single month since the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: I was very saddened to hear of the passing of Michael O'Regan at the weekend. He had a huge love of and interest in politics. On a personal level, he was also very warm, humorous and kind. I extend my condolences to his family, friends and colleagues. The Children's Rights Alliance, in its annual report card, gave the Government a D-minus for family homelessness. Child homelessness...

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: Is there a timeline?

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: It is important to state, just for the record, that how those quotas are divvied out is the Minister's decision. It is blatantly and disproportionately in favour of the larger players. It is something we see a playbook for from this and successive Governments, that there is a disproportionate favour for those big players and that the smaller people in the business have massively lost out....

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Minister for coming in to take questions and answers. It might be a surprise to people watching at home but we do not normally get the chance to do the back and forth, which is kind of shocking in itself but I thank the Minister for doing it today. It is great to be able to actually put the questions to a Minister and get the answers. I also want to thank the Minister for...

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: I will come onto the quotas next. My question was about the basic infrastructure and the foreshore licence.

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: I really hope that is realised and that it becomes a more effective and efficient system. The Minister asked where we draw the line. Like I said, other countries for example drew the line 100 m out from the shoreline. I am saying we may need to look at that. We may look at that and find out that this is not doable. I am asking the Minister to look at it and then I really hope the system...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: The words "RTÉ" and "crisis" are now almost synonymous. Repeated scandals have hugely damaged public service trust and confidence. Kevin Bakhurst and key members of the board are back in front of the Oireachtas committee today and there is a long way to go to rebuild trust in RTÉ. Senior management has an important role to play in this. We need a strong public service...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: This has been discussed at length. In general, the public is sick of the same debates and conversations happening over and over and people are starting to tune out. That dampens the public appetite for a public service broadcaster and the value of all of that. A limited number of options are available and at some point the Government will have to pick some of them. The Taoiseach says he...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: Last year, Rafah was home to approximately 250,000 people. Now, 1.5 million people are in Rafah because Palestinians were told to go there as they would be safe. Yesterday morning, Israeli airstrikes targeted Rafah, killing dozens of people. The targeting of Rafah is a massive escalation of Israel's invasion of Gaza that requires a change in approach by our Government. What actions is the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: I will continue with another quote. There is a very disappointing complacency - almost a smugness - in the ... response to issues of this kind. It is now standard practice and a mantra ... [to] just itemise what ... [is seen] as positives and so on but ... not deal with the hard questions that are asked. Again, those are not my words; that was what the Tánaiste said to the...