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

Holly Cairns: Will the Tánaiste answer the questions, please?

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

Holly Cairns: Will the Tánaiste answer the questions, please?

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

Holly Cairns: Will the Tánaiste please answer the questions before his time is up?

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

Holly Cairns: Examining it for four years.

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

Holly Cairns: I send our sympathies to the families and friends of the young people who died and were injured in the horrific crash in Carlow last night. Such a shocking loss of so many young lives is devastating and my thoughts are with them today. I will start with a quote: The story for people with disabilities continues to worsen year after year. Access to therapies is simply appalling and respite...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: A review of our abortion law was concluded by Marie O’Shea nine months ago. Her report could not have been clearer. Among the recommendations she made was that the mandatory three-day waiting period be removed, the threatened criminalisation of doctors ended and far more clarity given on providing abortion in cases of foetal abnormalities. Instead of acting on the report, the...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: There are challenges within our immigration and asylum system but they are challenges of the Government's own making. They are not the fault of people seeking asylum or of migrants seeking to build a life for themselves and their families here in Ireland. We simply would not function as a country without migration. We would not staff our public services or our private enterprises. We...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: Will the Taoiseach answer the question?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: At the weekend, 11 ministers in the Israeli Government attended a conference calling for Israeli settlement in the Gaza strip. Detailed maps were displayed which showed the areas of the Gaza strip where settlements would be established. Among the ministers to attend was the national security minister, Ben-Gvir, and the finance minister, Smotrich. This will not come as any surprise. Both...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: It was €2.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: Speaking down the clock and talking about how I am apparently being disingenuous really says it all. I literally said at the beginning that the Government voted down our motion, which called on it to intervene "at the earliest possible opportunity". I literally highlighted, in my speech just before the Tánaiste spoke, that we want the work to start now. We do not signal our intent and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: Will the Tánaiste answer the question?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: Last night this Government voted against supporting South Africa’s case against Israel in the International Court of Justice at the earliest possible opportunity. Instead it amended the Social Democrats motion to say the Government will only consider supporting the case at some point in the future. We now know the preliminary ruling is due tomorrow. But even then the Government has...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: I am asking that he signal his intention and start the preparatory work to intervene now because we all know that you do not signal your intent and walk into the ICJ tomorrow. There is a lot of work that goes on in advance of that. When bombs are being dropped indiscriminately in densely populated areas, a man-made famine and aid cannot get in and when 250 people are being killed every day...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: I said at the earliest opportunity.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: I said signal intent. Read the motion.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: It is also not what is in the motion.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: I want to raise the issue of many of our restaurants and cafés around the country that are closing their doors. Many more are at tipping point. A restaurant near me, Budds of Ballydehob, put out a post about this on social media, and the outpouring of support was immense. As the Taoiseach knows, in towns and villages in Cork South-West the café might be the heart of the community...

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: I was not expecting much from the Government today, but it actually managed to sink beneath my already low expectations. I am shocked it decided to amend our motion in this way. Not only did it amend the motion, it rewrote it in its entirety. I would encourage people to read our motion. It contained a series of indisputable and horrifying statistics about the depths of the slaughter and...

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — nearly 100,000 Palestinians have been killed, reported missing or wounded in Gaza since Israel began its military operation three months ago; — among this number are nearly 25,000 people who have been confirmed dead, two thirds of whom are women and children; — 85 per cent of the population has been displaced,...