Results 121-140 of 254 for long speaker:Holly Cairns

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Testimonies Provided by Survivors of Mother and Baby Homes: Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (4 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...be accountability, justice and all of those things that have always been denied to people who were in those institutions. This whole process, which has gone on for the past two years, has been a longwinded way of doing that again. People, including the Minister, wanted an independent review. He knows it was for reasons other than just recognising the experiences of survivors. Of...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Financial Resolution No. 6: General: Financial Resolution (Resumed) (28 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...approach and the centre-right approach of the Government parties. It is painful to watch them attempt to make this seem like a progressive budget. They should at least own their own policies. It is clear these long-term decisions will benefit the better-off while the more vulnerable, those on disability allowance, carers and pensioners only get temporary measures and one-off payments....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: International Protection (28 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: 136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking regarding the long-term accommodation and integration of Ukrainian refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36286/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Energy Prices (20 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: I appreciate all those schemes and am sure businesses will look into them but they are more long-term solutions. Many small businesses cannot go on at the moment. They need more immediate solutions given rising energy bills, operating costs, insurance, rates, food and the list goes on.The Minister knows shops, cafés and many other local enterprises are really fearful of the winter....

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care: Discussion (20 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...18 years of age is €352 per week. I believe I am right in saying that. For over-18s, the allowance is €300 per week. However, that the rising cost of living has not been addressed in so long is simply outrageous for the most part because we know there is a reduction in the number going into foster care. We want to get the percentage back up to 92% or higher for better...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (20 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: 142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way that his Department will support persons with long-term incontinence with respect to the disposal of medical incontinence wear; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45594/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Education and the UNCRPD: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: While I welcome any opportunity to engage with the Minister, it is unacceptable, frankly, that it has taken so long for her to appear before the committee. We sought a date before the summer recess, when known issues could have been highlighted before the new school year commenced. We are already several weeks into that term and the situation has worsened in some cases. All present know...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Institutional Burials Act 2022 (Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam) Order 2022: Motion (14 Sep 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...and previous governments. Only public and international pressure at the horror of Tuam forced the then Fine Gael Government to act. The uncovering of the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, must happen. The long history of abuse, forced incarceration, family separation, illegal adoptions and unnatural death needs to be fully investigated. We need a survivor-led transitional justice...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget 2023 (14 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...an account of the situation. It demands an action plan for a strategic and well-resourced response to these systematic issues. The action plan to implement the disability capacity review is taking too long, but at least there is a plan. My last question, although answers to the other two would be good too, is about whether there will be an action plan in response to the cost of...

Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...have mobilised to provide assistance and recent Ukrainian arrivals have already started to contribute and work. The challenge for the Government is to pivot from an emergency response to a long-term integration plan. Too often, immediate solutions become permanent problems. Direct provision was supposed to be a temporary process but, more than 21 years later, that inhumane system...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (12 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: 1112. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No 573 of 23 June 2020, the number of adults with an intellectual disability residing in acute or long-stay psychiatric settings in CHO4 between January 2016 and June 2022, in tabular form; the basis on which this information on unidentified service-users could constitute a breach of their GDPR rights, as suggested in the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Direct Provision System (7 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...with them, any new system will have in many ways failed before it even begins. Regrettably, Ukrainian refugees are being treated in the same way with no input into where they are being offered long-term accommodation. I appreciate that the Department is dealing with more than 25,000 people and the pressures on housing that the Minister spoke about but engaging with people to do our best...

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...persons organisations, advocacy organisations, parents' groups and service providers? Any response to unmet needs in this sector has to work with the people most affected and service users. For too long, Departments have made decisions for people and not with them. Regrettably, we saw this again last week when the Government rushed through the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity)...

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: .... Money needs to be put into the pockets of people with disabilities. The Government must introduce a cost of disability payment in budget 2023 of at least €20 per week as well as an increase in the disability allowance of at least €15 per week. For a more long-term response, we want an action plan on the cost of disability report that outlines increased social protection...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...care in the home and dedicated all their waking hours to caring for loved ones, in many cases without any day or respite services. While budget 2022 included some small increases in the weekly rates and long overdue changes to the means test, these measures were simply not enough to address the true cost of care, and they are even less effective now against the backdrop of soaring energy...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ukraine War (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: 148. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the long-term plans for the accommodation of Ukrainian refugees currently staying in a hotel (details supplied). [33176/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (16 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: 420. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that English language long-stay study visas are taking six months to process in the Irish visa office, Ankara; the steps that she is taking to address this long processing period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31731/22]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: ..., it is a breach of people's rights. It is a breach of the convention. If that optional protocol was ratified, a sea of cases would be taken against the State. That is the reality. For too long, the Assisted Decision-Making Capacity Act not having been implemented has been the excuse for not ratifying the optional protocol. The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: Will the HSE commit to meeting parents' groups that have formed their own version of this in the interim? The end of the year is a long time away.