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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (13 Jun 2023)

Holly Cairns: 1392. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department, and public bodies and agencies under her remit, have an anti-racism policy which can be accessed by the public; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27680/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (1 Jun 2023)

Holly Cairns: 15. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking ensure that hormone replacement therapy medication is available without charge for persons going through menopause. [26394/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Jun 2023)

Holly Cairns: 62. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he is taking to ensure employees of Section 39 organisations receive the same pay and conditions as their counterparts employed in the HSE. [26393/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jun 2023)

Holly Cairns: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he is taking to reform the SUSI application process. [26396/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (1 Jun 2023)

Holly Cairns: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline his engagement with Minister for Housing, Local Government, and Heritage concerning the provision of student accommodation. [26395/23]

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: A lot of the debate on this entire issue has been an exercise in grandstanding. Some politicians have seized on the nature restoration law and blatantly stoked up fears for their own benefit - not just Opposition parties and Independents but also Government backbenchers. Of course, they will have to try to be in favour of it in principle to tick the environmental credentials box, while...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: The census revealed a sharp drop in the proportion of the population who view themselves as Catholic. Between 2016 and 2022, it fell from 79% to 69%. There was also a 62% increase in the number who said they had no religion. We all know people who kind of go along with it and baptise their children to get them into a particular school or so they are not left out of communion; the figures...

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank Deputy Cian O'Callaghan and his team for their work on this motion. The Government claims to prioritise homeownership. It is a brazen claim, and one which I do not think anyone really believes. The reality is that for every year that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael spend in office, rates of homeownership decline. Do not take my word for it. The latest evidence of the Government's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (31 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the funding scheme for schools to install rooftop solar and other forms of solar PV panels will be open; and what will be required for the schools to access the scheme. [26524/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (31 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on reviewing the requirements for compulsory subjects as part of the Leaving Certificate examination; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26523/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Invasive Species Policy (31 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 90. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ban the sale of rhododendron ponticum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26733/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (31 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will further expand the hot school meals programme to secondary schools. [26522/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (31 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 95. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will reduce waiting times for parents seeking additional needs payments where children are at risk of going without essentials. [26527/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (31 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 96. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will increase the qualified child payment in line with inflation. [26528/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (31 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 125. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 443 of 25 April 2023, if he will clarify the methods used to kill badgers snared by Departmental operatives; what happens to the remains of the badgers; and what terms and conditions are attached to the licence issued by the NPWS which facilitates the killing. [26521/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (31 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 130. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a new scheme will be introduced to replace the motorised transport grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26729/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (31 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 131. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will clarify whether a young person who has reached the age of 18 years but is still in school must transition from disability child services to disability adult services. [26732/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (31 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 140. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he has taken in response to a Health Information and Quality Authority inspection report concerning a home (details supplied) where children were confined upstairs for days on end due to a broken lift; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26526/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (31 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 155. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on the ratification of the Optional Protocol of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26726/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Protection (31 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 156. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he has taken in response to a report (details supplied), including any actions to ensure immediate reforms within the organisation. [26735/23]