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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]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (31 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 199. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1475 of 18 April 2023, if he will clarify whether he has plans to recruit more personnel beyond the 'two clinical genetic consultants and six genetic counsellors' in response to population growth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26730/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (31 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 200. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure all maternity hospitals and units are permitting partners to attend all of the labour process and visit during set hours; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26731/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (31 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide annual funding for an inclusive dance course (details supplied) which accommodates people with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26525/23]

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank Sinn Féin and Deputy Tully in particular for this important and timely motion, which the Social Democrats fully support. It is another week and another motion on the disgraceful state of our disability services, with another reminder that life is harder, more stressful and more expensive when someone has a disability in Ireland. The motion highlights the unmet need in terms of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: It was Fine Gael that said it was the party of home ownership.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: Excuse me?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: The reality is, and everybody knows it as the facts are clear; rents have never been higher, house prices has never been higher, homelessness has never been higher and the number of young adults living in their bedrooms in their parents' homes has never been higher. Rates of home ownership have fallen, especially among the younger population. A further collapse in home ownership was not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: At the weekend, the Taoiseach said that when it comes to housing policy, his highest priority is home ownership. I think lots of people, especially people of my generation, find that literally impossible to believe. Fine Gael in government has literally done the opposite to increasing home ownership. Not that anyone needed any more evidence of this but today, we have more of it from the...