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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (9 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 545. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount and scope of support being offered to a school (details supplied) by the Carrigaline-Kinsale-Bandon children's disability network team, including ringfenced hours assigned to children in the school of a speech and language therapist and a psychologist; the timeframe the CDNT has been allocated to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (9 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 551. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline his engagement with the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media concerning the lack of accessibility at a publicly funded tourist attraction (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21675/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Data Protection (9 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 586. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address GDPR issues with the HSE online self-service portal for staff, including individuals being able to access other individuals' personal information; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21240/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 606. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that clinical employees in section 39 organisations who engaged in clinical work with clients in residential care are eligible for the pandemic special recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21343/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (9 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 643. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of the number of eating disorder teams currently in place in each CHO, including the number of staff currently assigned to each team; the number of vacancies; his plans to recruit the required staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21680/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (9 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 717. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure individuals on waiting lists are made aware of their options to seek treatment under the cross-border directive. [21869/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Hedge Cutting (9 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 736. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps she is taking to work with Tidy Towns committees locally and nationally to encourage the protection of nectaring habitats by restricting mowing and hedge cutting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21345/23]

Transport Support Schemes for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: I welcome this important motion from the Regional Group and the Social Democrats will support it. Transport is a disability issue. Transport is about accessing education, having employment, being able to meet friends and in general living an independent life. A lack of investment in public transport, especially in rural areas, and the disgraceful barriers in transport support schemes, when...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: I recognise the different factors that have an impact on it, but I was highlighting the fact that wholesale energy prices fell by 41%-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: -----but they have yet to fall for residential customers. We are only seeing a windfall tax in the autumn and now there are similar issues with the cost of food. The European Central Bank, ECB, is clear that corporate profits are now the main driver of that inflation and not the other factors. The pain that is being inflicted by the ECB to control inflation interest rate hikes is not being...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: -----I am asking the Tánaiste please to revisit this. Now is the chance to address the issues in relation to food prices. There can be some management of this going forward, because it is not the primary producers, such as farmers, who benefit, and it is not the consumers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: We need a food regulator with teeth, not an ombudsman.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: I have.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: I have tabled amendments to the legislation.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: What started as a cost-of-living crisis has now become a cost-of-greed crisis. Entire industries are taking advantage of this crisis by inflating their prices to unsustainable levels. Corporate profits were up 30% at the end of last year while domestic companies saw profits surge by 17%. The ECB has now warned that profiteering by companies is the main driver of inflation. This is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (4 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 42. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to increase the number of sheltered bus stops in Cork South West. [19972/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 61. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to support Local Link services. [19973/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Behaviour Analysis and Support: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank everyone for being here today. This is a very candid discussion which is important. It is great that there is willingness to engage on this matter. The situation presented to us is that the committee is aware of significant controversy in the field. We noted that in our recent report, for which there was significant support. People contacted individual members expressing support...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Behaviour Analysis and Support: Discussion (4 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Senator.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: In January 2021, the Government first wrote to the religious orders asking them to contribute to the redress scheme for mother and baby institutions. A series of meetings between the Minister and the religious orders began to take place and we had an update on those negotiations this week. According the Irish Examiner, they have been put on the back burner. We have now been hearing the...