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Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: Similar to my previous amendment, amendment No. 15 is about transparency in our food systems. The price the consumer pays in the shop is the result of a chain beginning with the primary producer. We need more structures to guarantee a fair and clear connection between what the consumer pays and what the producer receives. The shorter the supply chain, the easier it will be for the producer...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: I move amendment No. 12: In page 11, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “(b) publish an annual analysis and reports on costs associated with the production of different foodstuffs in order to determine a cost-of-production, and”.

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: I am pressing the amendment.

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: I will be speaking to my amendment, amendment No. 12, which is grouped with amendment No. 7. This discussion of the Bill is incredibly timely, with soaring food costs for ordinary households while, at the same time, many primary producers and smaller retailers are scrambling to get by. Amendment No. 12 is about ensuring that the new office is empowered to examine issues and publish...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: The Taoiseach is just repeating the same tired mantra and it is starting really to lack credibility. We know general inflation does not explain the obscene price increases we are seeing across the economy. The ECB has said that. It is greed that is driving inflation now. We know certain companies are milking it and that the Government seems unwilling or unable to do anything about that....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: The extortionate prices of energy and food are driving so many to the brink. For more than two years, prices have relentlessly increased. There has been no relief for people who are struggling. Prices have increased at rates that far outstrip any increase in wages. In fact, we know that real wages have gone down. The real median weekly wage has fallen by nearly €100, which is more...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (10 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 54. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline his responsibility in determining special regeneration areas under the Living City Initiative; the criteria that is used to define these areas; if he is reviewing the criteria to expand the SRAs to enable more families avail of the initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21920/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (10 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 55. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons' that have availed of the Living City Initiative in each eligible area to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21921/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (10 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide her response to the finding in a report (details supplied) concerning the priority need for end-of-life care for survivors of institutional abuse; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21918/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (10 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that the free primary schoolbooks scheme allocation to a school (details supplied) factors in exceptional circumstances to ensure that all students receive their books; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21919/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (10 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 99. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to provide affordable and social housing for single people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21923/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Offshore Renewable Energy Development Plan (10 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide his response to the concerns of an organisation (details supplied) regarding offshore windfarm planning; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21924/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (10 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 145. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to regulate the use of horses for drawing vehicles for commercial purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21915/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (10 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 146. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking examine the impact of Brexit on the Irish sheep sector and the resultant eligibility for sheep farmers to access support through the Brexit Adjustment Reserve fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21916/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (10 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 153. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps he has taken to appoint a special advocate for survivors of institutional abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21917/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: 171. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that healthcare workers in Section 39 organisations who worked in primary care in Covid-19 exposed healthcare environments with people with disabilities are made eligible for the pandemic special recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21922/23]

Food Costs and High Grocery Bills: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: Go raibh maith agat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle; I really appreciate it. I welcome this opportunity to discuss soaring food costs and the hardship that extortionate prices are causing for so many workers and families. The Social Democrats support this important Sinn Féin motion. We do not talk about food enough in this House. Food is one of the absolute necessities of life. Families...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: There are more than 670,000 people in the country living in poverty, including 190,000 children. The number of older people living in poverty has increased by 40% in the past two years alone. The poorest 10% of households spend almost half their income on food and energy. Whatever is left is spent on the extortionate housing costs. This is not sustainable. The energy companies are simply...