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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (25 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 539. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that private opticians will accept medical cards to cover eye tests and eye-related healthcare. [19079/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (25 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 560. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to ensure that current trainee educational psychologists in a third-level institution (details supplied) will receive the same renumeration and funding supports as incoming first years. [19183/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (25 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 637. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that ETB tutors are given full-time contracts including holiday pay cover and pension entitlements. [19075/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (25 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 638. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that the remuneration received by ETB tutors is allotted on an incremental basis comparable with other educational professionals and reflecting experience/years of service. [19076/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: I will go back to my previous questions. The Tánaiste did not answer them. Does the Tánaiste think Mr. Watt's position is tenable? What is the Government doing to hold him to account?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: This is not relevant.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: We will take that as a "No".

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. Yesterday, we had an extraordinary spectacle at the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach. One of the most senior and highest paid civil servants in the State engaged in an arrogant two-hour dismissal of an independent expert report commissioned by his line Minister. The Secretary General of the Department of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: Will the Tánaiste answer the questions?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: Respectfully, the Tánaiste just talked around all those questions for the entire time of his reply. I asked him how Mr. Watt's position can be tenable and whether the Tánaiste or the Government intends to take any action to make him accountable. Another aspect of this whole fiasco is deeply troubling. In April of last year, Mr. Watt refused to appear before the finance...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: When the Minister says his team now has to assess the situation, I am not really sure what needs to be assessed at this point. He says he is committed to banning this, but the issue remains that inshore trawling is currently permitted and will be for some time until the Minister resolves the matter. The Government says constantly that it is committed to banning this activity. Inshore...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: But the Minister knew for two years that that ruling was coming.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: Respectfully, the Minister has had a month to act but he has had two years to assess or to plan or whatever he is saying the Department is doing now. I thank him for the reply but, in essence, it is the same kind of holding response I have got for two years at this stage. Will he just confirm that he will begin the process to establish the policy directive, and when will that be? What...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: Exactly. We already know that.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: Now I would like a different response.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 82. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions he is taking to prohibited pair trawling inside the six-mile limit. [18344/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: I am regularly contacted by residents in west Cork concerned about trawling in Bantry Bay and Kenmare Bay. I have to explain to them that this is permitted even though it is in the programme for Government. We know it is legally sound. Since the court ruling in October 2020 overturned the policy directive, I have repeatedly asked the Minister to resolve the issue by bringing the directive...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 6. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to recruit more staff for the out-of-hours GP cover, SouthDoc, in counties Cork and Kerry. [18353/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: The Minister will be aware of the major pressures GP out-of-hours services face across the country. SouthDoc, which is the Cork and Kerry service, is having issues with recruiting staff, especially in rural areas. That has resulted in some of the services not running. Local GPs and their staff are already overstretched and they cannot be expected to also provide out-of-hours cover. What...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: General Practitioner Services (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: I acknowledge the Minister's statement about the forum, which is great, but I wonder when it will happen. I am not feeling a sense of urgency from the Minister in relation to this matter. There needs to be a greater priority given to recruiting and retaining doctors in these services, especially in rural areas like west Cork. As the Minister said, I previously raised with him the case of...