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

Holly Cairns: This matter needs to be more of priority because this service provides vital care and is needed by people not just in west Cork but in other rural areas. I understand these things can take time but there is also a lack of joined-up thinking and utilisation of resources, which can be frustrating for people in those areas. SouthDoc services are under pressure and, at the same time, Bantry...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 45. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to provide home support hours to individuals assessed to need them in CHO4. [18354/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Inshore Fisheries (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 124. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to support the inshore fishing sector. [18346/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 127. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide his response to a resolution from Cork County Council that he meets with a delegation of Dáil Deputies and councillors from west Cork to discuss funding to reconstruct Keelbeg Pier. [18348/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 131. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to increase rates of afforestation. [18347/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (20 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 135. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he has taken in response to the call in the European Parliament resolution of 7 June 2022 on the implementation of Article 17 of the Common Fisheries Policy Regulation (2021/2168(INI)) for ‘Member States to ensure a level playing field and equal opportunities for all fishers to allow for fair access to marine...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: The housing disaster is causing devastation among workers and families all over the country. Increasingly it is an enormous problem for businesses too. Every major business group has now pointed to housing being their most serious concern. Chambers Ireland recently warned that the acute shortage of housing was causing companies to take drastic action. It said big businesses are now...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: I did not say no one could afford a home but that only those on the highest incomes can do so. I am not judging the Minister on one year in government but on 12 years of Fine Gael Governments. He was Minister for housing during that time. The criticisms of the Government’s housing delivery are not just coming from the Social Democrats and other Opposition parties; they are coming...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: I am saying they are concerned about housing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: You just told me they were not.

Vacant Homes Tax: Motion [Private Members] (19 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: We are in a housing emergency and the Government's housing policy is a disaster. Almost 12,000 people, including more than 3,300 children, are now living in emergency accommodation. Rents are skyrocketing - up 13.7% in 2022 - while at the same time the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage has failed to spend more than €1 billion from his capital budget. The Government...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Programme for Government (19 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 10. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he is taking to fulfil the Programme for Government commitment 'As Ireland moves towards carbon neutrality, we do not believe that it makes sense to develop LNG gas import terminals importing fracked gas, accordingly we shall withdraw the Shannon LNG terminal from the EU Projects of Common Interest list in...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: School Transport (19 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 39. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide details of funding schemes currently open or schemes that will be open this year to which local authorities can apply to improve active travel infrastructure adjacent to national schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18607/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Hospital Staff (19 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that participants in a psychology training programme (details supplied) are provided with the same funding and supports as persons pursuing similar programmes. [18455/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Hospital Staff (19 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that participants in a psychology training programme (details supplied) are provided with the same funding and supports as persons pursuing similar programmes. [18454/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (19 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the ancillary grant will be paid to national schools; what advice is being issued to schools to cover staffing costs for the delay in the payment of the grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18602/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Island Communities (19 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide her response to the recommendation in the UCC report Housing and Sustaining Communities on the west Cork Islands to support young families on the islands through services and infrastructure, including free ferries where access to schooling is not available on the islands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18603/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Online Safety (19 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 67. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to outline her engagement with the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communication concerning online trolling and other online abuse targeted at LGBTQ+ young people. [18601/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 74. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking in response to contract restrictions preventing the sale of properties to local authorities or approved housing bodies for social housing. [18457/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (19 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: 81. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 513 of 21 March 2023, if he will engage with self-catering accommodation providers in rural areas concerning the impact of the Short-term Lettings Enforcement Bill 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18609/23]