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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...

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

Holly Cairns: Is there an update on negotiations?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: Will Deputy Niall Collins address the issue of the planning application and the letter from his wife's solicitor?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: That is not what I am asking about.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: I am asking the Tánaiste about Deputy Niall Collins.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: I am not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: I am asking the Tánaiste if the Minister of State will take questions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: He is not answering.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Apr 2023)

Holly Cairns: I give a warm welcome to the pupils from Greystones Community National School who are in the Gallery. For the second time in two months, the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, will make a clarifying statement in the House later today. In March, he made a statement about a planning application for his family home. The Minister of State said he was entirely satisfied that the...