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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...

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...