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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2025)

Holly Cairns: First, on behalf of all of the Social Democrats, I extend a very warm welcome back to Deputy Boyd Barrett. It is great to see him back. We are hurtling towards a catastrophe. A new UN report published as COP30 is about to begin makes that clear. Plans to limit global warming to 1.5°C have failed. That threshold will be breached in the next decade. We are now on course to see...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Nov 2025)

Holly Cairns: It feels like I may as well be talking to the wall. We are nowhere near reaching our targets. It does not feel like the Government really understands the consequences of that. The Minister is talking about the huge amount of work on offshore wind but the reality is we generated more energy from wind 20 years ago. The climate crisis could not be more serious, and it is very obvious that it...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Holly Cairns: The Government cannot stoke fear in one breath, then condemn attacks in another and come into the House and seek credit for doing that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Holly Cairns: The Social Democrats have been pleading with the Government for weeks to moderate its language, to ensure what it is saying is accurate and that tensions are not further enflamed. Instead, the inflammatory language from the Government has increased. Shamefully, the Tánaiste chose to amplify half-truths to paint migrants in a negative light. He made those comments fully conscious of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Holly Cairns: This is not leadership; this is leaning into a toxic far-right narrative.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Holly Cairns: People have a right to come here and to make an application for international protection.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Holly Cairns: The Government has a duty to assess those claims fairly.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Holly Cairns: Will the Government show leadership on this issue and deliver that clear and unambiguous message?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Holly Cairns: -----State agencies and the latest fall guy, EU red tape. This is straight out of the Farage playbook and it is deeply concerning the Government is taking this approach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Holly Cairns: The reality is the numbers seeking international protection are way down this year-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Holly Cairns: -----and people remain trapped in the system for too long because of the Government's mismanagement of it. Is the Government reflecting on its communication-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Holly Cairns: -----around this? Has the security audit of IPAS centres started?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2025)

Holly Cairns: For decades, Sr. Stan was a campaigner and advocate for the most marginalised in our society. We could all learn from her. Our thoughts are with her family today. I congratulate President-elect Catherine Connolly. She will be a President for all and will be missed in this House, but we know she will serve with the same integrity, diligence and compassion she served with here. ...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: I just-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: The Deputy conflated knife crime with migrants, and you welcomed his response.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: I condemn the awful scenes we saw in Citywest last night. One far-right account in advance of the riot posted online that "Citywest IPAS centre needs to be stormed." That was the clear goal last night, to overrun the accommodation centre. This was not done to protect children or the community, even if that is what the organisers claimed to the people they brought along with them. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: I genuinely welcome the Taoiseach's comments. I also hope he will practice a bit more of what he is preaching today because they are welcome. In comparison to yesterday, when Deputy Fitzmaurice raised increasing knife crime in the same breath as concerns about the asylum system, the Taoiseach's response was to thank him, and I quote, "for raising the issue in a responsible and fair way."...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Medical Aids and Appliances (22 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered mandatory training for the use of EpiPens in schools, as well as the provision ofEpiPens to schools as part of an emergency medical kit; the current first aid programme requirements in schools; and if she will consider embedding allergy awareness and response training in schools, particularly in regard to food provision....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: 198. To ask the Minister for Health if she has considered introducing access to oral immunotherapy for those with allergies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57550/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (22 Oct 2025)

Holly Cairns: 199. To ask the Minister for Health the work being carried out in her Department to improve access to EpiPens in local communities, schools, and childcare settings; and if she will consider including allergy awareness and response training as part of essential first aid programme requirements. [57551/25]