Results 361-380 of 6,733 for speaker:Holly Cairns

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (28 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: 297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on her Department’s intention to sign a waiver on the Sherkin Island national school property in order to facilitate its sale. [52570/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Offshore Islands (28 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: 346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his attention has been drawn to UCC’s “Ireland’s Offshore Islands: Housing Needs Survey”; what measures he is taking to ensure housing options are made available to enable younger generations and full-time residents to remain on our offshore islands; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (28 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: 437. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether, in light of a High Court ruling, he would reinstate the policy directive on banning inshore trawling within the six-mile limit whilst providing adequate notice to the required EU and UK bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51965/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (28 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: 513. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for the current estimate of funding required to meet demographic and unmet need in the disability sector; and if these figures have been adjusted for inflation. [52335/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (28 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: 546. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether his Department can provide a pathway for organisations such as (details supplied) to access funding for assistive technology and augmentative and alternative communication, as currently all applications for funding need to be submitted by the public team (details supplied). [52566/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: 547. To ask the Minister for Health if he would extend the pandemic payment eligibility criteria to cover all categories of Enable Ireland staff which were initially identified by the organisation as eligible for the pandemic payment. [52336/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: 578. To ask the Minister for Health whether a risk assessment was conducted prior to the decision to freeze recruitment in the HSE. [51963/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: 579. To ask the Minister for Health to provide the current outstanding staffing need which has been identified in CHO4. [51964/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: 658. To ask the Minister for Health whether play therapists registered with IPTA could be added to the list of professions examined by CORU. [52567/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Nursing Education (28 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: 675. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what avenues are available to student nurses who feel they have been unfairly treated on placement; and what appeal mechanisms are in place for student nurses who wish to contest the grading of their placement. [52564/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (23 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: 230. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details on the actions he has taken to address the Committee on the Rights of the Child's concluding observations on the combined fifth and sixth periodic reports of Ireland recommendation 18 (d): Act on the State party's previous commitments to hold a referendum on lowering the voting age to 16 years and ensure...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Protection (23 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: 272. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details of the actions he has taken to address the Committee on the Rights of the Child's concluding observations on the combined fifth and sixth periodic reports of Ireland recommendation 18 (b): Strengthen measures to promote the meaningful and empowered participation of all children, including...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: We must have a ceasefire, not a temporary pause and the Taoiseach seemed to echo that sentiment. Getting a ceasefire will require pressure on Israel and we have the ability to apply pressure in that way. When it comes to sanctions at EU level, the Taoiseach has said he does not want us to be too far in front because people will not follow him. As it stands Ireland is being outflanked by...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: I welcome that a deal to release hostages has been reached between Israel and Hamas. Everyone in this House is hopeful that Emily Hand will be among the first hostages to be released. My thoughts remain with her family at this extremely difficult time. I also welcome the release of 150 Palestinian women and children who have been detained in Israeli prisons. Taking hostages is a war crime...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: Those kinds of platitudes and promises are something that people have heard so many times before. These bear no resemblance to the reality. The reports about disability services in Ireland are far from the language the Taoiseach is using there. It is language like "unmet needs" and "wasted lives". The Taoiseach has said that his Government was the one to ratify it. How many years later...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: The Government is running an advertising campaign to highlight the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It tells us that disability rights are human rights. It goes on to state, "Everyone in Ireland has a role in advancing the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities." I really cannot imagine a more tone-deaf marketing slogan....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (16 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: 205. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing greyhounds entered on the race management system to date whose year of birth was 2021, with a breakdown of those registered to owners normally resident in the Republic of Ireland and those registered to owners normally resident in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50332/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (16 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: 206. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing greyhounds that completed one or more races whose year of birth was 2021 as recorded on RCETS, with a breakdown of those registered to owners normally resident in the Republic of Ireland and those registered to owners normally resident in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (16 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: 207. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing greyhounds that participated in at least one official trial whose year of birth was 2021 as recorded on RCETS, with a breakdown of those registered to owners normally resident in the Republic of Ireland and those registered to owners normally resident in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (16 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: 208. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing greyhounds exported before completing at least one official trial whose year of birth was 2021 as recorded on RCETS, with a breakdown of those registered to owners normally resident in the Republic of Ireland and those registered to owners normally resident in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a...