Results 1-19 of 19 for lottery speaker:Holly Cairns

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: -----but we are missing the target in that area too. Some 16 treatment hubs should have been opened by 2023. Treatment remains a postcode lottery. It is not just adult services that are at breaking point but also those for adolescents. In some areas, 45% of beds are empty. According to the Psychiatric Nurses Association, the HSE's recruitment embargo is the reason for that. There are...

Access to Autism and Disability Assessments and Supports: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...more than 4,600 children on waiting lists for assessments of need and over 10,000 waiting over 12 months for initial contact with a children's disability network team, CDNT. There is also the issue of geographic lotteries, with considerable variations in services, service qualities and waiting lists. To give one example, figures from December show that CHO 4, the Cork and Kerry region,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...that they are not normally monitored in the courts in question. In this instance, however, could they perhaps be monitored to ensure that there is a level of consistency rather than a complete lottery in the context of something so important to people?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: UNCRPD and the Optional Protocol (Resumed): Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (19 Jan 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...if the Department could look at that to see what could be done. Perhaps the committee could do so as well. It is a concern if someone is going to go into the courts and there is a geographical lottery as to whether a right such as that to which I refer is taken away from him or her.

Report of the Joint Committee on Disability Matters on the UNCRPD: Motion [Private Members] (10 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...for children. These services are especially important because they impact on an individual’s potential over his or her life. Delays in assessment, the lack of therapies and geographical lotteries are harmful to children's capacity to live independent lives. We need to have a frank and honest conversation about this. This week, we learned that more than 12,500 children with...

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jun 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...published in February. In view of this increasing financial burden on carers, the absolute minimum the Government could do is ensure there is adequate access to respite services, instead of the current postcode lottery. Even before the pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis, the provision of respite was disgracefully inadequate. The State has for too long undervalued the role of family...

Services for Children with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...in assessment reports. These revelations are piled on top of the already substantial failures to properly assess and treat children with disabilities in Ireland. Services are a geographical lottery. Children are waiting months for therapy appointments. Countless families are forced to pay privately for services and communities need to fundraise for supports the State should be...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...the previous system under which accessing services often depended on where people lived and how rich they were but the HSE has not improved that system. Accessing services is still a geographical lottery and families that can afford it have to turn to private service providers while others simply cannot access services at all. What is being done to address this? Is the HSE committed to...

Assessment of Needs for Children with Special Education Requirements: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...were available publicly in Cork. Not only is Ireland providing significantly less support to children than other countries; there is a massive variation in services within Ireland. It is literally a postcode lottery. This is a terrifying reality for families in Ireland. The motion outlines vital actions to realise the rights of children and provide them with the care they need. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (3 Mar 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...Minister of State referred to the right to education and that it is not necessarily based on locality. This is a really problematic approach from the Department because it should not be a postcode lottery. We have had people in before the committee who have said that when they came from Australia, the drop in services and access to education for their child was unbelievable. They made...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UNCRPD and Considering Future Innovation and Service Provision: Discussion ^ (2 Dec 2021)

Holly Cairns: ...thing that was noted was poor supports that respect and enable individual's independence such as personal assistants and supported independent living, and somebody referenced the geographical lottery with respect to this. Whether a person can access independent supported living depends on the part of the country in which a person lives. This is a tricky question that was highlighted both...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Oct 2021)

Holly Cairns: ...their labour, visiting hours are still severely curtailed and partners are still banned from attending antenatal scans. How much of this a person is subjected to is still a complete geographical lottery. The situation is now growing so farcical that from 22 October, a person will be able to attend a nightclub but partners will still be told to wait in the car park when they arrive at...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (21 Sep 2021)

Holly Cairns: ...for hospital visiting restrictions, one will find a significant difference in the restrictions between maternity hospitals and units. Over the last year, I have raised the kind of post code lottery in relation to this. The goal posts have shifted every time I raised this issue. It has shifted from being a HSE issue, to a local hospital group issue, to waiting for vaccine roll-out, to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: ...workers have been vaccinated. The Taoiseach told me back in September that there needs to be and should be a national approach to this. Of course, it should never have been a geographical lottery. In early December, the HSE reclassified partners as an essential accompanying person for the 20-week scan. Incredibly, partners have somehow become unessential for the later scans and most of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Mar 2021)

Holly Cairns: ...attend the births of their own children and women sometimes received tragic news alone, messaging their partners in car parks. This is not to mention the fact that this was literally a postcode lottery; there was absolutely no consistency across hospitals. The guidelines on restrictions in maternity hospitals I am continuously given date back to September. The situation has changed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Alignment of Special Education Policy with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (23 Feb 2021)

Holly Cairns: ...them, but she also referred to south-west Dublin, Kildare and Wicklow. Is it just in those areas? How was that decision made? How were the areas chosen? At the moment it is basically a geographical lottery for services such as speech and language therapy. How was the decision made on where the revolutionary programme would be rolled out first and last? Is geography considered in...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Sep 2020)

Holly Cairns: ...is in. I wonder which is it. The programme for Government commits to excellence in maternal healthcare but at present women in some areas are going through labour alone. It is a geographical lottery and we have no idea why. We cannot allow anyone else to go through this unless it is absolutely necessary. We urgently need a nationwide review of restrictions in maternity hospitals and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Maternity Services (9 Sep 2020)

Holly Cairns: ...their partner or be with their partner for most of the labour and after the birth of their baby. Why is there a disparity in the restrictions among hospitals? There seems to be a geographic lottery that is confusing and frustrating for people. The Covid-19 restrictions in maternity hospitals were introduced six months ago. Since then, many other restrictions in general society...