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Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Holly Cairns: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion and giving us an opportunity to discuss this important issue. The Social Democrats will be supporting the motion. I did not believe the figure of €64 million of additional expenditure for investment in disability services when I first read it in the budget document. It is a pitiful investment into improving services with so much unmet...

Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...measures. However, these payments are awarded on the whim of the Government rather than in any benchmarked and reliable manner. Core rates were increased for the first time in three years by €5 in the last budget and now, in the midst of a cost-of-living crisis, there is an increase of only €12. In real terms, a significant proportion of the population is worse off under...

Community and Voluntary Sector Workers: Motion [Private Members] (12 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...public sector counterparts. In our alternative budget, the Social Democrats called for an increase in the allocation across services budgets for section 39 organisations, Tusla-funded section 56 organisations and section 10 homeless services of a total of €80 million as a first step to addressing this disparity. Instead of investing in this sector and recognising highly skilled...

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...7th December, 2021, and found that the additional cost of disability ranged between €8,700 and €12,300 per annum; - the report found that meeting these higher costs was particularly difficult for the 152,000 people on the disability allowance, which is paid at a rate of just €208 per week; - an Economic and Social Research Institute report entitled "Headline Poverty...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Holly Cairns: Just one last point. Sorry, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. To give context of a previous budget, Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind was allocated €886,000. It had to raise €5 million itself. Why is it not getting a fraction of what the greyhound racing industry is getting?

Data Centre Moratorium: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2021)

Holly Cairns: ...and warnings of winter power shortages. We know data centres are resource-hungry projects, using the same amount of energy as a large town or a small city like Kilkenny, and consuming between 500,000 and 5 million litres of water a day. This is deeply worrying and deeply unfair. Data centres are being quietly promoted by Government Departments, with little understanding of their impact....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Litter Pollution (13 Jul 2021)

Holly Cairns: 201. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 202 of 15 June 2021, the amount allocated to each local authority from the €5 million additional funding for litter prevention and cleaning announced on 5 May 2021. [37416/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Litter Pollution (15 Jun 2021)

Holly Cairns: 202. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 51 of 12 May 2021, the amount allocated to each local authority from the €5 million additional funding for litter prevention and cleaning announced on 5 May 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31324/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Local Authorities (12 May 2021)

Holly Cairns: 52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount each local authority will receive from the €5 million additional funding for litter prevention and cleaning announced on 5 May 2021; the rationale for the assignment of funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25155/21]

Greyhound Industry: Motion [Private Members] (25 Nov 2020)

Holly Cairns: ...: “That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the Irish greyhound industry receives substantial public funding; — in 2021, the Exchequer will subsidise greyhound racing in Ireland by €19.2 million, an increase of €2.4 million from 2020; — the industry has received approximately €280 million in taxpayer funding since 2000; —...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Digital Hubs (20 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: 817. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way in which the €5 million in the budget for town and village hubs will be deployed to assist 2020 students participate in third level education remotely. [31771/20]