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Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...not happen by accident or by some sort of fluke. Political choices made by successive governments have resulted in the aspirations and dreams of an entire generation being diminished or completely destroyed. I do not believe that the people who got us into this mess are the people who can get us out of it. The Taoiseach does not have to take my word for it; the record of successive Fine...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...to have any hope of staffing our children's disability network teams. We need a firm commitment to naming the date for the long overdue ratification of the optional protocol. People's lives are being destroyed due to completely inadequate or non-existent services. These are services that the Government does not seem to believe it has an obligation to provide. With that fundamentally...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...without doing anything meaningful to try to stop it. Absolutely zero pressure is being applied to Israel. Netanyahu has been clear that the killing will continue until they say Hamas has been destroyed, but how will they measure that? We know their intelligence is not reliable and we know they engage in lies and misinformation to cover up their human rights abuses. Israel has to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...international community going to sit back and watch an impending genocide in Gaza? How many innocent civilians have to die? How many children have to be butchered? How many hospitals have to be destroyed, residential buildings flattened, schools decimated and farms devastated? How much slaughter and indiscriminate destruction can western leaders stomach? More than 15,000 people have...

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2023: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...born in the Republic. No dogs born in the North are included. There is no way of knowing the extent of the overbreeding problem if we do not know how many dogs are born in a given year. Thousands of dogs have been bred and then destroyed because they did not make the cut. Destinations for exports of dogs to any country other than the UK are not recorded on the system despite the fact...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...sector. It is the perception of Irish agriculture abroad that makes it so valuable. People perceive Ireland as a country that has grass-fed cattle, looks after its animals and so on. This scandal risks destroying all that, and not addressing it risks it even more. Most farmers agree that this is damaging and that we cannot tolerate a situation in which hundreds and thousands of calves...

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...that are arguing so strongly against them at the EU. This narrative being created around rewetting proposals in the Bill, whereby the Government will acquire private lands by compulsory purchase order, CPO, or destroy farmland, is not backed up by fact. Rather, the nature restoration law has the potential to be transformative. It will provide new funding streams for farmers to ensure...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Mar 2023)

Holly Cairns: ...than our parents. This did not happen by accident. Political choices made by successive Governments have resulted in the aspirations and dreams of an entire generation being either diminished or destroyed. Nowhere is the political betrayal of young people more evident than in the housing disaster. Skyrocketing rents and exorbitant house prices have resulted in the collapse of...

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Motion (30 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...to point out a new system of traceability and welfare inspections while ignoring the deep irony of their position. These measures are only necessary because the record of the industry is so appalling. We know of thousands of dogs that were bred and then destroyed because they did not make the cut. Overbreeding in the industry continues to be a major concern. The Committee on...

Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (15 Nov 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...share highly personal and emotionally-laden information in many cases. There is an abundant moral requirement for them to have clarity on how this information will be used, stored or potentially destroyed, etc. With regard to amendment No. 26, the addition of other institutions to Schedule 1 could have a significant impact on many survivors. It is important the Bill enables...

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...courts. Thousands of survivors are excluded from the Government's scheme. Many of them will never receive redress or recognition, if the Minister has his way. They will get nothing for the life-destroying crime of forced family separation, just as nothing will be given to those boarded out to abusive homes and nothing will be given to those from whom pharmaceutical companies have...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Risk Management (20 Jan 2022)

Holly Cairns: ...anxious to know when they will start to see physical work starting on the ground. All flood events can have a large impact on households and businesses, including through damage to structures and destroyed stocks. The social effect can also be very demoralising for communities. The risk of repeated flooding only increases these negative results. Bantry is an amazing town, with a...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Holly Cairns: ...something wrong. Nothing could be further from the truth. I do not know any farmer who actually goes about his or her everyday business in an attempt to release as many emissions as possible or to destroy as much biodiversity as possible. Government policy directly incentivised how we farm. For example, a Department official comes out to my farm every year and docks us money from the...

Planning and Development, Heritage and Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (28 Apr 2021)

Holly Cairns: I will raise two issues related to the Bill. The spate of gorse fires in recent months is regrettably predictable. Every year, these dangerous fires destroy large parts of our landscape. The devastating fire in Killarney National Park has featured prominently. It should also be noted that there were several fires near Dunmanway, Clonakilty and Bantry in west Cork last week. Several units...

Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2021)

Holly Cairns: ...a member. We like to claim that we have moved on as a society, but abuse is still allowed to happen. This is how abuse happens and continues. In recent weeks, the commission said that it had destroyed 549 survivor testimonies. When, almost immediately, people questioned how digital files could be truly deleted in this day and age, the commission stated that it had carried out an...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2020)

Holly Cairns: ...O'Rourke did an amazing job of debunking those arguments. I would briefly like to go through a few of them. One argument holds that the legislation needs to pass by 30 October or the database will be destroyed or will somehow disappear. Nobody knows exactly why the commission feels it will have to destroy the database. It appears to believe that it cannot deliver personal data to the...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (17 Jun 2020)

Holly Cairns: ...in Blackpool is a clear example. Years of minor schemes and developments, including building on flood plains, has contributed to recent flooding and the only solution offered is to culvert, which will destroy a rich wildlife corridor flowing through the city. We should be planting protection forestry along rivers to preserve water quality and assist in flood management. We need to...