Results 1-20 of 249 for long speaker:Holly Cairns

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...break is not enough for fields to dry out. This has been an absolutely devastating time for farmers across all sectors. Some livestock farmers are having to provide supplementary feed for much longer periods than expected as animals remain indoors. Slurry tanks are at capacity and farmers’ silage and fodder stocks are depleted. Many are struggling to afford to buy additional...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: I want to start by warmly welcoming the members of the Stardust families who are here today. It has been a long and difficult road to justice but their perseverance, courage and deep love of their family members has brought us here to this historic, but long overdue, day. It is less than a week since the jury in the Stardust inquest returned the verdicts that families and survivors have...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (23 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: 569. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to address the shortages in childcare staff in the short and long term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17982/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (18 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...availability of the mobile BreastCheck mammogram service in Bantry; and whether he would ensure the provision of a mammogram service in west Cork to ensure access to care for those unable to drive long distances. [17106/24]

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...own expert reports and implement change. That final part - implementation - is what has been missing and it is the only thing that will make a difference. The Minister does not have to wait any longer to take action. There are things the Government could do this week that would make a significant difference. It could recognise the cost of disability with a cost-of-disability payment....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...? Will he outline to the House, when considering them, what position he is coming from? Does he understand why these things need to be changed and why considering it now, a year later, is far too long for the women who have been forced to travel and for the ongoing suffering? Every day women are still travelling.

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

Holly Cairns: ..., which is that successive Government plans have not worked and are not working. This Government and previous governments have had endless opportunities to get housing right. People have waited long enough. Last year alone, 21,000 people left for Australia. Others are leaving for Canada, Dubai and elsewhere. Many do not want to go, but they feel they are being forced out because a...

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

Holly Cairns: ...need a Government that will provide pay parity for section 39 workers if we are 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...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...Catherine Day report after the fact, instead of immediately starting work on six State reception centres and 700 modular homes, the Government’s response has been shambolic, with no sign of medium- or long-term planning. If the Government had followed the recommendations of the report, the sixth reception centre would be delivered this year. Not only are we nowhere near having...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...prices and rents but they are locking out first-time buyers. The Government recognised that the stamp duty needs to change. It has not yet. What was the result of the review and why is it taking so long?

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...and that only now, with only 12 months left in the lifetime of this Government, is the Taoiseach giving a firm commitment to ratifying the protocol while the Minister lists off a to-do list a mile long? Over the years, we have heard from different experts, including the UN special rapporteur, who have clearly said that the optional protocol can be ratified immediately. Disabled people...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2024: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...provision, handing over our responsibility to accommodate and care for asylum seekers to private entities which have profited massively from this State failure while treating asylum seekers appallingly along the way. A clear plan for the future of Ukrainians in Ireland is needed. The temporary protection directive ends in March of next year. Ukrainians need clarity on what happens...

Healthcare Provision in Rural Communities: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...we are very familiar with the pressures on and failures relating to health services in rural communities. The blunt truth is that the current GP model is not working and has not done so for a very long time. The GP contract is more than 40 years old and is completely unfit for today's world. It requires GPs to set up private practices. The medical work of GPs is hard enough without...

Sustainable Fisheries Sector and Coastal Communities: Statements, Questions and Answers (15 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...was a really important move. I also welcome the fact that he has opened the consultation on the ban of vessels over 18 m from trawling within 6 miles of the shore. It is five years later - a long time - and it is a shame it did not start sooner. Will he give us an outline of the timeline on that? One of issues I want to raise with the Minister may seem, in the grand scheme of things...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (14 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...synonymous. Repeated scandals have hugely damaged public service trust and confidence. Kevin Bakhurst and key members of the board are back in front of the Oireachtas committee today and there is a long way to go to rebuild trust in RTÉ. Senior management has an important role to play in this. We need a strong public service broadcaster that delivers important public service...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...to which people have a right. Is it really too much to ask to be prioritised rather than forgotten, or for anybody in government to act with urgency? The Tánaiste has just listed off a few things. His long-term priority of special education needs has amounted to precisely zero special schools in Cork South-West. He referred to children's disability network teams. Not one of them...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Feb 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...breached [...] We also know that the Government scrapped the mobility allowance and the motorised transport grant [...] We have been waiting for the new scheme for four years and seven months, longer than the duration of the First World War. There is no excuse for this inertia and lack of progress. The Tánaiste might recognise those words because they were delivered by him in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...it over to the health committee. That committee sent a report back to Government before Christmas recommending it proceed with all the recommendations, but nothing has happened. Why? Women waited long enough for abortion services in this country. There is no reason we should wait any longer for much-needed improvements to the law. Women do not want condescending barriers to healthcare...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: ...it, the Minister's colleagues do not understand it and the whole country does not understand it. It has been two years since Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine and we still do not have a medium- or long-term plan. Then we see that the Minister for Justice's response is to add two countries, Algeria and Botswana, to the safe country list, meaning all asylum seekers from these countries...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Holly Cairns: The Minister speaks about putting things in context and the reality of how long it takes to build homes. Everyone recognises that it takes time to address this. We have had 12 years of Fine Gael in government trying to address this and it is simply not working. The Minister says we are making no suggestions. I just made a suggestion to try to stamp out the bulk buying of homes. We need...