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Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Programmes (8 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 18. To ask the Taoiseach to provide an update on the work of the child poverty and well-being unit. [17527/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 2. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children, education and disability will meet. [17528/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 10. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [17526/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: It is the highest level ever.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Holly Cairns: There are now 13,866 people living in emergency homeless accommodation, the highest number in the history of the State. Tragically, included in this figure are 4,147 children, representing a 56% rise in child homelessness since the Government took office – 56% in just four years. The reaction of the Minister for housing to reaching this grim milestone was a disgrace. He actually...

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

Holly Cairns: The amount of rainfall we have been experiencing over recent months has pushed the agriculture sector to a crisis point. We have seen almost ten months of almost non-stop rainfall and farms are saturated. A few days' 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...

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

Holly Cairns: They are not staffed.

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

Holly Cairns: For years now I have been raising the issue of specialist treatment for eating disorders. The news that no new inpatient beds for adults with eating disorders have opened should be surprising but, given all of the broken promises and missed deadlines over the years, how could anyone be surprised? We should be, however. We should be shocked at the lack of urgency, the level of mismanagement...

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

Holly Cairns: As I have said, I welcome the opening of the 11 treatment hubs. Care in the community and early intervention are obviously of great importance. I acknowledge that. It is not what I asked the Taoiseach about-----

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...

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...

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

Holly Cairns: Does the Tánaiste think that his approach is working?

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

Holly Cairns: It is not working.

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

Holly Cairns: It is not working.

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

Holly Cairns: The Government could have introduced an eviction ban.

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

Holly Cairns: Will the Tánaiste answer the question?

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

Holly Cairns: It would be great if the Tánaiste answered my question.

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

Holly Cairns: That is what I have been talking about for the past four years and why we have raised 255 amendments.

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

Holly Cairns: Housing is often discussed in the Chamber but, too often, we do not discuss the reality of it and the real-life impact this crisis has on people's lives. The Irish Examiner spoke with some of these people this week. Kelly-Anne Healy is aged 37 and lives at home with her parents in Blackpool, Cork. She has worked since she was a teenager and always thought if she worked hard enough she...

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

Holly Cairns: I do not know whether the Tánaiste thinks people believe him when he comes to the House and says we do not put forward any solutions. In the past number of weeks alone, my colleague, Deputy O'Callaghan, has put forward 255 amendments to the planning Bill but the Government has just routinely voted them down. One of them was around zoning land for affordable housing. It was rejected....