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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: I think the Tánaiste can probably understand why people feel such a huge disconnect between the picture he paints and the reality they experience when they try to buy a home. Every year since the Government has been in office, the cost of an average home has gone up by more than €20,000. I asked the Tánaiste about the delivery of affordable purchase homes and he spent three...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: I want to start by thanking all of the staff in the Houses of the Oireachtas. This is a uniquely fraught and adversarial working environment and it is somehow made pleasant by all of you, so I thank them very much. On the last day of the Thirty-third Dáil, as we prepare for an election, people will be thinking about who they are going to vote for. I hope people will be wary of...

Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: That is a very low bar.

Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: A year into this slaughter, what has changed in the Irish position? After nearly 44,000 dead, including nearly 17,000 children, after more than 100,000 people injured, after 10,000 people missing, buried in the wreckage and the rubble, after an expansion of the conflict to Lebanon, nothing has changed. We still maintain normal diplomatic relations with Israel. We still maintain normal...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: A one-off payment will evaporate quickly.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: The energy credits for holiday homes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. Time is pretty much up for this Government. When Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael’s alliance started they were the Civil War parties, but now it seems they are more like the phoney war parties. For weeks there has been sniping in the media. It is not about policy, because it does not seem like there are many policy differences between them, but about...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: The thing that is difficult for me to believe or that I do not really buy or that, to be honest, is not really credible is that somebody who was the Minister for Health with responsibility for disability when nothing improved and things got worse then comes in as Taoiseach and sets up a Cabinet subcommittee when we have already had loads of committees and reports and know all the things we...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: The Taoiseach can have all the new energy in the world but without any new ideas, nothing is going to change. I think we are all hearing it on the doors that some people feel despondent and feel like there is no other choice.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: This election is about choices and we can choose differently. We can choose to vote for parties that will invest in public services and not splash the cash around in a giveaway budget to try to buy an election. There are parties that will invest in services like these and I hope people will use their choice.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: On behalf of the Social Democrats I want to acknowledge the passing of David Davin-Power. Our thoughts are with his colleagues, his family and his friends at this time. The Cabinet finally agreed to increase the housing targets. The housing Minister was supposed to do this back in 2023. Two years late and 48 hours out from the election, he finally gets around to doing it. People can...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: On the same issue, we have just about 48 hours until this Dáil is dissolved and we should make those hours count. With only a few days left in office, the Government has finally said we can enact the occupied territories Bill, but claims it has run out of time. Not only does it underestimate the strength of feeling on the need to enact this Bill, it also underestimates the public's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (5 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: 381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is engaging with a school (details supplied), and the steps being taken to ensure future funding of the school. [44142/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (5 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: 702. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a breakdown of staffing levels in the immigration service delivery visa division, specifically the number of staff currently allocated to processing appeals. [45206/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: EU Directives (5 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: 900. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882) will be transposed; how many EU directives are currently being transcribed; how many are overdue; and to provide a breakdown of directives in process and their timelines. [44229/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (5 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: 989. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of dietetic services to child and adolescent mental health services nationally; and for a breakdown of which services have access to a dietician on a regular or full-time basis. [45285/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (5 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: 990. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of dietetics service to Cork south and west child and adolescent mental health service teams; if there is a plan to provide access to a dietetics team on a full-time basis; and if so, when this will be put in place. [45286/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (5 Nov 2024)

Holly Cairns: 1172. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a delay in the rollout of HPV vaccine to schools in the north east (details supplied) which were due in March 2024, cancelled and never re-scheduled; if he could establish how widespread this cancellation of vaccines was; and if he would establish a timeline for the rescheduling of this cohorts’ vaccine programme.” [44651/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: It is now more than a year and a half since the expert report was published recommending critical reforms to our abortion laws. Marie O'Shea was clear that the current legal regime is failing women in numerous ways. Her recommendations were equally clear. Among them were to remove the mandatory three-day waiting period, end the criminalisation of doctors and provide clarity in the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: What is your position for the general election?