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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (7 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a review of the current well-being curriculum in order to ensure that students are receiving comprehensive education in regard to emotional resilience and mental health; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54310/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Industrial Disputes (7 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: 245. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on work ongoing to address the pay gap between Tús scheme supervisors and CE scheme supervisors; whether her Department will commit to meeting Tús committees and union representatives without further delay; the reason for the delayed response to their pay claim; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: White Papers (7 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: 297. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the implementation of the White Paper on Ending Direct Provision; and the estimated timeframe for ending direct provision. [54315/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: White Papers (7 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: 298. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and grade of staff assigned to implementing the White Paper on Ending Direct Provision, by year from 2021 to date, in tabular form. [54316/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: 318. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the provision of a new paramedic training facility in Cork which was projected to open to trainees in January 2024; the current projected opening date for the facility; and the cost of the facility. [54312/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: 319. To ask the Minister for Health if the delayed opening of a new paramedic training facility in Cork is related to budgetary constraints; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54313/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: 320. To ask the Minister for Health the number of paramedic trainees who had been issued contracts to train in a new facility in Cork; whether these trainees will be accommodated in other training centres; what assistance is available to trainees who may be asked to change training locations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54314/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: The Government's Green Paper on disability reform is shameful and will further marginalise disabled people. Although couched in language of care, in reality it will demonise people and blame them for Government failure. Under the proposed plans, people with disabilities will be subjected to a medical assessment and categorised into three tiers based on their ability to work. The plan...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: There will be a protest outside the Dáil tomorrow. People are calling for this plan to be scrapped. Will the Taoiseach listen to them?

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: This motion is a disgrace. It involves point after point of dog whistles. I do not believe that the Rural Independent Group does not know exactly what it is doing here. They all know well that they are pandering to the far right, stoking up divisions and spreading fear and complete misinformation. In doing so, they are putting a target on the backs of migrants and asylum seekers for the...

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

Holly Cairns: The Taoiseach said he would get legal advice on the EU-Israel trade agreement three weeks ago. Where is the urgency when a child is dying every ten minutes in Gaza? People there cannot wait any longer. Whole families, generations of people, have been wiped off the face of the earth. People do not have enough food or water, they have nowhere to flee the bombs, most of the hospitals are not...

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

Holly Cairns: How much longer is the 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...

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

Holly Cairns: Has the Taoiseach done that? The next EU Council meeting is next Thursday. Will he be recommending sanctions on Israel at that meeting?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (5 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: 414. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide the reasoning behind her decision to remove proposals in the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023 in relation to consent; who was consulted as part of this decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53784/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (5 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: 415. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether she engaged with any domestic and sexual violence organisation in regard to her decision to remove proposals around consent from the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023; and if so, to provide details of those consultations. [53785/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (5 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: 416. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when it was flagged with her or her Department that there were legal concerns in relation to her proposals on consent in the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53786/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (5 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: 628. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the case of apprentices (details supplied); whether he will take steps to ensure off-the-job training will be arranged in SETU Carlow as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53857/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (5 Dec 2023)

Holly Cairns: 629. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprenticeship programmes operating in the State; the number that have experienced delays in arranging off-the-job training in education centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53858/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: I know that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (30 Nov 2023)

Holly Cairns: Where is the Tánaiste's evidence for that?