Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Carer's Allowance

Holly Cairns

388. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason those in receipt of carer’s allowance cannot avail of the fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43585/20]

Greyhound Industry

Holly Cairns

652. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of racing greyhound litters registered annually with an organisation (details supplied) between 1 January 2010 and 30 November 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42996/20]

Greyhound Industry

Holly Cairns

653. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of racing greyhound pups registered annually for racing with an organisation (details supplied) between 1 January 2010 and 30 November 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42997/20]

Greyhound Industry

Holly Cairns

654. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of racing greyhounds microchipped annually between 1 January 2010 and 30 November 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42998/20]

Greyhound Industry

Holly Cairns

655. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of greyhounds registered on the race management system annually between 1 January 2010 and 30 November 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42999/20]

Greyhound Industry

Holly Cairns

656. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if greyhound racing trainers who have been banned from racing greyhounds in other jurisdictions are permitted to train and race greyhounds in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43000/20]

Greyhound Industry

Holly Cairns

657. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of recorded injuries and deaths of greyhounds that have occurred at greyhound racing stadiums and events organised by the Irish Greyhound Board between 1 January 2011 and 30 November 2020, in tabular form. [43001/20]

Greyhound Industry

Holly Cairns

658. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the forthcoming greyhound traceability system will record racing greyhounds from birth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43002/20]

Agriculture Schemes

Holly Cairns

684. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the calf grant investment scheme will be available in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43582/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Holly Cairns

129. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the status of Covid-19 testing in meat processing plants; the procedures for when a person is found to have Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42099/20]

Sport Ireland

Holly Cairns

245. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media the steps she is taking to increase the level of girls and women participating in sport and structural inequities regarding the treatment of female sports players; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42797/20]

Housing Data

Holly Cairns

283. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of persons on housing waiting lists who have a disability recorded on their application in each local authority between 1 January 2015 and 1 December 2020, inclusive in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42795/20]

Immigration Policy

Holly Cairns

342. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice the steps she is taking to address the unsuitable detention of immigration detainees in prisons and the need for a specifically designed centre for immigration detainees with specific immigration rules in accordance with the Council of Europe anti-torture committee's seventh periodic visit report on Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42793/20]

Health Services

Holly Cairns

447. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if all student occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and radiology students will be paid for the work they carry out in hospital and healthcare settings as part of mandatory placements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42791/20]

Prison Mental Health Services

Holly Cairns

448. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to address the issues raised in relation to the care afforded to vulnerable prisoners, notably those with a mental illness in the Council of Europe anti-torture committee’s seventh periodic visit report on Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42792/20]

Mental Health Services

Holly Cairns

449. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the number of adults currently on waiting lists to see a psychiatrist in each of the HSE regions in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42794/20]

Beef Industry

Holly Cairns

33. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the beef task force and his response to criticisms from farming organisations on its slow pace and lack of engagement with farmers. [41695/20]

Fishing Industry

Holly Cairns

42. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on bringing forward a statutory instrument to restrict inshore pair trawling while awaiting the appeal of the High Court ruling that overturned Policy Directive 1 of 2019. [41696/20]

Beef Industry

Holly Cairns

46. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the Beef Taskforce; the number of times it has met to date; and the reports completed to date by same. [41697/20]

Postal Services

Holly Cairns

113. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 175, 176, 177, 178, 196, 200, 202 and 203 of 24t November 2020, his views on changing the long-standing Government policy that postal services will not be directly subsidised by the Government to provide funding for post offices which perform vital economic and social functions in rural areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41374/20]

Driver Licences

Holly Cairns

145. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Transport if he will allow persons who have previously held an Irish driver licence or has a valid driver licence from another jurisdiction to be allowed drive unaccompanied on a provisional licence for the duration of Covid-19 if they are carrying out healthcare or caring duties either voluntarily or professionally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41369/20]

Proposed Legislation

Holly Cairns

451. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the general scheme of the certain institutional burials (authorised interventions) Bill. [41373/20]

Fishing Industry

Holly Cairns

809. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the actions he is taking as a result of the High Court ruling that overturned policy directive 1 of 2019. [41371/20]

Common Fisheries Policy

Holly Cairns

810. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a report (details supplied); his views on its recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41372/20]

Domestic Violence Refuges Provision

Holly Cairns

100. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and amounts of capital grants for the provision of domestic violence and abuse refuges between 1 January 2016 and 1 November 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40782/20]

Meat Processing Plants

Holly Cairns

158. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of workplace accidents that occurred in meat processing plants in each county between 1 December 2019 and 30 November 2020; the type of accident and injury involved in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41062/20]

Meat Processing Plants

Holly Cairns

159. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the mechanism in place to ensure that Irish, EU and non-EU employees are employed under the same conditions for comparable roles in meat plants here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41063/20]

Special Educational Needs

Holly Cairns

234. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education the steps she is taking to address the shortage of ASD units in west County Cork (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41054/20]

Domestic Violence Refuges Provision

Holly Cairns

291. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the capital grants for the provision of domestic violence and abuse refuges between 1 January 2016 and 1 January 2020 as a percentage of the annual budget on domestic violence and abuse services of Tusla; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41052/20]

Domestic Violence Services

Holly Cairns

292. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his attention has been drawn to the fact that staff in domestic violence and abuse services are on different pay scales and working conditions; if such funding originates from Tusla or HSE funding streams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41053/20]

Covid-19 Tests

Holly Cairns

323. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the way testing for Covid-19 is being carried out in meat processing plants; the number of tests carried out; the number of plants in which tests have been conducted between 1 August and 30 November 2020; the procedures for when a person is found to have Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41060/20]

Covid-19 Tests

Holly Cairns

324. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to cases of Covid-19 in meat processing plants in county Cork between 1 August and 30 November 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41061/20]

Ambulance Service

Holly Cairns

377. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the way in which response times for HSE ambulance services are calculated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41055/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Holly Cairns

378. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the mechanism by which the close contacts of a person who has tested positive for Covid-19 are informed of same; the time frame it takes for close contacts to be informed on average after the diagnosis is made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41056/20]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Holly Cairns

379. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if partners or accompanying persons will be permitted to attend with patients attending maternity services in circumstances in which maternity services know that distressing or potentially distressing information is being presented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41057/20]

Health Services

Holly Cairns

380. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the status of the commitment in the Programme for Government to provide free contraception starting with women aged 17 to 25 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41058/20]

Health Services

Holly Cairns

381. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the research by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41059/20]

Appointments to State Boards

Holly Cairns

188. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Transport if any of the four newly appointed persons to the board of the Road Safety Authority were known to him before he appointed them; if so, the capacity in which they were known to him; if any were members of the Green Party; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40183/20]

Maternity Services

Holly Cairns

729. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to plans to record a new series of the Rotunda in 2021; if this is considered sensitive to the ongoing restrictions in maternity hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40184/20]

Agrifood Sector

Holly Cairns

805. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of the barley used to make Irish whiskey that is Irish-grown barley; if genetically modified barley grown outside Ireland is used in the production of Irish whiskey; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40180/20]

Agrifood Sector

Holly Cairns

806. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps his Department is taking to encourage Irish whiskey producers to source the barley for their produce from farmers within the island of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40181/20]

Agrifood Sector

Holly Cairns

807. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider requesting to amend the Irish whiskey protected geographical indication, PGI, technical file to state barley for Irish whiskey must be sourced on the island of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40182/20]

Schools Data

Holly Cairns

283. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education the number of students on the waiting list for a secondary school place in secondary schools in Bandon, County Cork for the 2021-2022 school year; and the steps she is taking as a result. [39505/20]

Third Level Staff

Holly Cairns

322. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if his attention has been drawn to the low levels of persons with disabilities employed in third level education institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39503/20]

Proposed Legislation

Holly Cairns

336. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Justice the status of the progress of the family courts Bill, including its expected passage through the Houses of the Oireachtas. [39504/20]

Proposed Legislation

Holly Cairns

403. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the consideration given to the risk of image-based sexual abuse occurring when the HSE issued advice for persons not living together to have sex online to stop the spread of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39506/20]

Post Office Network

Holly Cairns

175. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the progress his Department has made on addressing the actions relevant to his areas of responsibility outlined in the Private Members’ motion of 16 November 2016 on the post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38527/20]

Post Office Network

Holly Cairns

176. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the progress his Department has made on addressing the actions relevant to his areas of responsibility outlined in the Private Members’ motion of 16 November 2016 on the post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38529/20]

Post Office Network

Holly Cairns

196. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the progress his Department has made on addressing the actions relevant to his areas of responsibility outlined in the Private Members’ motion of 16 November 2016 on the post office network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38526/20]

Driver Licences

Holly Cairns

237. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Transport further to Parliamentary Question No. 144 of 12 November 2020, the rationale for the requirement to have a public services card to access the national driver licence service, NDLS, online system; the legislative or statutory provision on which the requirement is based; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38103/20]