Holly Cairns
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Social Democrats · Cork South-West · serving since 2024-11-29
- Vote recorded in 106 of 401 divisions in the archive
- 276 debate contributions
- 431 parliamentary questions asked
Record timeline
- constituency Cork South-West 2024-11-29 to present
- party Social Democrats 2024-11-29 to present
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2025-11-12 · to Public Expenditure
430. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation to provide the original and revised commencement dates for the Mill Culvert Upgrade Project in Bantry, County Cork; the reason the timeline has been moved; and the interim measures which have been put in place to date. [62088/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Public Expenditure
431. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation the person or body responsible for the monitoring of OPW water-level sensors (details supplied). [62089/25]
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2025-11-12 · to Housing
578. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the inter-agency flood response plan for Bantry (details supplied); and the warning level at which such a plan is instigated. [62090/25]
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2025-11-04 · to Health
1876. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if a CA125 test could be included in the routine schedule of annual blood tests for women; her plans for the inclusion of the CA125 test as standard; and the plans roll-out will entail. [58924/25]
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2025-10-22 · to Education
60. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she has considered mandatory training for the use of EpiPens in schools, as well as the provision ofEpiPens to schools as part of an emergency medical kit; the current first aid programme requirements in schools; and if she will consider embedding allergy awareness and response training in schools, particularly in regard to food provision. [57549/25]
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2025-10-22 · to Health
198. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health if she has considered introducing access to oral immunotherapy for those with allergies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57550/25]
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2025-10-22 · to Health
199. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the work being carried out in her Department to improve access to EpiPens in local communities, schools, and childcare settings; and if she will consider including allergy awareness and response training as part of essential first aid programme requirements. [57551/25]
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2025-10-21 · to Agriculture
647. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of instances of illegal tree felling and hedgerow removal that have been reported to his Department; the number of investigations conducted into same; and the number of offences determined to be found, from 2023 to date, in tabular form. [56799/25]
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2025-10-21 · to Agriculture
648. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of prosecutions taken by his Department in instances of illegal tree felling and hedgerow removal; and to provide details of enforcement actions conducted, from 2020 to date, in tabular form. [56800/25]
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2025-10-21 · to Agriculture
649. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to a National Parks and Wildlife Service report (details supplied); the actions his Department is taking to investigate this instance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56801/25]
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2025-10-21 · to Agriculture
650. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the circumstances in which farmers are required to apply for tree felling licenses, screening and consent from his Department; whether licenses, screening or consent has ever been issued by his Department retrospectively; and to outline the consequences for failures to comply with regulations. [56802/25]
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2025-10-21 · to Agriculture
652. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his policy towards the European Commission's legislative proposals to reform rules on plant reproductive material and to deregulate new genomic techniques; the extent of his Department's engagement with the Commission in this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56892/25]
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2025-10-21 · to Agriculture
653. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to address concerns that proposed reforms on plant reproductive material and new genomic techniques will threaten the conservation and circulation of the diversity of cultivated plants, significantly burden and exclude small scale seed producers, restrict farmers in harvesting, using, and exchanging their own seeds, and further consolidate control of our food systems in the hands of large multinationals exerting oligopolistic powers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56893/25]
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2025-10-21 · to Health
798. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the number of adult ADHD assessments which have been conducted annually from 2020 to date in 2025, by CHO, in tabular form. [56807/25]
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2025-10-21 · to Health
808. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the staffing numbers for adult ADHD assessment services for 2025, in tabular form. [56929/25]
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2025-10-16 · to Social
276. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applicants for disability allowance appeals; and the number rejected over the past three years, in tabular form. [56466/25]
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2025-10-14 · to Health
833. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 668 of 7 October 2025, if her Department has accepted the recommendations of the Marie O’Shea report in regard to the removal of the three-day waiting period, the end of criminalisation of doctors and the need for clarity when it comes to providing abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality; and to detail the work of her Department to date in order to enact these specific recommendations. [54846/25]
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2025-10-09 · to Housing
225. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the number of social housing offers accepted in each local authority per month, by local area, from 2024 to date, in tabular form. [54351/25]
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2025-10-09 · to Health
328. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health to provide the current staffing levels for adult ADHD services in each LHO; and the current waiting list for each, in tabular form. [54352/25]
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2025-10-09 · to Health
329. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the current staffing levels for each CDNT; the current waiting list for each; and a breakdown of the amount of time people have spent on the waiting list, in tabular form. [54353/25]
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2025-10-09 · to Health
330. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the staffing levels for public dentists in Cork from 2020 to date; the current waiting list for public dentists; and a breakdown of the amount of time people have spent on the waiting list, in tabular form. [54354/25]
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2025-10-09 · to Health
331. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the promised provision of adult inpatient beds for eating disorder treatment; to provide the current number of adult inpatient beds for eating disorder treatment available; to detail the location and applicable catchment area for each; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54356/25]
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2025-10-07 · to Social
372. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applicants for disability allowance; the number rejected; and the number of those rejected who were successful on reapplication, in tabular form. [53548/25]
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2025-10-07 · to Social
373. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of applicants for carers allowance; the number rejected; and the number of those rejected who were successful on reapplication, in tabular form. [53549/25]
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2025-10-07 · to Health
666. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Health the current number and location of respite beds in Cork; the staffing numbers for respite services in Cork; and the number of unfilled posts, in tabular form. [53545/25]