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Report of Joint Committee on Gender Equality: Motion (29 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: ...on gender equality on 29 February, the extra day in the leap year when a woman generally had the gender-equality option of proposing to her man. We have come a long way but we have a long way to go for ourselves, our sisters and our daughters, and indeed their daughters. We will not and must never stop in our push for gender equality. I am reminded of the great Irishwomen in our...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023, which relates to women in the home and the operation of care. I thank the citizens' assembly for its great work and commitment. I thank again all the NGOs that came to the committee to discuss this. It was an interesting committee. I enjoyed contributing to it. I also thank the chair of the committee, an Teachta Bacik. When I first spoke about...

Delivery of a Rights-Based Care Economy in Ireland: Motion (7 Dec 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...one thing that leaves them exhausted yet tireless and entirely unprotected in their work of caring, which is their love for the person they care for. It is significant that the motion was brought forward by the Women's Parliamentary Caucus, women being, time and again, the carers for a beloved child with profound disabilities or for a parent with dementia or issues related to old age....

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Dec 2023)

Réada Cronin: As the Minister of State and the Taoiseach go to the European Council next week, I want them to make it very clear to those who profess to defend European values that they cannot be selective in their condemnation of war crimes. I want them to take a clear message to the European Council that the attitude of official Europe to the Palestinian people bears no resemblance or relation to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Role of Media and Communications in Actioning Climate Change: Discussion (29 Nov 2022)

Réada Cronin: I was really looking forward to this meeting because it is very interesting to focus on these issues. My first question is to Dr. Robbins. He spoke about how the media sector is struggling, with advertising revenue decimated by technology platforms. Many young people get their news from those platforms. There is an issue regarding greenwashing advertising and the conflict of interest that...

Abuse at Certain Educational Institutions: Statements (24 Nov 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...the Seanad and at least 200 among the Oireachtas staff and media who work in Leinster House. Child sexual abuse is a disgusting and abhorrent thing but is not a rare thing by any measure. My heart goes out to all of them, especially to the men who are coming forward now and who in the past were ignored, disbelieved or sent for psychiatric evaluation. My heart goes out, too, to all...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (12 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...try to outdo themselves saying how they worked through pneumonia or the flu and looking for medals. Other examples include women back at their desks days after childbirth and President Biden going to great lengths to tell us how he was working from home during Covid as if it is not just desirable but required. It is a case of work life first and life a very poor second. If we are to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...leave, what seems to have gone missing in the furore yesterday was that the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, had already indicated he was also going to look for documentation to prove a woman had suffered domestic violence. I hope now, after the reaction yesterday from the public, that will be squashed on the head because it kind of goes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I want to go back to parental leave, which we know is for fathers. The reason most fathers do not take it is that they cannot survive on €250 because, given that we are talking about the gender pay gap, they are possibly earning more than their wives or partners anyway. Are there any countries where it is obligatory for companies to...

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...with special educational needs. They need a place that is appropriate. I thank my colleague, Deputy Ó Laoghaire, for meeting with parents in my constituency of Kildare North a couple of weeks ago. One of those mothers who has had to assert herself and go into battle against the State to vindicate her child's right to an education put it to me that she feels we are going...

Proposal for a Directive on Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence: Motion (21 Jun 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...day of the year but every day must feel like the longest day of the year for women and their children enduring domestic violence. Men are victims too and often have a great reticence about coming forward because of the stigma around that but the fact remains it is mainly women who are the victims of domestic violence. There is the thump because he was in trouble at work, the dig because...

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...-old trees being burned and animals and people fleeing for their lives. We have increasing storms in the north Atlantic and even with all this water we are still facing water shortages that are going to impact the availability and lead to the displacement of people across the world. We will see the extinction of a million species of plants and animals. As the UN scientists said...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...about because we are the politicians who will have to mitigate, as best we can, the impacts of climate change and the excess consumption of our generation on our children and their children. It has gone too far to be prevented at this stage. We are now really in mitigation mode. In the 1940s and 1950s, people in Ireland used to suffer and die from tuberculosis, or consumption as it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (24 Mar 2022)

Réada Cronin: Deputy O'Reilly dealt with many stakeholders. A lot of background work was done on the Bill that we brought forward and it is ready to go. I think that it would be a good Bill to go on but maybe I would say that.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (3 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...;draig and Celbridge Community School. It is important not just for the schools, but the children who attend and have yet to attend, their families and the entire community. The process has been going on and on with Kildare County Council for the past few years. We have now been told that the county council has finished its involvement in the process. I am sure the Minister of State...

Regulation of Tenderers Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: I commend my comrades, Deputies Mairéad Farrell and Patricia Ryan, on bringing forward this important and promising Bill which would bring a bit of transparency, accountability and accuracy to the tendering process. It would also specifically address the issues of lowball tenders and bogus self-employment within its remit. It is disappointing for the Minister of State to say that the...

Recovery of Tourism and Aviation: Statements (7 Oct 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...families and spreading some joy after a very dark period. There seems to be confusion on the part of the Government as to what will be offered in this regard, but the Minister said last week that it might be going ahead. The Government's plan to reopen society at full capacity from 22 October, which will have a revitalising impact on the relevant sectors, is very welcome. I look...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (20 per cent Provision of Social and Affordable Housing) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (21 Sep 2021)

Réada Cronin: The people's interest must trump the interest of lobbyists. It is perfectly clear that the Part V developer exemption must go. If it remains, we will lose thousands of affordable homes. We see rocketing house prices rocketing even further. They have gone through the roof in north Kildare. Crazy house prices is not just an information support group for distracted and disgusted potential...

Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: It is mystifying that Covid-19 has not been a notifiable disease from the outset. I commend my comrade, Deputy Louise O'Reilly, for bringing forward the Bill. Deputy O'Reilly has been on the case since early summer, when we first realised this had been overlooked by the Government. We are nine months into this pandemic, long enough to have conceived and given birth to a baby, yet testing...

Mental Health Parity of Esteem Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Nov 2020)

Réada Cronin: ..., hostels, soup runs and people living and dying in tents. A mother in my constituency was afraid to complain about HAP-funded, rat-infested accommodation because there was nowhere else for her to go with her family. Young mothers are taking their lives because of State-inflicted poverty, hunger, homelessness and sometimes the terror of Tusla. If we are to have a serious conversation...