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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (28 Apr 2021)

Réada Cronin: 507. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if exceptions can be made in the case of persons who require an Irish passport for purposes of work visas overseas notwithstanding the current delay in the issuing of passports in the circumstances of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21502/21]

Direct Provision: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Réada Cronin: I welcome the White Paper on direct provision. Our State has a nasty history of institutionalisation of vulnerable people and successive governments have turned a blind eye to the suffering and trauma that direct provision has caused countless people. Sinn Féin is committed to an end to this for-profit system and this White Paper will bring some light at the end of a very dark and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Apr 2021)

Réada Cronin: 139. To ask the Minister for Health if there are pregnant women ill with Covid-19 who are currently on life-support or other critical care in a hospital either for their own care and or in order to advance their pregnancies to safe delivery of their babies; if so, the number of women affected from the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic to date; the strains of Covid-19 involved; the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Apr 2021)

Réada Cronin: 142. To ask the Minister for Health if new information or clinical presentations are emerging here suggesting that pregnancy does or could put women at particular or greater risk of serious complications or severe illness from Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20951/21]

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (21 Apr 2021)

Réada Cronin: I welcome the Second Stage reading of this Bill. It is not exactly what we had hoped for and worked for during pre-legislative scrutiny. We had hoped for and anticipated we would now have a climate Bill that would set out clear and ambitious targets and make the Government accountable for delivering on them. Can the Government be accountable when the recent High Court ruling on the Climate...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (21 Apr 2021)

Réada Cronin: 957. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she can take to assist parents urgently seeking places for younger siblings in a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18629/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (21 Apr 2021)

Réada Cronin: 978. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the cascade aspect of teacher absences in the context of Covid-19 in which the substitute panel is saturated with requests, thereby seeing special needs teachers frequently being required to take over absentee teacher class duties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18815/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (21 Apr 2021)

Réada Cronin: 1050. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for the new revised section 29 appeals process (details supplied); the way in which this revision and demand fit the best interest of the child principle; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19909/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Réada Cronin: 1727. To ask the Minister for Health if fully vaccinated persons with clear tests will be exempt from mandatory hotel quarantine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18814/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Réada Cronin: 1591. To ask the Minister for Health if he will prioritise all pharmacy staff for vaccination in which pharmacies will become central to vaccine roll-out not just pharmacists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18376/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Apr 2021)

Réada Cronin: 1655. To ask the Minister for Health when clarity will be provided to couples planning weddings in May 2021 as to their guest numbers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18577/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Réada Cronin: 1728. To ask the Minister for Health if his recent decision to prioritise vaccinations based on age took full account of the cascade effect in schools in which Covid-related teacher absences and the saturation of the substitute panel with requests is seeing special needs pupils frequently deprived of teachers forced to redeploy to cover such class teacher absences; and if he will make a...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Réada Cronin: There is €250,000 earmarked for air quality initiatives. That is the lowest of the seven spends on climate initiatives and is half of what was spent on the recent court case. What are those initiatives? Ireland had one of the highest rates of respiratory disease in the EU even before the onset of Covid-19. People will now be experiencing long Covid and there are high...

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Prohibition of Winter Disconnections) Bill 2021: First Stage (31 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: I welcome the opportunity to present my first Bill to the Dáil with my colleagues, Deputies O'Rourke and Kerrane. I welcome that it is to the benefit of people living with the dread of disconnection from gas and electricity. These are not the days of the glimmer man. This is 2021. We have a seat on the United Nations Security Council. Heat and light are basics of security for life...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (31 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: 866. To ask the Minister for Health if financial help in the form of grant assistance or waivers will be available to Irish persons of limited means who need to return home from working or living overseas during the mandatory hotel quarantine requirement period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16347/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (31 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: 1133. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the community care unit in Maynooth, County Kildare is without a full-time or part-time dietician (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17327/21]

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme (Health): Statements (25 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: I put down several questions to the Department about vaccinations for several people aged over 70 in north Kildare. One has diabetes and COPD, and her spouse is recovering from lymphoma. They have been to their excellent GP practice, which tells them it too is in the dark, and does not know when they will get the vaccine. Also in north Kildare, there are people with complex illnesses, like...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (25 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: 45. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address with mortgage providers their individual discretion on mortgage protection requirements pre-drawdown for persons with an underlying health condition (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16120/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who were notified to Tusla for school absence caused by Covid-19 or tests for same in 2020; the number of children notified to Tusla by their schools for school absence in each of the years 2017 to 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16123/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: School Enrolments (25 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a special education school (details supplied) can cite to a parent its enrolment-age criterion as being from four to seven years of age in its revised application policy given it caters for children from four up to 18 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15992/21]