Results 621-640 of 2,473 for speaker:Réada Cronin

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (16 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 645. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the six night per month respite service, not home supports, for a child (details supplied) have not been reinstated by the HSE despite the critical circumstances in which the family finds itself; when this respite service will be reinstated for the family; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56084/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (18 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 156. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will revisit the young adult travel card scheme in order that it includes commercial coach operators with the attendant good effects of opening up more routes and choice and increasing the opportunity for young persons to travel reliably on public over personal transport and tackle emissions; and if he will make a statement on...

Climate Action Plan 2021: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: My biggest concern with the climate action plan is the place within it for the just transition and what I considered to be a lukewarm commitment to it. The transition to carbon neutrality must be achievable and affordable across the whole of society and not just for the select few. As I state consistently at the climate committee, it would be damaging to social cohesion and democracy itself...

Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: When it comes to the new Covid measures, parents in north Kildare and I are still very worried about primary schools. The Minister for Education, Deputy Norma Foley, knows that I have been asking about air quality in classrooms for a long time now. Her most recent reply came back yesterday. I had asked when high-efficiency particulate absorbing, HEPA, filters would be installed in each...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (23 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will examine the situation vis-a-vis schools with ASD units whereby a child with autism has to apply first for a mainstream place and then transfer to the ASD unit with their initial application leaving them very low on the admissions list as opposed to their being considered separately for direct admission to the ASD unit;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when HEPA filters in each classroom will be installed given the growing international medical, building and environmental evidence and consensus that Covid-19 is airborne and HEPA filtration is an important and effective mitigation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57008/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (23 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will examine the situation whereby students suffering an epileptic seizure by their nature without warning prior to a leaving certificate exam cannot sit the paper in question and are required to wait and resit the exams the following year; if an appropriate accommodation could be established that would allow students...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (23 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 550. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that young persons turning 18 years have seamless access to specialist prescriptions for medications such as ritalin given that the adult waiting list can be up to three years, in which case persons are then without vital medications due to the fact that general practitioners cannot prescribe same; if he will address the planning...

Mother and Baby Institutions: Statements (25 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: What we see in this proposed redress scheme is the presence of too many experts but not enough expertise. In the context of what the State did to mothers and babies, it is unthinkable that this Government would task anybody with formulating this scheme without applying the necessary expertise on the effects of abandonment, separation and removal. The work of psychologist, John Bowlby, on...

Mother and Baby Institutions: Statements (25 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: Why is there a six-month cut-off point?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (25 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will liaise with the National Transport Authority in relation to the cessation of the of the 66A bus service under BusConnects (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58086/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets and Climate Action Plan: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications (16 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: I hope I have pronounced his name properly. He was talking about the blood copper, the blood lithium and the cobalt. He is absolutely right. There is too much greenwashing. There is too much razzle-dazzle and appeasement and not enough hard facts. It is up to the Government to speak about that when they are at the COP. It is up to the governments to do that, not the lobbyists. I was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (30 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the planning that is in place to address the situation of those sitting the leaving certificate in 2022 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58330/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the suite of measures she is relying on to keep primary-schools safe given the absence of HEPA filters, masks, appropriate contact, test, trace and isolation and the fact most children in the age group that has not yet been vaccinated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59039/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a clean-air strategy in place for primary schools given growing international evidence over the past 20 months that Covid-19 is airborne and the fact this cohort remains unprotected through vaccination; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59040/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (30 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 511. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will examine and resolve matters in relation to the employment of a person (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58298/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 715. To ask the Minister for Health the planning that is in place within the health service to deal with long-Covid-19 in the population in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59041/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (30 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 744. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if snail producers in the State can be recognised as farmers and included in green and low-carbon grant schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58276/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: I have constituents who are young families and single people who have moved to north Kildare and they cannot access a GP. Some of them are young mothers who cannot get vaccinations for their children or babies. Within 5 km of where I live, five GPs have recently retired. I have submitted parliamentary questions on this, but the replies tell me that GPs are a private matter and not the job...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: 487. To ask the Minister for Health the identity and qualifications in ventilation of the members of an organisation (details supplied) who advised against the need for HEPA filtration in classrooms; if he will publish the precise scientific basis on which that advice was given; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59857/21]