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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Engagement with the Climate Change Advisory Council (7 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: That sounds very good. I wonder what is the possibility of us getting that sorted.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: I do not believe I am the final speaker. Senator Higgins is coming up after me again. I thank the witnesses for their very sobering and realistic presentations. We all became involved in the climate change emergency because it is stark and in your face. One then becomes bogged down with committee work. I very much welcome this meeting. I do not want to sound frivolous, and certainly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: I thank the witnesses very much for their presentation. I do not have too much to argue about with them. I know there is a commitment to just transition. I will go back to what my colleague, Deputy O'Rourke, was talking about. Take retrofitting, for example. A warm, dry home is one of the basics of living. My concern is that as we move on in this climate emergency with just transition...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: I thank the witnesses for the presentations. I do not know if they saw yesterday's meeting but it certainly left us with no illusions about the scale of the emergency and the required response. We also had outstanding farmers speaking to us late last year around November about the transition process, particularly just transition for farmers, taking in organic farming etc. They were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: Yes.

Gender-based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: My condolences to Ashling Murphy's family and to all who loved her. She certainly lit a fire in mná na hÉireann, from Derry to Cork and from Galway to Leinster House. To her family, Ashling was just their gorgeous young woman. They wished she had just come home. All of this must be very difficult for the family. The must be a before-and-after Ireland in the aftermath of what...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this issue, and particularly in a week when the nation is so closely examining the wrongs done to our women. I am also glad to see that the Bill has given up hurtful language, such as "birth mother" and "natural mother". Even so, it persists in being patronising and patriarchal, based on privacy, oddly. This is not about privacy, but kind of about...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: 803. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if on public-health grounds, her Department is sanctioning the free distribution of FFP2 or FFP3 masks to staff in schools; if not, the reason for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1574/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: 804. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that all necessary mitigations have been put in place in schools to address the spread of Covid-19 and protect the immediate and long-term health of staff, students and also public health itself; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1575/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: 807. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that FFP2/3 masks are not being made available to teachers as a matter of course without the need to request them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1619/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: 802. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is satisfied that classrooms are sufficiently warm for children and staff with respiratory conditions given the low temperatures recorded due to the open windows policy and that such low temperatures can exacerbate lung conditions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1573/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: 806. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the basis on which teachers deemed by medical consultants to be very high risk are being reclassified as high risk by a company (details supplied); if the medical reasons for this reclassification are being provided to those teachers; if not, if she will make them available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1617/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: 1406. To ask the Minister for Health if persons who have recovered from Covid-19 will have to wait six months for the booster vaccine given the reported highly contagious nature of the new omicron variant and its ability to reinfect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63135/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: 1407. To ask the Minister for Health if persons vaccinated with a one-shot vaccine (details supplied) will be prioritised urgently for boosters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63136/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: 1550. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE is asking persons including healthcare workers arriving at vaccination centres to replace their high-protection masks such as FFP2 with those of lower protection quality; if he will publish the scientific basis on which this request is made; if, in the circumstances of the highly-transmissible omicron variant, his Department is content...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: 1551. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE is persisting in its specific advice to high-risk and vulnerable persons to use blue surgical masks as opposed to the FFP2 and similar (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63580/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: 1552. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE and HIQA are taking a different stance on the use of FFP2 masks to that operating in other countries; if he will publish the scientific advice on which this is based; if he will require both bodies to advise FFP2 and similar in the context of the highly-transmissible omicron variant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63581/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: 1746. To ask the Minister for Health when booster vaccines will be sanctioned for those under 16 years of age given the number of parents anxious their children should avail of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1572/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: 1747. To ask the Minister for Health the reason schools have not been identified as significant sources of infection given that other European Union countries have found them to be so and have proceeded in their reopening on that basis; if he will publish the advice on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1576/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: 1753. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that has been paid to a company (details supplied) since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic; the number of persons it has assessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1618/22]