Results 721-740 of 2,475 for speaker:Réada Cronin

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (8 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: 637. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to nursing homes involving a company (details supplied) in the past two years in tabular form; the number of facilities involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6026/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (8 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: 638. To ask the Minister for Health if HIQA will be following closely the situation in Irish nursing homes acquired by a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6027/22]

Green Hydrogen Strategy Bill 2022: First Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: I am delighted to introduce this Bill, along with our climate spokesperson, Deputy O'Rourke, and Deputies Guirke and Quinlivan. Green hydrogen offers major possibilities, but achieving them requires a strategy. Green hydrogen is an alternative fuel for transport, including long haul drivers and HGVs, which are important in my constituency, Kildare North. It is fast becoming something of a...

Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: Given what we know about whistleblowers in this State, legislation to protect them is not only welcome, but essential. Whistleblowers commonly report subsequent difficulty in the workplace and outright denial or dismissal of their concerns. They also report being pressed to take leave, sidelined, removed or replaced. The organisation intent on protecting itself too often hangs them out to...

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: It is significant that the report from the Commission on the Future of the Defence Forces was published in the same week Sinn Féin had a Private Members' motion on the Women of Honour and the need for a statutory commission of investigation into what they allege, namely, rape, sexual assault, physical violence, manipulation, harassment, bullying and intimidation. These are not...

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: That is very welcome. These women are being denied that peace of mind, despite having been tasked with keeping the peace for others on behalf of the State overseas. The report into the Commission on the Future of the Defence Forces also arrived at a time of escalating global tensions, with uncertainty around Russian troops along the border of Ukraine. The minds of a certain cohort here...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Schemes (16 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: 51. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason that persons in receipt of an invalidity pension have been excluded from the assistance remit of the new retrofit scheme; if they will be added as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8488/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Thalidomide Victims Compensation (16 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: 215. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to compensate the victims of thalidomide who are waiting decades for damage to be addressed; if he will advise An Taoiseach to make a State apology to them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8521/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (16 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: 227. To ask the Minister for Health the help that can be given to a person (details supplied) who has urgent need of dental care and has been refused same on their medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8668/22]

National Retrofitting Scheme: Statements (17 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: I welcome the changes regarding the SEAI, getting rid of the no second chance rule, and minor works on attic and cavity walls. Unfortunately, this is a plan that could have done so much good and it is actually just more of the same old thing. I acknowledge that it will reduce carbon emissions, but for whom will it reduce them? The retrofitting scheme as planned is a bit like the SSIA...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Commission for Regulation of Utilities Strategic Plan: Discussion (15 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: I am on the precincts. We are all aware that people are struggling because of energy prices. There has been much talk of customer offerings, but the provision of energy is an essential service for living. Do we need to place more emphasis on the service aspect compared with that of consumption? I ask that because I am especially mindful of the challenges we are facing in respect of...

Carbon Tax: Motion [Private Members] (22 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: In north Kildare, too many people are being put to the pin of their collar to pay the rent if they can find somewhere, pay for childcare if they can manage to get a place, pay to fill the car to go to work because the only area they can find work has no public transport, keep the family warm and put food on the table, all with wages worth less with everything costing more. My niece, who...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (22 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: 229. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will examine a situation (details supplied) and the issues it raises for parents in a similar situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9184/22]

Security Situation in Europe: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: The situation in Ukraine has the potential for devastating conflict, conflict that must be avoided. Despite the global armaments industry, worth trillions of euro, it is incumbent on all countries to settle international disputes by peaceful means. In this case, the Minsk agreement must survive as the basis for a permanent and peaceful solution. Quite simply, Russia must not invade...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: 302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the situation in which female clerical officers in secondary schools who are part of the pension scheme are not entitled to entry to the spouse and children’s part of same (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10605/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: 303. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which a child (details supplied) can get an appropriate school place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10606/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: I confirm I am in the building. To follow up on Senator Higgins, what has been proposed is critical, but I baulk at the appearance of the word "serious". Who will define the seriousness and what criteria will be used? I ask the same question about the word "systematic". It is all terribly vague really. When we are talking about environmental crime, some people might immediately think...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: Mr. Finnegan mentioned a ten-year timeframe. Given the urgency of the climate emergency we are facing, it seems somewhat lax and optimistic, if he does not mind the irony. It is too late for window dressing. What are Mr. Finnegan's feelings on a ten-year timeframe?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: I thank the officials for their presentation. I have a bit of a problem with using hydrogen on its own. We should be more specific about bringing in hydrogen. I was delighted to introduce a Bill on green hydrogen strategy a couple of weeks ago with Sinn Féin's climate spokesperson, Deputy Darren O'Rourke. We are really going to need a key fuel source if we are going to meet our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (22 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: Does Mr. Regan have any comment to make on our not being completely dependent on the private sector or on how governments could be proactive on this and not just dependent on the private sector to fill a gap? As for our energy supply, we know what it going on globally. Our trucks need to be able to move and our homes need to be heated.