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Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Prohibition of Winter Disconnections) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: When we introduced this Bill, we could not have known that when it would reach this Stage, war would be raging in Europe and energy would be more political and precarious than ever before. At that time, my party had warned about the cost-of-living juggernaut heading our way, warnings which were duly ignored and now the results of that inaction are writ large for families and households...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (27 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: 152. To ask the Minister for Health when the fair deal scheme to be applied to care in the home will be rolled out definitively, especially in the CHO 5 area in which persons with life-limiting and time-critical debilitating conditions are anxiously awaiting its arrival; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21382/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (27 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: 153. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will take steps to remedy the apparent lack of information and communication within the HSE on the fair deal scheme to be applied to care in the home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21383/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: 875. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding special education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19932/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: 876. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in the case of damage caused to school transport by a special needs child on a single occasion, such damage arising out of their disability and medical condition, the child can be suspended from the transport and parents held liable for such damage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19933/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (26 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: 1765. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remove the current age restriction for FreeStyle Libre with immediate effect following a survey (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20885/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (26 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: 1766. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the apparent impasse affecting the undertaking of a health technology assessment for FreeStyle Libre; if his Department will offer an alternative process for such assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20886/22]

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Réada Cronin: I am at a bit of a loss after listening to the Minister of State. This morning, I was contacted by a constituent in her 60s who told me she slept in her car last night. Every housing case coming into my constituency office in north Kildare is just getting worse, with every one more unbelievable than the last. Eviction notices are arriving thick and fast. I have had more people with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (4 May 2022)

Réada Cronin: 279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will prioritise the identification of a site for a school (details supplied) given the urgency of the situation and the requirements of the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22051/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (4 May 2022)

Réada Cronin: 298. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that applicants for passports and driving licences are still being asked to produce a public services card for the processing of same though no social-protection function applies in the matter of either; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21774/22]

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Réada Cronin: It goes without saying that we welcome the people fleeing war and terror in Ukraine with open arms. Putin's army has invaded a sovereign land and is murdering and terrorising a sovereign people. There are increasing reports, as happens in so many conflicts, that Russia is using rape as a weapon of war. There are reports of the rape of women, children, girls and now also of men and boys....

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

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Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Réada Cronin: -----Ukrainians who desperately need safety and security. Or has the Government let the cat of the bag that it thrives on and is obsessed by optics, gestures and cheap PR that cost the taxpayer and the people with no homes a fortune? Is it more important for the Government to stand on the international stage and be seen to welcome Ukrainian refugees than to have housing and accommodation...

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Réada Cronin: I have also met Ukrainians in Naas and the local communities have been exceptional in their welcomes. There have been bring and buy sales and many people across my constituency have welcomed these people. I also know from my dealings with the Irish Red Cross that its staff are working their fingers to the bone. It is important that we get this right. If the Irish Red Cross needs extra...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (5 May 2022)

Réada Cronin: 196. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will liaise with his Ministerial counterpart with responsibility for childcare to address the crisis facing HSE employees in trying to access childcare for their children, with mothers unable to return to work after maternity leave due to same, with attendant effects on the health and social care system;...

Europe Day: Statements (10 May 2022)

Réada Cronin: On 9 May 1950, the French Foreign Minister, Robert Schuman, proposed that France and Germany pool their resources of steel and coal in an organisation that would be open to other European countries. Just five years after the Second World War, it was a remarkable moment, with old enemies seeing that they had more in common than what divided them. Eventually, they would build a new European...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 May 2022)

Réada Cronin: 193. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if long-Covid is being cited as a condition in medical certification for social welfare payments and supports; and if so, the number of cases there have been; the number at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23744/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 May 2022)

Réada Cronin: 259. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who are currently notified as having long-Covid; if there is a national registry point for same; if so, the person or body that is in charge of the registry; the current arrangements for general practitioners to notify the public health system of patients with the condition; the data capture strategy that is allowing the adequate...