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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Réada Cronin: You have to leave the heat on in the caravan all night.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Réada Cronin: You cannot turn it off.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Réada Cronin: Customers have to see that there is a national dividend from people's needs being met by the use of green energy. We have to sell this and make people feel they are getting benefits from green energy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Réada Cronin: What about some kind of support for SMEs?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Réada Cronin: I was talking to somebody in SuperValu in Sallins and Clane who told me that under the green transition fund, they are not eligible to apply to update any products they have.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Réada Cronin: So the CRU will be collecting that data.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Réada Cronin: We might talk to the CRU about that to ensure we get that in place. What about an energy poverty strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Réada Cronin: The energy poverty strategy has lapsed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Supply and Security: Discussion (30 Aug 2022)

Réada Cronin: In relation to the windfall tax, we seem to be being softened up that this will be minimal, even though profits have been maximum. It is as if it is an act of solidarity and I do not think that will be tolerated. The CRU spoke of optimising large-scale battery storage. Can we get confirmation from EirGrid that the grid will be able to manage that? It is welcome that the Government...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (14 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: 189. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that some sections of public-service staff who have been successfully and efficiently working from home are being recalled on-site to the office, while other sections of their Department can continue to work from home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44723/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (14 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: 190. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if public service-staff who have efficiently and successfully worked from home will be allowed continue to do so, particularly in the context of the workplace energy costs incurred by the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44724/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: 268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will publish the full communications between her Department and Bus Éireann on the Government’s plans and announcement of the free school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44451/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (14 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: 269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that her Department took to guarantee sufficient places on the school transport scheme before announcing the new free aspect; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44452/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (14 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: 575. To ask the Minister for Health when the implementation plan for the Disability Capacity Review will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44847/22]

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: As Deputy Ó Broin has outlined, my party will not be opposing the separation of Irish Water or Uisce Éireann from Ervia. As we are addressing the issue of water services, which are essential to sustaining human life, at a time when there is so much public uncertainty and distress in the matter of other vital services, namely, heat and light, and whether people will have them at all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I want to go back to parental leave, which we know is for fathers. The reason most fathers do not take it is that they cannot survive on €250 because, given that we are talking about the gender pay gap, they are possibly earning more than their wives or partners anyway. Are there any countries where it is obligatory for companies to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: Even with women as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: Does Professor Galligan agree that positive laws are the way to go?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: How long is the paternity leave for fathers in Nordic countries?