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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 300. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress made to date in establishing a definition for reasonable profit within the meaning of the Crowe Report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49246/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 301. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the attention of his Department has been drawn to a penalising effect of the core-funding allocation wherein smaller independent services face closure thereby reducing choice for parents who want part-time care or early childhood care and education scheme-only provision, something that is not catered for in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 302. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department accepts that a 40-week preschool should be funded, wherever such provision is profitable, and that the Departmental policy extant could lead to the eradication of small, home from home services of which up to 1500 exist across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49248/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 308. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will undertake a thorough investigation of a matter at Maynooth University whereby a decision has been taken not to proceed with a long promised student centre and for which levies had been placed on students over several years; if so, if he will publish the findings of such investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if former students at Maynooth University who paid levies for the construction of a designated student centre will be refunded those monies paid and with interest due, now that the structure as envisioned is not to go ahead; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49250/22]

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this Bill and, perhaps, to try to improve it. My Sinn Féin colleague, Deputy O'Rourke, has proposed several amendments that would improve the Bill and make it more socially inclusive. These would include a liaison with MABS and provision that those who do not need this energy credit could ask their provider to direct that money to agencies...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I thank the witnesses for their submissions, which I read last night and again this morning. I preface all my observations at this meeting with the observation that, after the reporting of IBEC's extraordinary and worrying statement on domestic violence leave, what seems to have gone missing in the furore yesterday was that the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Many universities already give ten days of domestic violence leave. I believe Vodafone and many big companies do this as well. It is strange that what went unnoticed yesterday is that the Minister had already halved that to five days and had also recommended that evidence will be needed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I apologise for interrupting. I am sure there is a delay with the Internet. I was surprised that what went missing was the report from the Minister, Deputy O’Gorman, suggesting the exact same thing. That should be put on the record. Will SIPTU have any comment?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (12 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I also want to talk about the Go-Ahead bus service, in my case the 120 service in north Kildare. It is the bane of workers’ lives in north Kildare. Workers are out in the cold at the crack of dawn, waiting for a bus that does not turn up, that just disappears, that is late or that is too full and will not let them on. I know of several workers in north Kildare who are on late...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (12 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: It was an unsatisfactory reply. I cannot go to constituents in Prosperous, Clane, Straffan and Celbridge with it. There is no way that the Go-Ahead contract should be renewed. The Minister of State mentioned in an earlier reply that Go-Ahead would have the full complement of drivers by the end of December, but the time to have the full complement was before it applied for the contract so...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (12 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: In March, the HSE was found to have broken the law on assessment of need. The Department's arrogance continues extending even to its own Minister, who like myself is meeting heartbroken parents day in and day out. The new figures on assessments of need released to Sinn Féin are shocking even by the usual appalling standards. Where are the annual section 13 reports that have been...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: When does the Minister of State hope to have it cleared?

National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) (Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (12 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I am happy to co-introduce this Bill with my comrades, Deputies Daly and Paul Donnelly. The purpose of the Bill is to keep the practice of vetting as effective as possible while making the process as efficient as possible for the community, the gardaí and, through them, wider society. It applies to people who have no criminal record or criminal issues outstanding. While Garda vetting...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (12 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I am happy to speak to this Bill on Second Stage. We all agree it is a very technical and lengthy piece of legislation. I believe there is also agreement on the need to modernise the work permit system on which so many of our services depend, be it agrifood, IT, hygiene or caring. The Covid-19 pandemic, which still ongoing, exposed how dependent we are on so many of these workers and how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I want to check something with WorkEqual. Particularly striking was the finding that 33% of women with teenage children say their career has been affected in comparison with 0% of men. Should that be 10% of men?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Considering the number of working women who are told they are marvellous to be walking the tightrope, I wonder what percentage of men are told they are marvellous for doing so.