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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: 167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine matters in relation to the CIÉ 1951 scheme (details supplied), given he has been satisfied by the trustees as to the liquidity of the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10653/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: You can actually, really. We have a point of view.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: They are not two different positions, you can ask questions. This is ridiculous.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: I thank the Minister for his statement. I did feel a bit worried when I read his statement last night. Ireland is an island in the middle of a radically changing climate world. There was a touch of the "keep calm and carry on" about it. Under diversification, the Minister talks about tillage and how we are exploiting the opportunity for import substitution of cereals and proteins. While...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: What about climate scientists?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: Could the Minister answer as I do not want the meeting to go into private session?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: This has not happened at any other time, or at any other committee meeting we have had.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: I did not; I said that in this committee we are holding the position, and it is not just our position.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: UNICEF also holds the position that Ireland has a precarious position on exporting milk products to other nations. There is a question of ethics around breastfeeding and making countries more reliant on milk imports when we should be encouraging people to breastfeed. If the position we have here-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: Can the Minister say why rewilding did not feature in his statement?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: Is the Minister planning to increase the financial incentive for farmers to rewild?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: On the climate scientists-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: There were a lot of interruptions, a Cathaoirligh, in fairness. The Minister said that he was going to get back to me on the climate scientists the Department has. Is there any plan to recruit more climate scientists into the Minister's Department? It is a very important Department in the context of the challenges we face regarding climate change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: I want to say how dismayed I am at how this meeting has gone. I do not ever remember a Fine Gael or Green Party Minister of Government taking such a party political and partisan approach when replying to questions that we, as members representing the people, ask. I am taken aback by the way that went. I found it shocking actually. I hope it is not necessary for the Chair to remind the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: I asked about the use of chemicals on Coillte lands and the effect it has on visitors and people living in the vicinity. Are there any plans to reduce the amount of chemicals Coillte is using?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: I will submit some parliamentary questions on the issue.

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: As my colleague, Teachta O'Rourke, said, Sinn Féin will support the Bill, but with reservations, as we have articulated at the climate committee. I hope the Minister will note those reservations. That this Bill is necessary at all is due to the negligence of this Government and its failure to plan. Sufficient unto the day might work for the headlines that this Administration governs...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: I will share with Deputy Ward. I am incredibly happy to speak here on International Women's Day as a woman and a Deputy. I wish everybody, all the women and all the people who love women, a very happy International Women's Day. As a Sinn Féin Deputy, I am very much committed to the egalitarian and republican values of equality, liberty and, for the day that is in it, sorority. I wish...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (7 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: 363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when parents in Kilcock can expect confirmation of school-places, locally, for their children starting primary education in 2023, given the understandable anxiety regarding same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10923/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Parental Leave (7 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: 465. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will examine raising the age of children from 13 years for parents to qualify for parental leave, given the high number of parents with mid-teenage children who want the opportunity to take such leave and in the context of Tusla's insistence that children under 16 years cannot be left alone;...