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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Apr 2023)

Réada Cronin: 176. To ask the Minister for Health if he will move immediately to ensure that every family requiring end-of-life care for a child at home will be guaranteed that care automatically as outlined in The Model of Care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19811/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (25 Apr 2023)

Réada Cronin: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the urgently awaited news of school places for children in Kilcock; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19285/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (25 Apr 2023)

Réada Cronin: 271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the BFR for a school (details supplied) will be available, given the long wait for same by the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19286/23]

Transport Support Schemes for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I, too, thank the Regional Group for introducing this important motion. I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on it. I am glad to be able to speak up for the great people in the constituency of Kildare North who are living with physical and intellectual disabilities and face barriers in their lives due to transport constraints. I am thinking of those debilitated by neurodegenerative...

Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am very pleased to speak on Europe Day, 50 years of membership of the EU and the power of our democratic union of peoples as a force for peace, equality and prosperity. I thank the EU institutions for the great care and concern they showed for people and businesses in the Six Counties in and around the Brexit negotiations. Europe built a peaceful union from the wreckage of two world...

Food Costs and High Grocery Bills: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am very glad to speak on our motion because prices and corporate greed are soaring while people’s standards of living, and their hearts, are sinking. I commend an Teachta O'Reilly on this Private Member's motion. I am very pleased the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, will not oppose the motion. I am sure the Minister of State is also hearing that prices in our shops are not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Hybrid Threats and Threats to the National Infrastructure: Institute of International and European Affairs (9 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I thank the witnesses for very comprehensive presentations at this tense time. They mentioned the issue of conveying the message that there is a threat to our critical infrastructure and national grid. Mr. Fitzgerald mentioned the €2,400 grant for households to install solar panels on roofs. Many of the people who come into my office cannot afford the upfront fee so they cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Hybrid Threats and Threats to the National Infrastructure: Institute of International and European Affairs (9 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: The witnesses mentioned how the Russian invasion of Ukraine was not going as Russia had expected and that cyber warfare may be its preferred tool in future. Currently, our cyber defences are handled by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, with seconded personnel from the Department of Defence. Where should responsibility for our cyber defences sit? How should we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Hybrid Threats and Threats to the National Infrastructure: Institute of International and European Affairs (9 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: Would Mr. FitzGerald have an opinion on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Hybrid Threats and Threats to the National Infrastructure: Institute of International and European Affairs (9 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: Is it very common in that space?

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Standing Charges) Bill 2023: First Stage (11 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am delighted to be introducing the Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Standing Charges) Bill 2023 to the House, along with an Teachta O'Rourke. Our Bill is an important one. Given its name is the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, one would think the CRU would already have the power to do what our Bill proposes it would be able to do. Our Bill's intention is to give powers to the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 596. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be urgently examined and the executive's discretion used urgently in view of the circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21275/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: Will the Tánaiste accede to the wishes of the Women of Honour that any internal appointee to the oversight board be vetted for appropriateness by an Oireachtas committee, such desire reflecting their particular experience within the Defence Forces organisation and its culture? Will the Tánaiste also make a statement on this matter?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: It is time that the Women of Honour were honoured in word and in deed by the House. The seriousness of the damage that was done to these women - and, indeed, men – has been fully articulated in the national media. It is not that they were raped or sexually assaulted out on the street and then did not get a kind ear when they went into work. This was done by their superior officers....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: If the Tánaiste will not agree to that, I am sure there is some way of providing confidentiality to any appointee to the oversight body. The Tánaiste met Women of Honour the week before last, but the group was not satisfied afterwards. Is the Tánaiste going to meet Women of Honour again to discuss how to reach an agreement on this? We are talking about women who were in the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 9. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department is preparing a plan to assist with the urgent housing of members of the Defence Forces in military accommodation that is available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22808/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: Is the Department preparing a plan to assist with the urgent housing of members of the Defence Forces in military accommodation that is already available?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Tánaiste. The situation in the Curragh Camp has been brought up by my comrade, an Teachta Patricia Ryan, on several occasions but since I was appointed junior spokesperson for defence, wives and partners have come to me with some truly heartbreaking stories. The basic needs of safe housing of these families' men and women who have served us so proudly are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I appreciate the Minister's answer. This goes to the wider issue of how the Defence Forces are treated and valued. We talk about recruitment and retention. We really have to start at retention. We have to retain the members who are working in the Defence Forces. They are trained already. The priority has to be keeping them. This could be an indication to the committed members of our...

Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I thank my colleague, Deputy Brady, for this Bill. I welcome the ambassador, H.E. Dr. Wahba Abdalmajid, to the Chamber. Deputy Brady has already spoken on the detail of the Bill and I will address its essence, in a week when the catastrophe, the Nakba, inflicted on the Palestinian people by the Israeli Government and its supporters is commemorated. This week is also the anniversary of the...