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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (11 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department can guarantee definitively the additional school bus that is so desperately needed in North Kildare vis-à-vis children trying to get to school in the Rathcoffey-Maynooth environs, such need being the source of many Parliamentary Questions and much correspondence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22230/23]

Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (17 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: As a member of the Committee on Gender Equality, which was established to go to through the recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality, I am glad to have a chance to speak on this report. The statistics speak for themselves. Today, I want to speak in a way that is more reflective than reactive because although this is the first report from the CSO, how many other reports...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Disinformation and Hybrid Threats in a Geopolitical Context: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I understand and will be brief. I thank the Cathaoirleach for letting me in. I was in the Chamber so I missed the start of the meeting. Is Professor Laffan online?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Disinformation and Hybrid Threats in a Geopolitical Context: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I had a couple of questions for her. Turning to Dr. Culloty, in the last week we have been talking about disinformation. We had the case of the editorial process in The Irish Times being breached by an artificial intelligence, AI, article. Was Dr. Culloty surprised by that happening? If we leave the AI aspect out of this, there is a sense of standards being involved as well. I say this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Disinformation and Hybrid Threats in a Geopolitical Context: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am sorry for missing the earlier part of the meeting.

Consultative Forum on International Security Policy: Statements (18 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am pleased to have an opportunity to speak on the proposed consultative forum on international security policy. We are addressing this in a week when Ireland and the world are marking the 75th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba. This week also marks the anniversary of the ratification of the Sykes-Picot agreement and all that this signalled for the Middle East, with European colonial...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many SENOs are currently working in North Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22674/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will, in deliberations, give priority to, and thereafter expedite, the urgently-needed second bus in the Rathcoffey-Maynooth educational environs, where at least 50 children are already waiting and left without the necessary service, and where yet more children will be requiring that service in the new academic year; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Policies (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 204. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline the investment plan in place to build up the State’s air defence capacity; and in the context of war on the eastern borders of the EU; the training and recruitment aspects of any such plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22927/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Policies (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 205. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence why the State does not have a primary radar facility despite the long and now urgent and need for same; if he will commit to providing this at the earliest opportunity given current geopolitics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22929/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Policies (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 206. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether he is liaising with his colleague the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications in communicating with the public the importance of microgeneration schemes to resilience in the case of cyber attack on the energy systems of the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22930/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine urgently the case of a child (details supplied); if she will provide a suitable school place for them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22713/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Engagement with the National Cyber Security Centre (23 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I thank Dr. Browne for his presentation. There is no doubt that defence and security are no longer questions for just the military and An Garda Síochána and that a whole-of-government approach is required. How was the HSE allowed to persist with obviously unsafe technology? The HSE deals with sensitive personal information and it took time for everything to get back on track...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Engagement with the National Cyber Security Centre (23 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: Dr. Browne mentioned that the technology directorate is still awaiting a chief technology officer. There is a scale and an urgency to filling that position. I am sure the staff are highly skilled and expert in their job. The CTO really sets the tone. Is that position almost filled?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Engagement with the National Cyber Security Centre (23 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: No. It is on the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats in Helsinki. Last week, we talked about how it is up running around seven years. I think we only sent a letter to join in January of this year. Is Ireland a member of that? If we are, who do we send? Will Dr. Browne or NCSC representatives go there or have input into that?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (18 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 441. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the current state of Tender 23 home-care considerations, given the criticality of home care, and the many people waiting for it; if he will move with alacrity to end any and all delays to Tender 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23731/23]

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I would like to preface what I say here by asking anybody who speaks on this issue in the future to mind their language. In the past week, the rhetoric around rewetting in particular has been extreme and divisive. Rewetting is not flooding but who could blame any farmer who is busy on her land from thinking she is going to need a canoe if her farm neighbours Coillte land or Bord na...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: My constituent, Graham Meehan, is being denied his right to live an independent but supported life because of the Government's refusal to properly fund residential care for those living in the community. Graham is 32 and an adored son of Maura and her husband. He has cerebral palsy and associated disabilities and autism. He is not alone in north Kildare, but he is alone in being named here...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: Why is that?