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Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: Homelessness is increasing all of the time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (5 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: As the Taoiseach knows, over the past two years my party leader, Deputy McDonald, and others have been raising the alarm about the decision by the Department of Health to effectively shut down the north inner city drugs and alcohol task force. It is a mystifying move given the task force is so badly needed. Unfortunately, the Taoiseach's most recent written response on this to Deputy...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: In its report, Understanding the Irish Economy in a Time of Turbulence, the NESC recommends transposing the European Union directive on adequate minimum wages in order to do two things, namely, to strengthen the national system of collective bargaining and to increase collective bargaining coverage. The research shows that countries with high collective bargaining coverage tend to have a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (5 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine, with urgency, a situation (details supplied). [33069/23]

Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important topic. We have just completed a Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity Loss, and the general consensus was that while the Government has declared a biodiversity crisis, there is little evidence it is being taken seriously. I welcome the Minister of State's remarks on wildlife crime and An Garda Síochána becoming involved when crimes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Engagement with the Reserve Defence Force Representative Association (11 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: Our guests are welcome. When I read the opening statement last night, I was struck by how sad it was. It is depressing and sad that our guests feel they are not getting the respect to which they are entitled. The commission seems to have hit on and recognised that. Sometimes I feel that is how we do things around here. We have a great history of volunteerism in Ireland. I was a member...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: Yes. I had not expected to speak on this Bill until Thursday.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: No, I will speak for a minute. I was ready to speak on it last week and have been ready in case the opportunity arose today. It is worth mentioning that this Bill has been shunted around the Dáil schedule in the same way the issue of addressing safe spaces for women accessing healthcare has been shunted around by the Government. For too many generations, Irish women were confined...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: We did not make ourselves pregnant. We were not that good at all. When it came to fertility, there seems to have been nothing that mná na hÉireann could not do without men. However, women in Ireland have found our voice and we certainly made sure that it was heard at the referendum on the eighth amendment so that future generations would not have to put up with this nonsense. ...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: The rental sector is now in a state of emergency. Rents are very high in my constituency of Kildare North and I want to talk a bit about the people who cannot afford to rent. Imagine what it must be like for people who cannot afford to rent. They become part of the hidden homelessness Deputy Ó Broin has mentioned. They try to sleep on somebody's sofa. They try get up and out to work...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: I want to recognise how the Irish people, through us, stand by Palestine. I will return to the actions that I want us to take but, first, I want to talk specifically about the children of Palestine. They are children like our own, who love to play out the back or out the front, or to kick a ball on the beach. Those same children, who, when not dying of fright by air attacks are killed...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: This is my second time speaking on this Bill and the third time the Bill has been before the Dáil. It has been shunted around the schedule. I acknowledge that the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, is here. I appreciate that. I also take this opportunity to thank Together for Safety and my comrade in the Seanad, Senator Paul Gavan, who has been working on a similar safe access...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average number of buses in the Bus Éireann school transport fleet for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34520/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average number of buses in the Bus Éireann school transport fleet for Kildare, specifically, for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34521/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update from her Department on the state of plans for the recruitment and/or deployment of sufficient drivers for school-bus transport and the guaranteed provision of sufficient vehicles for same, State-wide and in Kildare in particular; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34522/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the plans his Department has to communicate to the public the importance of micro-generation such as solar panels on dwellings to citizen and societal resilience in the event of a cyberattack on the State’s energy facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35223/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether his Department is, as a matter of urgency, prioritising solar for all dwellings, given its capacity to provide resilience in the event of a cyberattack on the energy system; such plans to include easy-to-apply-for interest-free loans or generous grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35224/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 213. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline the plans of his Department to rebuild and equip the Defence Forces so they are in the proper position to patrol our territorial waters effectively and defend our neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35221/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 215. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether his Department is satisfied that the Defence Forces are currently staffed and equipped to a sufficient level in order to fulfil their various functions - military, surveillance, peacekeeping and civil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35229/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 214. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline the plans his Department has to build the cyber-security aspect of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35222/23]