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

Réada Cronin: 216. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline the various mechanisms by which his Department is working to reach agreement with the Women of Honour on all outstanding issues; the number and grade of staff allotted to this task; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35230/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Defence Forces (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 346. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department will outline the enhanced expenditure necessary to bring the Defence Forces up to their full complement and capability in order to defend our neutrality, patrol our waters and airspace and fulfil their international obligations such as peacekeeping; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35228/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department will make a new commitment to the position of history on the curriculum, such subject being critical to giving a student a necessary level of continuum and context vis-à-vis current and emerging situations, globally, therefore facilitate a citizen in making a deeper and more reflective response; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department is taking a necessary new approach to the school-transport situation, to make it work for children’s/parents’ needs, given the system extant has little or no bearing on how schools are functioning, spatially in the community, and how families are forced to use them; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 606. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he is taking to liaise with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment on the warnings issued by certain childcare providers on their possible need to withdraw from core funding, given its insufficiency, such action having a knock-on impact on workers and their employment, and especially on...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 629. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will move with all alacrity to address the situation whereby certain childcare providers are warning parents of their need to withdraw from core funding given its insufficiency, and so have to increase fees to those parents who are already under major financial pressure; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 652. To ask the Minister for Health the actions his Department is taking to address and urgently the HSE spend of €458 million of external consultants in 2022; whether he will publish his investigations and analysis into that spend; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35227/23]

Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion (20 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am glad to be able to speak on this Private Members' Bill this evening because there is so much pain behind the closed doors of north Kildare. It was good to have the opportunity to focus completely on the constituency over the past couple of months. People are living on ordinary wages and paying extraordinary mortgages for a standard home. I was talking to a woman in her 50s this...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak on this Stage of the Bill. I do not want to sound rude or anything like that, because I know the Minister of State is a very mild-mannered Minister, but it really is about time that we had this Bill. I also want to say that there is something perverse about the term "windfall" being associated with the provision of energy, which is an essential...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: Gabhaim buíochas freisin leis na Social Democrats as an Private Members' motion seo. Housing and affordability are not mutually exclusive. It is not a sign of an advanced society or economy if people cannot afford a home. It is not a sign of success or progress if hard work and a good job are no longer enough for a person to be able to afford to rent or buy a home of their own....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (21 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: 268. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to accommodate, locally, children who have been informed there will no longer be speech and language therapy available to them in Kilcock from October due to staffing issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40840/23]

Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: Here we go again - another term and another scandal. When it comes to Ireland and systems, power and secrecy, it never really stops. It is long after the promise from the previous Minister that children with scoliosis would be treated within four months. We know how that went. I have spoken to some of the parents involved. I welcome them and their advocates to the Dáil. They are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implementation of the Recommendations of the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: I can come back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implementation of the Recommendations of the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: The witnesses are very welcome to the committee. I will keep my questions brief. In Ms McCrum's opening statement, she mentioned the specific actions to support cultural change and the external oversight body. Are the people who are on that body public knowledge? Can she tell me who is it? Is she on it? She also speaks about the new complaints process for civilians, civil servants...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implementation of the Recommendations of the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: When you have something like that, when it is gone, it is gone. You cannot bring it back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implementation of the Recommendations of the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: How long does it take between the initial-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implementation of the Recommendations of the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: There was a question on the work-life balance as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implementation of the Recommendations of the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Discussion (26 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: I have a final question on work-life balance. When people are starting off in the Army, if they look in any way presentable, they are often expected to work weekends in the officers’ mess. How does that equate with improving the work-life balance? We can get away with things like that when unemployment is high but not in the current employment circumstances. I would like to have...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (27 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: I will speak about amendments Nos. 35 and 36. I commend my colleague on the wording because it echoes back to the words of the Proclamation in the hall outside about the right of the people to the ownership of Ireland. I will speak about two issues in my constituency, Kildare North, involving two key heritage sites, one of which is Connolly's Folly. I am raising this issue as I was once a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (27 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: 143. To ask the Minister for Health whether it is the policy of his Department that a patient who has been on long-term palliative care and whose fragility puts them at particular risk of bedsores and dermatological breakdown, cannot have access to an airbed in hospital, despite relying on one at home; the reason, given that such a bed would need to be rented by the HSE; and if he will make a...