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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: We are all anxious that the tribunal does its work and it goes well for the Women of Honour and, indeed, the people we met this morning in the audiovisual room. There are, though, three things we must keep to the front of our minds here because if we do not, then we will be lost before we start. One is that there is a great power imbalance between the Defence Forces as an organisation and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: How does it go when questions are grouped?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: Okay.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: Right. I was just not sure about the procedure when the questions are grouped like this.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: Does that depend on the judge's opinion?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: This was not what was explained to us.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: That was not their interpretation of it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: Okay. Earlier, it was said there was a lack of communication or, certainly, that the communication was poor between the Minister's Department and the stakeholders.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: I know. We will be discussing it anyway, so I suppose we will get a bit more clarity in that context.

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: Apart from the word "genocide", words do not exist to describe the atrocities being committed by Israel against the Palestinian people. There is mass murder by bombs and drones, people are crushed to death, suffocated and now there is starvation, diarrhoea, infection and dehydration. The living are maimed, disabled and blinded. There is no anaesthetic for amputations or Caesarean sections....

Tribunal of Inquiry into certain matters relating to the Complaints Processes in the Defence Forces: Motion (24 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: I welcome to the Public Gallery members of Women of Honour, whom I have met several times, and members of the Defence Forces Justice Alliance whom I met yesterday in the audiovisual room. As the Tánaiste knows, we discussed aspects of the tribunal of inquiry last night in priority questions and other oral questions. By chance, just this morning when I was looking through social media,...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: 73. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will clarify the number of members of the IDF who have visited and/or trained in the State, are currently training or visiting or where plans exist for them to do so; the precise areas of military and related training or visitation involved; the cost or payment to the State of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2742/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: 297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, as a matter of urgency, a finish date for completed works at a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2784/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: 310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether north Kildare schools have their full complement of ASD units, given the distress of families who are searching right to the borders of the county for a schoolplace for their autistic child, on the basis that an ‘ASD unit has not yet been sanctioned’ for particular schools; if not, to provide the timeframe in which this...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (24 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a thorough update on the issue with school-places in north Kildare, in particular in bottleneck areas previously notified to her, and in which TDs and families are still awaiting a requested meeting with her; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3229/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ireland's SIDS Strategy, Impact of Climate Change and Update on Development Co-operation: Department of Foreign Affairs (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: Yes, or later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ireland's SIDS Strategy, Impact of Climate Change and Update on Development Co-operation: Department of Foreign Affairs (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ireland's SIDS Strategy, Impact of Climate Change and Update on Development Co-operation: Department of Foreign Affairs (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: I might have another question later.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ireland's SIDS Strategy, Impact of Climate Change and Update on Development Co-operation: Department of Foreign Affairs (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: I reiterate what the Cathaoirleach said about how supportive we are of the witnesses' work and how supportive we are of deepening relationships with these other small islands. We are a small island and a very prosperous one. We still have a history and a memory of colonialism, famine, displacement and poverty. It is to be hoped we can bring that to the witnesses' work in SIDS. We have...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Electricity Supply Board (25 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: 208. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when his Department and the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications will reach the necessary consent to pay the agreed pension increases to ESB beneficiaries, such consent notified to them as being required for payment and long awaited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3431/24]