Results 2,221-2,240 of 2,466 for speaker:Réada Cronin

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (3 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: 846. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE can identify the primary source of Covid-19 infection in north County Kildare and the virus strain or strains thereof, particularly in and around Naas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11510/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: 988. To ask the Minister for Health when clear information on Covid-19 vaccination availability and dates, including for the over 70s cohort, will issue widely to general practitioners and particularly to practices in north County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12043/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (25 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the situation in which the junior certificate is considered the minimum requirement to become a special needs assistant, SNA, and the reason a course currently attended by SNAs at UCD is not being considered for accreditation by her Department (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10751/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Holidays (25 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the fact that secondary schools’ two-week Easter holidays run from 15 March 2021 in order that they can begin to reopen a week earlier, this being 29 March 2021 as opposed to 5 April 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10847/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 312. To ask the Minister for Health his policy on vitamin D supplementation in the population; his policy on the strategic use of drugs such as HCQ and ivermectin in the treatment of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10860/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (25 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 313. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health doctors and specialists who have been appointed since the outbreak of Covid-19; the number who will be appointed in 2021; the grade at which they will be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10861/21]

Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: In Irish, a kite is called a préachán ceirteach. With the GDPR and the commission, the State has taken murders of paper crows and flown them sky high. The recordings, once lost, have been found. That is just amazing because the Government is still blind to how it must be accountable to survivors, the Dáil, the people, humanity and decency and what it means to have survived...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she will take to support future educators and students on the professional masters of education in primary teaching at a college (details supplied) who are excluded from the Gaeltacht and other grants allowed to their counterparts at State institutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10277/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the scientific and medical basis on which the safe reopening of schools is being planned while the State is recording high levels of infection and with the new UK variant being dominant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10511/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has been liaising with the Department of Health regarding the safe reopening of schools; if it is the date or infection rate regarding the new UK Covid-19 variant dominant that is guiding the reopening decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10512/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the frequency with which decisions on school closures are reviewed; if her Department is considering an alteration and extension of the school calendar in the context of the disruption due to the pandemic with the aim of maximising in-school presence and learning; if teachers will be prioritised for vaccination to facilitate reopening and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the new UK Covid-19 variant is being assessed in her plans to reopen schools safely; if she will publish information in order to give parental and teacher comfort and public confidence in relation to same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10509/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in her plan to reopen schools, she is regarding them as a separate virus ecosystem unrelated to their place and import within the community and to virus transmission rates therein; if not, if the reopening is being assessed in the wider community and viral context, particularly with the UK variant being dominant; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the safety measures being put in place in schools, for example, ventilation and air purification systems, in order for them to re-open safely; the sourcing, installation and costing of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10508/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 771. To ask the Minister for Health the public transport that will be made available to those in north County Kildare who wish to be vaccinated against Covid-19, for example, at Punchestown; if he is liaising with the Minister for Transport in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9441/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 889. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases that have been recorded in the State of post-Covid-19 paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome; the hospitals in which these cases have been treated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9881/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Decarbonising Transport: Discussion (23 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. We all agree there is a need for urgent transformation of public priorities. Dr. O'Mahony mentioned rail. Should we look at rail electrification on a similar scale as the weight we gave to rural electrification? Deputy O'Rourke mentioned trains earlier. There is currently discussion of electrifying the trains to Maynooth but Kilcock is...

Covid-19 (Enterprise, Trade and Employment): Statements (18 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: I am sharing time with Deputy Conway-Walsh. I had hoped to have a question-and-answer exchange with the Tánaiste but I am sure he will appreciate that I must raise the proposed lay-offs in the Kerry Group. It is a very worrying development for businesses in north Kildare. The Tánaiste will be aware that the company itself employs hundreds of my constituents in Naas. These are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all local authority workers who can work from home are being facilitated in that matter; the checks he has put in place to verify same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9307/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 250. To ask the Minister for Health the systems in place under the Covid-19 national vaccination strategy to address conscientious objection by doctors to vaccine administration; the reassurances his Department can give patients that this not-unexpected development has been factored into the planning, delivery and communication of that strategy; the guarantees he can give persons that...