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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...

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

Réada Cronin: 251. To ask the Minister for Health the public information strategy in place or planned to address comprehensively the safety issues raised in conscientious objection by doctors in order to maximise public trust and public confidence in the Covid-19 vaccines for the best possible public health outcome in the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9067/21]

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

Réada Cronin: 252. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to doctors here refusing to refer patients for Covid-19 testing due to deeply held beliefs regarding the virus; the public health systems in place to address a possible refusal to refer patients for testing for any disease on a personal belief basis, including for a virus causing a pandemic; his views on whether a refusal to...

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

Réada Cronin: 253. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors who have notified his Department, the HSE or other relevant body of their intention not to vaccinate patients against Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9069/21]

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

Réada Cronin: 303. To ask the Minister for Health the risk assessment that was presented to his Department and thereafter to Cabinet with regard to building sites and Covid-19 transmission; if a cost-benefit analysis of closure was undertaken and presented to his Department and thereafter to Cabinet; the information on which public health officials work in relation to Covid-19 transmission in the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 8. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the safeguards in place to uphold Ireland’s responsibilities under the UN Sustainable Development Goals and to prevent Ireland being party to or becoming entangled in a supply chain dispute on labour given the status of the State as a hub for global supply chains (details supplied). [7875/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which the use of e-scooters on public pathways used by pedestrians can be monitored and policed in terms of space and speed and the safety of pedestrians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7874/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 177. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request the Revenue Commissioners to waive taxation arising out of the pandemic unemployment payment given the extraordinary circumstances of the pandemic and the consequent sacrifice and financial suffering endured by persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8832/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 178. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will extend over a suitably long period the amount of extra taxation due over pandemic unemployment payments to assist workers and their families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8833/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Interest Rates (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions he will take to protect consumers in relation to the matter of banks (details supplied) giving notice that negative interest rate charges are to apply to solicitor client accounts in conveyancing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8929/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the necessary review of HAP rates will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8830/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if special interpersonal or other relevant training has been given to staff and ancillary agency staff dealing with the public in the context of the stress of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8831/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UN Security Council (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 341. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland’s seat on the UN Security Council and reputation on international aid will be used to secure the health of the interconnected world by spearheading and championing the swift distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine to poorer countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8834/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Data (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid and the number of persons on the pandemic unemployment payment to date; the amount that has been overpaid; the number of persons who have been overpaid; the systems in place to assist persons to repay possible overpayments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8837/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if special interpersonal or other relevant training has been given to staff dealing with the public in the context of the stress of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8838/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: I have many constituents in north Kildare who suffer from asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD, who want to know what stage the clean air strategy is at that was promised in the programme for Government. We in Ireland have one of the highest rates of lung disease in the world. The Irish Thoracic Society warns of an unprecedented crisis in lung health due to insufficient...

Covid-19: Motion [Private Members] (10 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: Aggressive suppression was never the plan of the Government. We saw it welcome flights full of rugby fans from Italy's inferno and global guests for St. Patrick's Day and how there was not even a leaflet at the airport for people returning from Cheltenham. Last summer, fresh from telling billionaire tax exiles they were grand here and would not be outstaying their welcome, the Government...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Chairperson Designate of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (9 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: I congratulate Mr. Byrne on his appointment. He made a powerful point when he spoke in his opening statement about the 40% renewable target that was set in 2020, the scale of that task at the time, how the catastrophe we now face is so enormous and how this can be overwhelming for people. It was interesting to hear about his work in Vita in east Africa. That shows how interconnected we are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (4 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 236. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to substantially increase the number of accredited psychotherapists and counsellors for public health patients in the State given the dearth extant and the greater need due to Covid-19 and particularly as this relates to services for north County Kildare both for adults and children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6310/21]

Household Utility Bills Support: Motion [Private Members] (3 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: It says a lot about where we are when in one breath we are discussing an €80,000 salary top-up for a public service worker, and in the next we are talking about other workers in places such as north Kildare who cannot afford to light their home, cook a meal or turn on the heating. We have swapped the metaphorical cold house of the mother and baby homes for the literal cold house where...