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Written Answers — Department of Health: Thalidomide Victims Compensation (17 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: 600. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the needs and difficulties of persons living with limb damage caused by the drug thalidomide (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44496/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: 601. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place in terms of beds and staffing to meet a possible Covid-19 surge at Naas General Hospital post Christmas 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44497/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Data (17 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: 602. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults and teenagers being treated for alcohol-related injury and illness in each of the past three years; the number in north County Kildare in particular; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44498/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Waiting Lists (17 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: 603. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults and children awaiting both psychological assessment and therapy nationally; the number in north County Kildare in each of the past three years; the number waiting more than three months and six months in each group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44499/20]

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (16 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: I too have concerns about housing needs, demand assessment and public participation in the context of this Bill. Instead of widening public participation in the planning and development process, this Bill narrows it through the curtailment of public meetings. The review of the Kildare county development plan started only this afternoon and this Bill could effectively lock out those who most...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (10 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: I thank the Minister of State for her response and I wonder if I could get it in writing. The meeting between Oireachtas Members and representatives of Kildare County Council will go ahead in the morning and I will try to raise this matter. Will the Department also put on a bit of pressure and stress the importance of the infrastructure that will be required for this proposed site in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (10 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: I thank Deputy Durkan for sharing this Topical Issue with the north Kildare Teachtaí Dála. We had a meeting on Monday evening with the principals and representatives from St. Raphael's Special School, Celbridge Community School and St. Patrick's National School. They have located a site. I am anxious to assist these schools, which go above and beyond every single day, but...

Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (10 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: It is now two weeks until Christmas. While some people are wondering how they managed to survive the year of Covid-19, others are wondering how they survive every year within the confines of this Bill. I am anxious that the lending capacity of our credit unions be extended in our communities. They are bedrocks of opportunity and protection. I am equally anxious about the effective...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electric Vehicles (10 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: 204. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the plans in place to establish public charge points for electric vehicles in Kilcock and Clane, County Kildare; the time frame thereof; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42571/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: 234. To ask the Minister for Finance the additional forbearance he will be requiring of the banks on mortgage repayments for those employed and self-employed workers affected by the second lockdown, the third in County Kildare, in order for them to keep their homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42573/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (10 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: 249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his specific plans for the housing of single persons given that it takes two salaries to pay rent or a mortgage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42579/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (10 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: 305. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the schemes available to provide additional financial help to those musicians working in bands, especially wedding bands, that have seen up to 90% loss in the Covid-19 crisis and are worried regarding keeping their homes in the absence of continued mortgage forbearance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42572/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: 410. To ask the Minister for Health the medical and epidemiological or other data basis on which live music at weddings is prohibited in the current phase of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42575/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: 411. To ask the Minister for Health the medical and epidemiological or other data basis on which dance classes unlike gyms have not been allowed open up in the current phase of Covid-19 though their owners have taken every precaution possible to keep their students safe; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42577/20]

Social Welfare Bill 2020: Second Stage (9 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: I will speak on the Sinn Féin amendment to address fuel poverty. It is a real and growing issue, especially with the financial hardship caused by Covid-19. Fuel poverty is real poverty and it is causing suffering for real people in the run-up to Christmas. Fuel poverty sees them dreading the new year. All of us here will be able to go home tonight and put the heating on. We will not...

Organisation of Working Time (Domestic Violence Leave) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: Historically, the State is all about secrets. We have had mother and baby homes, industrial schools, Magdalen laundries and the hush-hush trips to England. Domestic violence is one of the last unmentionable secrets. Men get hammered too, but for them it is usually even more secret. It is mostly women who get and take their beatings, and the threats, the kicks, the punches, the burning,...

Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: It is mystifying that Covid-19 has not been a notifiable disease from the outset. I commend my comrade, Deputy Louise O'Reilly, for bringing forward the Bill. Deputy O'Reilly has been on the case since early summer, when we first realised this had been overlooked by the Government. We are nine months into this pandemic, long enough to have conceived and given birth to a baby, yet testing...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: State Examinations (3 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) has been denied a scribe, room and extra time for their exams; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40945/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (3 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: 358. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to ensure a life-extending drug continues to be available to a person (details supplied) and the other beneficiaries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40944/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: 356. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place for the treatment and management of long Covid and its acknowledgement as a medical condition; if he will establish multidisciplinary post-Covid-19 clinics around the State to include occupational therapists, physiotherapists, nutritionists and counsellors; the guidance that will be issued to general practitioners and consultants in...