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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: I thank Professor FitzGerald. I wish to ask about the climate justice aspect of his presentation. I have two questions. I am very glad he raised the fact that the climate council will take into account climate justice. He reminds us how the council has been at pains to say how vital climate justice is in reassuring us on a just transition. In raising this, Professor FitzGerald rightly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: I thank the two witnesses for assisting us with the Bill. My first question is for Dr. Muinzer. I am interested in his mention of sanctions. Without a just transition being mentioned in the Bill, we do not want people to think sanctions will be placed on them. The sanctions should be on the Government. Will Dr. Muinzer speak a little about that please? It feels as if we are in the...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (21 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: What is wrong with this State that it wants to put away now the records of the women it put away before? What is wrong with this State that it will add public insult to the personal injury it inflicted on thousands of girls, women and their babies? Its pursuit of decency, morality and respectability resulted in the persecution of the poor, the innocent and their children. What is wrong...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: I thank our two guest speakers. My first question is directed at Dr. Andrew Jackson. He mentioned his concern about the CCAC having ex officiomembers, which is contrary to the recommendations made by the Joint Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht in 2013. Is this the practice followed in other jurisdictions? What are the potential downsides of their presence on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: Would Professor Sweeney comment on voting rights on the CCAC?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (20 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: 376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the precise timeframe for the phasing out of religious education in schools; her views on achieving it in the lifetime of this Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31721/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: 431. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the increase in the parent's benefit from two weeks to five weeks as announced in budget 2021 and planned for 2021 could take effect in 2020 due to the extreme difficulty and uncertainty facing families with Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31718/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: I wish to follow on from what Senator Higgins asked, because she asked the question I was going to ask, but I was not satisfied with the answer. Could we have a proper definition of climate justice and sustainable development? We have talked about bringing people along with us, and we all know by amount of emails we have received and the engagement we have had locally, that this is a really...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: My question was brief. So, Mr. Carroll is willing to consider the issue of definitions and come back to the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: We will look into that over the next couple of weeks.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (8 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps taken to determine the case of a person (details supplied) in view of the recent judgment of the Supreme Court to quash the decision of the Disabled Drivers Board of Appeal, not to grant a primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29316/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (8 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: 114. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps taken to determine the case of a person (details supplied) in view of the recent judgment of the Supreme Court to quash the decision of the Disabled Drivers Board of Appeal, not to grant a primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29317/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (8 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: 115. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the recent judgment of the Supreme Court (details supplied) he plans to provide a statement on the continued processing of applications for primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29318/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (8 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: 252. To ask the Minister for Health the reason HSE audiology has not been ring-fenced as an essential service for children who are deaf and hard of hearing; if he will make a commitment to ring-fencing that vital service in the future even in the event of further Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29319/20]

Brexit and Business: Statements (7 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: Businesses in north Kildare were just accommodating the prospect of Brexit when the coronavirus hit Ireland. Now they face the double whammy of a novel virus, about which little is known, and a British Government that is novel about Brexit in ways that some never imagined. However, what is imaginable and reachable now is a united Ireland in the broader context of Brexit. My party leader,...

Covid-19 (Arts): Statements (6 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: Government politicians do not just dine out on their arts; some of them feast on them. Hardly a speech has been made by a Taoiseach or Uachtarán that has not featured lines from Yeats, Heaney or Beckett. In their quiet times away from the camera, it seems some politicians believe such artists should go out and get a real job. This is usually latent but lately it has been blatant. It...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (6 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: 688. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients being paid for fully or partially by the State in the various nursing homes run by a private operator (details supplied); the amount paid to each facility operated by the group in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28417/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (6 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: 689. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to private nursing homes here in each year of the past five years; the nature of the funding; the number of patients involved; the type of services provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28418/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (6 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: 690. To ask the Minister for Health if an inquiry will be carried out into the care of a patient (details supplied) with schizophrenia in a nursing home; the psychiatric qualifications of the staff responsible for their care in each year of their residences; the details of consultation and care plans devised between the nursing home, the social worker of the patient and local psychiatric...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (6 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: 709. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours and home care packages provided nationally in each of the past five years; the number of such hours in north County Kildare in the same time frame; the cost of such provision to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28587/20]