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National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: I also wish to thank the OPLA for its work on this Bill. I am very glad to be co-proposing it with na Teachtaí Pa Daly agus Paul Donnelly and that we have this opportunity to address it further at this stage before the Dáil rises for the summer recess. The purpose of our Bill is to keep the practice of vetting as effective and as safe as possible and to make the process as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (11 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department is taking to guarantee sufficient school places for children in north Kildare in primary and secondary (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29133/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (11 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 170. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide the details for the complex at Castletown (details supplied). [30542/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: Ireland needs a register of people who have been convicted of crimes of animal cruelty. Following the "RTÉ Investigates" programme on Shannonside Foods in Straffan, I wrote to the Minister and asked if we could create such a register. He indicated that we do not need one because all cases are reported in the media. That is not the position at all. I will be bringing forward...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: It did not seem so.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (10 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 218. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of licensed or certified slaughterhouses that were killing equines in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024; the names and locations of such operations, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30243/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (10 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 219. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details of all the non-compliance issues cited at a company (details supplied) in each of the years 2020 to 2023 and to date in 2024; the number of non-compliance issues that involved welfare, and in each case, what kind; the number that were of passporting/identity, and in each case, what kind; the number that were of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (10 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide details of all the actions taken by a company (details supplied) and by his Department, to address and resolve non-compliance issues to the latter’s satisfaction, and to prevent a recurrence, particularly in the areas of welfare, passporting/ID, traceability and food safety; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (10 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the lairage of the abattoir at a company (details supplied) or the property reasonably considered by the public and media to be the lairage and to function as such and as shown on a television documentary – was previously licensed, but was subsequently taken out of an updated licence, be it to the company, any of its...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (10 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 222. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the basis on which his Department could give the impression to the Public Accounts Committee, and the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, that prior to the television documentary exposé, it had no concerns about a company (details supplied), beyond five welfare complaints, and give the further impression...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (10 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 223. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is normal practice for a slaughterhouse to have 15 non-compliance reports in a calendar year, some week-on-week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30248/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (10 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 225. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to clarify the apparently conflicting replies to Parliamentary Question No. 271 of 18 June 2024 and Parliamentary Question No. 329 of 2 July 2024 in the matter of an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30287/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (10 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 226. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reasons for the difference between the conditional certification granted to a person (details supplied) on 22 July 2015, which date appears to be within the three-year period where applicants, as operators, must have not convictions for animal cruelty, and the competence certificate issued on 21 April 2017; if competence...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (10 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 227. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a list of all applications, certificates or licenses granted in the matter of handling or slaughtering animals to a person and company (details supplied) or their agents or representatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30289/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (10 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 228. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if departmental licensing and competence certification continued at any slaughter operations, including a company (details supplied), while any possible investigations were taking place on passporting and ID issues, relating to any persons in previous years and resulting in the Department itself pursuing a legal case; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (10 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 229. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that his Department communicates sufficiently well, internally, and across sections, in the cross-cutting matters of food safety, traceability, animal cruelty and the necessary scrutiny of the licensing and certifying of individuals; whether he has undertaken or will undertake an audit of same, given the matter a...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (10 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 230. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that no horse with an ID (details supplied), or otherwise bred for sport or entertainment, be sent for, or accepted for, slaughter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30292/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (10 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 231. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine whether he has yet begun the necessary process of making sure horses bred for racing or entertainment, within the expensive and wealthy equine industry, are put to sleep humanely and not sent for slaughter; the steps he is taking to make sure this humane end to life is built into the industry; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (10 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: 232. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any horses have been exported to the continent for slaughter since the closure of a company (details supplied); if he will act to prevent any such action; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30294/24]

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Réada Cronin: The Shane O'Farrell case has a special place in people's hearts on this island because of the way his family has fought for justice for their son. I welcome the O'Farrell family to the Dáil. I am sorry I could not stay for the whole of the presentation in the audiovisual room today, but I have met Lucia O'Farrell before and I remember a determined woman when I meet one. I recognise...