Results 561-580 of 1,019 for speaker:Réada Cronin in 'Written Answers'

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: 1407. To ask the Minister for Health if persons vaccinated with a one-shot vaccine (details supplied) will be prioritised urgently for boosters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63136/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: 1550. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE is asking persons including healthcare workers arriving at vaccination centres to replace their high-protection masks such as FFP2 with those of lower protection quality; if he will publish the scientific basis on which this request is made; if, in the circumstances of the highly-transmissible omicron variant, his Department is content...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: 1551. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE is persisting in its specific advice to high-risk and vulnerable persons to use blue surgical masks as opposed to the FFP2 and similar (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63580/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: 1552. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE and HIQA are taking a different stance on the use of FFP2 masks to that operating in other countries; if he will publish the scientific advice on which this is based; if he will require both bodies to advise FFP2 and similar in the context of the highly-transmissible omicron variant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63581/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: 1746. To ask the Minister for Health when booster vaccines will be sanctioned for those under 16 years of age given the number of parents anxious their children should avail of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1572/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: 1747. To ask the Minister for Health the reason schools have not been identified as significant sources of infection given that other European Union countries have found them to be so and have proceeded in their reopening on that basis; if he will publish the advice on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1576/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: 1753. To ask the Minister for Health the amount that has been paid to a company (details supplied) since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic; the number of persons it has assessed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1618/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (14 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the details of and reasons for the major overrun of costs in the M7 widening, Sallins bypass, Osberstown interchange to date (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61200/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Authority (14 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: 182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he will take to resolve the situation in relation to driving instructors who are being denied access to basic facilities such as toilets and sanitation for a second year (details supplied) given that they are providing a vital service dealing with the current backlog of persons waiting for driving tests; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: 440. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department will assist in the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [61534/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (14 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: 528. To ask the Minister for Health the number of State locations or entities offering regular residential respite for teenagers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61265/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (14 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: 529. To ask the Minister for Health if there is an all-island system in which teenagers requiring regular residential respite and unable to access it here due to capacity issues can do so in Northern Ireland; if so, the cost paid by the State; if there is not such a system, if developing one is something he will consider; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61266/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (14 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: 561. To ask the Minister for Health when the neurology unit of Tallaght Hospital, which serves north County Kildare, will have its recommended full complement of 20 specialist neurology nurses as opposed to the 3.5 currently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61199/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will restore the employment wage subsidy scheme to the full amount and extend its operation to February 2022 at least in order to support business and preserve jobs given the current circumstances of Covid-19 infection rates and the advice to the public to reduce their socialising with the attendant major impact on the still recovering hospitality...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if public schools will be given free, high-quality masks for every child in the interest of public health; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60746/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: 487. To ask the Minister for Health the identity and qualifications in ventilation of the members of an organisation (details supplied) who advised against the need for HEPA filtration in classrooms; if he will publish the precise scientific basis on which that advice was given; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59857/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (7 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: 571. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that can be taken to help parents in north County Kildare to have their babies vaccinated with the usual childhood vaccines given that they cannot find a general practitioner to register with in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60241/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (30 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the planning that is in place to address the situation of those sitting the leaving certificate in 2022 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58330/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the suite of measures she is relying on to keep primary-schools safe given the absence of HEPA filters, masks, appropriate contact, test, trace and isolation and the fact most children in the age group that has not yet been vaccinated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59039/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a clean-air strategy in place for primary schools given growing international evidence over the past 20 months that Covid-19 is airborne and the fact this cohort remains unprotected through vaccination; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59040/21]