Results 61-80 of 2,658 for speaker:Réada Cronin

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: The first business case did not comply with the spending code requirements because of an incomplete multi-criteria analysis and an insufficient financial appraisal. Given the understanding expressed by the OPW of the cultural importance of Castletown House, and that the sale was unopposed, how did the business case fail to comply with the spending code?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: The spending code and value for money are important. We are dealing with taxpayers' money. This comes up all the time. While driving home a few months ago, I heard about the loss of income to the State due to the fact that Castletown House has been closed for so long. I was gobsmacked to hear we had spent €500,000 on traffic management, a figure which would employ at least ten...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: I know the Minister of State was not the Minister responsible at the time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: I appreciate they refer to the past and-or were before the time of the Minister of State and Mr. Cullen in the OPW. Would the Minister of State agree that while it was unfortunate that the OPW only gave two days' notice to the Department in one case, it was certainly careless to do so again the following year? Does he agree that the mess in Castletown House and Celbridge and the upset it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: I will say it. I will say it is absolutely due to the incompetence of the OPW. I commend the fortitude and bravery of some involved. This involves access to heritage sites. People in Castletown House, Celbridge and Leixlip who have tried to protect pedestrian access to Castletown House and keep the avenue pedestrian should not be sullied by the misfortune of all that has occurred at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: The Minister of State will get back to me on why this happened twice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: We want to work towards a resolution. We are all on board with that. We have to make sure we can open this to everybody.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: The witnesses are very welcome. This committee is tasked with ensuring we can deliver critical national infrastructure faster and better. Strategic infrastructure development comes under remit and responsibilities of An Coimisiún Pleanála. I ask Mr. Mullen to give us examples of how the planning process has hindered specific projects. I understand he is happy enough with An...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: The fact that An Coimisiún Pleanála does not get any of its legal costs puts it at a severe disadvantage.

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Role, Responsibilities and Processes of An Coimisiún Pleanála and Office of the Planning Regulator: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: All projects are required to be in line with the climate Act cross-departmentally anyway. It is something we need to look at.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: 59. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an updated timeline for completion of the Dart+ West project in light of a dropped judicial case against it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36548/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: 60. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans for expanded transport from Heuston station into Dublin city centre following the completion of the Dart+ West and Dart+ West South projects; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36549/25]

GPO and Moore Street Regeneration as a 1916 Cultural Quarter: Motion [Private Members] (1 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: When Pádraig Pearse stood outside the GPO on Easter 1916 to read the Proclamation, he read it not in the hopes that he might one day live to see it, but in the knowledge that the generations of republicans to follow would. The Proclamation of the Republic is not just a script to put in a picture frame. It is the inspiration of a republic that found a voice in our Proclamation. It...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (24 Jun 2025)

Réada Cronin: 456. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of resources provided to schools in north Kildare to accommodate children with mild general learning disabilities in mainstream schools; the number of children in those classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34443/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Water Pollution (24 Jun 2025)

Réada Cronin: 698. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps being taken to address water quality in areas where pollution from agricultural practices has occurred that contributes to nutrient losses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34442/25]

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Réada Cronin: For years, we have known about the state of the housing crisis and calling it an emergency. The President, Uachtarán na hÉireann, called it disastrous when he came to my constituency in north Kildare. Record level house prices, rising rents and missing its own building targets year after year is the Government's record on housing as well as misleading people in the last general...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Parking Provision (17 Jun 2025)

Réada Cronin: 340. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when the application for planning permission for a car park for (details supplied) will be submitted; if his Department is still engaging with a centre on the opening of a car park there; if essential service vehicles will be included in the use of said car park; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32787/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (17 Jun 2025)

Réada Cronin: 341. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for a breakdown in the cost of running a property (details supplied) in 2024 while it was closed to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32790/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Monuments (17 Jun 2025)

Réada Cronin: 546. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a structure (details supplied) has been registered as a national monument under the Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2023; if not, whether this will be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32788/25]

Criminal Law (Prohibition of the Disclosure of Counselling Records) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jun 2025)

Réada Cronin: Ar dtús, ba mhaith liom an Bille seo a mholadh don Teach. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta Coppinger as ucht é a chur faoi bhráid na Dála. I would also like to welcome all of those in the Gallery who made the journey to Leinster House today to hear the debate on this very important legislation. I met a couple of people I know outside, including a constituent who...