Results 961-980 of 2,472 for speaker:Réada Cronin

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (26 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: 493. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide information on a matter (details supplied). [41434/23]

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: Gabhaim buíochas freisin leis na Social Democrats as an Private Members' motion seo. Housing and affordability are not mutually exclusive. It is not a sign of an advanced society or economy if people cannot afford a home. It is not a sign of success or progress if hard work and a good job are no longer enough for a person to be able to afford to rent or buy a home of their own....

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Second Stage (21 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak on this Stage of the Bill. I do not want to sound rude or anything like that, because I know the Minister of State is a very mild-mannered Minister, but it really is about time that we had this Bill. I also want to say that there is something perverse about the term "windfall" being associated with the provision of energy, which is an essential...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (21 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: 268. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to accommodate, locally, children who have been informed there will no longer be speech and language therapy available to them in Kilcock from October due to staffing issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40840/23]

Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion (20 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am glad to be able to speak on this Private Members' Bill this evening because there is so much pain behind the closed doors of north Kildare. It was good to have the opportunity to focus completely on the constituency over the past couple of months. People are living on ordinary wages and paying extraordinary mortgages for a standard home. I was talking to a woman in her 50s this...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: This is my second time speaking on this Bill and the third time the Bill has been before the Dáil. It has been shunted around the schedule. I acknowledge that the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, is here. I appreciate that. I also take this opportunity to thank Together for Safety and my comrade in the Seanad, Senator Paul Gavan, who has been working on a similar safe access...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: I want to recognise how the Irish people, through us, stand by Palestine. I will return to the actions that I want us to take but, first, I want to talk specifically about the children of Palestine. They are children like our own, who love to play out the back or out the front, or to kick a ball on the beach. Those same children, who, when not dying of fright by air attacks are killed...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 187. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline the plans his Department has to communicate to the public the importance of micro-generation such as solar panels on dwellings to citizen and societal resilience in the event of a cyberattack on the State’s energy facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35223/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 188. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment whether his Department is, as a matter of urgency, prioritising solar for all dwellings, given its capacity to provide resilience in the event of a cyberattack on the energy system; such plans to include easy-to-apply-for interest-free loans or generous grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35224/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 213. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline the plans of his Department to rebuild and equip the Defence Forces so they are in the proper position to patrol our territorial waters effectively and defend our neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35221/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 215. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether his Department is satisfied that the Defence Forces are currently staffed and equipped to a sufficient level in order to fulfil their various functions - military, surveillance, peacekeeping and civil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35229/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 214. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline the plans his Department has to build the cyber-security aspect of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35222/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 216. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline the various mechanisms by which his Department is working to reach agreement with the Women of Honour on all outstanding issues; the number and grade of staff allotted to this task; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35230/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Defence Forces (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 346. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department will outline the enhanced expenditure necessary to bring the Defence Forces up to their full complement and capability in order to defend our neutrality, patrol our waters and airspace and fulfil their international obligations such as peacekeeping; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35228/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department will make a new commitment to the position of history on the curriculum, such subject being critical to giving a student a necessary level of continuum and context vis-à-vis current and emerging situations, globally, therefore facilitate a citizen in making a deeper and more reflective response; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department is taking a necessary new approach to the school-transport situation, to make it work for children’s/parents’ needs, given the system extant has little or no bearing on how schools are functioning, spatially in the community, and how families are forced to use them; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 606. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he is taking to liaise with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment on the warnings issued by certain childcare providers on their possible need to withdraw from core funding, given its insufficiency, such action having a knock-on impact on workers and their employment, and especially on...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 629. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will move with all alacrity to address the situation whereby certain childcare providers are warning parents of their need to withdraw from core funding given its insufficiency, and so have to increase fees to those parents who are already under major financial pressure; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 652. To ask the Minister for Health the actions his Department is taking to address and urgently the HSE spend of €458 million of external consultants in 2022; whether he will publish his investigations and analysis into that spend; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35227/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average number of buses in the Bus Éireann school transport fleet for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34520/23]