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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]

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

Réada Cronin: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average number of buses in the Bus Éireann school transport fleet for Kildare, specifically, for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34521/23]

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

Réada Cronin: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update from her Department on the state of plans for the recruitment and/or deployment of sufficient drivers for school-bus transport and the guaranteed provision of sufficient vehicles for same, State-wide and in Kildare in particular; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34522/23]

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: The rental sector is now in a state of emergency. Rents are very high in my constituency of Kildare North and I want to talk a bit about the people who cannot afford to rent. Imagine what it must be like for people who cannot afford to rent. They become part of the hidden homelessness Deputy Ó Broin has mentioned. They try to sleep on somebody's sofa. They try get up and out to work...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: Yes. I had not expected to speak on this Bill until Thursday.

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: No, I will speak for a minute. I was ready to speak on it last week and have been ready in case the opportunity arose today. It is worth mentioning that this Bill has been shunted around the Dáil schedule in the same way the issue of addressing safe spaces for women accessing healthcare has been shunted around by the Government. For too many generations, Irish women were confined...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: We did not make ourselves pregnant. We were not that good at all. When it came to fertility, there seems to have been nothing that mná na hÉireann could not do without men. However, women in Ireland have found our voice and we certainly made sure that it was heard at the referendum on the eighth amendment so that future generations would not have to put up with this nonsense. ...