Results 81-100 of 143 for long speaker:Réada Cronin

LGBTQI+ and Equality: Statements (23 Jun 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...Sinn Féin Deputy, I am especially proud to speak of the trail blazed by a Kildare woman to whom so much is owed, Dr. Lydia Foy. Dr. Foy changed her gender and had to do it publicly, entering a very long and very public battle for recognition. Without wishing to intrude on her life, I would imagine it was a very difficult and lonely journey, as it is for so many people who have...

Special Educational Needs School Places: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jun 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...places are not favours, charity or a kindness. They are constitutional rights the Government has a duty to vindicate. The parents whom Deputy Ó Laoghaire and I met yesterday have been fighting long and bitter battles for their children's rights. One hears and sees the toll it takes on their families. To help them, the Minister must publish the real data on how many children do not...

Short-term Lettings Enforcement Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 May 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...becoming impossible now when wealth funds hoover up developments and, in the latest development, developer risk is to be underwritten by the taxpayer. Recent statistics show that Airbnb outstrips long-term lets in every county. This short-term market is putting the kibosh on workers completely. Quite simply, we have to give our renters a break. This Bill will do that, not by...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 May 2022)

Réada Cronin: 192. To ask the Minister for Health the urgent action that is being taken to address the long-held concerns of the State’s medical scientists regarding recruitment, retention, pay and conditions particularly given the outstanding role they are playing in the ongoing pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25051/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (12 May 2022)

Réada Cronin: 276. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if budgetary provision is being made for the social protection need of persons with long-Covid; the way in which her Department is planning for same; if her Department is liaising with other Departments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23996/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (12 May 2022)

Réada Cronin: 338. To ask the Minister for Health if budgetary provision is being made for the medical need of persons with long-Covid; the way in which his Department is planning for same; if his Department is liaising with other Departments on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23995/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 May 2022)

Réada Cronin: 193. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if long-Covid is being cited as a condition in medical certification for social welfare payments and supports; and if so, the number of cases there have been; the number at present; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23744/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 May 2022)

Réada Cronin: 259. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who are currently notified as having long-Covid; if there is a national registry point for same; if so, the person or body that is in charge of the registry; the current arrangements for general practitioners to notify the public health system of patients with the condition; the data capture strategy that is allowing the adequate...

Europe Day: Statements (10 May 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...Ireland, they will realise that voted intention and be fully back in the EU automatically. That is something we must start preparing for. We cannot put a citizens’ assembly on unity on the long finger. We must be ready for that inevitability, particularly as Europe has worked so hard to support the North during Brexit. Ukraine too is anxious to join a union of peoples. We...

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Prohibition of Winter Disconnections) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...and unprecedented uncertainty, at least with this Bill we can give them one certainty, which is that the Government has their back. It is just one thing, but it can make or break a person. I am long enough in the House now to know how this works, but when I saw the Government amendment I just thought of all the people who would be broken and that it could be avoided if the amendment is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (7 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: 416. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the situation in which residents in State-run nursing homes are spending long periods of time on antibiotics for oral and dental infection in lieu of receiving the necessary dental intervention this being of further note in the context of antibiotic resistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19094/22]

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...even a suggestion, look, sight or say from a religious order, its ethos or its agents. Yet here we are and here we go into another round of talking about something that should have been sorted and settled long ago. We want our maternity hospital on land owned by the State, controlled by the State and run by the State and not by private companies or charities. It should be the State...

Women's Health Action Plan: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Réada Cronin: Sinn Féin welcomes this plan, which recognises women's health in its own right at long last. All too often, women do not feel listened to when it comes to our health and our real concerns can be minimalised or dismissed. We have all heard of the anxiety that turns out to be heart disease or the normal period pain that ends up being endometriosis. We suffer from a gender gap in medical...

Government Response to Situation in Ukraine: Statements (30 Mar 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...understaffed and will not be in any position to meet what is coming. The most important response we can make to the Ukrainian crisis is in pursuit of peace. We know that it does not take long for a war to take on a life of its own. Sinn Féin made peace in the North and we are certainly urging peace now. To the Members here who are beating the drums of war, they should know...

Green Hydrogen Strategy Bill 2022: First Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: I am delighted to introduce this Bill, along with our climate spokesperson, Deputy O'Rourke, and Deputies Guirke and Quinlivan. Green hydrogen offers major possibilities, but achieving them requires a strategy. Green hydrogen is an alternative fuel for transport, including long haul drivers and HGVs, which are important in my constituency, Kildare North. It is fast becoming something of a...

Freedom of Information Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...legislation and exorbitant pay rises accepted or forgone. The public needs to know about it. The so-called Zapponegate exposed a freedom of information system in crisis. The State has a long and patriarchal view of public information and the public's right to access it. Taking the example of the mother and baby homes, the attitude unfortunately persists in the treatment of adopted...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...be utterly rejected. The ESB is not the equivalent of the family silver. It contributes to the Irish economy and selling it off is out of the question. We have been talking about this Bill for a long time and with the announcement of the €100 rebate, the Government has certainly got a lot of airtime out of it but here we are, debating it. Many of my constituents in north...

Redundancy Payments (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (3 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...in will be supporting it. Being made redundant can be one of the most traumatic experiences in a person's life. It can be especially difficult if it occurs all of a sudden, if the employee has been a long time in the job or sector and if the employee has huge commitments, such as rent, mortgage or family commitments. An older worker may find it very hard to get another job. The...

Easing of Covid-19 Restrictions: Statements (2 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...It is also bad that there are cold and sometimes freezing conditions, which these students and teachers are reporting to me in classrooms across north Kildare, while HEPA filtration is still on the long finger. When did it become accepted that these children and their teachers and families should just get on and fend for themselves? Fending off an airborne virus is not science and...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Jan 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...them on the radio, and they are mainly women. They are another generation seeking rights, recognition and justice. Sinn Féin will be tabling amendments to this legislation but I have been here long enough now to know how that process goes. The Bill is certainly an improvement, but adopted people really need and deserve so much better. They are depending on the Minister to give...