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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (3 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: It is a bit perturbing to hear that the first the Tánaiste heard about this was in the media. That is upsetting. I have met with a few of the families of the people who are working in the fire station there in the Curragh. Since I joined the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, I am really struck by the great sense of duty of the people who come in to talk to us, members of...

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: I wrote a couple of pages on this issue but I could have written a book on the state of school transport in north Kildare. The Minister knows how often I have been in touch with her about this, particularly about the 41 children from Rathcoffey and Straffan who are trying to get to school in Celbridge and Maynooth. She knows how often I have stopped her in the Chamber to tell her about the...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Agency Bill 2023: Second Stage (28 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am happy to speak on this Bill and my party will be supporting its passage to Committee Stage. I wish to mention Teach Tearmainn in County Kildare, which is a refuge that offers free, confidential and invaluable support to women and children across County Kildare and parts of County Wicklow. It also offers refuge when women and their children are ready for it and they have the confidence...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (27 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: I will speak about amendments Nos. 35 and 36. I commend my colleague on the wording because it echoes back to the words of the Proclamation in the hall outside about the right of the people to the ownership of Ireland. I will speak about two issues in my constituency, Kildare North, involving two key heritage sites, one of which is Connolly's Folly. I am raising this issue as I was once a...

Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

Réada Cronin: Here we go again - another term and another scandal. When it comes to Ireland and systems, power and secrecy, it never really stops. It is long after the promise from the previous Minister that children with scoliosis would be treated within four months. We know how that went. I have spoken to some of the parents involved. I welcome them and their advocates to the Dáil. They are...

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...

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...

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. ...

Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important topic. We have just completed a Citizens' Assembly on Biodiversity Loss, and the general consensus was that while the Government has declared a biodiversity crisis, there is little evidence it is being taken seriously. I welcome the Minister of State's remarks on wildlife crime and An Garda Síochána becoming involved when crimes...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (5 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: In its report, Understanding the Irish Economy in a Time of Turbulence, the NESC recommends transposing the European Union directive on adequate minimum wages in order to do two things, namely, to strengthen the national system of collective bargaining and to increase collective bargaining coverage. The research shows that countries with high collective bargaining coverage tend to have a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (5 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: As the Taoiseach knows, over the past two years my party leader, Deputy McDonald, and others have been raising the alarm about the decision by the Department of Health to effectively shut down the north inner city drugs and alcohol task force. It is a mystifying move given the task force is so badly needed. Unfortunately, the Taoiseach's most recent written response on this to Deputy...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: Homelessness is increasing all of the time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: The housing crisis has changed to a housing disaster, as the rocketing rents and record homelessness figures show. We have reached a watershed in this country where having a job and going to work no longer guarantees you a roof over your head, whether to rent or buy. The social contract is not the only thing broken; the people coming to my constituency office are broken too. In the past...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: It feels like Groundhog Day when I have to raise again here the case of my constituent, Graeme Meehan, as I did a few weeks ago. Raising his case on the floor of the Dáil - with the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, actually taking the trouble to act on it - still has not been enough to get the HSE to do its job by contacting Mr. Meehan's mother, Maura, to get the ball rolling to give...