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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. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Engagement with the Reserve Defence Force Representative Association (11 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: Our guests are welcome. When I read the opening statement last night, I was struck by how sad it was. It is depressing and sad that our guests feel they are not getting the respect to which they are entitled. The commission seems to have hit on and recognised that. Sometimes I feel that is how we do things around here. We have a great history of volunteerism in Ireland. I was a member...

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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (5 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 135. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine, with urgency, a situation (details supplied). [33069/23]

Matters Arising in RTÉ: Statements (4 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: Like most people, I have watched the RTÉ crisis with dismay and disappointment. Unlike most people, I had a sneak preview of how the public duty of the national broadcaster was at complete odds with its commercial devotion to its advertisers and sponsors. At a meeting of the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action last December, RTÉ did not seem to be able to join the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (4 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 638. To ask the Minister for Health whether, given the criticality of our pharmacies to community health, he has or will conduct a review of pharmacy dispensing fees and the extent of service provision by community pharmacists; if he has or will engage with an organisaion (details supplied) on the matter, and the dates on which he has or will engage; if he will establish a review which...

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: I will open my short contribution by saying that when we consider the situation in the upper echelons of RTÉ and Horse Racing Ireland, not to mention the national children's hospital, it shows how valuable clarity is and how often it is best noted by its absence. The Bill before us also lacks that clarity on how the proceeds of this windfall tax are to be distributed and used. We in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (27 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: 67. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform whether his Department is developing a financial strategy to deal with the impact of long Covid on society in the medium to long term; if so, the details of same; whether it is earmarking funds for use by the relevant Departments such as the Departments of Health and Education, to assist public servants who contracted Covid in the line...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (27 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: 152. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department will examine an issue in relation to persons working as civilians within the Defence Forces (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31168/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Services (27 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: 171. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department can assess any flight-path changes and frequency of same in aircraft using Dublin Airport, given the new aircraft noise-pollution problems reported by persons in residential areas of north Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31148/23]