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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I appreciate the Minister's answer. This goes to the wider issue of how the Defence Forces are treated and valued. We talk about recruitment and retention. We really have to start at retention. We have to retain the members who are working in the Defence Forces. They are trained already. The priority has to be keeping them. This could be an indication to the committed members of our...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: Will the Tánaiste accede to the wishes of the Women of Honour that any internal appointee to the oversight board be vetted for appropriateness by an Oireachtas committee, such desire reflecting their particular experience within the Defence Forces organisation and its culture? Will the Tánaiste also make a statement on this matter?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: It is time that the Women of Honour were honoured in word and in deed by the House. The seriousness of the damage that was done to these women - and, indeed, men – has been fully articulated in the national media. It is not that they were raped or sexually assaulted out on the street and then did not get a kind ear when they went into work. This was done by their superior officers....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: If the Tánaiste will not agree to that, I am sure there is some way of providing confidentiality to any appointee to the oversight body. The Tánaiste met Women of Honour the week before last, but the group was not satisfied afterwards. Is the Tánaiste going to meet Women of Honour again to discuss how to reach an agreement on this? We are talking about women who were in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Disinformation and Hybrid Threats in a Geopolitical Context: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I understand and will be brief. I thank the Cathaoirleach for letting me in. I was in the Chamber so I missed the start of the meeting. Is Professor Laffan online?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Disinformation and Hybrid Threats in a Geopolitical Context: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I had a couple of questions for her. Turning to Dr. Culloty, in the last week we have been talking about disinformation. We had the case of the editorial process in The Irish Times being breached by an artificial intelligence, AI, article. Was Dr. Culloty surprised by that happening? If we leave the AI aspect out of this, there is a sense of standards being involved as well. I say this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Disinformation and Hybrid Threats in a Geopolitical Context: Discussion (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am sorry for missing the earlier part of the meeting.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many SENOs are currently working in North Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22674/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will, in deliberations, give priority to, and thereafter expedite, the urgently-needed second bus in the Rathcoffey-Maynooth educational environs, where at least 50 children are already waiting and left without the necessary service, and where yet more children will be requiring that service in the new academic year; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Policies (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 204. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline the investment plan in place to build up the State’s air defence capacity; and in the context of war on the eastern borders of the EU; the training and recruitment aspects of any such plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22927/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Policies (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 205. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence why the State does not have a primary radar facility despite the long and now urgent and need for same; if he will commit to providing this at the earliest opportunity given current geopolitics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22929/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Policies (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 206. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether he is liaising with his colleague the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications in communicating with the public the importance of microgeneration schemes to resilience in the case of cyber attack on the energy systems of the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22930/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine urgently the case of a child (details supplied); if she will provide a suitable school place for them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22713/23]

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Standing Charges) Bill 2023: First Stage (11 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am delighted to be introducing the Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Standing Charges) Bill 2023 to the House, along with an Teachta O'Rourke. Our Bill is an important one. Given its name is the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, one would think the CRU would already have the power to do what our Bill proposes it would be able to do. Our Bill's intention is to give powers to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (11 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department can guarantee definitively the additional school bus that is so desperately needed in North Kildare vis-à-vis children trying to get to school in the Rathcoffey-Maynooth environs, such need being the source of many Parliamentary Questions and much correspondence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22230/23]

Food Costs and High Grocery Bills: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am very glad to speak on our motion because prices and corporate greed are soaring while people’s standards of living, and their hearts, are sinking. I commend an Teachta O'Reilly on this Private Member's motion. I am very pleased the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, will not oppose the motion. I am sure the Minister of State is also hearing that prices in our shops are not...

Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am very pleased to speak on Europe Day, 50 years of membership of the EU and the power of our democratic union of peoples as a force for peace, equality and prosperity. I thank the EU institutions for the great care and concern they showed for people and businesses in the Six Counties in and around the Brexit negotiations. Europe built a peaceful union from the wreckage of two world...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Hybrid Threats and Threats to the National Infrastructure: Institute of International and European Affairs (9 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I thank the witnesses for very comprehensive presentations at this tense time. They mentioned the issue of conveying the message that there is a threat to our critical infrastructure and national grid. Mr. Fitzgerald mentioned the €2,400 grant for households to install solar panels on roofs. Many of the people who come into my office cannot afford the upfront fee so they cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Hybrid Threats and Threats to the National Infrastructure: Institute of International and European Affairs (9 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: The witnesses mentioned how the Russian invasion of Ukraine was not going as Russia had expected and that cyber warfare may be its preferred tool in future. Currently, our cyber defences are handled by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, with seconded personnel from the Department of Defence. Where should responsibility for our cyber defences sit? How should we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Hybrid Threats and Threats to the National Infrastructure: Institute of International and European Affairs (9 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: Would Mr. FitzGerald have an opinion on that?