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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (30 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: 294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can assure parents in north Kildare, that their children currently forced to receive home tuition for first year, due to the lack of a school place, will have their second year school place guaranteed in September 2024 and for all subsequent years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4275/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: I have one question on heads 34 to 37, specifically Part 4, number 4.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: Part 4, number 4, amending the provisions regarding re-engagement of enlisted personnel in heads 34 to 37. This matter is of personal interest to me. I wrote to the Tánaiste on the matter of age last November and I sent him a reminder again last week about the case of a person who will be 36 on his next birthday and who applied for the job of Army band conductor but was deemed to be...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Electricity Supply Board (25 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: 208. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when his Department and the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications will reach the necessary consent to pay the agreed pension increases to ESB beneficiaries, such consent notified to them as being required for payment and long awaited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3431/24]

Tribunal of Inquiry into certain matters relating to the Complaints Processes in the Defence Forces: Motion (24 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: I welcome to the Public Gallery members of Women of Honour, whom I have met several times, and members of the Defence Forces Justice Alliance whom I met yesterday in the audiovisual room. As the Tánaiste knows, we discussed aspects of the tribunal of inquiry last night in priority questions and other oral questions. By chance, just this morning when I was looking through social media,...

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: Apart from the word "genocide", words do not exist to describe the atrocities being committed by Israel against the Palestinian people. There is mass murder by bombs and drones, people are crushed to death, suffocated and now there is starvation, diarrhoea, infection and dehydration. The living are maimed, disabled and blinded. There is no anaesthetic for amputations or Caesarean sections....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (24 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a thorough update on the issue with school-places in north Kildare, in particular in bottleneck areas previously notified to her, and in which TDs and families are still awaiting a requested meeting with her; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3229/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: We are all anxious that the tribunal does its work and it goes well for the Women of Honour and, indeed, the people we met this morning in the audiovisual room. There are, though, three things we must keep to the front of our minds here because if we do not, then we will be lost before we start. One is that there is a great power imbalance between the Defence Forces as an organisation and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: How does it go when questions are grouped?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: Okay.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: Right. I was just not sure about the procedure when the questions are grouped like this.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: Does that depend on the judge's opinion?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: This was not what was explained to us.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: That was not their interpretation of it.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: Okay. Earlier, it was said there was a lack of communication or, certainly, that the communication was poor between the Minister's Department and the stakeholders.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: I know. We will be discussing it anyway, so I suppose we will get a bit more clarity in that context.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: 64. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department will revisit the terms of reference of the tribunal investigating abuse in the Defence Forces, given the dismay of Women of Honour at the limits of what is proposed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2741/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: Will the Department of Defence revisit the terms of reference of the tribunal investigating abuse in the Defence Forces, given the dismay of Women of Honour at the limits of what is proposed, and will the Tánaiste make a statement on the matter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: Sort of, but not quite.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Tánaiste for his reply on this extremely sensitive issue. The Women of Honour were clear when I spoke to them that when they, in turn, spoke to the Tánaiste around the terms of reference on 14 December, he said he would reflect on the matters they raised with him. It seems there is a clear breakdown in communication between his Department and the...