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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department will make a new commitment to the position of history on the curriculum, such subject being critical to giving a student a necessary level of continuum and context vis-à-vis current and emerging situations, globally, therefore facilitate a citizen in making a deeper and more reflective response; and if she will make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether her Department is taking a necessary new approach to the school-transport situation, to make it work for children’s/parents’ needs, given the system extant has little or no bearing on how schools are functioning, spatially in the community, and how families are forced to use them; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 606. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions he is taking to liaise with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment on the warnings issued by certain childcare providers on their possible need to withdraw from core funding, given its insufficiency, such action having a knock-on impact on workers and their employment, and especially on...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 629. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will move with all alacrity to address the situation whereby certain childcare providers are warning parents of their need to withdraw from core funding given its insufficiency, and so have to increase fees to those parents who are already under major financial pressure; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (13 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 652. To ask the Minister for Health the actions his Department is taking to address and urgently the HSE spend of €458 million of external consultants in 2022; whether he will publish his investigations and analysis into that spend; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35227/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Jul 2023)

Réada Cronin: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average number of buses in the Bus Éireann school transport fleet for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34520/23]

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]