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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: 265. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the independent scientific, safety analyses of chemicals used by Coillte that have been undertaken in each of the past ten years; if he will publish the results of same; if he will publish the list of chemicals used by Coillte and their listed potential and actual side effects, in tabular form in each of the past ten years; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: 267. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of complaints/concerns that have been made by the public about the use of chemicals by Coillte in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; the list of cited medical complaints, if any, deemed by members of the public to be associated with such chemical use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11672/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: 268. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will list the veterinarian and or wildlife inspections of lands planted by Coillte in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; if he will publish any significant illnesses, losses, and impacts identified in each area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11673/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: 269. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is satisfied as to the safety for humans, flora, fauna and insect life, particularly pollinators of any chemicals used by Coillte; the scientific basis of that satisfaction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11674/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: 270. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what independent and State inspections of air, water-table and watercourses in and adjacent to Coillte forestry have been undertaken in each of the past ten years in relations to chemical use; if he will publish the findings of same, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11675/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: 271. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is satisfied as to the safety of chemicals used by Coillte; what in-house and external expert examinations of the lands and the chemical processes used on them comprise, and have been undertaken; if he can guarantee them safe to pollinators in particular; if he will publish the results of any examinations...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: 266. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is an annual audit of public health in the areas surrounding Coillte plantations; if so, if he will publish the results of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11671/23]

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: As my colleague, Teachta O'Rourke, said, Sinn Féin will support the Bill, but with reservations, as we have articulated at the climate committee. I hope the Minister will note those reservations. That this Bill is necessary at all is due to the negligence of this Government and its failure to plan. Sufficient unto the day might work for the headlines that this Administration governs...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (7 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: 363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when parents in Kilcock can expect confirmation of school-places, locally, for their children starting primary education in 2023, given the understandable anxiety regarding same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10923/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Parental Leave (7 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: 465. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will examine raising the age of children from 13 years for parents to qualify for parental leave, given the high number of parents with mid-teenage children who want the opportunity to take such leave and in the context of Tusla's insistence that children under 16 years cannot be left alone;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: 581. To ask the Minister for Health based on the HSE flow chart (details supplied), where in North Kildare the community can access treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11042/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Sector Pensions (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: 167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine matters in relation to the CIÉ 1951 scheme (details supplied), given he has been satisfied by the trustees as to the liquidity of the fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10653/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: You can actually, really. We have a point of view.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: They are not two different positions, you can ask questions. This is ridiculous.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: I thank the Minister for his statement. I did feel a bit worried when I read his statement last night. Ireland is an island in the middle of a radically changing climate world. There was a touch of the "keep calm and carry on" about it. Under diversification, the Minister talks about tillage and how we are exploiting the opportunity for import substitution of cereals and proteins. While...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: What about climate scientists?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: Could the Minister answer as I do not want the meeting to go into private session?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: This has not happened at any other time, or at any other committee meeting we have had.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: I did not; I said that in this committee we are holding the position, and it is not just our position.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: UNICEF also holds the position that Ireland has a precarious position on exporting milk products to other nations. There is a question of ethics around breastfeeding and making countries more reliant on milk imports when we should be encouraging people to breastfeed. If the position we have here-----