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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-----

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

Réada Cronin: Can the Minister say why rewilding did not feature in his statement?

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

Réada Cronin: Is the Minister planning to increase the financial incentive for farmers to rewild?

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

Réada Cronin: On the climate scientists-----

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

Réada Cronin: There were a lot of interruptions, a Cathaoirligh, in fairness. The Minister said that he was going to get back to me on the climate scientists the Department has. Is there any plan to recruit more climate scientists into the Minister's Department? It is a very important Department in the context of the challenges we face regarding climate change.

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

Réada Cronin: I want to say how dismayed I am at how this meeting has gone. I do not ever remember a Fine Gael or Green Party Minister of Government taking such a party political and partisan approach when replying to questions that we, as members representing the people, ask. I am taken aback by the way that went. I found it shocking actually. I hope it is not necessary for the Chair to remind the...

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

Réada Cronin: I asked about the use of chemicals on Coillte lands and the effect it has on visitors and people living in the vicinity. Are there any plans to reduce the amount of chemicals Coillte is using?

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

Réada Cronin: I will submit some parliamentary questions on the issue.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (1 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: 40. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 172 of 23 February 2023, the independent environmental evaluations and assessments undertaken in the matter of any planned of storage facilities (details supplied); the international credentials of those bodies undertaking such assessment; if he will publish their findings...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (1 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: 120. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 107 of 23 February 2023, if she will publish communications with the European Commission on the matter of recognising long Covid as an occupational injury, together with her correspondence with the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment on this matter; and if she will make a...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: Most of us have a story about how brilliant our ambulance paramedics and personnel are. They are the men and women we hope to never meet but when we need them we want to see them as quickly as possible. I know my local ambulance base in Maynooth very well. I campaigned about it having its hours cut during the austerity Government of Fine Gael and Labour in 2012. Ever since then Maynooth...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Abuse (28 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: 447. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will explain the delay in the publication of the Shannon Report into historic abuse at an organisation (details supplied); when the publication of that report can now be expected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9763/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (28 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: 599. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will examine the case of persons (details supplied) who were categorised as essential warehouse workers by the HSE, and are now being denied the pandemic bonus payment, on the basis of a technicality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9803/23]

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am glad to speak on the Bill, which my party will broadly support insofar as it seeks to establish more and greater accountability in policing. We will propose amendments in the future. The Bill sets out to achieve clear and effective oversight and accountability of An Garda Síochána. Sinn Féin welcomes this. It is clear that policing reform in this jurisdiction is...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: 107. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when his Department will move to recognise long-Covid in healthcare workers and others as an occupational injury, after they contracted Covid-19 on the front line, often when PPE was sparse; the current liaising that is taking place with the Departments of Health and Social Protection on same; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Generation (23 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: 172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will publish the instructions and environmental and biodiversity-impact requirements his Department has issued in the matter of certain storage facilities (details supplied) planned in the State; the regulator he has appointed; the stated regulations that will oversee and guide the operation of any such...