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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (22 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: 212. To ask the Minister for Health if he will revisit the apparent decision to relocate the Naas antenatal clinic attached to the Coombe Hospital to Portlaoise hospital, thereby duplicating services at a hospital that already has its own maternity unit where women will deliver locally, but leaving Kildare women who will deliver at the Coombe without their much relied-on clinic in Naas; and...

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: Eviction is simply a word to this Government. It is something that, hopefully, no Members of Government will ever have to face. For too many of my north Kildare constituents, looming eviction is an absolute terror. It is the terror of joining the almost 12,000 people in emergency accommodation across the State. That number does not include those who are sofa surfing or living on the...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am happy to speak on the spring bonus proposal from An Teachta Doherty, which is a care package for people depending of social protection. “Social protection” are not dirty words. Our care package focuses on people in real need: families, lone parents, carers, people with disabilities. It is the opposite of the bonus arrangements and pamper packages the Government devises...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: I want to raise the issue of the lack of school places for children starting in our excellent primary schools in Kilcock. These are young children with rights to attend their local schools and I am receiving an increasing number of emails from their parents. Too many families are looking for too few places in north Kildare. They are just after getting out of childcare and now they find...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: 553. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the situation on the availability of, and access to, the hyperemesis gravidarum drug, cariban; how access in Ireland compares to that of other countries; the reason it cannot be prescribed by a GP when the majority of pregnant women can get to see a consultant only after the twelfth week of pregnancy; the number of scripts for cariban...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: 591. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the pathway to access treatment and support for people suffering from avoidant restrictive food intake disorder, a new diagnosis in the DSM-5, previously referred to as selective eating disorder; when a clinical lead will be appointed in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6586/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 121 of 1 February 2023, if she will outline in detail the way the extra €10 million allocated to school transport has been spent, providing a list of initiatives or services undertaken; the location, purpose and cost of each; the way each is alleviating the serious pressure due to lack of places; if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (8 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: 419. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the situation of oversight in some private nursing homes, whereby patients are charged automatically for activities in which, due to incapacity, they cannot meaningfully partake; if a system is in place for these charges to be refunded to the patients and-or families; if an audit can be undertaken of the charging of same; and if he will...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: Sinn Féin supports the proposal on body cams provided there is strict supervision, monitoring and protocols. As has been already outlined by some of my comrades, we have concerns about facial recognition provisions being introduced to a Bill that has already gone through prelegislative scrutiny. It is really not good enough. It goes without saying that technology must be always used...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am both glad and sad to contribution on this Stage. Here we are on St. Brigid's Day, the patron saint of pregnant women and their children, at a time when new life is returning to the earth, and the lack of respect to the new lives of those who were born in mother and baby institutions is still being debated in this Dáil. Here we are again, with the Government's same old refusal to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will list the additional services for which the €10 million announced regarding school transport has been provided; the areas the services are in; the number of additional children accommodated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4820/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will publish her Department’s review with the Department of Transport of the school-bus allocation system, given that parents are now trying to decide which schools their children should apply for to be based on the school-bus service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4821/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will publish interim reports on the review of the school-bus allocation system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4822/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (1 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s plans to address the current shortage of places in secondary schools in north Kildare and to build the capacity of same in the longer-term; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4823/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (31 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: In a previous meeting with the CRU, we talked about standing charges. Since then, Deputy O'Rourke and I have brought in a Bill that would prevent energy companies using standing charges to grow their profits. I am sure everyone would agree that there is something inherently unjust and unacceptable that this is happening. It is particularly galling for people who are trying to save money...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (31 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: Some people are paying up to €800. We had a case where-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (31 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: The last time the CRU was in with us, we talked about letting vulnerable customers know about disconnection and that sort of thing. Did the CRU do any kind of an audit as to what kind of communication energy companies were using? I noticed there were more ads on the television. To be honest, I do not whether that is like how it is said that when you buy a red car that you notice all the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (31 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: That is good to hear. Did any of those electricity suppliers write to customers or was it all just through the advertising campaign?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (31 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: 254. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will examine the situation whereby a young worker, already struggling with exorbitant rent, the high cost of fuel, and a cost-of-living crisis generally, is now struggling even more, given the increases to benefit-on-kind on their company car, which they regard as essential to the fulfilment of their employment; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Briefing on Current and Future Plans for the School Building Unit: Department of Education (31 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: I earlier attended a meeting of the Joint Committee on the Environment and Climate Action. I appreciate being allowed by the Chairman to ask a question. I get queries from parents and talk to schools ever year about the lack of school places. It was crazy in north Kildare this year. There is a severe shortage of school places in the area. Mr. Loftus will know that school facilities in...