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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...

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: -----presentations at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition. It is a great school. We can see the outcome of the census. Principals across north Kildare tell me there is going to be a bulge in the population of the area in the next few years. Does the Department do anything to build in capacity? Maynooth University goes through the census numbers and produces an area...

Parental Bereavement Leave (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: I have also listened to the Minister's contribution. I have several questions because I am wondering what his amendment has to do with our Bill. Pregnancy loss and domestic violence leave are very important. I note the Minister said five days. I am sure he knows it was ten days in the report that our committee published, but none of that has anything to do with our Bill. I am afraid none...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (26 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: I appreciate the Minister of State's reply, particularly when he went off-script from the script the Department gave him. Sometimes people are told it is a ventilation matter. They are told to make sure their vents are not blocked. In many cases they are not blocked. That is not the cause of the mould. Earlier I spoke of a tenant who reported her leaks 16 months ago to Kildare County...

Parental Bereavement Leave (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I was delighted when I saw that our Bill had been chosen in the Bills lottery before Christmas and to get the opportunity to bring this Bill to the House on Second Stage. As I discussed at some of the committees, this Bill is designed to give parents who are employees the legal right to parental bereavement leave when their child has...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Schemes (26 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: As the Minister of State knows, Ireland has one of the highest rates of respiratory illness and disease in Europe. We have the highest rate of hospitalisation in the OECD for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD. Mould triggers and exacerbates respiratory conditions and also causes death, as in the case in England to which my colleague referred earlier. I am sure the Minister of...

Interim Report on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: Before I come to the issue in question, which is the report on the child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, if we are having a debate about hyperemesis gravidarum, I could take part in that as well, having suffered it myself and having been hospitalised with it. To get back to this issue, we are a small State that pays its department heads and health managers handsomely, so the...

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: That was well said by my colleague on the Committee on the Environment and Climate Action. I cannot speak about our forestry strategy without addressing the issue of Coillte and what my comrade Deputy Carthy raised here on Tuesday. It is not often that I am speechless but I was glad I had a couple of days before I got to speak on this issue. The proposal by Coillte to sell 12,000 hectares...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Question Heading for question(s) 253 (26 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: 253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3792/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (25 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: 72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driving tests cancelled in north Kildare due to the usual testing roads not being gritted during the recent cold snap; if such gritting will be undertaken as a normal activity in the future in the event of ice forecast; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3542/23]

Public Dental Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: There are so many people in north Kildare in agony with their teeth. Anyone depending on the medical card scheme is back to Dickensian times. For a supposedly modern state to leave somebody in this situation is degrading and perverse. With dental health affecting heart and brain health, we are storing up problems for the future for our young schoolchildren and others who are facing delays...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: 376. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will sanction the provision of a neuro-rehabilitation team for CHO 7 for persons affected by neurological injury or disease, given only two of the nine teams promised have been delivered (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2654/23]

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: It must be about a year since I saw an exasperated hospital consultant refer to trolley conditions in his emergency department as the warehousing of patients. In the time since, the situation has got even worse. I think I saw him again over Christmas saying the exact same thing. Before I go any further, I want to thank the hard-working staff at Naas General Hospital who continue to work...

Oil Emergency Contingency and Transfer of Renewable Transport Fuels Functions Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am also glad to get the opportunity to speak on this Bill, given how critical energy is now and will be in future and the actions we must take as a State and globally on renewable fuels, including for transport. I spoke to the Minister earlier about public transport. I talked about the climate action plan. It is a no-brainer for the Minister for the Environment, Climate and...

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am pleased to have an opportunity to speak on the climate action plan. As a Sinn Féin member of the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action, I am acutely aware we are no longer working to prevent climate change. What we are trying to do now is mitigate the impact and keep temperatures as low as possible and any increase as slow as possible. Here in the EU we have had...