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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will, in deliberations, give priority to, and thereafter expedite, the urgently-needed second bus in the Rathcoffey-Maynooth educational environs, where at least 50 children are already waiting and left without the necessary service, and where yet more children will be requiring that service in the new academic year; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Policies (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 204. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline the investment plan in place to build up the State’s air defence capacity; and in the context of war on the eastern borders of the EU; the training and recruitment aspects of any such plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22927/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Policies (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 205. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence why the State does not have a primary radar facility despite the long and now urgent and need for same; if he will commit to providing this at the earliest opportunity given current geopolitics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22929/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Policies (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 206. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether he is liaising with his colleague the Minister for Environment, Climate and Communications in communicating with the public the importance of microgeneration schemes to resilience in the case of cyber attack on the energy systems of the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22930/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (16 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine urgently the case of a child (details supplied); if she will provide a suitable school place for them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22713/23]

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Standing Charges) Bill 2023: First Stage (11 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am delighted to be introducing the Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Standing Charges) Bill 2023 to the House, along with an Teachta O'Rourke. Our Bill is an important one. Given its name is the Commission for Regulation of Utilities, one would think the CRU would already have the power to do what our Bill proposes it would be able to do. Our Bill's intention is to give powers to the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (11 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department can guarantee definitively the additional school bus that is so desperately needed in North Kildare vis-à-vis children trying to get to school in the Rathcoffey-Maynooth environs, such need being the source of many Parliamentary Questions and much correspondence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22230/23]

Food Costs and High Grocery Bills: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am very glad to speak on our motion because prices and corporate greed are soaring while people’s standards of living, and their hearts, are sinking. I commend an Teachta O'Reilly on this Private Member's motion. I am very pleased the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, will not oppose the motion. I am sure the Minister of State is also hearing that prices in our shops are not...

Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am very pleased to speak on Europe Day, 50 years of membership of the EU and the power of our democratic union of peoples as a force for peace, equality and prosperity. I thank the EU institutions for the great care and concern they showed for people and businesses in the Six Counties in and around the Brexit negotiations. Europe built a peaceful union from the wreckage of two world...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Hybrid Threats and Threats to the National Infrastructure: Institute of International and European Affairs (9 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I thank the witnesses for very comprehensive presentations at this tense time. They mentioned the issue of conveying the message that there is a threat to our critical infrastructure and national grid. Mr. Fitzgerald mentioned the €2,400 grant for households to install solar panels on roofs. Many of the people who come into my office cannot afford the upfront fee so they cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Hybrid Threats and Threats to the National Infrastructure: Institute of International and European Affairs (9 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: The witnesses mentioned how the Russian invasion of Ukraine was not going as Russia had expected and that cyber warfare may be its preferred tool in future. Currently, our cyber defences are handled by the Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications, with seconded personnel from the Department of Defence. Where should responsibility for our cyber defences sit? How should we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Hybrid Threats and Threats to the National Infrastructure: Institute of International and European Affairs (9 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: Would Mr. FitzGerald have an opinion on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Hybrid Threats and Threats to the National Infrastructure: Institute of International and European Affairs (9 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: Is it very common in that space?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (9 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: 596. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be urgently examined and the executive's discretion used urgently in view of the circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21275/23]

Transport Support Schemes for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: I, too, thank the Regional Group for introducing this important motion. I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on it. I am glad to be able to speak up for the great people in the constituency of Kildare North who are living with physical and intellectual disabilities and face barriers in their lives due to transport constraints. I am thinking of those debilitated by neurodegenerative...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Apr 2023)

Réada Cronin: 175. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will urgently address the critical anomaly whereby children in the south east are currently deprived of the in-community palliative, end-of-life care available to children with such needs in the rest of the State (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19810/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Apr 2023)

Réada Cronin: 176. To ask the Minister for Health if he will move immediately to ensure that every family requiring end-of-life care for a child at home will be guaranteed that care automatically as outlined in The Model of Care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19811/23]

Re-introduction of Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2023)

Réada Cronin: On all the evidence, the Government is indifferent to the suffering of people in this housing disaster. It is indifferent to the suffering and panic of people who are facing eviction and have nowhere to go. It is indifferent to the suffering caused by a series of increases in their mortgage repayments leaving them completely broke and broken, many for the first time in the lifetime of their...

Deployment of Naval Service Vessel to Participate in Operation Irini: Motion (25 Apr 2023)

Réada Cronin: As peacekeepers, members of the Defence Forces represent us at our very best across the world. They are currently in action helping to extract our citizens caught up in the conflict in Sudan. I have every confidence in the courage and expertise of the Defence Forces and the Army Ranger Wing to get our people home. They are all in our thoughts. I take this opportunity to thank our...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (25 Apr 2023)

Réada Cronin: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the urgently awaited news of school places for children in Kilcock; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19285/23]