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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (27 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 178. To ask the Minister for Finance if homeowners awaiting the 'taking-in-charge' of estates, the process of which is taking an inordinately long period of time, can be exempt from paying local property tax until it is completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54065/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (27 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54003/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I want to put on record that we are a bit disappointed that the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, could not join us this morning. The committee gave her a lot of flexibility to attend today's meeting. We are dealing with the recommendations from the citizens' assembly. People gave up their time to contribute to it and it is a pity the Minister of State is not here. I do not blame the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: The figures seem to be just plucked out of the air. The decision does not seem to be based on research.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: The Department engages in a lot of consultations. Is it Mr. Lawler's opinion that benchmarking might save a bit of time? The Department would not have to be ticking boxes, having consultations, meeting different groups and reading their submissions if the pension were benchmarked, say, to average earnings.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Mr. Hession was talking about the carer's allowance for people who are full-time carers being defined as not less than 35 hours per week. Has the Department ever considered for full-time carers the basic income minimum pay of €325 per week that was introduced for artists? Has the Department considered that as a basic pay for carers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Will Mr. Hession go into a bit more detail about the winners and losers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: There would be no means tests, however.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: The losers would be people who already had other income and the winners would be people who did not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: It would recognise carers' work, though. That might be something we could look into again.

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Accessible, reliable, affordable and safe travel is what commuters want and need in north Kildare. Instead, we have workers from Prosperous and Clane receiving late warnings from work, with one constituent receiving a final late warning. Parents must take time off work to get their children to Maynooth University for lectures or laboratory work. Mothers - it is always mothers - in Straffan...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I want to raise public transport. My constituents have been stranded on the side of the road because buses were late, did not turn up or rolled past because they are full. Students at Maynooth University have been unable to get to their lectures in time. Young people appeared before the climate committee last Friday from all across the country. All spoke about public transport in their...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (25 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 181. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a matter in relation to the installation of a photovoltaic system (details supplied) will be examined; if he will liaise with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52837/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP27: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. The presentation from Ms Wathuti of Oxfam was harrowing. It is worrying that Ireland is among a handful of countries that are yet to submit its long-term strategy to the EU. This committee takes its work seriously but I sometimes wonder if we are a bit too genteel in our approach. Are we the ones who are not looking up, so to speak? To go...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP27: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Does the witness believe that we have done enough in relation to the Energy Charter Treaty?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP27: Discussion (25 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: My colleague, Senator Boylan, certainly has. I meant whether this committee has done enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on the Circular Economy and COP27, including Climate Justice and Energy: Discussion (21 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I will stand, as our witnesses stood when they were speaking. We sat the last time we had young people in with us. I must say that today has been just as insightful as that meeting was. I was really taken by the fact that so many of our witnesses said they feel let down by politicians and the system and by the choices that are made. There is no doubt but that we are going to need radical...