Results 121-140 of 143 for long speaker:Réada Cronin

Direct Provision: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...trauma that direct provision has caused countless people. Sinn Féin is committed to an end to this for-profit system and this White Paper will bring some light at the end of a very dark and long tunnel which has brought distress to many and disgrace on us as a society. Children have spent years in these, for want of a better word, detention centres. I know all parents, and...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (20 Apr 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...spent on the recent court case. What are those initiatives? Ireland had one of the highest rates of respiratory disease in the EU even before the onset of Covid-19. People will now be experiencing long Covid and there are high hospitalisation rates and emergencies. The Irish Thoracic Society has stated we are facing an unprecedented crisis in respiratory health because we have so few...

Impact of Covid-19 on Women for International Women’s Day: Statements (4 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...were immediately with the families of the gardaí. I remember, as a child, sitting on the pillar in my front garden on the day of the Dublin and Monaghan bombings, waiting for him to come home. It was long before the days of mobile phones. Saturday's demonstration was a threat to public health and a right kick in the teeth to all of us, but it was a particular insult to our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Decarbonising Transport: Discussion (23 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...one way in and out. Somebody who lives at the back of such an estate has to travel a significant distance to get to a school that is just behind his or her wall. I mentioned that we do not have a long history of urban planning. I know Mr. Cussen only has an oversight role. The planners in Kildare County Council were interested in this as well. When we are planning cities and villages,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 178. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will extend over a suitably long period the amount of extra taxation due over pandemic unemployment payments to assist workers and their families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8833/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: .... The Irish Thoracic Society warns of an unprecedented crisis in lung health due to insufficient specialists and respiratory consultants. This problem is now going to be exacerbated by Covid and long Covid. This week it was reported that air pollution is responsible for one in five deaths globally and one in ten in Europe. The Tánaiste is a doctor and he should get this; we...

Household Utility Bills Support: Motion [Private Members] (3 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: .... Behind closed doors people are struggling with their emotional and mental health because of the extended lockdowns. We are in our fourth lockdown in County Kildare. We are hunkering down for the long haul, but too many of us are doing it in the cold. Let us imagine what it is like to watch one's children miserable, not able to get comfortable, because they are just too cold. Let...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (3 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: ...add this profession to the critical skills occupation list for employment permit purposes given the deficit in physiotherapist numbers, the treatment backlog and the disease impact of both Covid-19 and long Covid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5945/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (17 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: 352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the planning his Department is conducting to address the potential housing crisis involving long-term renters in the absence of private pensions in a large segment of the population particularly women and when the old age pension was not devised to cover the cost of accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the...

Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (10 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: ...line for €50 because, in its opinion, that is all they are entitled to. The Government forgets that almost everything in people's lives is predicated on what we do in here. Where they live, how long they live, their healthcare, whether they can keep a roof over their heads, whether they can keep their sight, whether their children can go to college, and life and death are all...

Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: ..., for bringing forward the Bill. Deputy O'Reilly has been on the case since early summer, when we first realised this had been overlooked by the Government. We are nine months into this pandemic, long enough to have conceived and given birth to a baby, yet testing and tracing is still not optimal and public health doctors are so badly treated that they have had to threaten to go on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: 356. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place for the treatment and management of long Covid and its acknowledgement as a medical condition; if he will establish multidisciplinary post-Covid-19 clinics around the State to include occupational therapists, physiotherapists, nutritionists and counsellors; the guidance that will be issued to general practitioners and consultants in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Search and Rescue Service Provision (12 Nov 2020)

Réada Cronin: ...of Air Corps officers about Irish military intelligence and the lack of control and oversight of data and what happens in British airfields; and third, downgrading the Air Corps, which is a vital part of our long-neglected and undervalued Defence Forces to the point that it could disappear over the Government's privatisation horizon. To add insult to injury, this is a flagrant breach of...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Nov 2020)

Réada Cronin: ...have a constituent aged six who reported in early March that she had been sexually abused but she has still not been interviewed. She cannot get counselling before the interview occurs. This is a long time to wait when one is six years old, and it is a long time for her mam to be watching her child in this excruciating position. Yesterday, I wrote to the Minister for Children, Equality,...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Réada Cronin: ...or for the hope of freedom here at home in Ireland, or simply for wages to put food on the table. Leaving the EU will be a time of realisation and adjustment for Britain, not alone in how long it can or will remain united as a kingdom, but equally, in how it can make a psychological place for and within itself after centuries of empire and generations as a member of the European Union....

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020)

Réada Cronin: ...interest and public health. It ignored the Chief Medical Officer's advice and then the Tánaiste went on to disparage that advice on national television. Now we are back in lockdown, this time for a longer period. Small businesses and ordinary people are paying the price. This Government continues to operate on the basis of access and entitlement for the favoured few, starting with...

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2020)

Réada Cronin: ...We need a forestry appeals process that comes from a sense of collaborative flourishing, that gives to counties and communities rather than withholding from them. The appeals process in this Bill falls a long way short of what is needed. I urge the Minister of State to pay close attention to the amendments Sinn Féin has proposed and to do the right thing.

Health (Amendment) (Professional Home Care) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Sep 2020)

Réada Cronin: ...people. In this regard we are really talking about ourselves because, if we are lucky, old age will come to us all. I am sure that most of us here would like to live independently at home for as long as possible and then, if necessary, with some form of independent but sheltered arrangement in the community. The word "independent" matters. It is one of the great injustices of old age...

Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (23 Sep 2020)

Réada Cronin: ...is common sense. However, at present the community in Rathcoffey in north Kildare is looking at access to the bus that goes from Naas General Hospital to Blanchardstown with something approaching longing. We have to fix this. It can be fixed simply by looking at the route and adapting it to facilitate more commuters. Just as we have to fix the way Covid-19 is exposing the fault lines...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: The Situation in Meat Processing Plants (13 Aug 2020)

Réada Cronin: Dr. McGuinness said that the authority was invited to the national outbreak control team in May. That is a long time ago and it is August now. Has the HSA met with the team since?