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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...

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]