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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I apologise for interrupting. I am sure there is a delay with the Internet. I was surprised that what went missing was the report from the Minister, Deputy O’Gorman, suggesting the exact same thing. That should be put on the record. Will SIPTU have any comment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I want to check something with WorkEqual. Particularly striking was the finding that 33% of women with teenage children say their career has been affected in comparison with 0% of men. Should that be 10% of men?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Considering the number of working women who are told they are marvellous to be walking the tightrope, I wonder what percentage of men are told they are marvellous for doing so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: It is a matter of changing culture as well. At recent meetings, we discovered the gender pay gap is higher among higher earners and close to zero among the lower paid workers. The gap widens for mothers of children – really, we could say working women. When a woman goes to work, she has to earn enough. She is trying to earn as much as her male counterpart but also has to earn...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: They are having a problem with recruitment and retention also because of the minimum wage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Does Ms Lennon believe legislation might need to be improved to make that happen?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Does Ms Lennon have any comments on affordable childcare?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Yes please, that would be great.

Personal Injuries Resolution Board Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I am happy to speak on this stage of the Bill and thank everybody who has worked on it so far. As the House will be aware, my party works all the time to support and strengthen the rights of citizens with regard to institutional, corporate or Government bodies where the balance of power and, therefore, the balance of financial and professional resources is automatically not in their favour....

Housing for All Update: Statements (4 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I am happy to be able to speak on this issue as well because I had my constituency clinics in Kildare North yesterday, and the issues of housing, homelessness and eviction notices were coming in thick and fast. I was not a bit surprised at the record homeless figures released last week. Housing is required for everybody, for all the reasons that make life worth living, including safety,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: The witnesses are very welcome to the meeting. In north Kildare, constituents of mine tell me that they are cutting down drastically on their electricity use. Some of them are taking the alarming advice to use dishwashers, washing machines and dryers at night time, about which I am sure every fireman and firewoman in the State would be very anxious. I also want to ask the witnesses about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Yes, I mean how Electric Ireland engages with them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: What percentage of Electric Ireland customers have actively engaged with it around using their smart meters correctly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I am sorry if I miscommunicated that. I mean elderly people; people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD, who need a regular temperature; and people who rely on stairlifts and overnight dialysis.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: How does Electric Ireland engage with them? Has it written to all customers asking if they are vulnerable?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: What about monthly bills?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (4 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 240. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to any practice of banks operating in the Irish market of assigning debt or chose in action to vulture funds but of failing to give notice to the debtor of the amounts assigned. [48541/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (4 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 241. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether any instrument of assignment of a debt or chose-in-action in cases in which there has been a failure to pay duty on a chargeable instrument, is inadmissible to prove the assignment, subject to the provisions of section 127(4) of the Stamp Duty Consolidation Act 1999; if he is satisfied that all banks and vulture funds so called must...