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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: I very much agree with Dr. Bambrick's last point. The €250 flat rate is a real wall to fathers in particular being able to take that leave. I had to leave earlier to attend another appointment so I am not sure if this question on collective bargaining has been asked. The EU directive on adequate minimum wage and collective bargaining rights will come into operation the next few...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (20 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: There has been nothing like this year previously, though.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (20 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: I thank the Minister of State for stepping in to take the matter tonight. I do not know what bus na scoile is like in Waterford but in north Kildare it is absolutely dire. In all the years I was a councillor, and since I have become a Deputy, I have never seen anything like the avalanche of messages, requests and emails I am getting from parents in north Kildare, contacting me about bus na...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (20 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: That is a problem I am hearing about as well. Buses are not full and yet kids have been refused places on them. I know of 29 children from the Rathcoffey-Straffan area. There is no public transport from Straffan into Maynooth secondary school. There is a public bus service from Rathcoffey, but there is not one from Straffan and there are 29 children without a seat. This is all in the...

National Retrofit Plan: Motion [Private Members] (20 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: I am glad to speak on this Private Members’ motion because there is so much worry and uncertainty about energy and keeping warm this winter. The issue is coming up at all the doors when I meet constituents in Prosperous, Naas and Kilcock. They are so worried about their energy bills and so scared they will not be able to turn on the heating for their children when they come home from...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: I welcome many aspects of the Bill and am happy to speak on it. Unfortunately, it does not do anything for the appalling conditions under which our non-consultant hospital doctors are working in terms of the gruelling hours and careless, slapdash and sometimes downright insulting institutional approach to their pay and conditions. That they have to take to social media to highlight this is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: I thank the CRU for its presentation. There is a lot of talk about empowering and protecting consumers and customers. It appears that there are lots of measures to help people to pay for energy but there are very few measures to reduce the cost. A constituent of mine sent me a copy of a bill yesterday for over €400. He is in receipt of disability benefit and has already cut back as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: Is there a way we can get the message out to those people that there will be no disconnections?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: Does the CRU ever talk to the HSE?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: Would it be worthwhile talking to the HSE and telling it to advise its vulnerable-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: Perhaps Ms MacEvilly will also comment on the standing charges.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: I agree that it is an essential service. We really know that energy for electricity heating and power is an essential service now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (20 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: Yes, just to get that information out there. People are very nervous and particularly older people who always like to pay their bills. They pay their way and do not like to borrow. Some of them would find themselves disconnected and dying of the cold and still being charged a standing charge after that. I do not know what is around us.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: 493. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time that the review of funding for the Mater Hospital long-Covid clinic will take; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45482/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: 494. To ask the Minister for Health if certain charges apply in the case of patients with long-Covid requesting their files from a hospital (details supplied); if so, if in the circumstances of the pandemic, still ongoing, such charges could be waived; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45517/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: 495. To ask the Minister for Health if long-Covid will be classified as a long-term illness given the number of persons with the condition who have been unable to work at all, or as usual, in the past two years, the cost of numerous general practitioner and consultant visits and various medications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45518/22]

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (15 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: As Deputy Ó Broin has outlined, my party will not be opposing the separation of Irish Water or Uisce Éireann from Ervia. As we are addressing the issue of water services, which are essential to sustaining human life, at a time when there is so much public uncertainty and distress in the matter of other vital services, namely, heat and light, and whether people will have them at all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I want to go back to parental leave, which we know is for fathers. The reason most fathers do not take it is that they cannot survive on €250 because, given that we are talking about the gender pay gap, they are possibly earning more than their wives or partners anyway. Are there any countries where it is obligatory for companies to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: Even with women as well.