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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.

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

Réada Cronin: Does Professor Galligan agree that positive laws are the way to go?

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

Réada Cronin: How long is the paternity leave for fathers in Nordic countries?

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

Réada Cronin: Are companies obligated to make up the difference?

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 just want to have those details so we have some gold standard to compare it to when we are doing our report.

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

Réada Cronin: That would be great; I would really appreciate that.

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

Réada Cronin: On collective bargaining to address pay equality, how does Ireland compare to other jurisdictions? If the culture is not there, we have to make sure we legislate. My colleague has a Bill around the right to collective bargaining. Women are less inclined to ask for a pay rise and employers do not generally tap you on the shoulder to offer one. That is important. The national minimum...

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 would be interested to know that.

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

Réada Cronin: Does Dr. Russell have any information, even if she does not have it here, about how Ireland compares to other jurisdictions around the right to collective bargaining?

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

Réada Cronin: Are we the only state in Europe that does not have it?

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

Réada Cronin: We are one of the few.

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

Réada Cronin: If the ESRI has information on where equalising downwards is happening and whether it is at the very top, will its representatives write to the committee? We would appreciate that.

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

Réada Cronin: It would be interesting to see where it is happening.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (14 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: 189. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason that some sections of public-service staff who have been successfully and efficiently working from home are being recalled on-site to the office, while other sections of their Department can continue to work from home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44723/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (14 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: 190. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if public service-staff who have efficiently and successfully worked from home will be allowed continue to do so, particularly in the context of the workplace energy costs incurred by the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44724/22]