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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (12 Jul 2022)

Réada Cronin: 671. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of social work, social care and child protection staff places that remain unfilled at Tusla; the number of these practitioners that it currently employs; the number of staff that is deemed to be full complement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37566/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (12 Jul 2022)

Réada Cronin: 672. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of the Tusla social care and child protection staff who have under three years’ experience in their Tusla role; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37567/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (12 Jul 2022)

Réada Cronin: 673. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of social care, child protection and other relevant practitioners that Tusla has hired in each of the past five years in tabular form; the number who have left the service in each year of the past five years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37568/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (12 Jul 2022)

Réada Cronin: 674. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the Health Information and Quality Authority is satisfied in relation to the optimum care guaranteed to children who are placed in hotel and unregulated accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37569/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (12 Jul 2022)

Réada Cronin: 675. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Health Information and Quality Authority inspections undertaken of registered Tusla accommodation in each of the past five years in tabular form; the stated findings of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37570/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (12 Jul 2022)

Réada Cronin: 676. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of social care and child protection practitioners in Tusla who function as supervisors to other staff; the average years of experience of each supervisor in Tusla; the number of staff members that each supervisor is responsible for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37571/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (12 Jul 2022)

Réada Cronin: 677. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is satisfied that social care and child protection practitioners functioning as supervisors in Tusla have adequate length and breadth of experience themselves for the complexity and sensitivity of the supervisory role; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37572/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child Protection (12 Jul 2022)

Réada Cronin: 678. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the stated minimum length of service required to be appointed a social work, social care and child protection supervisor; the performance levels required for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37573/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (12 Jul 2022)

Réada Cronin: 679. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average age of a social care and child protection practitioner in Tusla; the average number of cases or families dealt with in a year and at any one working period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37574/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (12 Jul 2022)

Réada Cronin: 680. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children currently without a designated social worker in each age group and social work area in each year of the past five years by area and age group in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37575/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (12 Jul 2022)

Réada Cronin: 740. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department will examine the number of phone lines and operators that are available in each prison for booking phone calls (details supplied); the number of prisoners who are eligible for visits in each facility; if the PPSN card is deemed suitable identification for a visit; if not, the reasons for same; the reason...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (12 Jul 2022)

Réada Cronin: 918. To ask the Minister for Health if those persons who have been sanctioned carer hours through care at home could go ahead and source a carer from a separate source; the HSE funding for the hours that are sanctioned given the current personnel shortage notified; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37524/22]

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (12 Jul 2022)

Réada Cronin: I thank the Minister of State for coming in. I would like to follow up on what my colleague, Deputy O'Rourke, said about the €200 electricity rebate and the €20 million being moved from that. We were contacted by the National Traveller Money Advice and Budgeting Service about this. There may be only one meter on a halting site. The families there get one €200 rebate...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (12 Jul 2022)

Réada Cronin: Will the Minister of State look at that then?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (12 Jul 2022)

Réada Cronin: Will he get back to us about it?

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Supplementary) (12 Jul 2022)

Réada Cronin: We should not be squandering goodwill. A certain element of goodwill remains in the context of addressing climate change. Moving money that was ring-fenced for retrofitting to something else is squandering that public trust.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Jul 2022)

Réada Cronin: I am grateful for the opportunity to speak on this highly technical Bill about the process of substitute consent. It also addresses some issues and gaps caused by the rushing of earlier legislation. In addressing some of the detail, changing substitute consent from a two-stage process to a single-stage process is problematic given how critical scrutiny and accountability is to the planning...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Jul 2022)

Réada Cronin: When Sinn Féin criticises the increases in carbon tax, we are lambasted and told that this is all being ring-fenced for climate action. The Minister is taking €40 million from an underspend in retrofitting houses. That is a case of missed targets. It will be used to spend on gas and diesel plant infrastructure. Old people have contacted me and they have been freezing for the...

Back to School Costs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2022)

Réada Cronin: I am pleased to speak on this Private Members' business, given the back-to-school pressure on my constituents in north Kildare. I am pleased that the Government has seen some sense and responded to an Teachta Ó Laoghaire's lead in addressing the back-to-school costs before the Dáil recess. What we are discussing is essential. Hardworking mothers are coming to me and saying that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Anaerobic Digestion: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Réada Cronin: I am in my office. I thank the witnesses for the presentations. They were really interesting and the meeting was even more interesting. I thank Dr. Beausang for her presentation. This is quite technical and I did not know a lot about it before the meeting so I ask her to indulge me, as a beginner, and talk about her research findings on the risk of the high shares of grass silage having...