Results 141-160 of 420 for speaker:Réada Cronin in 'Dáil debates'

Deployment of Naval Service Vessel to Participate in Operation Irini: Motion (25 Apr 2023)

Réada Cronin: As peacekeepers, members of the Defence Forces represent us at our very best across the world. They are currently in action helping to extract our citizens caught up in the conflict in Sudan. I have every confidence in the courage and expertise of the Defence Forces and the Army Ranger Wing to get our people home. They are all in our thoughts. I take this opportunity to thank our...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Apr 2023)

Réada Cronin: The Government's housing policy is wreaking havoc on renters in north Kildare. The Dad of one family who now works in the private sector was a member of our Defence Forces. He tells me he feels totally undefended by this Government. Following a notice to quit, he feels that he is in no-man's land, abandoned by the State of the uniform he wore. His wife works in homeless services. After...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Apr 2023)

Réada Cronin: It would give the Government time to create or build those houses.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Apr 2023)

Réada Cronin: It could not make it worse.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Apr 2023)

Réada Cronin: He has several houses.

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: Mo bhuíochas le Páirtí an Lucht Oibre as ucht an rún seo a rith. Beimid ag tacú leis anocht. I am glad to have the opportunity to contribute to the debate, particularly as parents in north County Kildare are tearing their hair out regarding the lack of school places for their children. We have been trying to compile a list of the 58 schools affected by the decision...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: Does the Minister not do politics?

Safe Staffing Levels in Hospitals: Statements (23 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: Naas general hospital is in my constituency in Kildare North. In a reply to a recent parliamentary question on waiting times across the State tabled by an Teachta Cullinane, I was horrified to find that waiting times in the emergency department in Naas were among the top three worst times for people over 75 years and the top five worst for patients generally. Last December, general patients...

Eviction Ban: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: People in north Kildare are contacting my office and they are terrified. They cannot sleep. They are sick to their stomach that once the eviction ban is lifted they will have nowhere to go. In Kildare there are 209 evictions pending yet there are only 44 places available to rent on daft.ie. Across the State there are almost 5,000 evictions pending, and 1,183 places available to rent....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: I raise again the lack of school places across north Kildare and the fact that parents are fed up with the copy and paste replies to parliamentary questions they are getting as to why they cannot send their child to the school they can see from their front doors. The replies state the schools are oversubscribed. The problem is not over-exuberance on the part of parents and their children as...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: I will share with Deputy Ward. I am incredibly happy to speak here on International Women's Day as a woman and a Deputy. I wish everybody, all the women and all the people who love women, a very happy International Women's Day. As a Sinn Féin Deputy, I am very much committed to the egalitarian and republican values of equality, liberty and, for the day that is in it, sorority. I wish...

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: As my colleague, Teachta O'Rourke, said, Sinn Féin will support the Bill, but with reservations, as we have articulated at the climate committee. I hope the Minister will note those reservations. That this Bill is necessary at all is due to the negligence of this Government and its failure to plan. Sufficient unto the day might work for the headlines that this Administration governs...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: Most of us have a story about how brilliant our ambulance paramedics and personnel are. They are the men and women we hope to never meet but when we need them we want to see them as quickly as possible. I know my local ambulance base in Maynooth very well. I campaigned about it having its hours cut during the austerity Government of Fine Gael and Labour in 2012. Ever since then Maynooth...

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am glad to speak on the Bill, which my party will broadly support insofar as it seeks to establish more and greater accountability in policing. We will propose amendments in the future. The Bill sets out to achieve clear and effective oversight and accountability of An Garda Síochána. Sinn Féin welcomes this. It is clear that policing reform in this jurisdiction is...

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: Eviction is simply a word to this Government. It is something that, hopefully, no Members of Government will ever have to face. For too many of my north Kildare constituents, looming eviction is an absolute terror. It is the terror of joining the almost 12,000 people in emergency accommodation across the State. That number does not include those who are sofa surfing or living on the...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: I am happy to speak on the spring bonus proposal from An Teachta Doherty, which is a care package for people depending of social protection. “Social protection” are not dirty words. Our care package focuses on people in real need: families, lone parents, carers, people with disabilities. It is the opposite of the bonus arrangements and pamper packages the Government devises...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: I want to raise the issue of the lack of school places for children starting in our excellent primary schools in Kilcock. These are young children with rights to attend their local schools and I am receiving an increasing number of emails from their parents. Too many families are looking for too few places in north Kildare. They are just after getting out of childcare and now they find...

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...

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...