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Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Réada Cronin: I am at a bit of a loss after listening to the Minister of State. This morning, I was contacted by a constituent in her 60s who told me she slept in her car last night. Every housing case coming into my constituency office in north Kildare is just getting worse, with every one more unbelievable than the last. Eviction notices are arriving thick and fast. I have had more people with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (4 May 2022)

Réada Cronin: 279. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will prioritise the identification of a site for a school (details supplied) given the urgency of the situation and the requirements of the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22051/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (4 May 2022)

Réada Cronin: 298. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that applicants for passports and driving licences are still being asked to produce a public services card for the processing of same though no social-protection function applies in the matter of either; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21774/22]

Electricity Regulation (Amendment) (Prohibition of Winter Disconnections) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: When we introduced this Bill, we could not have known that when it would reach this Stage, war would be raging in Europe and energy would be more political and precarious than ever before. At that time, my party had warned about the cost-of-living juggernaut heading our way, warnings which were duly ignored and now the results of that inaction are writ large for families and households...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (28 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: I too am happy to speak on this Bill. Like my party colleagues, I am happy to support it in general terms. Guardians ad litemhave at times been a source of public interest and contention when the eye-watering fees paid to a number of them were published. For example, during 2018 guardians ad litemwere paid €8.44 million in fees by Tusla. The legal fees they incurred amounted to a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí agus ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy and Legislation (28 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: The Government needs to get a grip on the national retrofitting scheme given what the climate committee was told on Tuesday about gaps in the quality of materials, training and skills, and an apparent lack of oversight. The EU Court of Auditors gave Ireland a "must do better" report on our better energy, warmer homes scheme, and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform report was not...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (27 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: 152. To ask the Minister for Health when the fair deal scheme to be applied to care in the home will be rolled out definitively, especially in the CHO 5 area in which persons with life-limiting and time-critical debilitating conditions are anxiously awaiting its arrival; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21382/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (27 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: 153. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will take steps to remedy the apparent lack of information and communication within the HSE on the fair deal scheme to be applied to care in the home (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21383/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: New Retrofitting Plan and the Built Environment: Discussion (26 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: The sound seems to be an issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: New Retrofitting Plan and the Built Environment: Discussion (26 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: I thank the witnesses for the excellent albeit very worrying presentations. I am struck by Mr. Barry's points that under the current building regulations, there is no requirement for measurement of carbon emissions in construction beyond that associated with operational energy and that the Government's ambitious construction and renovation programme over the next 20 years, which are really...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: New Retrofitting Plan and the Built Environment: Discussion (26 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: There seems to be a very large carbon gap in our climate plan. Would this be a worry to Mr. Barry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: New Retrofitting Plan and the Built Environment: Discussion (26 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: Who does Mr. Barry believe should be in charge of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: New Retrofitting Plan and the Built Environment: Discussion (26 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: I had a question for Dr. Kinnane as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: New Retrofitting Plan and the Built Environment: Discussion (26 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: He was talking about retrofitting the retrofits.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: New Retrofitting Plan and the Built Environment: Discussion (26 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: I was just saying "I would not start from here". Why are we starting from here, given these gaps in the data we have and that we have commenced retrofitting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: New Retrofitting Plan and the Built Environment: Discussion (26 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: There is a lot of data but nobody seems to be in charge. I am wondering would Dr. Kinnane have any suggestions. We have started retrofitting and he is talking about how we might need to be retrofitting the retrofits in another ten years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: New Retrofitting Plan and the Built Environment: Discussion (26 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: Does Dr. Kinnane think our apprenticeships schemes are taking this into account? I know of a builder who said he cannot afford to train staff to do the retrofitting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: New Retrofitting Plan and the Built Environment: Discussion (26 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: New Retrofitting Plan and the Built Environment: Discussion (26 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: I was asking her for the EU perspective on tying everything in and whether other countries are doing a better job and about the idea of getting somebody in charge of looking at all the Departments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: New Retrofitting Plan and the Built Environment: Discussion (26 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: My question is for Dr. Kinnane. It relates to the national retrofitting plan. We are asking people to apply for loans. We are handing over taxpayers' money in grants to retrofit these homes. I do not feel that Dr. Kinnane is satisfied with the quality control involved or that we can stand over the quality of work relating to the current retrofitting scheme. Dr. Kinnane has said that in...