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

Réada Cronin: I also asked about a carbon tsar. Dr. Kinnane is right, in that there was a time when we painted old houses and then damp started forming inside the house because the materials the house was constructed of were meant to be able to breathe. We do not know everything. We are never at the stage where we know everything. Is Dr. Kinnane saying that we should start retrofitting at a slower...

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

Réada Cronin: Like attic insulation and stuff like that?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (26 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: 1230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will examine the electrician apprentice scheme whereby serious delays in advancing are of concern to participants, for example, the advertised four years is becoming six years in certain cases, since the call to phase 2 advertised as being at six months has persons waiting 18 months and facing possibly 24 months in practice;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: 875. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a matter (details supplied) regarding special education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19932/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (26 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: 876. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in the case of damage caused to school transport by a special needs child on a single occasion, such damage arising out of their disability and medical condition, the child can be suspended from the transport and parents held liable for such damage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19933/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (26 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: 1765. To ask the Minister for Health if he will remove the current age restriction for FreeStyle Libre with immediate effect following a survey (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20885/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (26 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: 1766. To ask the Minister for Health if he will investigate the apparent impasse affecting the undertaking of a health technology assessment for FreeStyle Libre; if his Department will offer an alternative process for such assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20886/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Ukraine War (7 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: 65. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position of the Government in relation to a factory (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15161/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (7 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: 415. To ask the Minister for Health the plan that is in place to ensure that older people in State-run nursing homes get access to regular dental care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19093/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (7 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: 416. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine the situation in which residents in State-run nursing homes are spending long periods of time on antibiotics for oral and dental infection in lieu of receiving the necessary dental intervention this being of further note in the context of antibiotic resistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19094/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (7 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: 417. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has a dental welfare plan for State-run nursing homes given the close co-relation between dental health, heart health and new studies showing a connection to brain health in addition to basic chewing of food functions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19095/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (7 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: 418. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dental procedures and checks, respectively that were carried out on residents of State-run nursing homes in each of the past five years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19096/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: 419. To ask the Minister for Health the number of social workers who are attached to each of the State-run nursing homes; the ratio per patient for each; the number of visits undertaken per patient in each of the past five years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19097/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (7 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: 432. To ask the Minister for Health the way that State-run nursing homes are assessing dental and oral health and pain in residents who are unable to speak or are cognitively impaired; the number of dental checks carried out on patients in this cohort in each of the past five years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19220/22]

Carbon Budget: Motion (6 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: I am glad to speak on this important issue. As a member of the climate committee I admit I am very worried we are running out of time. Worry is the only sane and sensible reaction given what our world is facing with climate change and its advance. According to the IPCC report we are facing major capital cities being underwater. We are facing unprecedented heatwaves. We have already seen...

Childcare Fees: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: I commend Deputy Funchion on the motion. It is difficult to believe that mothers in north County Kildare are being forced to give up work not because of the marriage bar but because they cannot afford, or sometimes cannot secure, proper childcare for their children. Even their own mothers say they cannot believe this is the case in 2022. This issue affects mainly women given that, while we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Implementation of the New National Retrofit Plan: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (5 Apr 2022)

Réada Cronin: I am in my office on the premises. I have a few questions. The national retrofitting scheme, and the fact that it benefits people who are already comfortable financially and can put up the money to match the grant, is almost an economy of scale for warmer homes. The more money you have, the more money you will get. We are in the middle of a cost of living crisis that started well before...