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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Gabhaim buíochas leis an cathaoirleach. I thank our guests for all their presentations. Senator Lynn Boylan, when an MEP , commissioned an independent report into gender equality in the media sector. The Senator's report found that while 68% of graduates of media and journalism were female, they were severely underrepresented in journalism on the radio, in newspapers, etc. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I knew I would get two rounds. I talked to a woman recently who is very high up in the corporate world. I was talking to her regarding her child not getting a seat on the school bus service. She raised the issue that the lack of support from the State affects her being able to hold onto her job, and the gap that exists between announcing new policy and the delivery of it. I ask Ms Harford...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: It is across the EU. It was a study by the International News Safety Institute study. I could have it sent to Ms Duffy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Intimidation or abuse in their own workplace.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Could Ms Duffy comment on whether media outlets are providing an inclusive and supportive working environment for female journalists?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I was talking about this only yesterday evening with regard to literacy in healthcare providers, who are generally women, and being able to read a medicine bottle.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I was in local politics before I came to the Oireachtas. I sat on the local Traveller accommodation consultative committee, LTACC, in Kildare County Council. The witnesses are talking about Traveller women even being present in the room. Is there any way that local government could help support women? I just do not mean getting elected but by having them on different committees....

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I also thank the Social Democrat for tabling this important motion. However, it has come to the stage where I kind of dread getting up here and talking about mother and baby homes because so many of the people who were excluded from our society back in the dark old days of the State are still being excluded by the Government’s proposals. At the time of their first exclusion, their...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (19 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether it is just or equitable, that there appears to be no mechanism for persons who made a complaint about the behaviour of a teacher towards a child (details supplied) to appeal a decision made by the Teaching Council in that regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52253/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (19 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department views the lack of an appeals process in the matter of a decision made by the Teaching Council regarding a complaint as contrary to the common-law principles of natural justice; if her Department is in favour of the introduction of such an appeals process for complaints and complainants; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (19 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will identify the primary legislation within the Teaching Council Act 2001 or the Teaching Council (Amendments) Act 2015 that provides the legal grounds for the investigating committee of the Teaching Council to refuse an application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52255/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (19 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will identify the primary legislation within the Teaching Council Act 2001 and Teaching Council (Amendments) Act 2015 that provides for refusing a complaint, classifying it as frivolous; the officers of the Teaching Council who retain that power; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52256/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (19 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legislation that provides for a determination of the seriousness of a complaint during the investigating committee process of the Teaching Council under part V section 42; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52257/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Social Welfare Payments (18 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: 685. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department can provide clarity as to the outcome in the matter of the double welfare payment due where nursing homes have automatic access to and control of a resident’s regular payment; if in this case the resident will have independent control of, and access to, the second part of the payment, or if it will be treated in the way of the usual...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I thank the Minister for coming in today. I ask him for his views on prepay meters. He is leaving much to the CRU. Many people on these prepay meters are actually paying a higher tariff for their electricity. They are also paying a higher standing charge. That seems extremely unfair because the provider is actually guaranteed payment whereas if someone had an ordinary meter, the provider...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Estimates for Public Services 2022 (Supplementary)
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (18 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: The Minister mentioned them.

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (12 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Covid-19 did not come bearing any gifts but it did bring us a new awareness of how we are living both for better and for worse. Many people have made major changes to how they work and live. I know there are many more who would do so if they had the proper opportunity. We also know that during lockdown, many fathers welcomed the opportunity to spend more time with their children and...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (12 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I am happy to speak to this Bill on Second Stage. We all agree it is a very technical and lengthy piece of legislation. I believe there is also agreement on the need to modernise the work permit system on which so many of our services depend, be it agrifood, IT, hygiene or caring. The Covid-19 pandemic, which still ongoing, exposed how dependent we are on so many of these workers and how...

National Vetting Bureau (Children and Vulnerable Persons) (Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (12 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I am happy to co-introduce this Bill with my comrades, Deputies Daly and Paul Donnelly. The purpose of the Bill is to keep the practice of vetting as effective as possible while making the process as efficient as possible for the community, the gardaí and, through them, wider society. It applies to people who have no criminal record or criminal issues outstanding. While Garda vetting...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: In March, the HSE was found to have broken the law on assessment of need. The Department's arrogance continues extending even to its own Minister, who like myself is meeting heartbroken parents day in and day out. The new figures on assessments of need released to Sinn Féin are shocking even by the usual appalling standards. Where are the annual section 13 reports that have been...