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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (14 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: 561. To ask the Minister for Health when the neurology unit of Tallaght Hospital, which serves north County Kildare, will have its recommended full complement of 20 specialist neurology nurses as opposed to the 3.5 currently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61199/21]

Regulation of Tenderers Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: I commend my comrades, Deputies Mairéad Farrell and Patricia Ryan, on bringing forward this important and promising Bill which would bring a bit of transparency, accountability and accuracy to the tendering process. It would also specifically address the issues of lowball tenders and bogus self-employment within its remit. It is disappointing for the Minister of State to say that the...

Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion [Private Members] (8 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: My party will support the Private Members' motion and I thank the Regional Group for tabling it. We welcome that the Government will accept the motion. As my colleague, Deputy Mac Lochlainn outlined, we hope it will also support our amendment. We are a tiny island. It is the first land the wind coming across the Atlantic Ocean meets. This means that as an energy source offshore wind is a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: 50. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will restore the employment wage subsidy scheme to the full amount and extend its operation to February 2022 at least in order to support business and preserve jobs given the current circumstances of Covid-19 infection rates and the advice to the public to reduce their socialising with the attendant major impact on the still recovering hospitality...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if public schools will be given free, high-quality masks for every child in the interest of public health; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60746/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: 487. To ask the Minister for Health the identity and qualifications in ventilation of the members of an organisation (details supplied) who advised against the need for HEPA filtration in classrooms; if he will publish the precise scientific basis on which that advice was given; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59857/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (7 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: 571. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that can be taken to help parents in north County Kildare to have their babies vaccinated with the usual childhood vaccines given that they cannot find a general practitioner to register with in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60241/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Engagement with the Climate Change Advisory Council (7 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: I thank Ms Donnelly for her opening statement. She spoke about just transition and the essential role of public policy to ensure a just transition. She also spoke about the change that will come in people's lives and the social acceptance and engagement that is going to be needed. As a policy, it sounds very good but I fear that in practice, the vulnerable and those on the margins will be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Carbon Budgets: Engagement with the Climate Change Advisory Council (7 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: That sounds very good. I wonder what is the possibility of us getting that sorted.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Dec 2021)

Réada Cronin: I have constituents who are young families and single people who have moved to north Kildare and they cannot access a GP. Some of them are young mothers who cannot get vaccinations for their children or babies. Within 5 km of where I live, five GPs have recently retired. I have submitted parliamentary questions on this, but the replies tell me that GPs are a private matter and not the job...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (30 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 311. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the planning that is in place to address the situation of those sitting the leaving certificate in 2022 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [58330/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the suite of measures she is relying on to keep primary-schools safe given the absence of HEPA filters, masks, appropriate contact, test, trace and isolation and the fact most children in the age group that has not yet been vaccinated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59039/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 364. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a clean-air strategy in place for primary schools given growing international evidence over the past 20 months that Covid-19 is airborne and the fact this cohort remains unprotected through vaccination; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59040/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (30 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 511. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will examine and resolve matters in relation to the employment of a person (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58298/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (30 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 715. To ask the Minister for Health the planning that is in place within the health service to deal with long-Covid-19 in the population in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59041/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (30 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 744. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if snail producers in the State can be recognised as farmers and included in green and low-carbon grant schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58276/21]

Mother and Baby Institutions: Statements (25 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: Why is there a six-month cut-off point?

Mother and Baby Institutions: Statements (25 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: What we see in this proposed redress scheme is the presence of too many experts but not enough expertise. In the context of what the State did to mothers and babies, it is unthinkable that this Government would task anybody with formulating this scheme without applying the necessary expertise on the effects of abandonment, separation and removal. The work of psychologist, John Bowlby, on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (25 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: 218. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will liaise with the National Transport Authority in relation to the cessation of the of the 66A bus service under BusConnects (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58086/21]

Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: When it comes to the new Covid measures, parents in north Kildare and I are still very worried about primary schools. The Minister for Education, Deputy Norma Foley, knows that I have been asking about air quality in classrooms for a long time now. Her most recent reply came back yesterday. I had asked when high-efficiency particulate absorbing, HEPA, filters would be installed in each...