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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...

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]