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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (12 Oct 2021)

Réada Cronin: 485. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost to the Exchequer of anti-anxiety and separately anti-depressant medication in each of the past five years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49164/21]

Recovery of Tourism and Aviation: Statements (7 Oct 2021)

Réada Cronin: As we start to emerge from the height of the Covid crisis, there is a certain relief in the tourism and aviation sectors, both hard hit by the public health measures necessary to stop the spread of the virus. Both sectors were very badly hit by those restrictions and it will take a long time for them to recover and to regain ground lost. In my constituency in north Kildare, I saw at first...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Divorce Process (7 Oct 2021)

Réada Cronin: 161. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will liaise with the Minister for Justice on the matter of some section 47 assessments and reports given the difficulties in their operation reported by mothers in regard to themselves and their children and the fact these difficulties have been further outlined and underscored by highly qualified family...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Oct 2021)

Réada Cronin: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an update will be published for parents on the status of developments for a school (details supplied) given the appointment of a consultant architect; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49025/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (7 Oct 2021)

Réada Cronin: 423. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has made no provision in its budgets for the provision to a person (details supplied) of a brace; if he will request the HSE provide the €4,500 that is necessary for this brace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48909/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Circular Economy Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Oct 2021)

Réada Cronin: I welcome the Bill. I have had only a quick read through of it but I think it makes some excellent points about living as lightly as we can. It would be interesting if we could put our mammies or nannies in charge of this. I am old enough to remember when children visited their cousins and they were invited up to their rooms to be given old clothes. For me, the circular economy is about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Circular Economy Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Oct 2021)

Réada Cronin: There should be more emphasis on the producers to play their part, including in respect of the built-in obsolescence of electrical goods and so on, rather than expecting it to be bottom-up all the time. I would like to see more emphasis on that in the Bill.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Circular Economy Bill 2021: Discussion (7 Oct 2021)

Réada Cronin: I know there is a job to do. The officials are given the job of creating this Bill but do they think the political will is there? How can we be talking about growth and expansion while yet protecting the planet and addressing the climate change that is coming?

The National Youth Justice Strategy 2021-2027 and Supporting Community Safety: Statements (6 Oct 2021)

Réada Cronin: In addressing the national youth justice strategy, we must do two things as legislators. First, we must recognise how it involves young people who have barely started to live their lives but who are already suffering deep and multiple disadvantages in society - financial, social, educational, emotional and, sadly, sometimes parental disadvantages. Too often, these young people are battling...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (resumed) (5 Oct 2021)

Réada Cronin: I am in the building. My questions have been asked but I have a concern. The Government is speaking about building a data centre in Celbridge in my constituency. Professor McMullin spoke about a moratorium. Carers in Celbridge are worried about brownouts and blackouts because they care for children who need oxygen, nebulisers, heists and other essential equipment. Does he think the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (resumed) (5 Oct 2021)

Réada Cronin: The regulator's take is that the demand from data centres is rampant and historic. It is reassuring to hear that from a regulator because there has been a lot of appeasing talk in recent years regarding the increase in demand and capacity, as if to suggest that we will be grand with a few tweaks here and there. I am interested in the data centre policy that the regulator will release later...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Réada Cronin: As member of the Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action, I have a particular interest in this session. I would like to thank the many experts who came in to talk to us over the last year. On the crises in climate and biodiversity, we certainly have a wealth of experience and wisdom on which to draw. I have always had an interest in climate change and doing my bit. Essentially, I was doing...

Afghanistan Crisis: Statements (29 Sep 2021)

Réada Cronin: These are dangerous days for the people of Afghanistan, especially its women and girls. In the space of a few weeks, they have been set back centuries. They have lost their presence and vibrancy in everyday life, which have been replaced by invisibility and monotony. They have also lost the whole array of reclaimed colours that feature in their stunning traditional dress. In exile from...

Data Centre Moratorium: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2021)

Réada Cronin: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Social Democrats' Private Members' motion. The issue of data centres has to be dealt with urgently. Yesterday, as has been said, Dr. Patrick Bresnihan of the geography department in NUI Maynooth, in my home town, was one of the experts who came to talk to us at the Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action. He made a good impression. It...

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Réada Cronin: With Housing for All, we are being taken for a spin on a magic carpet, only there is a massive hole in it and many of my constituents in north Kildare are falling through. Let me tell the House about the housing situation in north Kildare because I noticed that the Minister was quite amused by the whole thing. My office is out the door with men and women in every age group desperate for a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Réada Cronin: I am aware that three-hour committee meetings are imminent. It is a pity that is not the case for this meeting because it has been so interesting. My questions for Dr. Tienhaara have already been asked and answered. However, I thank her very much for her contribution. CETA is very much in the news in Ireland. It has been great to hear Dr. Tienhaara debunk a lot of what we have heard. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Charter Treaty, Energy Security, Liquefied Natural Gas and Data Centres: Discussion (28 Sep 2021)

Réada Cronin: Yes.

Ombudsman for Children's Initiative on Eliminating Child Poverty and Child Homelessness: Statements (23 Sep 2021)

Réada Cronin: I welcome this initiative from the Ombudsman for Children. I take this opportunity to thank Dr. Niall Muldoon and his office for the professionalism and kindness they showed when I went to them for help recently for some young constituents in north Kildare. Their families, too, were delighted. They are so used to knocking on doors that do not budge that when one finally opens it is a great...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Freedom of Information (23 Sep 2021)

Réada Cronin: 7. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the remit for his review of the freedom of information system by the terms of reference, stakeholders to be consulted; the proposed date of publication of its findings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45419/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2021)

Réada Cronin: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of HEPA filtration that has been acquired by the State for use in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45189/21]