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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Missing Children (5 Mar 2024)

Réada Cronin: 589. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of minors who have gone missing or remain missing from the services offered by a company (details supplied) or any other Tusla contractors; the age of each if any; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10576/24]

Report of Joint Committee on Gender Equality: Motion (29 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: Of course.

Report of Joint Committee on Gender Equality: Motion (29 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: I noticed when looking at the calendar that we would be discussing the report on gender equality on 29 February, the extra day in the leap year when a woman generally had the gender-equality option of proposing to her man. We have come a long way but we have a long way to go for ourselves, our sisters and our daughters, and indeed their daughters. We will not and must never stop in our push...

Child and Youth Mental Health: Statements (29 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: Every time I am contacted by a constituent on a mental health issue, especially if it is their child, who is a minor, or young adult son or daughter, I feel their helplessness, their disbelief and pain, and, all too often, their panic because I know that by the time they come to me, they have been firing handballs against the haystack that is CAMHS as it operated by the Department of Health...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will examine the inherently inequitable situation whereby children with intellectual disabilities who are frequently ill, hospitalised and unable to attend school for long periods of time, sometimes a school year, cannot avail of additional school years later (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: 46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department will take to ensure that a child (details supplied) will have an appropriate ASD school place in north Kildare for next September; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9445/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: 47. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department can guarantee an SNA for each child who has been deemed to require one in an assessment of need, given the sharing of SNAs is causing concern to parents regarding the educational opportunity for their children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9446/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: The delegates are very welcome. In their opening statement, they said the oversight body has met 20 times since its establishment. On how many of these occasions did it meet representatives of organisations such as RACO and PDFORRA?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: Did the oversight body meet RACO and PDFORRA on the same day, or were there two separate meetings?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: I agree it is important to meet them, because there will be health and safety issues. I do not know whether Professor MacCraith watched the proceedings of the meeting last week. It was clear from listening to the representatives that they have strong thoughts on ensuring they have representation. They also have strong thoughts on what they might have described as draconian leanings on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: I do not know whether Ms King watched the meeting last week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: The representatives of RACO and PDFORRA were passionately upset about the potential impact on their freedom of expression, the prohibition on their organisations’ membership and the career-progression potential in the Defence Forces.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: I would like to know the opinions of the oversight body on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: I accept that. At the meeting with representatives of RACO and PDFORRA, they raised the matter of the Secretary General of the Department being a member at ex officio level while they are not. What are the delegates’ thoughts on having ex officio membership or another type of membership for representatives of Defence Forces personnel?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: I will follow up on what the Chair was asking around autonomy. The witnesses have expressed how important the autonomy was for them and that the body should have as much autonomy as required. That is really important and I agree it is necessary in terms of the transformation. Whether I believe it is feasible within the culture or not, I am impressed with the witnesses' enthusiasm and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: Section 9 provides for the Minister to commission a review from the body which can make recommendations. Section 10 allows the body to do the same, but only with the permission and consent of the Minister. Does Professor MacCraith believe the oversight body should be able to commission reviews of its own volition without sign-off by the Minister? With all that the body is learning this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: The oversight body feels it should be able to do this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: Professor MacCraith would like us to make changes on this.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early Childhood Care and Education (27 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the urgent steps her Department will take in relation to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8736/24]