Results 201-220 of 1,916 for speaker:Réada Cronin

Household Utility Bills Support: Motion [Private Members] (3 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: It says a lot about where we are when in one breath we are discussing an €80,000 salary top-up for a public service worker, and in the next we are talking about other workers in places such as north Kildare who cannot afford to light their home, cook a meal or turn on the heating. We have swapped the metaphorical cold house of the mother and baby homes for the literal cold house where...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 6. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration will be given to introducing a scheme similar to that devised by the Scottish Government to assist workers in the wedding industry sector (details supplied) whose incomes have been devastated by the lockdowns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5947/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (3 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 35. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will examine the request by an organisation (details supplied) in December 2020 to add this profession to the critical skills occupation list for employment permit purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5946/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Work Placement Programmes (3 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will liaise with CORU to resolve the difficulties for students in level seven degrees where practical placements have been greatly disrupted by the closure of HSE agencies due to the level 5 lockdown, resulting in them being required by CORU to make up these hours in summer 2021 without any term-time alternative being offered; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (3 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 885. To ask the Minister for Health the date for the reopening of a service (details supplied) given the critical role it plays in sexual health for members of the LGBT+ community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5942/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (3 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 886. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will issue clear instructions to those attending Covid test centres that public transport must not to be taken to the site given the threat of virus spread to fellow passengers and public transport workers; if alternative arrangements can be made for them in cases in which persons are dependent on public transport; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 887. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to prioritise vaccination for those living with serious conditions such as cystic fibrosis and end-stage renal disease, classified as very high risk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5944/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Social Care Professionals (3 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 888. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to accede urgently to the request by a society (details supplied) to the Department of Enterprise Trade and Employment in December 2020 to add this profession to the critical skills occupation list for employment permit purposes given the deficit in physiotherapist...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (4 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 236. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to substantially increase the number of accredited psychotherapists and counsellors for public health patients in the State given the dearth extant and the greater need due to Covid-19 and particularly as this relates to services for north County Kildare both for adults and children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6310/21]

Covid-19: Motion [Private Members] (10 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: Aggressive suppression was never the plan of the Government. We saw it welcome flights full of rugby fans from Italy's inferno and global guests for St. Patrick's Day and how there was not even a leaflet at the airport for people returning from Cheltenham. Last summer, fresh from telling billionaire tax exiles they were grand here and would not be outstaying their welcome, the Government...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: I have many constituents in north Kildare who suffer from asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, COPD, who want to know what stage the clean air strategy is at that was promised in the programme for Government. We in Ireland have one of the highest rates of lung disease in the world. The Irish Thoracic Society warns of an unprecedented crisis in lung health due to insufficient...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Relations (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 8. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the safeguards in place to uphold Ireland’s responsibilities under the UN Sustainable Development Goals and to prevent Ireland being party to or becoming entangled in a supply chain dispute on labour given the status of the State as a hub for global supply chains (details supplied). [7875/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which the use of e-scooters on public pathways used by pedestrians can be monitored and policed in terms of space and speed and the safety of pedestrians; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7874/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 177. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will request the Revenue Commissioners to waive taxation arising out of the pandemic unemployment payment given the extraordinary circumstances of the pandemic and the consequent sacrifice and financial suffering endured by persons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8832/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 178. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will extend over a suitably long period the amount of extra taxation due over pandemic unemployment payments to assist workers and their families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8833/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Interest Rates (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions he will take to protect consumers in relation to the matter of banks (details supplied) giving notice that negative interest rate charges are to apply to solicitor client accounts in conveyancing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8929/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 314. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the necessary review of HAP rates will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8830/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if special interpersonal or other relevant training has been given to staff and ancillary agency staff dealing with the public in the context of the stress of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8831/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UN Security Council (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 341. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Ireland’s seat on the UN Security Council and reputation on international aid will be used to secure the health of the interconnected world by spearheading and championing the swift distribution of the Covid-19 vaccine to poorer countries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8834/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes Data (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 509. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid and the number of persons on the pandemic unemployment payment to date; the amount that has been overpaid; the number of persons who have been overpaid; the systems in place to assist persons to repay possible overpayments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8837/21]