Results 221-240 of 1,916 for speaker:Réada Cronin

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (17 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if special interpersonal or other relevant training has been given to staff dealing with the public in the context of the stress of Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8838/21]

Covid-19 (Enterprise, Trade and Employment): Statements (18 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: I am sharing time with Deputy Conway-Walsh. I had hoped to have a question-and-answer exchange with the Tánaiste but I am sure he will appreciate that I must raise the proposed lay-offs in the Kerry Group. It is a very worrying development for businesses in north Kildare. The Tánaiste will be aware that the company itself employs hundreds of my constituents in Naas. These are...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if all local authority workers who can work from home are being facilitated in that matter; the checks he has put in place to verify same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9307/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 250. To ask the Minister for Health the systems in place under the Covid-19 national vaccination strategy to address conscientious objection by doctors to vaccine administration; the reassurances his Department can give patients that this not-unexpected development has been factored into the planning, delivery and communication of that strategy; the guarantees he can give persons that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 251. To ask the Minister for Health the public information strategy in place or planned to address comprehensively the safety issues raised in conscientious objection by doctors in order to maximise public trust and public confidence in the Covid-19 vaccines for the best possible public health outcome in the pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9067/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 252. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to doctors here refusing to refer patients for Covid-19 testing due to deeply held beliefs regarding the virus; the public health systems in place to address a possible refusal to refer patients for testing for any disease on a personal belief basis, including for a virus causing a pandemic; his views on whether a refusal to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 253. To ask the Minister for Health the number of doctors who have notified his Department, the HSE or other relevant body of their intention not to vaccinate patients against Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9069/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (18 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 303. To ask the Minister for Health the risk assessment that was presented to his Department and thereafter to Cabinet with regard to building sites and Covid-19 transmission; if a cost-benefit analysis of closure was undertaken and presented to his Department and thereafter to Cabinet; the information on which public health officials work in relation to Covid-19 transmission in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Decarbonising Transport: Discussion (23 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. We all agree there is a need for urgent transformation of public priorities. Dr. O'Mahony mentioned rail. Should we look at rail electrification on a similar scale as the weight we gave to rural electrification? Deputy O'Rourke mentioned trains earlier. There is currently discussion of electrifying the trains to Maynooth but Kilcock is...

Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: In Irish, a kite is called a préachán ceirteach. With the GDPR and the commission, the State has taken murders of paper crows and flown them sky high. The recordings, once lost, have been found. That is just amazing because the Government is still blind to how it must be accountable to survivors, the Dáil, the people, humanity and decency and what it means to have survived...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 488. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the actions she will take to support future educators and students on the professional masters of education in primary teaching at a college (details supplied) who are excluded from the Gaeltacht and other grants allowed to their counterparts at State institutions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10277/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 391. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the scientific and medical basis on which the safe reopening of schools is being planned while the State is recording high levels of infection and with the new UK variant being dominant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10511/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 392. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has been liaising with the Department of Health regarding the safe reopening of schools; if it is the date or infection rate regarding the new UK Covid-19 variant dominant that is guiding the reopening decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10512/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the frequency with which decisions on school closures are reviewed; if her Department is considering an alteration and extension of the school calendar in the context of the disruption due to the pandemic with the aim of maximising in-school presence and learning; if teachers will be prioritised for vaccination to facilitate reopening and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way the new UK Covid-19 variant is being assessed in her plans to reopen schools safely; if she will publish information in order to give parental and teacher comfort and public confidence in relation to same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10509/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in her plan to reopen schools, she is regarding them as a separate virus ecosystem unrelated to their place and import within the community and to virus transmission rates therein; if not, if the reopening is being assessed in the wider community and viral context, particularly with the UK variant being dominant; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 537. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the safety measures being put in place in schools, for example, ventilation and air purification systems, in order for them to re-open safely; the sourcing, installation and costing of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10508/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 771. To ask the Minister for Health the public transport that will be made available to those in north County Kildare who wish to be vaccinated against Covid-19, for example, at Punchestown; if he is liaising with the Minister for Transport in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9441/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (24 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 889. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases that have been recorded in the State of post-Covid-19 paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome; the hospitals in which these cases have been treated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9881/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (25 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 155. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the situation in which the junior certificate is considered the minimum requirement to become a special needs assistant, SNA, and the reason a course currently attended by SNAs at UCD is not being considered for accreditation by her Department (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10751/21]