Results 241-260 of 1,916 for speaker:Réada Cronin

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Holidays (25 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the fact that secondary schools’ two-week Easter holidays run from 15 March 2021 in order that they can begin to reopen a week earlier, this being 29 March 2021 as opposed to 5 April 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10847/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 312. To ask the Minister for Health his policy on vitamin D supplementation in the population; his policy on the strategic use of drugs such as HCQ and ivermectin in the treatment of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10860/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (25 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: 313. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health doctors and specialists who have been appointed since the outbreak of Covid-19; the number who will be appointed in 2021; the grade at which they will be appointed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10861/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (3 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: 412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current situation regarding redress for day-pupils who have been subjected to sexual abuse in schools; the number of persons reporting such abuse or who have complaints within the system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11162/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: 506. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a supply of high-grade masks will be automatically available to all teachers involved in school reopenings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12044/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (3 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: 514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department is actively examining the creation of additional classes with additional teachers at primary level (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12070/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: 515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the advice or directives that have been issued to primary teachers and schools on the making up of learning gaps and losses for 2021-22 academic year in the next academic year, for example, third class being revised as well as the fourth-class curriculum being taught; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12071/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance (3 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: 541. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a fuel allowance payment will issue to a person (details supplied) who made an application in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11368/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (3 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: 617. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider extending the ECCE scheme in order that all young children will have a place in education and will not be left in limbo (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12072/21]

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

Réada Cronin: 845. To ask the Minister for Health if Covid-19 testing is continuing at meat plants, in particular those in north County Kildare; if so, the frequency and reporting of such testing; the rates of infection found; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11509/21]

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

Réada Cronin: 846. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE can identify the primary source of Covid-19 infection in north County Kildare and the virus strain or strains thereof, particularly in and around Naas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11510/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: 988. To ask the Minister for Health when clear information on Covid-19 vaccination availability and dates, including for the over 70s cohort, will issue widely to general practitioners and particularly to practices in north County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12043/21]

Impact of Covid-19 on Women for International Women’s Day: Statements (4 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: During the Covid crisis, I hear from shattered women everyday. If they are working, it is likely that they are in receipt of the pandemic unemployment payment or on the frontline. If they are caring for children with special needs, they are terrified. They feel imprisoned and are terrified of catching Covid. They worry who will mind their children if they die. If they have a problem with...

Civil Registration (Right of Adoptees to Information) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: Our birth certificate is the fundamental document that testifies to our arrival into this world. Having automatic access to that fundamental document must be a fundamental and automatic right - a right that is both claimed and fulfilled without obstacle, qualification or hindrance. Quite simply, the days of adoptee apartheid in our civil and public life must be over. This morning I was...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (10 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: 117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will liaise with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to remove the planning restrictions and therefore financial barriers to schools that wish to use solar panels and contribute to the Just Transition of energy within Ireland’s climate need and commitments; and if so, the speed with...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Architects Register (10 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: 382. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress on implementing the architectural technologists’ register on the necessary statutory footing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12780/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: 496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the accommodations and provisions being made in mainstream secondary education for children with mild to moderate learning disability to return to the mainstream classroom in which they have been thriving; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12781/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (10 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: 612. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will include representatives of key groups that the Pensions Commission’s deliberations involve and its decisions will affect (details supplied) and if not, the reason and basis for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13176/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Brexit Issues (10 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: 667. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Irish students who have been accepted onto master's degree courses in the UK pre-Brexit and deferred their place for an academic year due to Covid-19 will be exempt from international student fees and will be expected to pay the usual EU fees and qualify for student loans on the basis of same due to the CTA; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Mar 2021)

Réada Cronin: 805. To ask the Minister for Health when the Covid-19 vaccinations will commence for the over-65 years of age group given the anxiety of so many persons to be vaccinated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12789/21]