Results 101-120 of 1,875 for speaker:Réada Cronin

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency (29 Sep 2020)

Réada Cronin: 604. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children and cases awaiting the allocation of a social worker; the number of these children and cases in north County Kildare; the length of time each case and child has been waiting both nationally and in north County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26301/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Services (29 Sep 2020)

Réada Cronin: 764. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to facilitate partners of pregnant women accompanying them to their maternity hospital appointments; the date on which these accompaniments will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26293/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Sep 2020)

Réada Cronin: 765. To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional ICU beds that have been provided since March 2020 nationally and in Naas General Hospital, respectively; the number of new hospital consultants appointed since March 2020 nationally and in Naas General Hospital, respectively; the equivalent figures in relation to additional ICU beds and new consultants planned to the end of 2020;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (29 Sep 2020)

Réada Cronin: 766. To ask the Minister for Health if data (details supplied) will be provided regularly in order to increase public clarity and confidence in relation to the reasoning and decision making regarding Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26295/20]

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2020)

Réada Cronin: Seamus Heaney wrote "Some day I will go to Aarhus". After reading this Bill, many of us feel the need to follow him there. The appeals process outlined here, to which we in Sinn Féin have proposed many amendments, seems in many ways to be contrary to the Aarhus Convention's provisions on the citizen's access to justice. The appeals process outlined is unnecessarily closed, patriarchal...

Roadmap for Living with Covid-19: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: Does the Minister not wish to answer?

Roadmap for Living with Covid-19: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: I wish to raise the case of a young constituent of mine in north Kildare. Céilí lives in Naas and she is not doing well with Covid-19. She is three years old and profoundly deaf. As a result of a heart condition, she cannot be fitted with cochlear implants, so she relies on two hearing aids instead. Without them, the only sounds she can hear are vacuum cleaners and lawnmowers....

Covid-19 (Arts): Statements (6 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: Government politicians do not just dine out on their arts; some of them feast on them. Hardly a speech has been made by a Taoiseach or Uachtarán that has not featured lines from Yeats, Heaney or Beckett. In their quiet times away from the camera, it seems some politicians believe such artists should go out and get a real job. This is usually latent but lately it has been blatant. It...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (6 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: 688. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients being paid for fully or partially by the State in the various nursing homes run by a private operator (details supplied); the amount paid to each facility operated by the group in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28417/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (6 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: 689. To ask the Minister for Health the amount paid to private nursing homes here in each year of the past five years; the nature of the funding; the number of patients involved; the type of services provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28418/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation (6 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: 690. To ask the Minister for Health if an inquiry will be carried out into the care of a patient (details supplied) with schizophrenia in a nursing home; the psychiatric qualifications of the staff responsible for their care in each year of their residences; the details of consultation and care plans devised between the nursing home, the social worker of the patient and local psychiatric...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (6 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: 709. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help hours and home care packages provided nationally in each of the past five years; the number of such hours in north County Kildare in the same time frame; the cost of such provision to the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28587/20]

Brexit and Business: Statements (7 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: Businesses in north Kildare were just accommodating the prospect of Brexit when the coronavirus hit Ireland. Now they face the double whammy of a novel virus, about which little is known, and a British Government that is novel about Brexit in ways that some never imagined. However, what is imaginable and reachable now is a united Ireland in the broader context of Brexit. My party leader,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (8 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: 113. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps taken to determine the case of a person (details supplied) in view of the recent judgment of the Supreme Court to quash the decision of the Disabled Drivers Board of Appeal, not to grant a primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29316/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (8 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: 114. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps taken to determine the case of a person (details supplied) in view of the recent judgment of the Supreme Court to quash the decision of the Disabled Drivers Board of Appeal, not to grant a primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29317/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (8 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: 115. To ask the Minister for Finance if, in view of the recent judgment of the Supreme Court (details supplied) he plans to provide a statement on the continued processing of applications for primary medical certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29318/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (8 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: 252. To ask the Minister for Health the reason HSE audiology has not been ring-fenced as an essential service for children who are deaf and hard of hearing; if he will make a commitment to ring-fencing that vital service in the future even in the event of further Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29319/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: I wish to follow on from what Senator Higgins asked, because she asked the question I was going to ask, but I was not satisfied with the answer. Could we have a proper definition of climate justice and sustainable development? We have talked about bringing people along with us, and we all know by amount of emails we have received and the engagement we have had locally, that this is a really...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: My question was brief. So, Mr. Carroll is willing to consider the issue of definitions and come back to the committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: We will look into that over the next couple of weeks.