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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (20 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: 376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the precise timeframe for the phasing out of religious education in schools; her views on achieving it in the lifetime of this Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31721/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: 431. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the increase in the parent's benefit from two weeks to five weeks as announced in budget 2021 and planned for 2021 could take effect in 2020 due to the extreme difficulty and uncertainty facing families with Covid-19; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31718/20]

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (21 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: What is wrong with this State that it wants to put away now the records of the women it put away before? What is wrong with this State that it will add public insult to the personal injury it inflicted on thousands of girls, women and their babies? Its pursuit of decency, morality and respectability resulted in the persecution of the poor, the innocent and their children. What is wrong...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: I thank our two guest speakers. My first question is directed at Dr. Andrew Jackson. He mentioned his concern about the CCAC having ex officiomembers, which is contrary to the recommendations made by the Joint Committee on the Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht in 2013. Is this the practice followed in other jurisdictions? What are the potential downsides of their presence on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: Would Professor Sweeney comment on voting rights on the CCAC?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: I thank the two witnesses for assisting us with the Bill. My first question is for Dr. Muinzer. I am interested in his mention of sanctions. Without a just transition being mentioned in the Bill, we do not want people to think sanctions will be placed on them. The sanctions should be on the Government. Will Dr. Muinzer speak a little about that please? It feels as if we are in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: I thank Professor FitzGerald. I wish to ask about the climate justice aspect of his presentation. I have two questions. I am very glad he raised the fact that the climate council will take into account climate justice. He reminds us how the council has been at pains to say how vital climate justice is in reassuring us on a just transition. In raising this, Professor FitzGerald rightly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: I thank the witnesses for giving of their time to the committee. My first set of questions is for Professor Buckley. We all realised during the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic how important our natural world is to us. We learned that we humans are lucky to be a part of it but we are not the owners of it. In this context, the Bill's neglect of biodiversity - as Professor Buckley noted,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: My question is to Professor Buckley. The climate emergency is awash with fake news and is disfigured and defaced by greenwashing by huge polluters with massive amounts of money. These days, one would almost think that these fossil fuel producers were going to chain themselves to the trees they are planning to plant, so powerful are their advertisements, PR and marketing. They are spending...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Oct 2020)

Réada Cronin: I thank the witnesses for their submissions and for the time they have given the committee.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Réada Cronin: 1253. To ask the Minister for Health the amount collected under the fair deal scheme in each of the past five years; the number of persons contributing to and availing of the scheme in each year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32799/20]

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (4 Nov 2020)

Réada Cronin: I welcome the reversal to the cuts to the pandemic unemployment payment and the wage subsidy scheme which Sinn Féin had been seeking. On behalf of my constituents in north Kildare, I am raising overarching concerns about the Government's financial priorities in this tricky time ahead. Covid-19 leaves the world in uncharted waters. I am worried that with this Government it is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2020: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2020)

Réada Cronin: My question is for Ms Finegan. Is it true that the current format of the annual plans allow for backloading so, according to the current draft of the Bill, to reach the average 7% reduction, the plans could delay action and leave it to the next Government?

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Réada Cronin: Today is Armistice Day and I want to think about what unites us as Europeans, and what unites us on these two islands, in the commemoration of all who fought and died in World Wars, in all the theatres of battles, be it for king or kaiser, or for the small nation of Belgium or for the hope of freedom here at home in Ireland, or simply for wages to put food on the table. Leaving the EU...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Nov 2020)

Réada Cronin: The programme for Government states that protecting citizens is the founding duty of the State and, in particular, it mentions victims of sexual abuse. I wish to raise the matter of waiting lists in St. Louise's unit in Our Lady's Children's Hospital Crumlin, where children reporting sexual abuse are interviewed. I have a constituent aged six who reported in early March that she had been...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Search and Rescue Service Provision (12 Nov 2020)

Réada Cronin: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for choosing this Topical Issue matter and the Minister of State, Deputy Brophy, for taking the place of the Minister for Defence. Our search and rescue operators are the people who go out in all weathers, conditions and days of the year to bring us safely home. They are there when boats go missing, swimmers get lost, climbers fall, walkers go astray and when...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Search and Rescue Service Provision (12 Nov 2020)

Réada Cronin: Unlike the Minister of State, I will ignore the snide remarks. The Government must listen to the experts in our Defence Forces. These are the people whose first loyalty is to the State and its people - it is not to fund managers, bankers and brokers. The Air Corps does not want to see any further privatisation of our Defence Forces. The issue is not just the fact that the State is...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (17 Nov 2020)

Réada Cronin: 615. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of children currently on the waiting list for initial assessment or for Garda investigative purposes in the St. Louise’s unit at Children’s Health Ireland, Crumlin; the number of those children waiting longer than 3, 6 and 12 months, respectively; the number of children on the therapy waiting list per se; the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Protection (17 Nov 2020)

Réada Cronin: 616. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of units similar to St. Louise’s at Children’s Health Ireland, Crumlin, that are located outside Dublin; the number of children awaiting initial assessment or for Garda investigative purposes; the number of those children waiting longer than three, six and 12 months, respectively; the number of children awaiting...

Community Safety and Preventing Crime: Statements (18 Nov 2020)

Réada Cronin: I take this opportunity to acknowledge the community gardaí in north Kildare for their magnificent work during the Covid crisis. Together with volunteers and community groups, they got the shopping done, prescriptions and meals delivered, and cups of teas offered and drunk in the garden. It was top-class community policing and social action, just as was seen when the local community...