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Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important debate. Cases of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence are at a crisis point. Women's Aid was founded in 1974 and it has been instrumental in responding to the needs of women over the past 50 years. Having begun as a small service, it has grown into a national organisation that directly supports thousands of women throughout the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (9 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: 14. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if bus services after midnight will be expanded into north Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38168/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (9 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: 26. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Chief State Solicitor’s Office or Kildare County Council provided the OPW with confirmation that they could continue to pursue a renewal of the lease at a location (details supplied); if so, on what date was that provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38169/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (9 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: 27. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the extent to which the OPW sought to establish what portion of a road was owned by Kildare County Council (details supplied); whether that portion of the road could be secured, and at what cost; if discussions took place re same; the actions taken thereafter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38170/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Airport Security (9 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: 112. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an individual coming to this country from Israel will be stopped from entering if they have previously served in the Israeli Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38167/25]

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: I too welcome the students to the Dáil. I listened to the Minister's speech and, like students up and down the country, I am none the wiser. Students have been left under serious pressure over the course of the past few weeks and their college term has not even begun yet. They are meant to be enjoying their summer holidays and getting a summer job. While many students and their...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (3 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: 253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to compensation to individuals who are subject to‘cowboy’ builders under the Regulation of Providers of Building Works Bill 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36810/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (3 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: 337. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps being taken by her Department to increase capacity for childcare services in north Kildare; the number of families currently on a waiting list for childcare services in north Kildare; the average waiting times on those lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36809/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (3 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: 358. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken by her Department to address wait times in a hospital (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36811/25]

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: Deputy Ahern asked a question I intended to ask. Does the Minister plan to write to An Coimisiún Pleanála to clarify the situation around LNG sites and our climate law?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: I know the Minister said he had received no letter from the commission. Is he going to write to it?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: Will the Minister write to it to clarify that?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: So the Minister is not going to seek it. He also mentioned peat extraction. It was reported in the news last week that the EPA claims that illegal extraction is widespread and causing damage to biodiversity in local areas. It is also having a knock-on effect on smaller extractors. The increase in illegal extraction will have an impact on people who are doing it legally. It seems...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: It is going to have an impact-----

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: My next question concerns carbon fines and having to purchase carbon credits because it does look like we are not going to reach our targets. Has the Minister asked the Department to look at what kind of fines we can expect to pay and possibly front load that money into climate initiatives such as offshore renewables?

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: Does the Minister believe that meeting the increased demand for data centres is compliant with our climate laws? At the moment we have an existing first-come, first-served basis for new grid connections. Does the Minister think that is consistent with our climate laws? I also raise the fact that data centres gobble up so much of our energy. So many houses are needed which will require new...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: They are using it.

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: Is there anything the Minister for energy can do to ensure that housing is not in second place to-----

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment (2 Jul 2025)

Réada Cronin: -----data centres?