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Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: ...it stood up to the veiled threats from Israel in taking this important step. It is a start. There is a lot more to be done but at least I hope it has given some solace to the people of Palestine and Gaza. I also give my solidarity to the Tánaiste for what is happening on social media. Unfortunately, it is what I have come to expect from the immoral supporters of this genocide and...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Tribunals of Inquiry (29 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: 41. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the reason the Women of Honour have not been contacted to-date by the tribunal of inquiry into certain matters relating to the complaints processes in the Defence Forces; the reason for the delay in signing the statutory instrument; if his Department is prepared to give funding to the group on a parity basis with other support organisations to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the urgent measures she will take to tackle the critical lack of designated ASD school places for children in north Kildare, with children numbering up to 15 on waiting lists when there are only six places; if she will examine the situation in schools (details supplied) in particular where parents wish siblings to attend together; and if she...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I spoke to the Tánaiste about this in the Dáil previously. Members of the Defence Forces and An Garda Síochána are aware that the Government is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut here. I am also not happy about the opening statement being taken as read when it has not even been circulated. I checked if it was up on the system two minutes before I came down here-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: ...group when it was before the committee, as we did with the other stakeholders. The Tánaiste says he wants the Secretary General to be there as some kind of conduit between the Minister for Defence and the external oversight group. That is his reasoning. He already said that RACO, PDFORRA and the Reserve Defence Force Representative Association, RDFRA, are professional bodies he...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I move amendment No 11: In page 14, between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following: “(c) the Secretaries General of those military representative associations authorised by the Minister as per subsection (3A) of the Defence (Amendment) Act 1990 (inserted by section 23(a)(iii) of the Defence (Amendment) Act 2024) who shall be ex officio members, and”.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I spoke to the Tánaiste on Second Stage about my next point. I am referring to the scrapping of the plan to place an unprecedented bar on the director of military prosecutions and military judges from being members of a representative association. It is unprecedented anywhere in the Civil Service or the public service. The independent arbitrator has already adjudicated against this...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I move amendment No. 16: In page 27, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following: “(iii) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (7): “(8) The Minister shall not seek to prohibit any person from being a member of a representative association on the basis of the post they hold.”,”. I withdraw the amendment and reserve the right...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I move amendment No. 17: In page 27, to delete lines 15 to 36, and in page 28, to delete lines 1 to 5. I also withdraw this amendment but retain the right to resubmit it on Report Stage.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I move amendment No. 22: In page 28, lines 30 and 31, to delete “or matter of Government policy”.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Africa Day: Discussion with African Ambassadors to Ireland (21 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I welcome the witnesses to the meeting. We certainly have a critical history in common insofar as Ireland was also a colonised country. I thank the witnesses for the kind words about Ireland and whatever help we have been on the international stage. Palestine is a defining political issue for us in the EU. Palestine is very close to our hearts and I am wearing my Palestinian Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Policies (16 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: 30. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if, in the interest of transparency, he will refer any desired or proposed changes to the triple lock to the people in a referendum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22149/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: 31. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department will increase financial support to the charities supporting veterans and former members of the Defence Forces; if the State, through the forces themselves, will develop its own outreach, care and liaison services for former members who have served the State proudly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22150/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (16 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: 237. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the policy and procedures extant to guarantee continuity of service and care in the time when a child leaves primary care services and moves to within the remit of the children's disability network team, in order that this is as seamless as possible without closure of discharge involving services; if there is...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: Under this Government, healthcare has become pure hell for those working in the system and those depending on it. Practically every day in North Kildare, people arrive in my office or contact me on the phone in tears due to waiting lists or delays. Since the pain clinic in St. James's was limited so that the space could be used for accident and emergency services, people in agony have been...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services (15 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: 128. To ask the Minister for Health if he can examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21980/24]

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I also welcome the families and Justice for the Forgotten to the Dáil this evening. We need to shine a bright light on these dark and dirty days on our island. They were days when the dogs in the street knew the collusion between the British state forces and loyalist paramilitaries. They were days when that reality, through which some lived and often died, would not be spoken of in...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Parental Bereavement Leave (Amendment) Bill 2021: Pre-Committee Stage Scrutiny (14 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: Ar dtús ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis an gcoiste as an deis ár mBille a phlé. I have been a member of the climate committee, the gender equality committee and the foreign affairs and defence committee but this is my first time on this side of the fence. I know the time of the committee members is scarce and valuable and I am very grateful for their...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Parental Bereavement Leave (Amendment) Bill 2021: Pre-Committee Stage Scrutiny (14 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: When this Bill was chosen through the lottery system, an amendment was moved to delay it for 12 months. The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, brought up pregnancy leave but there is other legislation to do with pregnancy loss. The reason I opted for 24 weeks was because it is the relevant time period in the civil registration Bill. I did a...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Parental Bereavement Leave (Amendment) Bill 2021: Pre-Committee Stage Scrutiny (14 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: ...event of pregnancy loss. Senator Clonan's baby was different. His baby died during birth, which is horrendous. If there was any help I could give, I would be very interested in that. My understanding is that someone is paid while on this leave. None of a person's employment rights will be affected by the leave. In Ireland we are very respectful of death, in fairness to employers....