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Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: ...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 left high and dry. In desperation, I contacted the CEO of the HSE for an appointment for an elderly...

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

Réada Cronin: ...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 here, in particular by those who brandished a very large...

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: The Bill does not really relate to pregnancy loss. I was thinking of children who were born up to the age of 18. I know there is legislation to cover maternity leave in the 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...

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

Réada Cronin: ...they were coming in, I have a friend in Trim who knew of their story. I am sitting beside Nina who told me about her baby twins, Liam and Grace. She said she was happy parents were entitled to that leave and that is why I wanted to bring this legislation forward. When writing legislation, you have to pick a number and it has to be direct and all that, but I wanted it to be leave people...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: ...where Israel had already closed off Rafah. While the real ground offensive has not yet started, Israel certainly has moved in the tanks. The reason the full ground offensive has not started is that the United States is withholding arms and bombs. Today, 9 May, is Europe Day. We in Europe really are at a critical place. When I am out canvassing at the doors for my party's European...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Middle East (9 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I take this opportunity to salute the students at Trinity College for protesting and for rejecting the genocide that is going on in Gaza. This type of protest is really worrying governments, as well it might. It should worry the professors as well who are giving out about the students. It is the students who are giving a bit of learning to the professors. They hit Trinity College where it...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: The words "affordable" and "housing" rarely go together when discussing north Kildare. In north Kildare, workers are either beggaring themselves to pay extortionate rents, living at home with their parents if they are lucky, or house sharing into their 30s and 40s, with all the personal and social issues that come with that, for example, a lack of privacy and personal space, the inability to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Compulsory Purchase Orders (8 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: 281. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will issue a compulsory purchase order for the lands at Castletown House; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20541/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing the Bus and Coach Industry: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I thank the Cathaoirleach for allowing me in. I am not a member of this committee so I appreciate that. I am a TD in Kildare North so part of my consitituency would be within Dublin Bus. We also have private services and Bus Éireann. There will always be a certain number of complaints around lateness, buses not showing up, buses being too full - particularly the Bus Éireann...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing the Bus and Coach Industry: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: Kilcock is a thriving town. It is only a couple of miles from Maynooth. Due to the cost of renting in Maynooth now, a lot of people live in Kilcock. Students rent in Kilcock to attend Maynooth University. It would be worth extending the C spine out to Kilcock. At present, one has to give 24 hours' notice if one is a wheelchair user to use Bus Éireann. When does Bus Éireann...

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: -----while providing the minimum permissible Dáil debate on those topics. The Tánaiste published this Bill prior to the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence having published its pre-legislative scrutiny report. He has no basis for excluding certain posts from membership of representative associations, and, as he dropped it as a legislative initiative, I ask him now to...

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill, which sets out to rebuild and restructure our Defence Forces as a modern, confident entity that reflects our modern, confident State. Being straightforward, procedural at times and administrative in nature, the matters within it would ordinarily preclude extensive discussion or debate. Regrettably, the non-straightforward approach means this...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: I raise the case of an 11-year-old constituent of mine who has been three years waiting for a psychologist appointment. That is over a quarter of her young life waiting for an essential service while she struggles every day at home and at school. The HSE ignored her parents' complaints so I escalated it to the regional manager. They wrote saying they will schedule an appointment for May....

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (30 Apr 2024)

Réada Cronin: Another week and another group of wronged people are seeking justice from the State. We seem to be making a habit of it. It is almost part of the State's culture, one of a lesser-loved tradition we have, except today there is no fanfare, there are no pen portraits to help us to identify with the victims and there is no media live-tweeting and hanging on to every word, eager to be the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (25 Apr 2024)

Réada Cronin: 152. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will instruct the banks, and in particular banks previously bailed out by the citizens, to make it their policy - not ‘an exception’ - that cash be accepted at teller desks for lodgement to personal accounts, without customers being requested to do so by machine and card, this being critical for people who are not tech-savvy; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Apr 2024)

Réada Cronin: 669. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that, currently, Ireland screens newborn babies for fewer diseases than 75% of EU countries; if he is also aware that since the establishment of the Newborn Screening Advisory Committee in 2019, only one new test has been delivered in the intervening years; if he will agree to a comprehensive newborn screening programme that is adequately...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (18 Apr 2024)

Réada Cronin: I thank the Minister of State. I get the parliamentary questions replies all the time. I send them out to the parents who have children waiting for places and they tell me they are sick to the teeth of the replies. I am embarrassed to send them. They call them copy-and-paste replies. The school place action committee in Clane is a force to be reckoned with. It tells me that it sees...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (18 Apr 2024)

Réada Cronin: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle agus leis an Aire Stáit as ucht glacadh leis an saincheist inniu. I also thank the office for facilitating the change for me. I know the work that goes into those procedures so I appreciate that. Ba mhaith liom comhghairdeas a ghabháil leis an Aire Stáit as an bpost nua freisin. Ar a laghad do ghlac sé leis an bpost...