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Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Réada Cronin: Our motion this evening addresses how supports for people with disabilities and their carers must be rights based. Táim sásta labhairt ar ár rún tráthnóna agus gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta Tully as ucht an rúin seo. Tá sé an-tábhachtach gach cúram agus cúnamh a thabhairt do dhaoine faoi mhíchumas agus dá gclanna...

Report of Joint Committee on Gender Equality: Motion (29 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: ...did take a decision to hold them, it was seen to be rushing the process. My party and I believe the wording offered by the Government lacks ambition and the ability to deliver the real and meaningful change carers require. My party and I believe this referendum needs to act as a catalyst for meaningful change. Notwithstanding this, Sinn Féin has carefully considered the...

Delivery of a Rights-Based Care Economy in Ireland: Motion (7 Dec 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...to speak on this motion on a rights-based care economy with my colleagues in the women's caucus and the gender equality committee set up after the citizens' assembly report. We all know that if carers downed tools for even a day, our economy and society would grind to a halt, except, carers, of course, would not do that, which governments know. In so many cases, they are motivated by the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (25 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: 162. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what improved and specific help will be given to emergency foster carers for their contingent need, for example, in the provision of packs of emergency supplies, appropriate to the various age groups, so they can begin, with the necessary ease and equipment, the wrap-around care of highly vulnerable children at...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Budget 2024 (19 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if, in recognition of financial need and the critical social value of the work they undertake, the additional Budget 2024 provisions for foster carers could be paid in full in January, without a delay of several months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45933/23]

Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Temporary Solidarity Contribution) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...;in are anxious that they be used for the people who need them most. Among those are the people who get up early in the morning and the people who are lucky to get their head down at all because they are carers 24-7. It is quite a development in society and quite a legacy of this Government that people who work so hard and contribute so much are the same people who walked around their...

Food Costs and High Grocery Bills: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...their supermarket shop, I see them putting stuff up to the till but holding back the biscuits and the little luxuries. I have spotted this quite often when doing my shop. These are our workers and our carers. They are our pensioners and our families who are forced to depend on social welfare. There appears to be zero compassion for them and zero care, even though they will spend an...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care Issues: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...happening a lot at the moment, because people have 30-year-olds who are still living at home with them. That model is changing and we need a bit of urgency brought to this case because most foster carers I know of are not working. The mammies are not doing paid work outside the home. However, there are a lot of trips - medical trips, trips to speech and language therapy, mental health...

Cost-of-Living Supports: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...Doherty, which is a care package for people depending of social protection. “Social protection” are not dirty words. Our care package focuses on people in real need: families, lone parents, carers, people with disabilities. It is the opposite of the bonus arrangements and pamper packages the Government devises and delivers for bankers. The bankers Government Members...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (13 Dec 2022)

Réada Cronin: 450. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the concrete plans that his Department has to pay additional allowances to foster carers who provide aftercare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62000/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (13 Dec 2022)

Réada Cronin: 451. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department can confirm that there will be a comprehensive package for foster carers in the next Budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62001/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (13 Dec 2022)

Réada Cronin: 452. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how advanced is his Department's work on the issue of pensions for foster carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62002/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (13 Dec 2022)

Réada Cronin: 453. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the back-to-school allowance will be paid to foster carers at the next academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62003/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (13 Dec 2022)

Réada Cronin: 454. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to examine the matter of mileage rates vis-a-vis foster carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62004/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...a discount. It seems everything is stacked against people who are below the poverty line. These issues affect one-parent families, people with disabilities, those with long-term illnesses and carers, whom we are discussing today, in particular. I cannot ask the Minister for her view because she is not here. Is it the view of the departmental officials that social welfare increases...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Mr. Hession was talking about the carer's allowance for people who are full-time carers being defined as not less than 35 hours per week. Has the Department ever considered for full-time carers the basic income minimum pay of €325 per week that was introduced for artists? Has the Department considered that as a basic pay for carers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: It would recognise carers' work, though. That might be something we could look into again.

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...who are at the greatest risk and those on low to medium incomes, who get up the earliest in the morning and work the hardest. These are front-line workers in health, retail, transport, schools and carers. They are the workers who keep the show on the road and to whom we have a duty to keep going when it comes to one of the most basic aspects of life and living, which is energy and heat,...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)

Réada Cronin: ...careers in the home care sector and we need the public to be able to depend on the system for the quality of service and availability of workers. I know people in north Kildare who are desperate for carers and home care. It is no surprise given that 35,000 hours a week are not being provided and more than 4,500 people who have funding are waiting for care while their quality of health...