Results 1-20 of 143 for long speaker:Réada Cronin

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

Réada Cronin: ..., should a position then not be granted to general secretaries of the representative associations as well? They should also be conduits to their members. With their wealth of experience in the Defence Forces and as long-established professional bodies, RACO, PDFORRA and the Reserve Defence Force Representative Association, RDFRA, could make an excellent contribution to the board. Their...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: ...ask the Minister for Health if his Department will begin a public information campaign to advise people on how best to protect themselves from airborne infection with SARSCoV2 given the impact of long-Covid on those who develop it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19934/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 May 2024)

Réada Cronin: ...for Health if he will, or is already, liaising with the Ministers for Finance, Social Protection and Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform, in examining the impact of long-Covid on public health quality and services, on the public finances, the labour force and therefore the economy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19935/24]

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

Réada Cronin: .... The once-off payment of €3,000 for former residents living overseas, particularly in Britain, is insufficient and as Teachta Clarke has outlined, could affect any means-tested income. Not so long ago we were reminded that €3,000 was only lunch money to the big beasts of RTÉ, yet it is proposed as a decent settlement for survivors. Any payment must be index-linked to...

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

Réada Cronin: ...in Clane is a force to be reckoned with. It tells me that it sees through this, how there is nothing the Department cannot or will not do until it comes to actually doing it. It just takes so long and children grow up so fast. On the general places, we hear all the time that the Minister is assuring parents that their child will have a school place. There is a special concentration...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Give Travellers the Floor: Discussion (18 Apr 2024)

Réada Cronin: ...She has that special gift. I thank her for using her voice on behalf of her people, women, women Travellers and mothers of Traveller children. It is great to hear her. I do not want to speak for too long because this is about giving Travellers the floor. I am just here to say that I heard most of the speakers today and Sinn Féin in Kildare is delighted to have a Traveller...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Apr 2024)

Réada Cronin: 141. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence how many members of the Defence Forces are currently on sick leave due to long-Covid; the number in each of the past three years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13856/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (9 Apr 2024)

Réada Cronin: ..., managed and guaranteed for maternity and other extended leave sought by psychologists and other mental health practitioners in order to ensure continuity of services and so people on already-long waiting lists do not have to wait even further particularly as management of cover applies to children's care [14542/24]

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

Réada Cronin: ...we would be discussing the report on gender equality on 29 February, the extra day in the leap year when a woman generally had the gender-equality option of proposing to her man. We have come a long way but we have a long way to go for ourselves, our sisters and our daughters, and indeed their daughters. We will not and must never stop in our push for gender equality. I am reminded...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: ...and Skills if her Department will examine the inherently inequitable situation whereby children with intellectual disabilities who are frequently ill, hospitalised and unable to attend school for long periods of time, sometimes a school year, cannot avail of additional school years later (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9777/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (27 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: ...and Youth the steps that can be taken to assist a child (details supplied) whose life is being impacted profoundly by the lack of an assessment of needs that they require but has been too long awaiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8687/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (13 Feb 2024)

Réada Cronin: 315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how long each child now relying on home tuition due to a lack of a school-places is availing of the service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6477/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Electricity Supply Board (25 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: ...of Environment, Climate and Communications will reach the necessary consent to pay the agreed pension increases to ESB beneficiaries, such consent notified to them as being required for payment and long awaited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3431/24]

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: ...maimed, disabled and blinded. There is no anaesthetic for amputations or Caesarean sections. This is all because they are Palestinians; that is the simple reason. An occupied population for so long dehumanised, displaced and now facing genocide, all with billions from America, Germany and the UK. With Ireland’s history of occupation, displacement and starvation we have a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (23 Jan 2024)

Réada Cronin: ...depend on our Defence Forces. The Tánaiste is so proud of them, as we all are, and we all want this tribunal of inquiry to work. It must work because it is an important tribunal and it has been long-awaited. The Tánaiste knows as well as anybody that if one makes a complaint in the Defence Forces, and this was reiterated earlier this afternoon in the audiovisual room, that it...

An Bille up an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...or not. The public would have recourse to the courts to decide whether or not those obligations were being met according to threshold norms. Striving feels like excusing. It is the language of how long is a piece of string or rain is wet. I am worried it is a deliberate move by the Government that is shallow and driven by popularity, optics, headlines and soundbites. It allows the...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...Constitution (Care) Bill 2023, Second Stage of which is also being taken today, are very much interconnected and reflect the changed and changing State and society in which we live. We have come a long way in the past 40 years in particular, and these referendums will be important markers on the next stage of our journey. They will be a chance for the people to have their say on the...

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

Réada Cronin: ...behalf of many people in north Kildare who have to spend their lives fighting for every little thing. They would give anything to keep their beloved relative at home instead of putting them into long-term care if only they had the proper supports. We need compassion in our care policies and all Departments that deal with them. We need mercy, respect, dignity, oodles of cop on and, above...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tribunals of Inquiry (21 Nov 2023)

Réada Cronin: .... Let us do it right from the beginning. I believe the IRG recommended that the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act would also feature in the terms of reference. I hope that the Tánaiste will think long and hard and go with this request.

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...as was mentioned by my party colleague, to the earlier work of an Teachta Ó Laoghaire and an Teachta Martin Kenny, who brought forward the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill in 2019. It has been a long four years. It is four years in which families saw their precious daughters’ names become hashtags or headlines. It is four years in which men, and it is mostly men, inflicted...