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Central Statistics Office Sexual Violence Survey 2022: Statements (17 May 2023)

Réada Cronin: ...speak on this report. The statistics speak for themselves. Today, I want to speak in a way that is more reflective than reactive because although this is the first report from the CSO, how many other reports have we seen before the House? I want to mention past generations who were the victims of sexual, gender-based or domestic violence and were silent or silenced. Instead of being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (2 Mar 2023)

Réada Cronin: I want to say how dismayed I am at how this meeting has gone. I do not ever remember a Fine Gael or Green Party Minister of Government taking such a party political and partisan approach when replying to questions that we, as members representing the people, ask. I am taken aback by the way that went. I found it shocking actually. I hope it is not necessary for the Chair to remind the...

Parental Bereavement Leave (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Jan 2023)

Réada Cronin: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I was delighted when I saw that our Bill had been chosen in the Bills lottery before Christmas and to get the opportunity to bring this Bill to the House on Second Stage. As I discussed at some of the committees, this Bill is designed to give parents who are employees the legal right to parental bereavement leave when their child has...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Réada Cronin: The CervicalCheck scandal is a scandal in which many people become seriously ill and die. We very much welcome this legislation and the opportunity to speak on it. We have no issue with what is in the Bill, as such, or with the amendments but we have a serious issue with the absence of the duty of candour in the Bill. We need open disclosure. We must have an obligation on the clinician to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Youth Perspectives on the Circular Economy and COP27, including Climate Justice and Energy: Discussion (21 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: I will stand, as our witnesses stood when they were speaking. We sat the last time we had young people in with us. I must say that today has been just as insightful as that meeting was. I was really taken by the fact that so many of our witnesses said they feel let down by politicians and the system and by the choices that are made. There is no doubt but that we are going to need radical...

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (12 Oct 2022)

Réada Cronin: Covid-19 did not come bearing any gifts but it did bring us a new awareness of how we are living both for better and for worse. Many people have made major changes to how they work and live. I know there are many more who would do so if they had the proper opportunity. We also know that during lockdown, many fathers welcomed the opportunity to spend more time with their children and...

LGBTQI+ and Equality: Statements (23 Jun 2022)

Réada Cronin: Equality, inclusion and diversity are three things that should be central to any and every republican who wishes to build and live in a real republic. Together, we took a leap of love in the marriage referendum in May 2015. We kept faith with our brothers and sisters, our aunties and uncles, our friends and neighbours, our political comrades and our political rivals. As we descended on the...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2022)

Réada Cronin: They say a woman's place is in the revolution and on the Continent of Europe, Ukrainian women are showing up to defend their country, freedom and values. They are an inspiration to women everywhere. More women have had to leave on foot or by car and train, taking elderly relatives and young children to safety to defend the next generation of Ukrainians. To those who will come to Ireland, I...

Freedom of Information Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Feb 2022)

Réada Cronin: It is really disappointing to see the Government's amendment, which kicks the can down the road for another nine months. It is another example of the approach of "pretend and extend". It is said that knowledge is power in any Administration, particularly one involving sensitive State documents that may be leaked to personal friends, erased text messages, deletion of official correspondence,...

Mother and Baby Institutions: Statements (25 Nov 2021)

Réada Cronin: What we see in this proposed redress scheme is the presence of too many experts but not enough expertise. In the context of what the State did to mothers and babies, it is unthinkable that this Government would task anybody with formulating this scheme without applying the necessary expertise on the effects of abandonment, separation and removal. The work of psychologist, John Bowlby, on...

Household Utility Bills Support: Motion [Private Members] (3 Feb 2021)

Réada Cronin: It says a lot about where we are when in one breath we are discussing an €80,000 salary top-up for a public service worker, and in the next we are talking about other workers in places such as north Kildare who cannot afford to light their home, cook a meal or turn on the heating. We have swapped the metaphorical cold house of the mother and baby homes for the literal cold house where...

Covid-19 Task Force: Statements (17 Dec 2020)

Réada Cronin: I am sharing time with Deputy Ó Murchú. I welcome the Covid-19 task force and I look forward to getting the vaccine jab when it is my turn. This time last year we could not have imagined what we would be facing, not alone the deaths but the change in life as we know it. This virus has reminded us how fragile and interdependent we are. Across the world, vaccines have changed...

Early Years Childcare: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jul 2020)

Réada Cronin: Childcare,a two-syllable word, is enough to put the heart across any parent, first from finding it, then from paying for it. Fees are among the highest in Europe. It could be called the baby mortgage. Parents who are already working flat out to keep a very expensive roof over their heads are paying an absolute fortune for the privilege of dropping their children off in the dark of the...