122. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the progress being made with the roll-out of the National Broadband Plan in north Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42562/24]
121. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications to outline the Government's plans for sustainable energy infrastructure in County Kildare, including support for solar energy initiatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42548/24]
100. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will detail any recent improvements or plans to expand consular services for Irish citizens, especially in light of increased travel difficulties and crises worldwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42595/24]
99. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the role Ireland is playing in international efforts to combat climate change, particularly through its participation in the UN Climate Change Conferences and other global environmental agreements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42594/24]
98. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the engagement he has had with the United Nations to ensure assistance is provided to the coroner in examining the circumstances of the death of a person (details supplied) in Lebanon two years ago; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42588/24]
60. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the next steps for the highly-trained soldiers on peacekeeping duties in Lebanon, given the deteriorating situation between Israel and that country and that more widely in the region, the evidence shows the IDF behaving in ways not in accordance with accepted international rules of military engagement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38654/24]
145. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the actions her Department will take to make safe a school (details supplied) in terms of the designated pedestrian gate to which they have no access, which was integral to the granting of planning permission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37107/24]
616. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children, by county, waiting for several services (details supplied); the length of time waiting for each service in each of the past four years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36526/24]
615. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether waiting lists for children requiring primary care, CDNT and CAMHS are further separated into waiting lists (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36525/24]
614. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of waiting lists the HSE operates simultaneously for children who are waiting for therapy assessments and therapy services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36524/24]
521. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Justice if her Department will examine the outstanding endowment application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36531/24]
1718. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if he will include borderline personality disorder as a recognised diagnosis in the Mental Health Act 2001; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34429/24]
1507. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will move immediately on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35635/24]
1362. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a case regarding childcare fees causing understandable distress to parents (details supplied) will be examined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34428/24]
874. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will move immediately to strengthen the provisions of the Planning and Development Bill 2023 on provision of rights of way, removing the word ‘may’ and replacing it with the obligation of ‘shall’ (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35634/24]
455. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the Government Departments, State bodies and agencies where HEPA filtration has been installed and is operational; to list the same for carbon dioxide monitoring, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35952/24]
182. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Transport the actions he has taken or will take to close the gap between Ireland’s humanitarian rhetoric on the killing and terror being inflicted by the Israel Defence Forces on the population of Gaza and the occupied West Bank and the use of Irish airspace for the transport (or actions related thereto), as disclosed by an organisation (details supplied); [35630/24]
181. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Transport to list the actions the State has taken to ensure that no aircraft of any kind that serves, supplies or is used in any way by the Israel Defence Forces in its actions in Gaza, either directly, indirectly, or that assists that force or the state of Israel in the pursuit of same on an ancillary basis, lands or refuels or stops temporarily at an Irish airport, to include any interim destinations either to or from such activities, for example, Cyprus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35628/24]
180. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Transport to list the actions the State has taken to ensure that no weaponry, armaments or components thereof, travel either directly or indirectly to the Israel Defence Forces through the airports of the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35627/24]
179. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Transport if he can guarantee that no weaponry or components thereof cited as producing extreme injury of individuals in Gaza – including children and right to the point of vaporisation – has travelled through Irish sovereign airspace or been transported directly or indirectly through an Irish airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35626/24]
178. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Transport to list all the actions taken since 7 October 2023 to ensure that Ireland’s sovereign airspace was, is not, and will not, be misused in the matter of US-sponsored or Israeli actions against the Palestinian people, this having particular significance given Ireland’s military neutrality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35625/24]
177. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Transport the reason, given Ireland’s neutrality and the accepted war crimes and crimes against humanity being pursued by the Israel Defence Forces, including with US support and funding, the State did not proceed with all alacrity to undertake the kind of investigation pursued by an organisation (details supplied) on use of Irish airspace, such information being readily available from and at various organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35623/24]
176. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Transport to outline the list of new decisions and actions taken on foot of information and documentation disclosed to it by an organisation (details supplied) in the matter of the US-funded armaments and other supplies using the airports and airspace of the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35622/24]
175. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Transport the actions he has taken on the information and documentation provided by an organisation (details supplied) to the Government on the use of Irish sovereign airspace vis-à-vis armaments and-or components thereof for use by the State of Israel in its actions against the Palestinian people, including war crimes and crimes against humanity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35621/24]
173. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence his views on the clear need for a separate, dedicated Minister for Defence, without amalgamated roles, titles and portfolios; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35951/24]
172. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the actions his Department is talking to recruit and retain talent in the Naval Service, particularly at the level of technical and technological expertise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35950/24]
171. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence when it is expected that the Naval Service will be at its full complement of personnel and vessels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35949/24]
69. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the actions he is taking to ensure the EU sanctions Israel for its war crimes and crimes against humanity. [35633/24]
68. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will work with countries of like minds in the EU, for example, Spain, to prevent Israeli settlement being presented and treated as a fringe activity, when in fact, it is state policy, with its illegal incursions and violent assaults assisted and-or ignored by the security forces. [35632/24]
67. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the actions he is taking on an international and European level to prevent and deter escalation of Israeli violence in the occupied West Bank. [35631/24]
13. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the actions he has taken and will take to uphold the State’s standing and reputation as militarily neutral, given the reported breaches of Irish space in the transport of weaponry or components thereof in the pursuit of, or arming of, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza [35629/24]
12. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the appropriate diplomatic actions that have been taken or are planned in the matter of breaches reported by an organisation (details supplied), documentation on which has been provided to the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35624/24]
2316. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if, in the interest of public health and well-being in the longer term, this also being critical for the economy and the provision of medical services, he will work with the Department of Transport to advertise on all public transport, the advisability of wearing high-quality respirators, especially when Covid numbers are high; if he will make such respirators, for example FFP2/FFP3, available to passengers easily and free of charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32464/24]
2315. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health to instruct the HSE to develop and launch the necessarily high-profile and wide public-information campaign, explaining how the best way to avoid long-Covid is to avoid infection with the SARSCoV2 virus, whose main transmission means is airborne, and where such infection is eminently avoidable if people are given the correct information on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32462/24]
1700. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of prosecutions that took place in the State in each of the past five years in the matter of animal welfare, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32909/24]
1699. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will ban all blood sports in the State, including hare coursing, stag and fox hunting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32908/24]
1698. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of animals that die each year in the live export process; if his Department keeps an account of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32907/24]
1697. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of animals that underwent live export in each of the past five years; the average age of same; the youngest and oldest animal; the category of same being bovine or ovine or porcine; the number of shipments per year; the number per shipment; the number of departmental staff or agents staff accompanying each shipment to its destination; a list of those destinations, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32906/24]
1696. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to publish the steps his Department takes to establish and guarantee that animals shipped as live export face humane handling and slaughter at their destination; the protocols for the overseeing of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32905/24]
1695. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will end the extreme and unnecessary practice of live exports of animals, and in particular young calves; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32904/24]
1694. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department keeps a formal account of all animal welfare charges and convictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32903/24]
1693. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the protocols and procedures in place in his Department by which it notifies to An Garda Síochána incidents of animal cruelty to which it is alerted or of which it becomes aware; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32902/24]
1692. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department's full animal welfare investigation is already ongoing and-or will run in tandem with a Garda investigation regarding same (details supplied); if his Department has referred this cruelty to An Garda Síochána to investigate with a view to prosecution given the plant and operator were certified by the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32901/24]
1675. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has fully considered the impact of his draft Statutory Instrument on already-stretched agricultural veterinary services across the country (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32398/24]
1672. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is currently conducting its own animal welfare investigation into a facility (details supplied) and its surrounds, and has closed the plant on the grounds of welfare, food safety and traceability, in order to clear up the conflicting departmental views on same given at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32390/24]
1110. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will launch and oversee an audit of mould in public housing and in accommodation leased by the State or paid for through rent allowance or HAP, and so on, given the widespread issues of toxic mould in local authority and associated housing across the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32467/24]
777. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if she is satisfied that every effort is being made to facilitate parents in north Kildare wishing to educate their children in Gaelscoileanna at junior and senior level, particularly in the timely provision of proper and permanent school buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32461/24]
776. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if there will be adequate provision of school bus places in north Kildare in the academic year 2024-25 in order to prevent attendant stress on parents and their children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32460/24]
495. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if his Department has undertaken every possible step to make and keep the lands at Castletown accessible to people with disabilities and to the emergency services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32466/24]
494. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the number of air changes or cleanings or filtrations or purifications per hour in the Dáil and Seanad Chambers; how this compares with other public buildings, for example, schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32465/24]