Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Schools Building Projects

Réada Cronin

84. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education to provide a detailed update on the situation in relation to the new schools (details supplied). [16268/24]

School Enrolments

Réada Cronin

110. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education her Department’s precise plans to guarantee a secondary school place for each child in the north Kildare area, not only in first year in September 2024, but in second year given the forced reliance of some children on home tuition and of boarding on others in the current school year (first year), with a negative impact on the child and family in all such cases due to oversubscription locally. [16267/24]

Defence Forces

Réada Cronin

183. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will undertake an audit of each year in the past ten years in the matter of the reported training of Libyan militia by serving and/or former Irish Defence Forces personnel; if he will publish the results of such an audit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16056/24]

Teaching Qualifications

Réada Cronin

114. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if she can clarify the situation and operation of the professional masters in education incentive scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15891/24]

Middle East

Réada Cronin

54. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs the number of times he has summoned the Israeli ambassador since 7 October 2023; the dates of each request and attendance at same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15360/24]

Middle East

Réada Cronin

55. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he summoned the Israeli ambassador in the matter of the IDF killing of international aid workers last week; if so, if she attended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15361/24]

Middle East

Réada Cronin

137. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence whether the RTI unit has examined, and is satisfied, that member-based organisations and/or companies, either Irish or multi-national Irish based, with which it confers, consults or liaises on matters of defence and security, have no financial or other material interest in Israeli companies, companies in the OPT, or engage in activities beneficial to or related to the IDF or any other Israeli military or security operations, given Israel’s ongoing actions in Gaza that fit the definition of Torture, War Crimes and Ethnic Cleansing, with ‘Plausible Genocide’ under active consideration by the ICJ. [13852/24]

Defence Forces

Réada Cronin

138. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence whether the self-styled Irish Defence and Security Association is receiving State funding, either directly as an organisation or through its membership companies; whether his Department and/or the Defence Forces themselves are satisfied that it is appropriate for any organisation or association that is not under the strict aegis of Ireland’s Minister for Defence and the Defence Forces themselves, to operate under a title and logo that could be mistaken for an official Irish authority in the critical and sensitive matters of the State’s security and defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13853/24]

Naval Service

Réada Cronin

139. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence whether a feasibility study has been done on using the LÉ Eithne for cultural and educational purposes; if so, if he will publish the findings of that study; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13854/24]

Defence Forces

Réada Cronin

140. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of women currently serving in the Defence Forces and have served in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13855/24]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Réada Cronin

141. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste 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]

Defence Forces

Réada Cronin

142. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence for an update on the Fire Station at the Curragh Camp [13857/24]

Defence Forces

Réada Cronin

143. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence whether foreign-language learning is available and/or prioritised in the Defence Forces across all ranks and disciplines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13858/24]

Defence Forces

Réada Cronin

144. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence how the increase in the raising of the mandatory retirement age in the Defence Forces to 60 years is expected to impact on retention of personnel in the coming five years; if he will publish any research undertaken on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13859/24]

Defence Forces

Réada Cronin

145. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence whether he will support the desire of the Oversight Group to exercise maximum independence and authority in all its business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13860/24]

Departmental Policies

Réada Cronin

168. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if his Department is investigating media reports that former members of the Defence Forces, including those of the ranger elite corps, have been undertaking training of personnel belonging to the so-called "Libyan National Army" under General Haftar, such group being opposed to the UN-recognised leadership; if he will publish the findings of that investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15357/24]

Departmental Policies

Réada Cronin

169. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence what actions he is taking to assess whether the reported training in Libya by former members of the Irish Defence Forces of a military group opposed to the UN-recognised leadership of the country, is in breach of the UN arms embargo and EU restrictions on Libya; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15358/24]

Departmental Policies

Réada Cronin

170. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will ban private or commercial organisations involved in, or associated with, international security advice, weaponry or military training using the words Irish or Ireland in their business or company titles, such use being open to misinterpretation as pertaining to some official role in, or connection with the State and its offices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15359/24]

Departmental Properties

Réada Cronin

337. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform whether he is satisfied that the organisation is moving with all necessary alacrity on the unification of the lands at Castletown; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13880/24]

Departmental Properties

Réada Cronin

353. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the rationale behind denial of access to Castletown Demesne for 17 out of 24 hours extended gate closures (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14610/24]

Departmental Properties

Réada Cronin

354. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if it is the case that staff have not remained at the gate Castletown Demesne to allow people to exit past 16.30, therefore denying them safe exit, with public forced to lift buggies, bikes, scooters, mobility aids, dogs over fences, this having a serious impact on people with mobility issues and additional physical needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14611/24]

Departmental Properties

Réada Cronin

355. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform whether the local emergency services were informed in advance of the changed opening hours to the Castletown Demesne; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14612/24]

Departmental Properties

Réada Cronin

356. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if all efforts are being made by the OPW to respond to the community in a way that reflects the particular sensitivity, emotion and psychological value to and within that community of all matters involving and pertaining to Castletown Demesne; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14613/24]

Departmental Properties

Réada Cronin

357. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform to outline any new decisions or approaches to the summertime opening of and access to the Castletown Demesne; whether any new decisions or arrangements will be notified appropriately, widely and with optimum timing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14614/24]

Departmental Properties

Réada Cronin

358. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the speed limit on Lime Avenue on 30 September 2023 on the approach through Castletown housing estate and through the historic famine gates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14623/24]

Departmental Properties

Réada Cronin

359. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the date on which the traffic-management protocol regarding Castletown/Lime Avenue released through FOI was implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14624/24]

Departmental Correspondence

Réada Cronin

478. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education for an update on the development situation regarding (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14541/24]

Mother and Baby Homes

Réada Cronin

1084. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what actions his Department will take to address and correct the misclassification of Neptune House, Temple Hill, Blackrock, County Dublin, as a ‘children’s hospital’, when it was at all times in practice, and commonly known as, a mother and baby home, such misclassification being in opposition to operational fact and preventing children placed there from gaining redress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13941/24]

Emergency Accommodation

Réada Cronin

1138. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will undertake an urgent and full inspection and audit of a situation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14711/24]

Health Services

Réada Cronin

1297. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the steps that can be taken to assist a person (details supplied) to access specialist treatment for a condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13969/24]

Health Services

Réada Cronin

1370. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if his Department will guarantee that the financial supports for women with breast cancer, proposed to be cut with the proposals now reversed, will in fact remain without further threat to funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14348/24]

Health Services Staff

Réada Cronin

1427. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health to outline the procedure by which cover is introduced, 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]

Health Services

Réada Cronin

1592. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if a situation could be examined (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15302/24]

Heritage Sites

Réada Cronin

289. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform the definition of what comprises general visitor traffic in the matter of the avenue at Castletown House; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12001/24]

Middle East

Réada Cronin

6. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will work with like-minded countries in the EU, or elsewhere, to organise an airdrop of emergency food and medical supplies to the people of Gaza who are being bombed, shelled, starved and besieged by Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10892/24]

Middle East

Réada Cronin

34. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs what political and/or diplomatic actions Ireland is taking at EU level, in the matter of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s high-profile and unilateral support for Israel, and particularly, given the recent remarks of the High Representative of EU and Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Mr Josep Borrell, on how those actions have had “a high geo-political cost for the EU”; what mechanisms are in place, or will be put in place in the interest of the union, its values and credibility, to censure such actions already taken, and to ensure they are not repeated by the Commission president or any other senior EU office holder in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10893/24]

Middle East

Réada Cronin

6. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will provide an update on the joint Irish-Spanish diplomatic initiative demanding a review of how Israel is fulfilling its human-rights obligations in its conduct in Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10920/24]

Middle East

Réada Cronin

7. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs whether he and his Government are satisfied that Israel is fulfilling its obligations in the matter of respect for human rights and democratic principles enshrined in Article Two of the EU-Israel Trade agreement; if it is not, what actions it is taking and demanding at the highest executive level of the EU in such regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10921/24]

Middle East

Réada Cronin

8. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs what actions he intends to take at the EU and other relevant international fora, on the so-called Flour Massacre where the IDF fired on starving Palestinians, killing 104 and wounding 760 (at time of questioning) such actions in clear breach of the ICJ directive to ‘not kill members of the group’; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10922/24]

Middle East

Réada Cronin

9. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs whether he and his Department are satisfied that Israel qualifies as suitable and appropriate as a trading partner for Ireland and the EU given its actions in Gaza and the Occupied West Bank; if he does not, what actions he is currently taking and/or intends to take to address that situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10923/24]

Middle East

Réada Cronin

10. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs whether Ireland will impose economic sanctions on Israel; if it will not, to outline why not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10924/24]

Schools Building Projects

Réada Cronin

99. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if her Department will take special measures to speed the finishing of the interior of the Convent of Mercy, Naas, given the unnecessary and damaging delay in same, and the costs to the Exchequer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11101/24]

Schools Building Projects

Réada Cronin

100. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education for an update on co-ed developments in relation to the Convent of Mercy, Naas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11102/24]

Disability Services

Réada Cronin

183. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that from March 2024 the YAT will no longer support individuals attending a Section 38 organisation, such individuals being referred to the clinical supports available within their organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10889/24]

Departmental Funding

Réada Cronin

209. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health to explain the reason the HSE is to withdraw funding for UMAAP in 2024 given there are more than 160,000 adults in the State with ADHD, and this new organisation is playing a crucial role in providing support and guidance to them, with over 1,000 adults to date benefitting from its six-week programme and monthly support groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10972/24]

Child and Family Agency

Réada Cronin

585. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will publish the process by which a company (details supplied) was contracted by Tusla; whether he is satisfied that the procurement process, including all due diligence was undertaken including previous clients interviewed, references and all relevant information, qualifications and declarations verified and documented; whether he will publish this documentation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10564/24]

Child and Family Agency

Réada Cronin

586. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when his Department became aware of the issues with a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10565/24]

Child and Family Agency

Réada Cronin

587. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the investigations that have taken place or are ongoing into the organisation Tusla on its procurement of, relationship with, and examination of the operations of a company (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10566/24]

Missing Children

Réada Cronin

589. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of minors who have gone missing or remain missing from the services offered by a company (details supplied) or any other Tusla contractors; the age of each if any; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10576/24]

Special Educational Needs

Réada Cronin

183. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education 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]