Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

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]

Special Educational Needs

Réada Cronin

46. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the steps her Department will take to ensure that a child (details supplied) will have an appropriate ASD school place in north Kildare for next September; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9445/24]

Special Educational Needs

Réada Cronin

47. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if her Department can guarantee an SNA for each child who has been deemed to require one in an assessment of need, given the sharing of SNAs is causing concern to parents regarding the educational opportunity for their children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9446/24]

Early Childhood Care and Education

Réada Cronin

198. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the urgent steps her Department will take in relation to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8736/24]

Special Educational Needs

Réada Cronin

223. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education how her Department is liaising with the Minister for Education and the Minister of State for Special Education and Inclusion in the matter of associated services at a school (details supplied) in the context of the mooted moving of services provided by an organisation to the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9059/24]

Disability Services

Réada Cronin

404. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how his Department is liaising with the Minister for Education and the Minister of State for Special Education and Inclusion in the matter of associated services at a school (details supplied) in the context of the mooted moving of services provided by an organisation to the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9060/24]

Disability Services

Réada Cronin

416. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration 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]

Air Corps

Réada Cronin

107. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence whether the Air Corps will continue to appear in air or military exhibitions and so on overseas, given local concern notified to his Department regarding the emissions levels involved in practice for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8480/24]

Citizenship Ceremonies

Réada Cronin

199. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Justice the number of citizenship ceremonies anticipated in 2024; the month or months in which they will take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8475/24]

Mental Health Services

Réada Cronin

277. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if the 8,000 people who depend on services (details supplied) will continue to have access to them under the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8452/24]

Mental Health Services

Réada Cronin

278. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the list of engagements his Department has had with the HSE in the process of securing funding for services (details supplied), given their criticality to 8,000 people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8453/24]

Mental Health Services

Réada Cronin

279. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health how 8,000 service users (details supplied) will be accommodated by the HSE, given the recruitment embargo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8454/24]

Departmental Staff

Réada Cronin

251. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education whether there is a single project manager appointed in her Department for each school building or renovation; who oversees all aspects of same and accounts to the Minister at regular intervals by order; if not, if she will create such appointments or roles; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7441/24]

Schools Building Projects

Réada Cronin

252. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education whether the tender review process for a school (details supplied) was concluded on 18 January 2024 with a construction firm appointed to finish the job; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7442/24]

Schools Building Projects

Réada Cronin

253. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the cost to the State so far of the school building (details supplied); to outline any security or ancillary costs separately; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7443/24]

Schools Building Projects

Réada Cronin

254. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the cost to date of the modular classrooms and other accommodation on the site of a school (details supplied) including the delay to the completion of the building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7444/24]

School Admissions

Réada Cronin

132. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if her Department will introduce a mechanism, or extend any mechanism extant, as in the case of special needs, to compel schools to accept children who have not been offered a place in secondary school in north Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6690/24]

School Admissions

Réada Cronin

314. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education how many children in north Kildare are currently left without a school-place in secondary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6476/24]

School Admissions

Réada Cronin

315. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education 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]

School Admissions

Réada Cronin

316. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if, as per an RTÉ interview, she is now guaranteeing a first-year school place for each child who requires one in north Kildare in the school year 2024; if she can further guarantee a school place in second year for the children currently without a school place in first year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6478/24]

School Admissions

Réada Cronin

317. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if, as per RTÉ interview, she is now guaranteeing a first year school place for each child who requires one in north Kildare in the school year 2024; if she can further guarantee a school-place in second year for the children currently without a school-place in first year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6479/24]

School Admissions

Réada Cronin

318. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education how many times her Department has forced a school to take a child who was not awarded a school place in each of the last three years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6480/24]

School Admissions

Réada Cronin

319. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if she will, as a matter of urgency, be ‘requiring’ schools in north Kildare to accept a child who has not been successful in being awarded a school-place in first year and other years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6481/24]

Home Schooling

Réada Cronin

320. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education to outline any plans her Department has to make online home schooling available to children for whom in-class education is problematic for a variety of reasons, and who thrived in the online learning situation during the lockdown phases of the ongoing Covid pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6482/24]

School Staff

Réada Cronin

321. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the plans her Department has to recruit teachers who would teach on an online only basis, such an option proving attractive to many; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6483/24]

Health and Safety

Réada Cronin

322. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education her plans to provide clean air in school given public health announcements regarding measles, which, like Covid-19, is a highly contagious, airborne infection, easily transmitted and contracted in enclosed spaces; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6484/24]

International Protection

Réada Cronin

543. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions his Department is taking to secure properties either selected for asylum-seeker/immigrant accommodation or publicly deemed to be a prospect for same, given the spate of arson which degrades society and poses a threat to human life locally, and to that of firefighters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6544/24]

Schools Building Projects

Réada Cronin

165. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education for an update on the status of the proposed new post-primary school at St. Farnan’s, Prosperous, promised since 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4959/24]

Schools Building Projects

Réada Cronin

166. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education for an update on a much needed extension to Scoil Mhuire, Clane; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4960/24]

Special Educational Needs

Réada Cronin

176. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if she will examine the case of a child and provide a solution for same (details supplied); if she will provide a date for the provision of a prefab at the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5084/24]

School Accommodation

Réada Cronin

198. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education the cost per year of leasing modular or prefab classrooms/buildings, for each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5301/24]

Departmental Data

Réada Cronin

276. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education to outline the cost to the State of prefab or modular school buildings over the past five years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3961/24]

School Admissions

Réada Cronin

294. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if she can assure parents in north Kildare, that their children currently forced to receive home tuition for first year, due to the lack of a school place, will have their second year school place guaranteed in September 2024 and for all subsequent years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4275/24]

Electricity Supply Board

Réada Cronin

165. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when his Department and the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform 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. [3430/24]

Electricity Supply Board

Réada Cronin

208. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform when his Department and the Department 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]

School Admissions

Réada Cronin

122. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education for a thorough update on the issue with school-places in north Kildare, in particular in bottleneck areas previously notified to her, and in which TDs and families are still awaiting a requested meeting with her; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3229/24]

Defence Forces

Réada Cronin

51. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence when negotiations with stakeholders regarding the terms of reference for the tribunal of inquiry into abuse allegations within the Defence Forces concluded; and if he secured full support and endorsement for his proposed terms of reference from stakeholder groups which brought the abuse allegations to light prior to bringing them to Cabinet. [2990/24]

Tribunals of Inquiry

Réada Cronin

64. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if his Department will revisit the terms of reference of the tribunal investigating abuse in the Defence Forces, given the dismay of Women of Honour at the limits of what is proposed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2741/24]

Defence Forces

Réada Cronin

73. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if he will clarify the number of members of the IDF who have visited and/or trained in the State, are currently training or visiting or where plans exist for them to do so; the precise areas of military and related training or visitation involved; the cost or payment to the State of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2742/24]

Schools Building Projects

Réada Cronin

297. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education if she will provide, as a matter of urgency, a finish date for completed works at a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2784/24]

Special Educational Needs

Réada Cronin

310. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education whether north Kildare schools have their full complement of ASD units, given the distress of families who are searching right to the borders of the county for a schoolplace for their autistic child, on the basis that an ‘ASD unit has not yet been sanctioned’ for particular schools; if not, to provide the timeframe in which this will be achieved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2992/24]

Mental Health Services

Réada Cronin

68. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the number of qualified and accredited psychotherapists and psychiatrists working within, or attached to, the prison system, currently, and in each of the past five years, in tabular form; the number of prisoners attending same over the same period; and the number of prisoners deemed to have a mental and or psychological illness currently and in the same retrospective period. [54636/23]

Citizenship Applications

Réada Cronin

1041. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Justice the progress being made with a citizenship application by a person (details supplied); if a decision is expected in the near future; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56967/23]

Disability Services

Réada Cronin

1443. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the case of a child (details supplied) will be examined by his Department. [1988/24]

Disease Management

Réada Cronin

1799. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health his Department’s plans to provide essential colonoscopy examinations for persons with Crohn’s disease (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1897/24]

Hospital Services

Réada Cronin

1803. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if he can confirm that all neurological services at Naas General Hospital are fully open, functioning to optimum level and are staffed appropriately including with any locum appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1952/24]

Hospital Services

Réada Cronin

495. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health if he will provide adequate resources for genetic testing services in Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, in line with that of other comparable countries where the turn-around time is 12 weeks (details supplied);; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55906/23]