Questions asked 20 total

• Agriculture 11 questions

  • 2024-07-23 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]
  • 2024-07-23 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]
  • 2024-07-23 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]
  • 2024-07-23 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]
  • 2024-07-23 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]
  • 2024-07-23 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]
  • 2024-07-23 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]
  • 2024-07-23 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]
  • 2024-07-23 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]
  • 2024-07-23 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]
  • 2024-07-23 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]
• Public Expenditure 3 questions

  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if his Department will publish an account of the progress of the working group at this time in its deliberations; if he will provide specific updates on the situation involving traffic pedestrian and vehicular on Lime Avenue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31292/24]
  • 2024-07-23 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]
  • 2024-07-23 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]
• Education 2 questions

  • 2024-07-23 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]
  • 2024-07-23 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]
• Health 2 questions

  • 2024-07-23 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]
  • 2024-07-23 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]
• Transport 1 question

  • 2024-07-23 Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Transport the progress on additional bridges for north Kildare, for example, Clane, regarding increased traffic and population; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31293/24]
• Housing 1 question

  • 2024-07-23 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]