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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (13 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 141. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his Department's plans, if any, to expand the provision of youth services across County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50383/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (13 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 170. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will intervene in the application of a person (details supplied) for a work permit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51039/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (13 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 345. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications to the undocumented migrant scheme that have been completed to date in 2022; the number that are outstanding; and when a decision will issue in relation to an application that was made on 6 April 2022. [50829/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (13 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 484. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has ringfenced funding for community centres and voluntary organisations to apply for, to help meet the heightened costs of running their premises; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50969/22]

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

Cathal Crowe: I am very sorry, but I must call on Deputy Cairns to conclude. The debate is to finish at 7.23 p.m. She will be in possession when the debate recommences at 1.44 p.m. tomorrow.

Estimates for Public Services 2022: Message from Select Committee (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The Select Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth has concluded its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimate for the service of the year ending 31 December 2022: Vote 40.

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I regret that amendments Nos. 1 and 2 are ruled out of order.

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Amendment No. 3 is ruled out of order.

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

Cathal Crowe: To be clear for the remaining speakers, this debate must end at 7.24 p.m. I call Deputy Ward.

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

Cathal Crowe: I apologise in advance because we are going to guillotine this debate at 7.23 p.m.

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

Cathal Crowe: I join others in supporting this positive legislation, which the Minister has been leading in his Department for some time. It transposes various elements of EU work-life balance directives and also provides rights to parents and carers to help support a better work-life balance. Under this Bill, parents and carers will see several improvements. The first of these is a right to request...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The Minister did a good job with Leaders' Questions. I was watching from my office. I have a very quick question. Shannon Airport has submitted an application for a public service obligation route to the Department of Transport. This will soon come across the Minister, Deputy McGrath's desk. It seeks a service between Shannon Airport and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Brexit has been a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the Minister and her team. I congratulate her on the free books scheme. For me, it was one of the highlights of budget 2023. I will bring up a few issues with regard to what the Minister mentioned. The Minister is looking at senior cycle redevelopment, which is positive. However, what we are all being asked, including by many of my past pupils, is whether there is any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: We will have a definitive date next week. That is positive news. The students want to see the fruits of their labour. They want to celebrate their results. I have had a lot of contact from students who have gone straight into fifth year and who need to decide whether to sit certain subjects at higher or ordinary level. That will be determined by how they got on in the junior certificate....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Teaching Transforms, the initiative to bring people from more diverse backgrounds into the teaching profession, is fantastic and I fully support it. What are the Minister's views as to how this can be congruent with keeping standards in Irish language teaching up to scratch? Perhaps there is an opportunity here. When I graduated from Mary Immaculate College, we had 12 subjects to teach. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I am saying it is worth considering. I say this as someone who went through this system for 16 years. It may be of particular use in the context of languages. I am proposing that it be considered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: There is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: It is great that students in their third and fourth year at teacher training college can now register with the Teaching Council. In their five years of training, gardaí go on the beat. In the same way, nurses go on the wards and teachers go on teaching practice. The teaching practice stint could be a lot longer. It could involve not just shadowing a teacher in the classroom...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to profusely apologise. Perhaps I could contribute for two or three minutes. We had a transport-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: That suits me fine and I was following some of the meeting in the office but I had two other committee meetings. I have two essential questions. I had a meeting yesterday with Colette Cowan, chief executive of the University Limerick Hospitals Group. I understand there will be some capacity-building in that hospital group in terms of long Covid-19 and treatment of same. I hope the...