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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: It is just that they are not delivering the contract.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: It seems crazy that the State is paying, and we are not trying to recoup the money. It is a matter of trust. People have blind faith putting their loved ones into these homes. They are people who cannot speak up for themselves. Yet, it is all about money in a lot of these nursing homes and they are unfortunately not delivering the service. I appeal that the HSE looks at that section of...

Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (23 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: There are 300,000 people in energy debt. The Minister for Finance will stand in this Chamber on this day two weeks and talk about how well we are doing in managing the economy when people in my constituency will be going to bed early because they cannot afford to turn the heating on. If the Minister of State goes to any of the shopping centres out my way, he will meet a lot of people who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Initiative: Department of the Taoiseach (23 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: It is back to the health issue and I welcome all the initiatives. When I was Chair of the health committee in the last Dáil term, we visited some of the facilities and were really impressed with Altnagelvin and the fact that if someone has a heart attack, they can go within that particular timespan in that area and, again, we looked at the cancer treatment and so on. One of the things...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Initiative: Department of the Taoiseach (23 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: On the same issue of DMD, families said they were getting treatment in Newcastle, for instance, and again, because of Brexit, that was all changing. The facility in Newcastle is no longer open to new patients in relation to that. As I said, it just seems to be obvious thing. It is an interim solution; it is not going to solve the problems for these families. The ideal would be if it was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Initiative: Department of the Taoiseach (23 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: I thank Ms Deane.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Health Services Waiting Lists (23 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: 527. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children waiting to access speech and language therapy in the CHO7 area, by CDNT, in tabular form; the number of those waiting more than one year; the number waiting more than four years; and the average waiting time to access those therapies.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49642/25]

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: The witnesses are very welcome. I am a complete novice when it comes to many of the technical issues. I will try to express some of the concerns ordinary people have. Scams are the big one, with not a day going by on which people do not get a text on their mobile phone or a call on the house phone. I do not know anyone who has not been affected by it at this stage. It seems to happen all...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: Some people will say that the difficulty with some platforms is that if they try to pursue the complaints process, there are huge difficulties related to that. Some platforms are particularly worse than others. I will not go into which one but I think we all know which platform I am talking about. The difficulty in combating misinformation was mentioned. How can we combat...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: I have gone over my time but maybe at some stage we could talk about the mysterious bots that are based in different countries. Maybe at some stage we will get a chance to go into whether anything can be done about them. Again, we are talking about the influence these mysterious, anonymous computers have on the way people think.

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: I do not know if the question about the use of robots, particularly from outside the EU's jurisdiction, was answered. The control of data is important when a handful of people have huge control over it. We are all concerned about what happens during elections and so on but, as has been pointed out, the election can be framed in people's minds by the use of data, disinformation or whatever...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: 1277. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that a medication (details supplied) for the treatment of diabetes insipidus has been removed from the long-term illness scheme; and her views on whether beneficiaries of the scheme should be informed of changes to approved medication rather than discovering this when renewing prescriptions. [48600/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (8 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: 1144. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1482 of 29 July 2025, if he will clarify the reason for approval of Uisce Éireann’s Water Services Strategic Plan 2050 (WSSP 2050) on 1 August 2025 in view of the fact that his Department had no role in approving the body’s Strategic Funding Plan 2025-2029. [45109/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (29 Jul 2025)

Seán Crowe: 62. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the average waiting time for processing individuals on the foreign births register; and the number of cases currently being processed. [41829/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Recycling Policy (29 Jul 2025)

Seán Crowe: 190. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount in unclaimed deposits from the re-turn scheme in its first 12 months of operation; and the way in which this fund was dispersed. [41825/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Renewable Energy Generation (29 Jul 2025)

Seán Crowe: 189. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current average waiting time for the home surveys that are required to access Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland free energy upgrades. [41824/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (29 Jul 2025)

Seán Crowe: 428. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current total service volume of each driving test centre, in tabular form. [41740/25]