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Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Over the Easter holidays, I got out the paint brush and went painting the outside of the house. I put on the headphones and listened to the audiobook by the Minister's former colleague, Eoghan Murphy. He was a man of great ability and energy. He gave a lot of service to the country. I am sure some in the room have read the book or listened to the audiobook. He found it very frustrating...

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: One and a half million students from junior infants to leaving certificate is the student population in full-time education. We can breeze through Navan in the Minister's constituency, Sixmilebridge or Ennis in my constituency or any town in Ireland these mornings because schools are already closed or are closing tomorrow. There is something fundamentally wrong there. When schools are...

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I think a bit of AI and digitisation would help to unburden teachers of some of that additional stuff.

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Thank you, Minister. We will go to our second round of contributions. Deputy Peter Burke is next with four minutes.

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I am sorry, Deputy Roche, I elevated you there. You are deserving of the elevation.

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: If members agree, can we ask the Minister to formally submit that information to the committee? What she said interests all of us.

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I am the last contributor today. I want to bring up the area of physical literacy. We obsessively and rightly talk about literacy and numeracy, but physical literacy often gets forgotten. We expect young people to reach milestones by certain stages of their lives of ability in crawling, walking, running, throwing, catching and all so on, yet we expect all of that to be rolled out in a PE...

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: If I could interject, Minister-----

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I would not expect her to do it here in a public forum, but when she walks out into the corridor, the Minister might tell her officials to keep their hands off those PE halls and not suggest that they become special classrooms. They are sacrosanct; just keep them for that. If she delivers on this, we will be carrying her out shoulder high out of the room. There will be no one in government...

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: We only have one member left. If Deputy Cummins agrees, I ask the Minister if she might furnish the committee with a who's who of the Department - just an organisational chart of who is responsible for the different areas. It would be helpful for us in our work beyond the committee rooms.

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (26 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: We thank the Minister for her engagement as always, and for being so frank, forthright and helpful to us when she comes here. We thank her officials, particularly those who are on a double shift. They were here late last night, as others have alluded to. It is appreciated by each and every one of us.

Select Committee on Education and Youth: Message to Dáil (26 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: In accordance with Standing Order 110, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Education and Youth has completed its consideration of the following Revised Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2025: Vote 26 - Education. That concludes the select committee's business. I thank the members for participating in today's meeting....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (26 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 79. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the HIQA review into access to emergency care in the midwest region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34749/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (26 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 85. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on new capital investments and major new equipment purposes and new healthcare initiatives that will be rolled out in County Clare across 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34750/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Events (26 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider making an application for a future stage of the Tour de France to be held in Ireland, some of which can be held along the Wild Atlantic Way, particularly taking in part of County Clare. [34739/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sport and Recreational Development (26 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 172. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider initiating a programme akin to Talent Search, operated by the Australian government, whereby children and adolescents are tested for their sporting prowess and given an introduction to sports they may never have experienced before with a view to making the country more competitive across a wider...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Marine Protected Areas (26 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 256. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the Marine Protected Areas Bill 2022; when he expects the Bill to go before the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35152/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (26 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 257. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for clarification on a matter regarding the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025, and short term lettings (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35006/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Cyber Security Bill (26 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 279. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware that the National Cyber Security Bill 2024 makes reference, on page 11, to “a university within the meaning of the University Act, 1997” and that this does not reflect the fact that Ireland now has several technological universities and that the Cyber Security Bill may, as a result, need to be...