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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (1 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 30. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the pilot scheme announced by his Department to provide for sewage in unsewered villages in 2024 requires additional funding; if he has made this funding available; if he will provide an update on all schemes that have received initial approval; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35545/25]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (1 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I nominate Deputy Cian O'Callaghan.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Trade Data (1 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 118. To ask the Taoiseach the value of Irish goods exports in each year from 2020 to 2024 inclusive and the proportion of those exports accounted for by FDI companies and the proportion owing to indigenous enterprises, in tabular form.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36128/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (1 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 492. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a query (details supplied) relating to RPZs. [36076/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (1 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 577. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his Department’s overall approach towards accommodation contracts relating to the International Protection Accommodation Service and beneficiaries of temporary protection in Lisdoonvarna, County Clare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35755/25]

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

Cathal Crowe: Apologies have been received from Deputies Aisling Dempsey and Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh. I ask anyone attending remotely to mute themselves when not contributing so that we do not pick up any background noise or feedback. As usual, I remind those in attendance to ensure that their mobile phones are on silent mode or switched off. Members attending remotely are reminded of the...

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

Cathal Crowe: A few members have indicated. I will call Deputy Peter Roche first. I will give eight minutes for a first round of questions. Once we have gone all the way around - I will go last in that rotation - members will come in, if that is okay, for a second round of contributions.

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

Cathal Crowe: Sorry, I got indications there. It is Deputies Peter Roche, Darren O'Rourke, Ryan O'Meara, Emer Currie and Jen Cummins, and I will got last then, if that is okay with everyone.

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.