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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (15 May 2025)

Seán Crowe: 313. To ask the Minister for Health the party responsible for the approval of CGM sensors, and if there is an appeals system in place for individuals who are unsuccessful in their application for such a device. [24919/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (15 May 2025)

Seán Crowe: 317. To ask the Minister for Health if there are established guidelines for GPs when presented with medical records from the British NHS; if such records of diagnosis are acceptable to receive treatment; and the criteria by which they would not be acceptable. [24949/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (15 May 2025)

Seán Crowe: 318. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) would be informed that an NHS diagnosis of endometriosis, backed by medical records, would not be accepted by their GP and the individual informed that they would have to obtain a diagnosis in the HSE system; and if this is standard procedure in such instances. [24950/25]

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Seán Crowe: There were 18,000 people on the lists at the Tallaght driving test centre at the start of this year. This was the highest figure in the State. The Minister of State and I had one or two conversations about it. It was taking seven months on average to get a test. It was reported at the start of April that the Road Safety Authority was planning on opening an additional driving test centre...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (14 May 2025)

Seán Crowe: 178. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be restored to an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24524/25]

Housing and Critical Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2025)

Seán Crowe: I do not think anyone can deny that the current state of the electricity grid, our drinking water supply and the wastewater network is a constraint on housing delivery. These issues are also inflicting misery on many areas afflicted by frequent water mains failures or boil water notices. One area in my constituency - Knocklyon - has been hit with almost 30 outages in the past three years....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (8 May 2025)

Seán Crowe: 203. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will report on his recent visit to Lebanon; on the engagement he had with his counterparts in the Lebanese Government, particularly regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and on his views on how conditions could be improved for Irish Defence Forces personnel serving on peacekeeping duties there; and if he will make a...

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Seán Crowe: I begin tonight by mentioning Mary Prior, a friend and neighbour who passed away recently. Mary's childcare facility was an institution that supported hundreds of children and their parents in the Springfield area of Tallaght down the decades. Comhbhrón to her husband Oliver and their family. Tonight, we are advocating for parents who are at their wits' end. First, they have to...

Europe Day: Statements (7 May 2025)

Seán Crowe: Sinn Féin is often accused of being Eurosceptic. We often hear that thrown around this Chamber as an insult or a lame response to an alternative voice. We are not Eurosceptic: we believe in a partnership of European nations working towards the advancement of human rights, social justice and democratic values. What we cannot support, and will never support, is a federal militarised...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 May 2025)

Seán Crowe: In his reply to another question, the Minister spoke of a mobility strategy. At the moment in Tallaght there are 15,000 people waiting for a driver's test. Waiting times can sometimes be over a year. I do not think that is acceptable to anyone. Media reports have indicated that at long last the Road Safety Authority intends to open a new driving test centre in south Dublin. That is...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (7 May 2025)

Seán Crowe: 291. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average time it takes for a successful additional needs payment to be paid after receipt of an application. [22463/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (7 May 2025)

Seán Crowe: 475. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the lack of public long-term residential care facilities in the Tallaght area; if a census of the area has been recently taken to confirm the growing number of older people in the area; if there are plans to increase the capacity of public beds locally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22306/25]

Sale of Nitrous Oxide and Related Products Bill 2025: First Stage (30 Apr 2025)

Seán Crowe: I am pleased to co-sponsor this legislation with my colleague Mark Ward. Reduction of the abuse of nitrous oxide is something I have been highlighting and working towards for some years. I introduced legislation to that effect in the previous Dáil. I am glad to have the opportunity to do so again. The abuse of nitrous oxide is something that flies under the radar for many people....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Seán Crowe: Will the Taoiseach tell us about his new man?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Seán Crowe: Will the Taoiseach tell us about his new man?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Seán Crowe: "Not confirming anything" is right.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (29 Apr 2025)

Seán Crowe: 1469. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to include androgenic alopecia in the treatment benefit scheme to provide some relief from the high financial burden of purchasing wigs or other such accessories. [20753/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (29 Apr 2025)

Seán Crowe: 1781. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if IPAS centres are permitted to take on private renters or offer accommodation to other non-IPAS residents. [18514/25]

Tariffs: Statements (9 Apr 2025)

Seán Crowe: There is no doubt that foreign direct investment has been good to Ireland. The pharmaceutical and medical technology sector in particular has been an enormous boon to the economy. This has been supplemented in recent years by the tech sector. High-paying jobs and exports allowed Ireland to progress beyond our small island and become a global economy. The reports overnight that the pharma...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (9 Apr 2025)

Seán Crowe: 282. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the fact that parents have been informed that there are no speech and language or occupational therapy services available in the Ballyboden primary care centre; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact that when these parents seek to access these therapies in other HSE centres they are informed that this is not...