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Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister for being in the Chamber. These are important changes to planning legislation. The Bill essentially changes the substitute consent regime provided for in the old Planning and Development Act 2000 and streamlines the substitute consent regime so that it becomes a more efficient process. I am glad that the legislation provides for a single-stage planning application...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Basically, we need some pre-qualifying rules to ensure all this happens.

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: A very significant amount of public money is involved in this and the homeowners themselves are taxpayers, which is a point that needs to be made repeatedly because it is an issue that got skewed over the course of the campaign. There was a certain maligning in that regard. This €2.7 billion is a massive amount of public money to deal with redress. It is important that there is...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (6 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an overview of the legal action that the State will take against manufacturers of defective concrete blocks; and the length of time that it will take for this matter to enter the courts system. [36595/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (5 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 26. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when she will legislate against stalking; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35644/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (5 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 182. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will consider a relaxation of rules on a temporary basis to allow employers to pay a fuel allowance to their workers without having it taxed, a measure which could be rescinded once fuel prices stabilise. [35974/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if officials in her Department have as of this time scrutinised all documentation submitted by a school (details supplied) in respect of its approved summer works grant for upgrading of its electrical systems; and if her Department is in the position to give the go-ahead for works to commence. [35888/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application (details supplied) for additional accommodation. [35979/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (5 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 788. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with senior HSE staff at Croom Orthopaedic Hospital on the matter of fast-tracking hip replacement surgery for a person (details supplied) on the grounds of age, immense pain and extenuating circumstances. [35889/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (5 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 802. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on plans to address the lengthy waiting lists for public speech and language therapy assessments and treatment blocks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36000/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, for attending. Can the Minister detail progress on supporting students with disabilities to access further and higher education? Can he also provide an update on the new national plan for equity of access to higher education?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister and that is a positive reply. It is good to hear that the targets are being met and are being exceeded. I agree with him that the outcomes are completely crucial to this. I know of a cohort of students who recently completed a programme in the new Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest. It has been absolutely fantastic. An element of equity in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. That is positive. At a recent meeting the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science discussed prisoners, another group of people who sometimes enter further and higher education through a different pathway. I made the point that in the United States surveys by Ohio University have identified that up to 40%...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: If diagnostic testing could be started in the next year it would be great.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I think this question is the most important of the oral parliamentary questions today. On top of everything Deputy Boyd Barrett said, my worry is that there are many accommodation centres, particularly in the mid-west, that also have Ukrainian refugees staying in them now. The capacity that they would have had in the previous academic year is now virtually gone. I am glad to hear the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 13. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to increase the availability of third level courses for the study of educational psychology. [36581/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to ask the Minister, Deputy Harris, if he has intentions to expand the availability of places in third level courses that provide training in the realm of educational psychology.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The housing crisis can only be fixed by building houses, the hospital crisis can only be truly fixed by more hospital beds and, indeed, the incessant problems we are having with children waiting for diagnostic tests and psychological screening can only be rectified when NEPS and the child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, have an adequate capacity of educational psychologists. ...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister for his reply. There are two parts to this problem. The first is that we are not churning out quite enough graduates. However, more importantly, those graduates who emerge from these courses are not going into educational psychology, rather, they are back down in classrooms. It makes no sense for someone with an educational psychology qualification to be filling out a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when new signage for the Technological University of the Shannon, Ennis campus will be erected. [36580/22]