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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (13 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 141. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his Department's plans, if any, to expand the provision of youth services across County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50383/22]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (13 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 170. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will intervene in the application of a person (details supplied) for a work permit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51039/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (13 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 345. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications to the undocumented migrant scheme that have been completed to date in 2022; the number that are outstanding; and when a decision will issue in relation to an application that was made on 6 April 2022. [50829/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (13 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 484. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if her Department has ringfenced funding for community centres and voluntary organisations to apply for, to help meet the heightened costs of running their premises; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50969/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the Minister and her team. I congratulate her on the free books scheme. For me, it was one of the highlights of budget 2023. I will bring up a few issues with regard to what the Minister mentioned. The Minister is looking at senior cycle redevelopment, which is positive. However, what we are all being asked, including by many of my past pupils, is whether there is any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: We will have a definitive date next week. That is positive news. The students want to see the fruits of their labour. They want to celebrate their results. I have had a lot of contact from students who have gone straight into fifth year and who need to decide whether to sit certain subjects at higher or ordinary level. That will be determined by how they got on in the junior certificate....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Teaching Transforms, the initiative to bring people from more diverse backgrounds into the teaching profession, is fantastic and I fully support it. What are the Minister's views as to how this can be congruent with keeping standards in Irish language teaching up to scratch? Perhaps there is an opportunity here. When I graduated from Mary Immaculate College, we had 12 subjects to teach. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I am saying it is worth considering. I say this as someone who went through this system for 16 years. It may be of particular use in the context of languages. I am proposing that it be considered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: There is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: It is great that students in their third and fourth year at teacher training college can now register with the Teaching Council. In their five years of training, gardaí go on the beat. In the same way, nurses go on the wards and teachers go on teaching practice. The teaching practice stint could be a lot longer. It could involve not just shadowing a teacher in the classroom...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (18 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 549. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the options available to a preschool (details supplied) in terms of getting additional space for 2023. [51126/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Industrial Relations (18 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 686. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene to ensure that a review (details supplied) will proceed without delay. [51229/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (18 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 687. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that the staffing crisis in radiation therapy is addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51230/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (18 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 774. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will fund coaguchek meters and self-test strips for patients who require long-term oral anticoagulant therapy with warfarin in order to decongest warfarin clinics at public hospitals and also make self-management easier for patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51554/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (18 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 871. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he hopes to introduce changes to the valuation of reactor cattle who have contracted bovine tuberculosis and if he replaces valuation agents with vets who he proposes will pay for the vet call-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51557/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to ask a question that has been recurring in the Dáil Chamber in the past few weeks. It relates to the transfer of Shannon Heritage to the local authorities in the mid-west, principally Clare County Council. I acknowledge that the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, has been forthcoming in engaging with us in the county about the matter. I went to meet the workers again last...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (19 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: On the matter of the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity Loss, the lack of broadleaf trees was very much raised. In my constituency, very close to my home, we have Cratloe Wood, a 600 acre plantation which was once western Europe’s largest oak wood. The rafters above the chamber in which Queen Elizabeth II lay in state were built from Cratloe oak beams. The Royal Palace...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (19 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [52024/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (19 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: If my hair stands up, the Leas-Cheann Comhairle will know the microphone has shocked me, with the rain dropping in this corner. I notice it is dry in other parts of the Chamber but we are still standing. I have a straightforward question and I hope the Taoiseach can tell us something positive. The Limerick northern distributor road, phase 1, from Coonagh to Knockalisheen, finally got...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (19 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Taoiseach.