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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3875/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the progression of a new school build (details supplied); if the said build can be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4238/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (30 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 477. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration can be given to having a broad ‘personalised budget’ scheme for individuals with disability, on the basis that many service providers are over-stretched and cannot give many individuals with disabilities the type of support in the community that they so badly need and want; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Medical Aids and Appliances (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 25. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing tax relief or VAT reduction on assisted technology required by children and adults who have a diagnosis of dyslexia, dysgraphia or dyscalculia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4338/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will reconsider the way in which his Department is leading the "Your Council" campaign so that advertising is also undertaken in local newspapers and on local radio stations (details supplied). [4317/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 178. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a cohort of health workers (details supplied) were excluded from the pandemic special recognition payment when non-frontline staff were included; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4555/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (1 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 83. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider applying a 0% VAT rate to all gluten-free food products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4248/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (1 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister for taking my parliamentary question this morning. Approximately one in every 50 Irish people has a diagnosis of coeliac disease. A trip around the supermarket does not leave them many choices. Products they buy that are flour based have to be gluten free and they are expensive. Will the Minister and his Department consider making all gluten-free products for people...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (1 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. That was a very detailed response and it was very much appreciated. Many in my family have coeliac disease. It is quite prominent in Ireland and its diagnosis is on the rise. The Minister has explained really well why addressing this is tricky. Mothership Europe and the EU VAT directive govern much of what we can do here, but I argue that gluten-free products are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tax Reliefs (1 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: This is probably not the most exciting topic to be debating here today but it matters to so many. Having read through the technicalities, I believe that if the Minister has the scope to reclassify gluten-free products as medicinal, it will be beneficial. The gluten-free products are medicinal because the people affected have no choice but to pick them from the shelf. Reclassifying them as...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Today is D-Day for many children who apply to the Limerick common application system. There are 17 schools within that system. I taught sixth class for many years and this was a day of much excitement but also lots of anxiety. It is a worrying time for youngsters because in most Irish towns, a child can go to a primary school and their local secondary school. This is not the case in...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Chair. I join in welcoming the Minister and his team to our committee and I thank him for his continued engagement. A few weeks ago we did a whole body of work here at this committee around sepsis. We had Dr. Colm Henry, the chief clinical officer, here and earlier that day families who had lost people through sepsis in the hospital system attended the committee and presented...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I am talking about educational and psychological reports, screening reports and the types of referrals which would be made to NEPS and CAMHS, which people are typically delayed on, sometimes, for up to several years?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I have just read the terms of the NTPF. Largely, when we see someone availing of it, it is an adult and they are going off to get positive treatment. I did not see any exclusion clauses which say that young people should not also be going there. I just thought that in the whole realm of cognitive supports, and diagnostics, and perhaps less in the case of therapeutics, I cannot see anything...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. I want to bring up next the incessant issue of University Hospital Limerick, UHL, overcrowding on trolleys. At the outset, I will mention that I found myself in the accident and emergency department and the Minister was in touch at me when I was in the hospital. I was in there on New Year's Eve with a rumbling appendix which nearly burst but the staff got it out in...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Absolutely, and it is incredible. Is the Minister considering 18 hours over seven days or 24-7 local injury units in that region in particular, given the acute pressure it is under?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. I will make a few small points. The fair deal scheme comes under the curtilage of the Department. There are many strands to the Department but many people with houses with defective concrete blocks, and this is in the realm of the Minister for housing, Deputy O'Brien, cannot avail of fair deal to any meaningful effect because those defective concrete blocks affect the...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: The final issue is quite a sensitive one. At the committee a few months ago, I spoke about psychiatric care given to women who have postnatal depression and-or postpartum psychosis. A woman asked me to represent her case, which was a very delicate and sensitive one. I asked whether she was sure she wanted that and she said "Yes". We went through the whole thing. She watched every minute...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister.