Results 4,941-4,960 of 5,405 for speaker:Cathal Crowe

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of expanding the summer programme to include more schools and more students. [38592/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional special classes that will be required at primary and post-primary in each of the next five years; and the estimated cost of providing these. [38593/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 175. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of hiring an additional home-school liaison co-ordinator. [38594/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools presently in receipt of home school liaison co-ordinator hours. [38595/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (1 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 177. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of expanding the free schoolbooks scheme to all remaining students. [38596/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (1 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 178. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount that has been spent on the summer works programme since 2020. [38597/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (1 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) does not have DEIS status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38950/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Programmes (1 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 236. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of students who will participate in creative schools in the 2024-2025 academic year. [38598/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (1 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider broadening the eligibility terms and conditions for the first home scheme in order that individuals who, in their youth, prior to entering a relationship and starting a family, bought an apartment with a sibling (a partnership arrangement) can qualify; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38948/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (1 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 296. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware that arising from an adjudication hearing of 23 February 2024, her Department was directed to engage with a union (details supplied) to determine the quantum of allowance to be paid to social welfare inspectors of executive officer grade, arising from a claim lodged in 2017; if she will provide an update on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (1 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 316. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the age from 66 years for the rural social scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39007/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (1 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 358. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason many young farmers (details supplied) are being denied young trained farmer grants and supports; if he proposes to change the existing definition of what constitutes a ‘young trained farmer’; if he will consider amending the qualifying terms and conditions relating to ‘young trained farmer’...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (1 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 412. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions being taken in Carlow CDNT to address significant and entrenched recruitment issues; the date by which all vacant positions in Carlow CDNT will be filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39018/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 426. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider introducing benefits such as reduced-cost GP care, reduced-cost hospital-stay fees, and so on, for staff who work in the public healthcare sector, so as to acknowledge their invaluable contribution to healthcare overall, and to potentially entice more into the healthcare professions and ensure staff retention; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (2 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expressly accept and approve the appeal made to her Department by a school (details supplied) in respect of a refused emergency works grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39222/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (8 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated full-year cost to the Exchequer of introducing a tax relief of 20% for counselling and psychotherapy. [39835/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (8 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 106. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of help-to-buy claims approved since 1 July 2020, broken down by county; the number of applicants associated with these claims; and the number of claims by homebuyers (excluding self-builds) broken down by county; and the number of these claims relating to purchases. [39939/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (8 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 107. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of rent tax credit claims made in each of the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39940/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (8 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 155. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a breakdown of the number of businesses in each local authority that have been approved for the increased costs of business grant; the total amount allocated in each local authority area, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39952/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the options available to parents in the Citywest area given the 60% reduction in first year intake of a school on the grounds of building works (details supplied) ; if she is aware of the preexisting shortage of secondary school places in the area, given it has experienced rapid population growth in recent years; the plans, if any, to increase...