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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (18 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason some teachers have not yet received an outcome to their PME refund scheme application (details supplied); when all applicants will receive same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49355/25]

Auto-Enrolment: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State for taking this debate. The auto-enrolment scheme is very important. It will mean that Ireland will not longer be a laggard in the European Union. As Deputy Ó Cearúil said, many other countries have brought this in, some as far back as a decade ago. We are catching up. The introduction of this in the new year will see hundreds of thousands of...

Use of Vapes and Nicotine Products by Young People and Adolescents: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: This is a very important debate. Like other speakers, it needs to be acknowledged on the record of the Dáil that it was Fianna Fáil in government that brought in the world's first ever national ban on smoking in the workplace. It was ahead of its time and many other countries have followed suit since. This debate is very timely. I wrote to the Department of Health recently....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Ministers for being before our committee this evening. I have three points to put. Hopefully, we can deal with each point in a minute and get some responses. There are issues in need of urgent addressing in the upcoming budget. First, on the post office network, most post offices are tied into a contract with the GPO that expired in July. The contractual arrangements going...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. The next issue is another outlying issue. We are hearing that there is going to be a lift of the Dublin airport cap at some point. With that come other pressures on the other airports of Ireland. A particular concern is that the regional airports programme, with which the Minister will be familiar from his previous Ministry, has not yet been resolved. We do not know...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: The final issue is school capitation money. This is the money that keeps on the lights, pays the bills and ensures our children can go to and enjoy school each day. It has not increased over the years of inflation. We are now getting to the point where schools are coming to my constituency office, worried they are going to default on bills. It is a big ask in the budget. I ask that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: On a point of order, Chairman, I am a full member of this committee and usually full members take precedent over substitutes. We let Deputy Doherty have his go and he has now had about four minutes more than everyone else. It is a bit disingenuous as well, because five of those votes that we had to go to the Chamber for were triggered by the Deputy's party. Some of them were voted verbally...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: To finish my point of order, Chair.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: If I may finish.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: It is a political shame. It is not defamatory.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: We have all been appointed as full members of this committee now for four and a half months. The budgetary work began four and a half months ago in this committee at which all members, full members and substitutes could have come at all times. It is misrepresentative to say it has just happened across an hour and a half or two hours here.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Months of work have gone in.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Indeed, the budgetary process, as every member here knows even if the public might not know, began sometime after Easter. A huge amount of work has gone in from officials and Ministers.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

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Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 39. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will urgently revise the critical skills occupations list that his Department uses to determine applications for critical skills employment permits to reflect the fact that there is a national deficit in skilled construction workers, particularly in the ‘wet trades’; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 40. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department and/or agencies under its auspices had any engagement with a company (details supplied) with regard to plans it has recently abandoned to establish a large aircraft maintenance facility at Shannon Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50518/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will reinstate the special education diploma allowance that was passed at congress (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50545/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will overhaul the modus operandi of community welfare officers in order that they revert to holding assistance clinics in local communities, rather than being centrally based in Department offices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50519/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 80. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department has any metrics for tracking wastage in the hot school meals programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50520/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 166. To ask the Minister for Health her views regarding the national ambulance service being under-resourced in terms of the low number of ambulances in its fleet and a lack of paramedics to give full coverage to the County Clare with maximum time efficiency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50568/25]