Results 5,961-5,980 of 6,078 for speaker:Cathal Crowe

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will consider a request from persons who attended Ireland’s Industrial and Reformatory Schools (details supplied) to award them a medical card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51910/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will consider a request from persons who attended Ireland’s Industrial and Reformatory Schools (details supplied) to award them a full contributory state pension for work done as children, similar to the scheme in place for those who were in Magdalene Laundries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51911/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will consider a request from persons who attended Ireland’s Industrial and Reformatory Schools (details supplied) to award them a medical card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51910/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will consider a request from persons who attended Ireland’s Industrial and Reformatory Schools (details supplied) to award them a full contributory state pension for work done as children, similar to the scheme in place for those who were in Magdalene Laundries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51911/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 547. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on legislation to allow for retrospective payments under the defective concrete blocks scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51271/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 548. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of appeals made under the remediation of dwellings damaged by the use of defective concrete blocks grant scheme have been processed to completion in 2025; the number of appeals which remain active; the average turn-around time of appeals nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51272/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Antisocial Behaviour (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 732. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on his engagement with the retail sector in relation to the impact of criminal activity and anti-social behaviour on businesses in that sector; when the Retail Crime Strategy will be published; the plans in relation to reforming defamation laws which many retailers feel is being used vexatiously against...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 790. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children at early intervention stage who started in a primary school ASD class in the Mid-West in September 2025; if this number can be classified by each of the Mid-West Children's Disability Network Teams (CDNT) or area; the number of the children in each CDNT or area who require speech and language support; the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Health Services Staff (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 791. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1857 of 8 September 2025, if she will clarify information provided (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51845/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 927. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the omission of mandatory personal therapy from CORU's training requirements; if she is satisfied that the omission of this training requirement will not be detrimental to the care provided to CORU's clients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52003/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Events (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he will take to make a fresh bid for Ireland to host a stage of the iconic Tour de France cycle race; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52179/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 94. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the HIQA independent review to inform decision-making around the design and delivery of urgent and emergency healthcare services in the mid-west region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52183/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 177. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which her Department, along with the national ambulance service, proposes to increase the availability of ambulances and skilled paramedics in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52184/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (7 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when his Department will issue new guidelines on the way in which onshore wind farms should be developed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49381/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (7 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 547. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an urgent appointment for hip surgery in Croom Orthopaedic Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52926/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the witnesses and the Chair for allowing me to contribute. I am not ordinarily a member of this committee. I was in the last Dáil but Members are accommodated if they want to come in at the end. I want to take up the last member's questions on 999 calls. In the past two years, the procedure for making emergency calls has changed. Heretofore, if an antisocial incident was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: On 999 calls, people answering the calls are call answering civil servants and are not medically trained or trained in policing. It has long been bemoaned that they do not have a level of expertise. They are taking a call at face value, yet calls are triaged. How does that work in practice? I will give an anonymised example that illustrates the difficulties of the system. A parent in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Are they trained in house?