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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Good morning everyone. I want to confirm that I am in Leinster House 2000. I welcome the Minister of State and thank him for being here today. I also thank him for the work that he and his team are continuously doing. I will start by referring to Bushypark, a residential addiction support centre in Ennis. I know that the Minister of State has been in contact with the centre and has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Dr. Keenan for that but that funding model does not really take full account all of the services that centres like Bushypark offer. Quite recently I saw a log of the phone calls the centre received from September until Christmas. It was absolutely inundated with calls from people, screaming out for help at home. These are people who are at the cusp of relapsing and going back to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I will respond to that, if I may. Mr. Gerry Murphy is the treatment manager in Bushypark. He is a very kind and compassionate man and he is not going to tell somebody who is in floods of tears that while he is qualified to talk to them, he will not talk to them today because he is tied up with other work. That is not how he works or how anyone in the sector works. With the greatest of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I see it every day with my own eyes and I am happy to reference it. I know that it is happening elsewhere too-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I will not withdraw my comments. This is the problem with drugs in Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: We fluff over it. We fluff over it time and time again.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: We are about supporting the addicts through the health realm but----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: -----we cannot turn a blind eye to what is going on outside that building.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Before the Minister of State responds, from the get-go, I have been highly complimentary-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: -----of the Minister of State and the people in Merchants Quay Ireland. I do not care if-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I know what I see and-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 756. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make accommodations during the Covid-19 pandemic for primary and secondary school teachers who are pregnant to be absent or reassigned to teach their pupils online; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1073/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 784. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will arrange for her Department to procure and distribute PPE to schools across the country. [1280/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 811. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the review her Department is undertaking of DEIS categorisations; when schools can expect recategorisations to commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1766/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 845. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of public sector workers under her remit by sectors (details supplied) in each of the local electoral areas in County Clare in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2344/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 927. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the level of consistent poverty in each of the electoral areas of Ennis, Ennistymon, Killaloe, Kilrush, and Shannon, County Clare in each of the years 2011 to 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1455/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 928. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the level of child poverty in each of the electoral areas of Ennis, Ennistymon, Killaloe, Kilrush, and Shannon, County Clare in each of the years 2011 to 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1456/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 929. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the level of food poverty in each of the electoral areas of Ennis, Ennistymon, Killaloe, Kilrush, and Shannon, County Clare in each of the years 2011 to 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1457/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 930. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the level of fuel poverty in each of the electoral areas of Ennis, Ennistymon, Killaloe, Kilrush, and Shannon, County Clare in each of the years 2011 to 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1458/22]