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Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. It is a positive piece of legislation. The Government is yet again honouring commitments it made in the programme for Government. In the programme, there was a commitment to continue to reform how HEIs operate through their relationship with the HEA by enhancing performance, financial management, governance and transparency, and utilising...

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I would go back in a heartbeat-----

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: -----if the Ministers want to send me back on some kind of investigation. I would be delighted to go back to my student days. They really are the best days. Those best days have been denied to many youngsters, however, and we, as Members of this House, need to stand up for them to give them back that bit of normality. They are the fun years but also those in which people acquire the...

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: My comments were not exclusionary.

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Yes.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (3 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 61. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider extending the 4 February 2022 deadline for community employment participants whose contracts are due to expire on this date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5398/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Traveller Community (3 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 157. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports that his Department has made available to support the Traveller and Roma community in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5447/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (3 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 229. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department will consider the introduction of a scheme to assist first-time buyers of homes that are not new builds, similar to the help-to-buy scheme, who are financially out of reach of purchasing a newly build home. [5647/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (3 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 140. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline for the drafting and initiating of the next National LGBTI+ Inclusion Strategy; if the current strategy will be reviewed; the way that the National LGBTI+ Youth Strategy will interact with this process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5448/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (3 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 337. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will grant refugee status to Afghan nationals who are employed by Irish companies operating in Afghanistan. [3569/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I confirm that I am in Leinster House 2000. At the outset, I wish to join others in thanking Dr. Holohan, his colleagues and everyone in NPHET for their stellar work over the past two years. They have all become household names for good reasons. They have been on our televisions every night shepherding the nation through what has been a national crisis. Some people refer to the pandemic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I appreciate that. Dr. Glynn is coming to this from health perspective. Everything NPHET has done over the past year has been through the health lens. As a teacher, I must say that mask-wearing is very difficult. So much language is not just about what comes from the voice box; it is about the facial expressions, how the mouth moves and how words are formed. I know that many teachers and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I have a question for Dr. Holohan. It is a point that I raised around 12 months ago. Obviously, Dr. Holohan is the Irish number one in terms of public health advice, but he has opposite numbers in each European country. All of them are receiving data from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDC. It has really concerned me right throughout Covid that the ECDC has 290...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: My next question is for Dr. Holohan. I have praised NPHET which has done a lot of good work. However, there are some areas in which NPHET and, indeed, the other cogs of public health could be accused of tardiness over the past 12 months. There are two that I wish to reference, in particular, and I hope Dr. Holohan can comment on them. The first is the report compiled by the Joint...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Dr. Holohan and his colleagues as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Easing of Restrictions: Discussion (2 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Dr. Glynn's point is well made. I appreciate that. I thank Dr. Glynn, Dr. Holohan and Professor Nolan.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his strategy to broaden the number of new apprenticeships; the details of the development of the seven new apprenticeship programmes announced for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6379/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the findings of the survey of experiences of sexual violence and harassment in higher education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6378/22]