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Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I apologise in advance because we are going to guillotine this debate at 7.23 p.m.

Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I join others in supporting this positive legislation, which the Minister has been leading in his Department for some time. It transposes various elements of EU work-life balance directives and also provides rights to parents and carers to help support a better work-life balance. Under this Bill, parents and carers will see several improvements. The first of these is a right to request...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The Minister did a good job with Leaders' Questions. I was watching from my office. I have a very quick question. Shannon Airport has submitted an application for a public service obligation route to the Department of Transport. This will soon come across the Minister, Deputy McGrath's desk. It seeks a service between Shannon Airport and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol. Brexit has been a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the Minister and her team. I congratulate her on the free books scheme. For me, it was one of the highlights of budget 2023. I will bring up a few issues with regard to what the Minister mentioned. The Minister is looking at senior cycle redevelopment, which is positive. However, what we are all being asked, including by many of my past pupils, is whether there is any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: We will have a definitive date next week. That is positive news. The students want to see the fruits of their labour. They want to celebrate their results. I have had a lot of contact from students who have gone straight into fifth year and who need to decide whether to sit certain subjects at higher or ordinary level. That will be determined by how they got on in the junior certificate....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Teaching Transforms, the initiative to bring people from more diverse backgrounds into the teaching profession, is fantastic and I fully support it. What are the Minister's views as to how this can be congruent with keeping standards in Irish language teaching up to scratch? Perhaps there is an opportunity here. When I graduated from Mary Immaculate College, we had 12 subjects to teach. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I am saying it is worth considering. I say this as someone who went through this system for 16 years. It may be of particular use in the context of languages. I am proposing that it be considered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: There is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: It is great that students in their third and fourth year at teacher training college can now register with the Teaching Council. In their five years of training, gardaí go on the beat. In the same way, nurses go on the wards and teachers go on teaching practice. The teaching practice stint could be a lot longer. It could involve not just shadowing a teacher in the classroom...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to profusely apologise. Perhaps I could contribute for two or three minutes. We had a transport-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: That suits me fine and I was following some of the meeting in the office but I had two other committee meetings. I have two essential questions. I had a meeting yesterday with Colette Cowan, chief executive of the University Limerick Hospitals Group. I understand there will be some capacity-building in that hospital group in terms of long Covid-19 and treatment of same. I hope the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Does Dr. Ní Bhriain have timelines for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Okay, I thank Dr. Ní Bhriain.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Long Covid and Monkeypox: Discussion (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Maybe I should not have named them but we became very familiar to the hierarchy during the Covid-19 pandemic including the Chief Medical Officer, the National Public Health Emergency Team, NPHET, and the HSE and that is fine. They certainly led the public response to Covid-19 but now a lot of people in the workplace find themselves being referred on to private health screening bodies. It was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I apologise for being late. It very often happens here that meetings coincide and clash. I will continue on some of the points that the Chairman has raised. What was to happen with the new NCT test centre in Shannon was raised a number of weeks ago. Responding in the Dáil, the Minister, Deputy Ryan, said there were significant contractual difficulties and that negotiations on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: We would appreciate an update. I have been out to visit the building that was, at one point, touted to become an NCT centre. It was fully kitted out and looked every inch an NCT centre. It looks like the centres I have been to except for the branding and equipment inside it. The difficulties were not at the builder's end or the company's end but at the RSA's end. Is it fair to say that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Am I correct in saying the RSA requires 63 additional staff nationally? That is what is outstanding in terms of recruitment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: That is what is coming in. I apologise. Has the RSA at any time looked at mechanics, men and women who work in garages throughout the country? They sometimes work 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., although they mostly work beyond those hours. They have a skill set and know their way around a car. Has the RSA at any time offered the lure to them that they could come in on a temporary contract to earn a...