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Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Fewer objectors.

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Have they Deputy Wynne's vote?

Confidence in Government: Motion (12 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Where is Deputy Wynne? They lost her.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (12 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 141. To ask the Minister for Health when the Cross-Departmental Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Health Care Assistants will complete its work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37193/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (12 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 171. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the development of perinatal mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37192/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (12 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 232. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has made a determination on the percentage target of greenhouse gas reduction that each sector must achieve; and his views on the role to be played by the agricultural sector. [37581/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 542. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with the National Council for Special Education to ensure that it has adequate capacity to cater for training courses for teachers and SNAs working in ASD classes, that its ticketing system for a case to be referred to an adviser is urgently overhauled to ensure quicker response times and that additional enrolment capacity...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (12 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if officials in her Department, particularly REALT and uSupport, have considered correspondence from a school administrator (details supplied) in terms of the school having capacity to accommodate Ukrainian children, displaced by war, living in the nearby town of Ennis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37559/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (12 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine the system under which licences are granted for online books (details supplied) with a view to having no time limits placed on the usage under the licences, with particular emphasis for families with more than one child in the same school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37784/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (12 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 625. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will extend the eligibility for the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance to foster children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37680/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (12 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 921. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide CoaguChek and self-test strips free of charge for patients who require long-term oral anticoagulant therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37529/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 13. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to increase the availability of third level courses for the study of educational psychology. [36581/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to ask the Minister, Deputy Harris, if he has intentions to expand the availability of places in third level courses that provide training in the realm of educational psychology.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The housing crisis can only be fixed by building houses, the hospital crisis can only be truly fixed by more hospital beds and, indeed, the incessant problems we are having with children waiting for diagnostic tests and psychological screening can only be rectified when NEPS and the child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, have an adequate capacity of educational psychologists. ...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister for his reply. There are two parts to this problem. The first is that we are not churning out quite enough graduates. However, more importantly, those graduates who emerge from these courses are not going into educational psychology, rather, they are back down in classrooms. It makes no sense for someone with an educational psychology qualification to be filling out a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Student Accommodation (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I think this question is the most important of the oral parliamentary questions today. On top of everything Deputy Boyd Barrett said, my worry is that there are many accommodation centres, particularly in the mid-west, that also have Ukrainian refugees staying in them now. The capacity that they would have had in the previous academic year is now virtually gone. I am glad to hear the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. That is positive. At a recent meeting the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science discussed prisoners, another group of people who sometimes enter further and higher education through a different pathway. I made the point that in the United States surveys by Ohio University have identified that up to 40%...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: If diagnostic testing could be started in the next year it would be great.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, for attending. Can the Minister detail progress on supporting students with disabilities to access further and higher education? Can he also provide an update on the new national plan for equity of access to higher education?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister and that is a positive reply. It is good to hear that the targets are being met and are being exceeded. I agree with him that the outcomes are completely crucial to this. I know of a cohort of students who recently completed a programme in the new Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest. It has been absolutely fantastic. An element of equity in...