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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...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when new signage for the Technological University of the Shannon, Ennis campus will be erected. [36580/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 143. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will urgently establish a unit within the International Protection Accommodation Services for Oireachtas Member queries. [36578/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Road Network (7 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the future growth of the University of Limerick is limited by lack of road access from the Clare side of the campus. [36579/22]

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Committee Stage (6 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: A very significant amount of public money is involved in this and the homeowners themselves are taxpayers, which is a point that needs to be made repeatedly because it is an issue that got skewed over the course of the campaign. There was a certain maligning in that regard. This €2.7 billion is a massive amount of public money to deal with redress. It is important that there is...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister for being in the Chamber. These are important changes to planning legislation. The Bill essentially changes the substitute consent regime provided for in the old Planning and Development Act 2000 and streamlines the substitute consent regime so that it becomes a more efficient process. I am glad that the legislation provides for a single-stage planning application...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Basically, we need some pre-qualifying rules to ensure all this happens.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: All politics is local. Please forgive me for raising an issue related to my local GAA club, Meelick GAA club in south Clare. I played with the club, very poorly, for many years. The club has put a request before the Minister’s Department to purchase a piece of State-owned land located at the rear of its stand. This land is not being used for any purpose. It is rough pasture....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: That is an awful thing to say about a GAA player.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (6 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 79. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an overview of the legal action that the State will take against manufacturers of defective concrete blocks; and the length of time that it will take for this matter to enter the courts system. [36595/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: No problem. I apologise as I was in a meeting of the Oireachtas transport committee. Many meetings run parallel here. I read Dr. Lambert’s opening statement and I have been following some of the debate from my office upstairs. I have a few questions. Some of Dr. Lambert’s counterparts, for example, The Ohio State University, used baseline information that they had on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: In terms of viral longevity, there is no great difference, is there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: My next question almost seems contradictory because Dr. Lambert is here talking about long Covid. Has he seen anyone recover to a high level from long Covid? I know the whole idea is that this remains and lingers. However, surely some people have had a pretty good recovery pathway months and months after carrying this long Covid virus.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The general advice we have all been hearing over the past two years is that in seven to ten days one should be coming out of this pretty well and that is the recovery point. That is where most of those who get Covid find themselves. I had it in March and, sure enough, on day nine or ten, my antigen tests were becoming negative, my energy levels were up and I was able to get back to some bit...