Results 3,241-3,260 of 5,356 for speaker:Cathal Crowe

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (22 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 535. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she, in consultation with Bus Éireann, will remove the nearest school requirement for the school transport scheme given the difficulty for pupils attaining places in their nearest schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14707/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (22 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) who is seeking assistance with a postgraduate certificate in education issue. [14900/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 853. To ask the Minister for Health the reason general nurses cross over to work in the different disciplines such as mental health and intellectual disability but the opposite does not happen (details supplied). [14107/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (22 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 854. To ask the Minister for Health his views that it is fair for the HSE to have a policy of only hiring general nurses for clinical nurse specialist roles; the reason highly trained intellectual disability nurses are being overlooked for these roles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14108/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (22 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 1126. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a GLAS payment in respect of 2021 owed to persons (details supplied) has not yet been paid; if he will expedite the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14109/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 41. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide details of the stages that lie ahead in terms of actioning the Commission on the Defence Forces report. [13310/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 50. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide details on the general age, condition and capacity of Ireland’s air defence equipment. [13311/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (10 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a new staffroom and hall facility at a school (details supplied) in County Clare. [13321/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Physical Education (10 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports her Department generally provides, both in terms of equipment and indoor and outdoor facilities, for the teaching of physical education in primary and secondary schools. [13322/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (10 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has plans to address the anomaly which exists in respect of professional masters of education students who are required to attend Gaeltacht courses but receive no grant or financial aid. [6123/22]

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I support the Bill. It gives legislative effect to the changes to the Covid support schemes announced by Government in response to the public health restrictions and introduced from 21 December 2021 right through to January of this year. These supports have been vitally important to businesses throughout the pandemic and it is very important the necessary legislation be put in place as soon...

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thought she indicated that she wished to speak.

Finance (Covid-19 and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Perfect. There are, of course, challenges as we emerge from that situation of peak Covid. One of these is the cost of living. The cost of living has spiralled out of control for many families. Many families are put very much to the pin of their collar. I welcome what the Minister has done overnight and into this morning in looking at ways to alleviate the burden of costs on people with...

Proposal for a Council Decision on Hate Speech and Hate Crime: Motion (9 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I fully support the motion for Ireland to opt-in to the EU measure on extending EU crimes under Article 83 to include hate crime and hate speech. When I was a primary school teacher, kids would come in from the yard and an elbow, punch or trip would have hurt them, but words hurt them far more. It should come as no surprise to us as adults that hate speech and all that it encompasses is...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I have the same love of the Irish language as the Taoiseach but the fact is that every day many kids in classrooms are struggling to speak and learn the language. The exemption criteria were set out in a circular in 2019. A two-year review was promised. A lot of it is still unworkable. A child has to score below the tenth percentile in an area such as comprehension, word meaning or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Chairman. I extend my apologies as I have been following the meeting remotely. I have read the opening statements and have been listening to the debate so far this morning. I join others in thanking all personnel in the front-line health service for what they have been doing. I am the son of a nurse. My mother is now retired but she has said many times over the past two years...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: By a small extension to that, I was a teacher before I entered the Dáil, and we would often hear from special needs assistants, SNAs. I understand that they are in a different world but they are also nonetheless involved in the caring profession. Many people who work in that career have come to us to say that it is very demoralising. Many of them cannot get mortgages. Have the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Our committee would like to hear more on that after the INMO conference. There is a high-profile case that I will not get into today of a healthcare professional, a front-line worker, who, owing to tiredness, would have had a road traffic accident coming home from work. Ms Hetherington wants to come in on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I have such limited time, if Ms Hetherington does not mind coming in at the end.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I appreciate that. I apologise for cutting across Ms Hetherington. We have very limited time when we get to speak here. I want to discuss my local hospital group, the University of Limerick Hospitals Group. Perhaps Ms Hetherington can come in on that also. First I want to ask Ms Ní Sheaghdha and Ms McGowan if it concerns them that the management of this hospital group have upped...