Results 341-360 of 5,574 for speaker:Cathal Crowe

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I wish the Minister of State the best of luck in his new role.

Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (5 Mar 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Calleary, and invite him to make his opening statement.

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Thank you Deputy. We are going to move on.

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2025)

Cathal Crowe: We will close with a statement from the Minister of State, Deputy Brophy. I missed the opportunity to congratulate him when I was speaking earlier. We all wish him the very best in his new role and congratulate him again.

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this. I am sharing time and will use three minutes, if that is okay. I have long represented the issue of suspended gardaí here in this Chamber. At the moment, a total of 112 gardaí are suspended. Some are suspended for very good reason and some may have done things that merit being kicked out of the force. However, many of them are...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (5 Mar 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of taxpayers who have applied to have their flat rate expenses reinstated in 2025, broken down by category, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9886/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (5 Mar 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Ukrainian pupils enrolled in Irish schools at primary level, and the number enrolled at post-primary level, as of 28 February 2025, or the latest date available, on a county-by-county basis, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10209/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (5 Mar 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the allocation of primary school teachers in each county for 2024-25, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10211/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Mar 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 28. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education and disability will meet next. [6491/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Mar 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to raise the issue of DEIS. The previous Government made huge inroads in modifying and overhauling DEIS but even more can be done. I will give an example of Shannon town in County Clare. There are five primary schools and two post-primary schools, all of which are within a few hundred yards of one another. Two of the schools have DEIS status but the rest do not. In a town such...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (4 Mar 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently intervene to support a secondary school (details supplied) in County Clare which has applied to her Department for a grant to replace chronically poor and unusable tools and equipment, relating to the teaching of practical subjects; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9372/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (4 Mar 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will introduce measures in order that degree graduates of early childhood education can register with the Teaching Council; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9468/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Daylight Savings Time (4 Mar 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 480. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will raise the issue of abandoning daylight savings time as agreed in a European Parliament vote in 2021 at a future meeting of the European Council. [8919/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (4 Mar 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 798. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if, in light of storm Éowyn and the long-term outages faced by people in rural areas, including those reliant on power for medical or work reasons, he will consider making grant funding available to those in rural communities to support the purchasing of power banks or electrical power sources; and if he will make a statement...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (27 Feb 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister State for that. That is indeed a very positive update. The school has applied for the replacement of its old prefab classrooms. In total, there are five classrooms in an older block of the school that was built in 1968. The school has applied to the Department to replace these and provide a new staffroom and entrance area. The classrooms are small, draughty, cold and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (27 Feb 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State. This is really good news. I am aware that representatives of Clonlara school are watching this morning. This amounts to a new school, but, for all the reasons I have outlined, it is desperately needed. There is also an inaccessibility issue because, as one notes if coming in the main doors of the school or going down the corridor, the school is built on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (27 Feb 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 6. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the additional school accommodation application by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8152/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Accommodation (27 Feb 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I want to make a big push in support of the additional school accommodation application that has been made to the Department by Scoil Seanáin Naofa, better known in my locality as Clonlara National School. Last September I brought the principal, Donnchadh Kelleher, and the chairman of the board of management to meet with the then Minister, Deputy Foley. Subsequent to that, there has...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider a new status for special education schools to recognise the fact that whilst they are currently classed as primary schools, they cater for an age range that includes adolescents and teenagers and many offer Junior Certificate and Leaving Certificate programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8151/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (27 Feb 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider front-loading the promised removal of the means test for carers in order that the means test is entirely abolished in Budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8264/25]