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Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: The Tánaiste mentioned the pay issue for people with more than three years' service. The advice I will give is there should be long service increments, LSIs-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Exactly. Specialised instructors allowance-----

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 35 - Army Pensions (Revised)
Vote 36 - Defence (Revised) (1 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Yes. There should also be specialised instructors allowance and tech pay. For instance, many of our aircraft technicians can get multiples of what they are on in Baldonnel with Ryanair or Aer Lingus. I have a last open-ended question about the geopolitical situation in the world. The Tánaiste is getting better briefings than anybody in the room. At present, Ireland is dealing...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister for attending and for her positive engagement. I have quite a few things I want to get through, so I will go straight into the questions. Will the Minister provide an update on the free schoolbook scheme for junior cycle?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: That is all very positive. The fact that it will be in place by September will be music to the years of so many families. I congratulate the Minister for leading on this. It has been very successful at primary level. It was a stress-free and cost-free summer for many families, so this is a good outcome. The media will speculate as to when the general election is going take place. What...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. There is also an issue, which I have raised with some of the Minister's officials in the last weeks. Knockanean National School in County Clare is one of a handful of 12 schools in the country that are to have their new builds led by the Office of Public Works. The Knockanean school was one of these. The project is at a very advanced stage and is with the devolved...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Because of those enrolment restrictions, children are now applying within the county for schools. The local schools are full. They are applying in south Clare for Ennis. The obvious thing is for a new school somewhere around there. Sixmilebridge fits that more than others.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: One has an enrolment cap and the other one does not, but it is very constrained at the moment.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Medical Aids and Appliances (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 25. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing tax relief or VAT reduction on assisted technology required by children and adults who have a diagnosis of dyslexia, dysgraphia or dyscalculia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4338/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will reconsider the way in which his Department is leading the "Your Council" campaign so that advertising is also undertaken in local newspapers and on local radio stations (details supplied). [4317/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 178. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a cohort of health workers (details supplied) were excluded from the pandemic special recognition payment when non-frontline staff were included; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4555/24]

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Today is D-Day for many children who apply to the Limerick common application system. There are 17 schools within that system. I taught sixth class for many years and this was a day of much excitement but also lots of anxiety. It is a worrying time for youngsters because in most Irish towns, a child can go to a primary school and their local secondary school. This is not the case in...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Chair. I join in welcoming the Minister and his team to our committee and I thank him for his continued engagement. A few weeks ago we did a whole body of work here at this committee around sepsis. We had Dr. Colm Henry, the chief clinical officer, here and earlier that day families who had lost people through sepsis in the hospital system attended the committee and presented...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I am talking about educational and psychological reports, screening reports and the types of referrals which would be made to NEPS and CAMHS, which people are typically delayed on, sometimes, for up to several years?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I have just read the terms of the NTPF. Largely, when we see someone availing of it, it is an adult and they are going off to get positive treatment. I did not see any exclusion clauses which say that young people should not also be going there. I just thought that in the whole realm of cognitive supports, and diagnostics, and perhaps less in the case of therapeutics, I cannot see anything...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. I want to bring up next the incessant issue of University Hospital Limerick, UHL, overcrowding on trolleys. At the outset, I will mention that I found myself in the accident and emergency department and the Minister was in touch at me when I was in the hospital. I was in there on New Year's Eve with a rumbling appendix which nearly burst but the staff got it out in...