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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Is that loophole still there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: What training?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (8 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 114. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide details of pilot sewage schemes in small villages that is being led by his Department; if his Department is open to the possibility of new developments using package sewerage treatment plants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53443/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (8 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 286. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures his Department is taking to curb the extent to which people are tracked by apps on their smart phones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52180/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (7 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 322. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when his Department will issue new guidelines on the way in which onshore wind farms should be developed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49381/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (7 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 547. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an urgent appointment for hip surgery in Croom Orthopaedic Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52926/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: We have received apologies from Deputy Dempsey. I ask anyone attending remotely to mute himself or herself when not contributing so that we do not pick up any background noise or feedback. I remind all those in attendance to ensure their mobile phones are in silent mode or switched off. Members attending remotely are reminded of the constitutional requirement that in order to participate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I am sorry. It is a feature of this committee that I must sometimes interject to allow the next speaker in. I thank Ms Bissett for her answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I call Senator Joe Conway.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: We will get you in in a little while. I am next on the rota of speakers. I welcome all the witnesses today and Sive in particular. As other members have said, this is the Committee on Education and Youth so it is very important to get young people in to hear what they have to say. When you are in fifth year, teachers start encouraging you to go to the local book shop and pick up those red...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: The day you were with your classmates in the audiovisual room, I think you had a graph that showed in other countries when they people have extra time, they do better in exams. Will Ms O'Brien give us a flavour of what that is like? What did you find out when you did that study?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I can well imagine. The first really big exams you had was your junior certificate in summer 2023. It is stressful for everyone but will you share a little about your stress levels when looking at the clock in the examination hall, see time is running out and you are maybe two or three pages away from the end of the test booklet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Did you manage to finish any of your tests in their entirety?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: We all heard you speak in the audiovisual room. You are a very smart young woman and so are your classmates but you were unable to get to the end point of each test paper in your junior certificate in summer 2023.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: That says it all. The time for pushing around the can is well and truly over. People like you who are very smart and should be achieving better in your test scores need extra time so they can achieve all of that. I have a question for Dyslexia Ireland. This is a bit of a left of centre question. I have had people contact me about the driver theory test. They say the can drive fine,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I do not think I am betraying any confidence because he is quite open about it. I was not joking when I said Sive might have a political career because the Minister of State, Deputy Moran, is an outstanding TD for his constituency. He was on "The Late Late Show" in the past. He has given interviews in the Irish Independent, etc. He left school at the age of 13. He did not realise he had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Deputy Cummins. Senator Curley has four minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: We are nearly out of time here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Mr. Ewing. Deputy Currie has four minutes.