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Committee on European Union Affairs: Eurofound: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Seán Crowe: Okay, I thank Mr. Kalfin.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (1 Oct 2025)

Seán Crowe: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine the case of a school (details supplied) who lost a teacher due to student numbers in 2024 and risk doing so again in 2026, if the current rules on student numbers to teacher places are applied; if she agrees that this runs contrary to government commitments to reduce the pupil teacher ratio and target large class sizes; her views...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: Is that not a healthy thing? We do not have to go outside the party.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: Listening to what the witnesses are saying about sharing data, I would like to hear what the barriers are. Let us take St. James's Hospital and St. Luke's Hospital, which deals with cancer. One part of St. James's Hospital does not talk to another part in that they do not have a seamless connection. If I went for bloods in St. Luke's, my urologist in St. James's would not be able to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: Would it help to have a common health identifier number, for instance, or would it be better if we could anonymise access? For instance, it does not make sense that we would not share data or information on particular types of cancers and what can work and that who had gathered the research on this would not be able to share information.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: On access to medicines and treatments that people really need which are available in one jurisdiction but can throw up all sorts of bureaucratic barriers and delays, I gave the example last week with the shared island unit of a number of young people who have Duchenne muscular dystrophy. There is a drug named givinostat, which is available in the North but not in the South. Have the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: My question relates to the residential nursing homes. We heard earlier on about there being no wrong door. Unfortunately, in many cases, particularly those private ones because of the lack of public beds, people have been in the situation where their loved one has been in the wrong place. We heard earlier about some of the scandals relating to it. These are scandals like unsafe practices,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: It is just that they are not delivering the contract.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Key Issues Relating to the Health Service: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: It seems crazy that the State is paying, and we are not trying to recoup the money. It is a matter of trust. People have blind faith putting their loved ones into these homes. They are people who cannot speak up for themselves. Yet, it is all about money in a lot of these nursing homes and they are unfortunately not delivering the service. I appeal that the HSE looks at that section of...

Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (23 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: There are 300,000 people in energy debt. The Minister for Finance will stand in this Chamber on this day two weeks and talk about how well we are doing in managing the economy when people in my constituency will be going to bed early because they cannot afford to turn the heating on. If the Minister of State goes to any of the shopping centres out my way, he will meet a lot of people who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Initiative: Department of the Taoiseach (23 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: It is back to the health issue and I welcome all the initiatives. When I was Chair of the health committee in the last Dáil term, we visited some of the facilities and were really impressed with Altnagelvin and the fact that if someone has a heart attack, they can go within that particular timespan in that area and, again, we looked at the cancer treatment and so on. One of the things...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Initiative: Department of the Taoiseach (23 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: On the same issue of DMD, families said they were getting treatment in Newcastle, for instance, and again, because of Brexit, that was all changing. The facility in Newcastle is no longer open to new patients in relation to that. As I said, it just seems to be obvious thing. It is an interim solution; it is not going to solve the problems for these families. The ideal would be if it was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Initiative: Department of the Taoiseach (23 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: I thank Ms Deane.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Health Services Waiting Lists (23 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: 527. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children waiting to access speech and language therapy in the CHO7 area, by CDNT, in tabular form; the number of those waiting more than one year; the number waiting more than four years; and the average waiting time to access those therapies.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49642/25]

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: The witnesses are very welcome. I am a complete novice when it comes to many of the technical issues. I will try to express some of the concerns ordinary people have. Scams are the big one, with not a day going by on which people do not get a text on their mobile phone or a call on the house phone. I do not know anyone who has not been affected by it at this stage. It seems to happen all...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán (17 Sep 2025)

Seán Crowe: Some people will say that the difficulty with some platforms is that if they try to pursue the complaints process, there are huge difficulties related to that. Some platforms are particularly worse than others. I will not go into which one but I think we all know which platform I am talking about. The difficulty in combating misinformation was mentioned. How can we combat...