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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 551. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the current contact tracing measures in schools due to rising numbers of Covid-19 cases. [52997/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (2 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she, in consultation with Bus Éireann, will address the anomaly in which concessionary ticketholders on the school transport scheme are ineligible for a fee waiver in cases where they have medical cards. [53219/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (2 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 612. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if measures are being considered to support workers who remain on the pandemic unemployment payment for the foreseeable future who are concerned about keeping up with their life expenses on a lower rate of income as pandemic unemployment payment rates decrease over the coming months. [53113/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (2 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 944. To ask the Minister for Health if he in consultation with the HSE will allow EU Digital COVID Certificates to be issued for persons who through no fault of their own are unable to receive a second vaccination due to health issues as a result from a severe reactions to the first vaccination and have been advised by their doctor such as in the case of a person (details supplied) not to do...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 849. To ask the Minister for Health the minimum levels of qualification and experience required for a person to be appointed as a HSE disability services manager; if these thresholds are currently met by personnel serving in each CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52200/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 1039. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has received a proposal to develop additional capacity at the children's ark paediatric unit, University Hospital Limerick; the status of this proposal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52981/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (21 Oct 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 27. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will engage with Coillte and other stakeholders in order that Cratloe Woods, County Clare can, in part, be designated a heritage forest and that the once famous plantation of native sessile oaks can be re-planted. [51251/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (21 Oct 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 56. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers with existing tree plantations on their land-holdings will be allowed to count these in terms of carbon credits. [51252/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Oct 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 335. To ask the Minister for Health if he along with the HSE will put the necessary measures in place to allow physiotherapists to request imaging for their patients without having to go to a doctor to do same (details supplied). [51873/21]

Citizens' Assembly on Gender Equality: Statements (20 Oct 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to go slightly off script at the beginning and commend the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan. When we have statements or a discussion in this Chamber, Ministers and Ministers of State do not generally move outside their ministerial area to comment. However, the Minister of State has every right to lead the discussion here this evening given the immense courage she showed last July...

Child and Family Agency (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (20 Oct 2021)

Cathal Crowe: We must adjourn the debate for the sos. It will be the Labour Party speaking slot when we reconvene.

Child and Family Agency (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (20 Oct 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Deputies Funchion, Martin Kenny, Ward and Ó Laoghaire are sharing time.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Oct 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Deputy O'Donoghue, have you spoken?

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Oct 2021)

Cathal Crowe: There are other speakers, unfortunately.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Oct 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to go a little off the programme with my contribution vis-à-viswhat others have said. In the last 12 months, the Irish Government and its counterparts in Europe have looked at the issue of supply chains in the context of making vaccines available to Europe and dispersing them throughout the EU. This has been very successful. Many potholes were met along the way, particularly in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairperson Designate of the DAA: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I have been caught on the hop as I seem to have read the wrong schedule of speakers and was making notes for my contribution later in the Dáil.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairperson Designate of the DAA: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I am happy to speak now. It is good to be tested every now and then. I was a teacher before becoming a Deputy and I used to enjoy springing a question on a child to see whether he or she was listening in class. I am caught out myself today. Aviation is a very seasonal sector. We all, including those of us in this committee, wait with bated breath each autumn to see what schedules...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairperson Designate of the DAA: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Mr. Geoghegan for his assessment. It is a valid point about how people travelled in the past versus the global connectivity we have now through Zoom and Microsoft Teams. I am thinking about my own neck of the woods, where the early-morning flight from Shannon Airport to Heathrow used to be full of business people going to London to do business before returning home in the evening....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairperson Designate of the DAA: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I sincerely wish the DAA, encompassing both Dublin and Cork airports, every success. We want to the see aviation recover nationally. We have all taken parochial positions over the years when it came to our local airports because a huge loyalty to them has built up over the years. I have said in the past that there was a kind of predatorial relationship as between the DAA versus the Shannon...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairperson Designate of the DAA: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I was not that trendy growing up. Teenagers in County Clare, as I am sure is the case in Limerick and throughout the country, have been craving social outlets for the past two years. Now they are being told that, although they might have their ticket, their appointment to get their hair done and their new dress or shirt, they cannot go into the disco because they are not vaccinated. The...