Results 41-60 of 5,575 for speaker:Cathal Crowe

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: The time is out on that slot, so the Deputy can hang on for the second round of questions. We will try to keep things moving. I am the next speaker in the rotation. I have quite a few questions and I will try to get through them quickly. I am glad the Minister is reviewing DEIS across this year. Currently, DEIS is linked to the census, and the census happens every five years. The...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: One of the metrics is employment and economic affluence. My constituency includes Shannon, which is a significant industrial base. A total of 40% of US companies have a presence in Shannon. This situation is repeated in many constituencies with an industrial base of employment. Every morning, people flock there from four counties to work. The census will tell us that a significant number...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: It is over a decade since the infamous Croke Park hours were introduced for teachers requiring them to provide an additional 20 hours' service per annum. I was a teacher for many years and a member of the INTO. I think it is rather insulting to the men and women who take school teams after school and facilitate choirs, drama and fabulous activities like yoga. Every sort of afterschool...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: The Government should not dismantle it. Rather, it should acknowledge that this is happening after school and count it as Croke Park hours. It would be transformative.

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I am sorry about being rigid with time, but there will be a second round and the Minister will be able to address some of these questions again later. I call Deputy Emer Currie.

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. She might deal with the other topics during a second round of questioning, if that is okay. I thank the Minister.

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I call Deputy Dempsey.

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: The Deputy might wrap up the question there so we might get a brief answer.

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: We will deal with the rest of it later, if that is okay. I am sorry but I have to be rigid. We will hopefully get to a second round of questions later. I call Deputy Ní Raghallaigh.

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: The Deputy will be able to come in again shortly. I call Deputy O'Meara.

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Could the July figures be shared with the committee after the Minister presents them to Cabinet?

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. Next is Senator Scahill.

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: We have time for a second round of questions. Members will have two minutes each in this round and then Deputy Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin can come in at the end of the round. I am first on the roster. I will go back to a point I made earlier that a lot of special schools are now expected, and rightly so, to be rolling out a second level curriculum and, with that,...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I apologise for cutting across the Minister.

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I have to apply my rule to myself too, but I thank the Minister. I might bring it up next week with the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Moynihan.

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Before I bring in Deputy O'Rourke, his request for figures will matter to many of us. So that it becomes a formal action of the committee, will the Deputy propose it? Will he read out what we are seeking? It is not a question for the Minister; it is a formality so we can action on it as a committee.

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: That is good and clear. That is a formal proposal. Does the committee agree to that? Agreed. That will be in due course; we will not get into it now.

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I understand the fluidity but when the Minister next has a data set, we ask that it be shared with the committee.

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: It may be a good idea to do a body of work on that for a future meeting, maybe in the autumn and winter period. It is not an area we have covered so far in the work programme. If the Senator wants to email the secretariat, I am sure we could factor that in.

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Also joining us today is Deputy Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin. We have all parties and none here. The Deputy is welcome. Going forward, I propose that we have our questions and perhaps a second round, and then non-members of the committee can come in afterwards. If everyone agrees, Deputy Ó Súilleabháin has four minutes.