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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: We are out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: On behalf of the committee, I thank the Department of education, the NCCA and the SEC for being here this morning and for their testimony. I thank members for their contributions. I thank the secretariat, as always, for piecing this whole meeting together. I also thank the technical team that supported the room with audiovisual support throughout this meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Curriculum Reform at Senior Cycle: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: We will now proceed to questions and answers. Members have six minutes each. I ask them to remember to give adequate time for responses to issue. I do not know if we will have time for a second round. For now, we will have six minutes per member.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: The Deputy is sharing with Deputy Brabazon, so it is up to the two of them, but it is a ten-minute block.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Research and Training (15 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 323. To ask the Minister for Health if she will intervene to facilitate the return of historic human remains from the Royal College of Surgeons to a family (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55803/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Research and Training (15 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 357. To ask the Minister for Health if she will intervene to facilitate the return of historic human remains from the Royal College of Surgeons to the family; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56035/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: The way radar interacts with aircraft is that a little ping signal goes up and back, positioning at all times the aircraft on a vertical and horizontal axis on an air traffic controller's screen. The Irish Aviation Authority has said very clearly in recent planning files that it is unsafe to put wind farms in close proximity to radar. It distorts the signal of where those aircraft are. It...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Taoiseach. On a point of order, a Cheann Comhairle, let the record show-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: -----that Deputy Cullinane sniggered at this issue, which is very real in Clare. Let the Sinn Féin voters in Clare know about this.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tillage Sector (14 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 116. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports for the tillage sector announced in Budget 2026. [55034/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tillage Sector (14 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 138. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has had discussions with an organisation (details supplied) on the issues facing the tillage sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55035/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Conservation (14 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 199. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to enhance the retrofit grant system to allow for individual elements, such as windows or doors, to be retrofitted, in order that households that cannot afford a full retrofit can do so incrementally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55279/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 343. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is taking to safeguard Ireland’s business aviation interests through the anticipated significant financial burden that would follow the proposed revision of the Energy Taxation Directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54851/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 359. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied); and the timeline for reviewing the matter. [55125/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (14 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 356. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of properties in County Clare which fall under Band 1, Band 2 and Band 3 of the local property tax; the way in which these properties are valued for this purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55092/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (9 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 72. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the fact that Lisdoonvarna, County Clare has taken in more IPAS applicants and Ukrainian war refugees than any other town; if, on this basis, he will review ongoing accommodation arrangements in this town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54030/25]

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

Cathal Crowe: I thank the witnesses and the Chair for allowing me to contribute. I am not ordinarily a member of this committee. I was in the last Dáil but Members are accommodated if they want to come in at the end. I want to take up the last member's questions on 999 calls. In the past two years, the procedure for making emergency calls has changed. Heretofore, if an antisocial incident was...

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

Cathal Crowe: On 999 calls, people answering the calls are call answering civil servants and are not medically trained or trained in policing. It has long been bemoaned that they do not have a level of expertise. They are taking a call at face value, yet calls are triaged. How does that work in practice? I will give an anonymised example that illustrates the difficulties of the system. A parent in...