Results 1,141-1,160 of 5,390 for speaker:Cathal Crowe

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: One has an enrolment cap and the other one does not, but it is very constrained at the moment.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Medical Aids and Appliances (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 25. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider introducing tax relief or VAT reduction on assisted technology required by children and adults who have a diagnosis of dyslexia, dysgraphia or dyscalculia; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4338/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 77. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will reconsider the way in which his Department is leading the "Your Council" campaign so that advertising is also undertaken in local newspapers and on local radio stations (details supplied). [4317/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 178. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a cohort of health workers (details supplied) were excluded from the pandemic special recognition payment when non-frontline staff were included; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4555/24]

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Today is D-Day for many children who apply to the Limerick common application system. There are 17 schools within that system. I taught sixth class for many years and this was a day of much excitement but also lots of anxiety. It is a worrying time for youngsters because in most Irish towns, a child can go to a primary school and their local secondary school. This is not the case in...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Chair. I join in welcoming the Minister and his team to our committee and I thank him for his continued engagement. A few weeks ago we did a whole body of work here at this committee around sepsis. We had Dr. Colm Henry, the chief clinical officer, here and earlier that day families who had lost people through sepsis in the hospital system attended the committee and presented...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I am talking about educational and psychological reports, screening reports and the types of referrals which would be made to NEPS and CAMHS, which people are typically delayed on, sometimes, for up to several years?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I have just read the terms of the NTPF. Largely, when we see someone availing of it, it is an adult and they are going off to get positive treatment. I did not see any exclusion clauses which say that young people should not also be going there. I just thought that in the whole realm of cognitive supports, and diagnostics, and perhaps less in the case of therapeutics, I cannot see anything...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. I want to bring up next the incessant issue of University Hospital Limerick, UHL, overcrowding on trolleys. At the outset, I will mention that I found myself in the accident and emergency department and the Minister was in touch at me when I was in the hospital. I was in there on New Year's Eve with a rumbling appendix which nearly burst but the staff got it out in...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Absolutely, and it is incredible. Is the Minister considering 18 hours over seven days or 24-7 local injury units in that region in particular, given the acute pressure it is under?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. I will make a few small points. The fair deal scheme comes under the curtilage of the Department. There are many strands to the Department but many people with houses with defective concrete blocks, and this is in the realm of the Minister for housing, Deputy O'Brien, cannot avail of fair deal to any meaningful effect because those defective concrete blocks affect the...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: The final issue is quite a sensitive one. At the committee a few months ago, I spoke about psychiatric care given to women who have postnatal depression and-or postpartum psychosis. A woman asked me to represent her case, which was a very delicate and sensitive one. I asked whether she was sure she wanted that and she said "Yes". We went through the whole thing. She watched every minute...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: In the funding streams I notice the Minister's budget is vast. I see the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, as being a very positive mechanism. There is space to further elaborate and broaden its scope. At the moment, as I understand it, it is largely around elective surgeries and getting people off long waiting lists and it is doing so very effectively. I know many people who have...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3875/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the progression of a new school build (details supplied); if the said build can be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4238/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (30 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 477. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if consideration can be given to having a broad ‘personalised budget’ scheme for individuals with disability, on the basis that many service providers are over-stretched and cannot give many individuals with disabilities the type of support in the community that they so badly need and want; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Safety (25 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Irish Aviation Authority and Airnav Ireland have any concerns in relation to large scale wind turbines, such as the potential they have to affect flight paths and the safety of aircraft in relation to terrain clearance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3489/24]

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I, like many in the Chamber today, want to speak on the continued situation in Gaza and the horrendous war we are seeing unfold. Many Members have spoken about this since the October attacks by Hamas, which were atrocious and have rightly been condemned. Yet, the response from the Israel Defense Forces has been disproportionate. It has been an attack on civilians, including the vulnerable...