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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Sorry, I am interjecting, but reform is for the Minister but the Senator's question will get answered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: That concludes members' questions. I thank everyone. The nature of these committees is that we interject. There may have been elements of responses that the witnesses did not get to complete or whatever else. I ask them to be concise, but the lead speakers might want to take an additional two minutes to clarify or wrap up any bits we missed along the way in their responses. I ask members...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Ms O'Callaghan for that clarification. I call Ms Feeney.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Ms Feeney. I apologise again to members and witnesses for the number of interjections. There is so much to discuss. All of us at the committee found the testimony of Ms Sive O'Brien in the first session compelling. There is a further body of work to be done. That is a light way of saying it. I thank the witnesses for attending. Their briefing was informative and I appreciate...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Events (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 52. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he will take to make a fresh bid for Ireland to host a stage of the iconic Tour de France cycle race; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52179/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 94. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the HIQA independent review to inform decision-making around the design and delivery of urgent and emergency healthcare services in the mid-west region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52183/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (2 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 177. To ask the Minister for Health the way in which her Department, along with the national ambulance service, proposes to increase the availability of ambulances and skilled paramedics in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52184/25]

Investment in Sport and Sporting Infrastructure: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Miriam Lord once described sport as the greatest of all Ministries because you get to tour every parish in the country and see best practice. In the last two rounds of sports capital funding, certainly in my own county - I think it is probably the same around the country - every group that had a decent application put together properly got funding of some sort or the other. It is...

Situation in Gaza: Statements (1 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: The American poet Maya Angelou famously coined the phrase, "You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been". The Israeli cabinet either does not know or reflect on their collective history. There is certainly a sense of some selective amnesia. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s father-in-law was the sole survivor of his family following the Holocaust....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: My question is to the Taoiseach and the Minister, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill. Last year, here in the Dáil Chamber and at the Oireachtas health committee, I led calls for an independent review into the access to emergency care in the mid-west region. That review, led by HIQA, has concluded. A whole host of recommendations are before the Government now. One of the key ones is that there...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Citizenship Applications (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 201. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department will confirm if a person (details supplied) is eligible for Irish citizenship based on their parent's citizenship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51251/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 398. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the policies he is implementing to support small businesses, especially in the hospitality sector; the assistance he is providing to reduce costs; the action he is taking to reduce unnecessary red tape and burdensome regulation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52115/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 399. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the specific measures he is taking to support the retail sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52116/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will consider a request from persons who attended Ireland’s Industrial and Reformatory Schools (details supplied) to award them a medical card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51910/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will consider a request from persons who attended Ireland’s Industrial and Reformatory Schools (details supplied) to award them a full contributory state pension for work done as children, similar to the scheme in place for those who were in Magdalene Laundries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51911/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 405. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will consider a request from persons who attended Ireland’s Industrial and Reformatory Schools (details supplied) to award them a medical card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51910/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will consider a request from persons who attended Ireland’s Industrial and Reformatory Schools (details supplied) to award them a full contributory state pension for work done as children, similar to the scheme in place for those who were in Magdalene Laundries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51911/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 547. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on legislation to allow for retrospective payments under the defective concrete blocks scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51271/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 548. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of appeals made under the remediation of dwellings damaged by the use of defective concrete blocks grant scheme have been processed to completion in 2025; the number of appeals which remain active; the average turn-around time of appeals nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51272/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Antisocial Behaviour (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 732. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will report on his engagement with the retail sector in relation to the impact of criminal activity and anti-social behaviour on businesses in that sector; when the Retail Crime Strategy will be published; the plans in relation to reforming defamation laws which many retailers feel is being used vexatiously against...