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Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 790. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children at early intervention stage who started in a primary school ASD class in the Mid-West in September 2025; if this number can be classified by each of the Mid-West Children's Disability Network Teams (CDNT) or area; the number of the children in each CDNT or area who require speech and language support; the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Health Services Staff (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 791. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1857 of 8 September 2025, if she will clarify information provided (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51845/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 927. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the omission of mandatory personal therapy from CORU's training requirements; if she is satisfied that the omission of this training requirement will not be detrimental to the care provided to CORU's clients; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52003/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 179. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will make changes to the passport application system so that apostrophes in surnames along with fadas for Irish names can be recognised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51010/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 264. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review a request made by a school (details supplied) to have an additional SNA approved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50958/25]

Use of Vapes and Nicotine Products by Young People and Adolescents: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: This is a very important debate. Like other speakers, it needs to be acknowledged on the record of the Dáil that it was Fianna Fáil in government that brought in the world's first ever national ban on smoking in the workplace. It was ahead of its time and many other countries have followed suit since. This debate is very timely. I wrote to the Department of Health recently....

Auto-Enrolment: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State for taking this debate. The auto-enrolment scheme is very important. It will mean that Ireland will not longer be a laggard in the European Union. As Deputy Ó Cearúil said, many other countries have brought this in, some as far back as a decade ago. We are catching up. The introduction of this in the new year will see hundreds of thousands of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Ministers for being before our committee this evening. I have three points to put. Hopefully, we can deal with each point in a minute and get some responses. There are issues in need of urgent addressing in the upcoming budget. First, on the post office network, most post offices are tied into a contract with the GPO that expired in July. The contractual arrangements going...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. The next issue is another outlying issue. We are hearing that there is going to be a lift of the Dublin airport cap at some point. With that come other pressures on the other airports of Ireland. A particular concern is that the regional airports programme, with which the Minister will be familiar from his previous Ministry, has not yet been resolved. We do not know...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: The final issue is school capitation money. This is the money that keeps on the lights, pays the bills and ensures our children can go to and enjoy school each day. It has not increased over the years of inflation. We are now getting to the point where schools are coming to my constituency office, worried they are going to default on bills. It is a big ask in the budget. I ask that...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: On a point of order, Chairman, I am a full member of this committee and usually full members take precedent over substitutes. We let Deputy Doherty have his go and he has now had about four minutes more than everyone else. It is a bit disingenuous as well, because five of those votes that we had to go to the Chamber for were triggered by the Deputy's party. Some of them were voted verbally...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: To finish my point of order, Chair.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: If I may finish.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: It is a political shame. It is not defamatory.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: We have all been appointed as full members of this committee now for four and a half months. The budgetary work began four and a half months ago in this committee at which all members, full members and substitutes could have come at all times. It is misrepresentative to say it has just happened across an hour and a half or two hours here.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Months of work have gone in.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Indeed, the budgetary process, as every member here knows even if the public might not know, began sometime after Easter. A huge amount of work has gone in from officials and Ministers.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget 2026 Engagement (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Recruitment and Retention of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome everyone here this afternoon including those watching the livestream at home. We have no apologies received in advance of today's meeting. I ask anyone attending remotely to mute their device when not contributing so that the meeting does not pick up any background noise or feedback. I also remind those in attendance to make sure their mobile phones are on silent mode or switched...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Recruitment and Retention of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I am sorry to interrupt Mr. Pike. What he is saying is very important; however, we are conscious of time and the flow of the meeting. We have a facility whereby the remainder of Mr. Pike's speech can be read into the official record and remain there forever. It has been circulated to members, who have already read it. If Mr. Pike does not mind, we might go to Ms Cockerill and in...