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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I echo the points made by Deputy Séamus McGrath. The EU procurement rules are rather outdated. A lot of the regulation that is stifling what this country is able to do is not domestic but comes from an EU treaty. The time has come for us to be able to procure beyond the EU 27 bloc for very large projects, such as hospitals, large road projects, rail, etc. It has repeatedly happened...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (17 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 14. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an overview of OPW drainage, flood protection and coastal erosion defence works that are planned to be undertaken in County Clare in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39855/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (17 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State for taking this question. I would like to know what plans the OPW has for drainage, flood protection and coastal erosion defences in County Clare this year.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (17 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State. There is a lot of positive stuff happening in the county. I will bring the Minister of State back a bit to the Arterial Drainage Act 1945. Neither of us was around at that time but some guru decided that different watercourses would be divvied up between the Board of Works, now the OPW, and local authorities. The River Inagh in north Clare comes under the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (17 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Before the Minister of State was appointed, his name was synonymous with communities fighting back against flooding. He has done stellar work in and out of politics on that. For many people in these areas, insurance is still impossible to get. The term "risk equalisation" is used when applying for health insurance. It means that all people of all ages pay a little bit of a premium so that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Water Services (17 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I echo what others have said here. In Ennis and Clarecastle in County Clare, even though the sewage treatment system is modern and new, it is already close to capacity. If we want to reach these housing targets, the first thing that needs to be done is to upgrade all of that network underground. The public will not see it and we might not get great praise or thanks for it, but it is...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (17 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 57. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an overview of cases before his Department for certain workers to be re-categorised as public service workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39854/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (17 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider introducing a funding stream in her Department in order that all secondary school students would be entitled to have a free Irish college experience at least once during their schooling; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39852/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an overview of steps she is taking to ensure that school secretaries and care-takers receive better pay and conditions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39851/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (17 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 432. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the breakdown of the Garda fleet in each Garda station (details supplied), in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40275/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Data (17 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 453. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total amount of farmer scheme payments made, by county basis for 2024, in tabular form (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40279/25]

Pride: Statements (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate. Fianna Fáil is very supportive of the LGBTQ+ community. Back in 1993, it was then Minister for Justice, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, who led the decriminalisation of homosexuality. It is hard to believe that at that time, it was still illegal. I was someone born in 1982 and throughout my secondary school years, the standard insult in...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I also wish to speak in support of this Bill. I will take up from where Deputy Roche left off. We all acknowledge the huge efforts of our front-line workers in every part of the country, and the Deputy is right to pay tribute to them. They work damn hard. Conditions for them all are not great. I have been in hospital myself in the past as a patient and visiting people. One would often...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: It is not just the Department of Health; it is also the Department of Transport. If we table parliamentary questions to that Department, they are forwarded to the National Transport Authority or Transport Infrastructure Ireland. A large number of agencies have been set up over many decades. The all-important stuff we try to do as TDs gets siphoned off in different directions, and it can...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Sorry, it is not on the Minister’s desk yet. I apologise. The report to the Minister is imminent and the Cabinet will have to consider it. The report is on emergency healthcare access in the mid-west region. From replies to parliamentary questions that I and others have tabled, I know that initially HIQA was supposed to report to the Minister and then to Cabinet. Now, however, she...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Taoiseach for taking this question. In the last few days of the school year, Gareth Heagney, the principal of Sixmilebridge national school in County Clare sent a letter out to parents. The school has around 400 pupils, so is quite a large school, and for the last few years it has only had three SNAs even though the children in the school have needs that far exceed that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank our witnesses for their opening statements. Apologies; I had to nip out to speak in the Dáil Chamber. I thank Deputy Roche for filling the role of Chair in my absence. We will now proceed to members' questions. There are six minutes per member. We will allow 20 or 30 seconds of additional time to wrap up but please try to allow time for responses to questions within that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: That is fine. We will come back to you in a short while. I call Deputy Dempsey.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: In one word, what is the key pinch point? Is it drivers, fleet issues or resources?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Senator. I am sure the committee would concur with that. We experience frustrations. Overall, there is an appreciation that there are many cogs in the wheel that make it happen, in particular the drivers who bring children to and from school. That is appreciated. The Senator's appreciation is recorded here today. The next speakers will be Deputy Ruth Coppinger, Senator...