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Dental Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jul 2025)

Seán Crowe: I agree with other speakers in that successive Governments have left dental services for public patients to collapse in the State. The dental services scheme for medical card holders has been in a state of chaos for years. In the term of the previous Dáil, the then Minister, Stephen Donnelly, assured us at a meeting of the health committee that a breakthrough on dentists was imminent...

Post-European Council: Statements (9 Jul 2025)

Seán Crowe: Europe is becoming obsessed with spending on greater security and militarisation. We are so wrapped up in creating a fortress Europe that we are neglecting the fundamental concerns of conflict prevention and resolution. Surely it would be better to prevent a conflict in the first place than build walls and manufacture weapons of war. I spoke at the OSCE annual parliamentary assembly last...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Jul 2025)

Seán Crowe: There is a little boy called Rowan in my constituency. He is eight years of age and has still not been able to have his first day at school. He has been diagnosed with ASD and global development delay and, like many others, he has been let down. His mother is struggling to home-school him, with no support from anyone. Parents of autistic children in some cases apply to 20 or 30 schools...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Findings of the 2025 European Movement Ireland EU Poll: European Movement Ireland (9 Jul 2025)

Seán Crowe: The witnesses are very welcome. It is about timing and questions; how they are framed and so on. I was fascinated by the graph at the start of the poll, which, through the years, indicated whether people thought Ireland should remain a member of the EU. What happened in 2019 that it was so high at 93%? This is in the context of 2020 and 2021, which were the Covid years. Did that have an...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Findings of the 2025 European Movement Ireland EU Poll: European Movement Ireland (9 Jul 2025)

Seán Crowe: On the point made about the responses from women being "Do not know", it is very strange that this information is coming out in the survey. Does this signal a lack of confidence? I have never heard this in relation to surveys or polls previously. Is something happening that we are not aware of on that? With regard to EU-US, I am a bit surprised that this would be a big huge issue but I...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Humanitarian Access (8 Jul 2025)

Seán Crowe: My message is that we must use every lever at our disposal. I know Ireland is an outlier in relation to the occupied territories Bill, for example, but I respectfully believe that we must include services. Otherwise, it is tokenistic and only goes to soothe our own conscience. We need to turn off the tap of trade from the occupied territories and finally sanction Israel and its ministers...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Humanitarian Access (8 Jul 2025)

Seán Crowe: It is 11.45 p.m. now and it is right and proper that we are discussing the situation in Gaza. With our long-standing commitment to human rights and neutrality in global conflicts, Ireland is well positioned to play a constructive role in addressing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. We must now use whatever leverage we have in a diplomatic capacity on the international stage. We have a...

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Seán Crowe: Whether it is student fees or protection for student renters, the Government continues to sow uncertainty and punish young people. We should be breaking down barriers to higher education and apprenticeships, not erecting them. Worse still, while this Government is obsessed with leaks to the media and innuendo, as we heard earlier, young people and their families have no idea where they...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Crowe: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe chuig an gcruinniú. I will start with the sustainable goals. Some of the conspiracy theories on social media give them a bad press. Why would anybody be against the likes of reducing poverty and inequality, improving education and health, and inspiring economic growth? It seems so illogical, yet there is a growing conspiracy theory...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Crowe: I started off talking earlier on about this area of biomass and who would be against it and the new energy that will come from it but the people I was talking to were saying that there is a lack of regulation. Even more worrying is there is a lack of planning in this regard. In relation to where these go, it is really up to the local planning authority. It is similar with, say, data...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Crowe: Okay, apologies.

Committee on European Union Affairs: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Crowe: We have not even talked about the new policy on the use of gas, etc.

Committee on European Union Affairs: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Crowe: A finite resource.

Committee on European Union Affairs: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Crowe: The shared island unit.

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Seán Crowe: The ability of Irish citizens, regardless of where they reside, to vote in presidential elections is an issue I have been working towards for quite some time. Gerry Adams and I cosponsored a Bill to that effect more than ten years ago. Tá bród orm go bhfuil mé fós ag leanúint leis an bhfeachtas. That Bill, the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution...

Committee on Defence and National Security: Recent Air Corps Developments: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Seán Crowe: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe chuig an gcruinniú seo. I have a couple of questions. I am not sure if they are security-sensitive. The big thing is the air traffic controllers. Everyone is talking about it. What is the current state of play with that? The witnesses might be more comfortable giving us a written reply on it but how are we fixed regarding the air traffic...

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jun 2025)

Seán Crowe: I am delighted to be one of the Bill's cosponsors with my colleagues, Deputies O'Rourke and Cullinane. I am disappointed that the Government is putting this on hold for 12 months. I thank Dr. James Larkin, who is a senior postdoctoral fellow at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, RSCI, for his research and assistance in the preparation of the Bill. When this issue first arose, most...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2025)

Seán Crowe: I wish to ask about Duchenne muscular dystrophy. We recently had young people in the AV room who talked about the challenges they faced. It is a wasting disease. There is a drug but it is not available here yet. It is available in the North. Would the Government look at early access as a shared island? The problem in the North is that it does not have the money to administer the scheme....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 Jun 2025)

Seán Crowe: 284. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the lack of basic and appropriate facilities in a school (details supplied) to meet the needs of students with additional and profound needs; the steps she will take to address these ongoing concerns; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33304/25]