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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Okay. I will explain the reason I ask. This is anecdotal. I am not a dentist and have no training or expertise in any of this. When the war in Ukraine was kicking off and we had many Ukrainians arriving in our country, I recall a Ukrainian-qualified dentist making contact with my office. She said she had identical qualifications that could have worked in Ireland but she felt that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Is the examination pathway comparable with what colleagues in general practice face? Do doctors and nurses who come into this country also face examinations? Again, anecdotally, I have heard that the steps dentists must take to become a fully practising dentist here are rather excessive and punitive. That is what I have been told. Admittedly, it was 18 months ago that I had the meeting I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I get the points that have been made, and perhaps I am being simplistic, but yesterday, in a different realm, Ireland decided what countries are safe for migration purposes, which is a broad and sweeping statement. Surely some analogy can be drawn with that. If there are other countries beyond the EEA, for example, Ukraine, where the system of education, training and practice is similar to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Do we not have an agreement with the UK yet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: On whose head it is to strike that agreement? Is it for the Minister for Health or the Dental Council to do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Reaching that agreement is of the utmost urgency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: The briefing note is excellent. I will veer away from the education end because it speaks for itself. The funding speaks for itself and I agree that it is absolutely essential. I wanted to home in on the other pathways. On 10 April, Mr. Hourihan emailed a very detailed note to me, which provided a county-by-county brief. I represent County Clare. According to the figures supplied,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: In recent weeks, the committee has undertaken a body of work on the national cancer strategy. I expect that oral cancer can bee seen or spotted first, or certainly the suspicion of its existence can be identified, by a dentist. Is screening for oral cancer and examinations by dentists, be it by self-referral or whatever else, a missing piece of the jigsaw? If that lack of screening for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: If the Chairman will allow, that whole thing of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Dr. Gallagher for her insight on that. If the Chairman will allow, we could discuss this forever but would there be any possibility that after today's meeting Mr. O'Flynn or one of the witnesses might send correspondence to the committee outlining which countries Ireland has a memorandum of understanding with and where the memorandum has been working? We do not need to say which...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (30 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 90. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures he has taken since the Government came to office to ensure family leave entitlements have been expanded, to ensure new parents have been supported and to build new entitlements to work-life balance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19136/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 98. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he intends to reform the national childcare scheme and examine ways it can support lower-income families better; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19135/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pension Provisions (30 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will reconcile the service of a group of teachers (details supplied) who spent a number of years working in the School Competition Programme, with their pensionable service with her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19012/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address a number of issues (details supplied) with regard to services for children within the education system with mental health and neurodivergent conditions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19041/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 312. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently revise the SET allocation for a school (details supplied), in light of its extenuating circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19063/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (30 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department plans to extend the vacant property refurbishment grant beyond its current remit that is, increase the level of grant available; and if the scheme will be extended beyond this year. [19410/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (30 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 688. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address a number of issues (details supplied) with regard to services for children within the health system with mental health and neurodivergent conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19042/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (30 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 691. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department will take to ensure that medical card patients can access dental appointments (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19069/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (25 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 73. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider seeking protected geographical indication status from the EU for grass-fed Irish beef and dairy products. [18373/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (25 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 103. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if, in light of extreme weather patterns in recent years and in particular the flooding of lands and high water table, he will consider providing a grant scheme to farmers to develop land drains on their boundaries. [18374/24]