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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: The three delegates have had very successful careers. Do they believe an ingredient in being successful or a manager or leader is having a presence on the ground, walking the corridors and having oversight of the situation? Do they agree with that generally?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I will return to that point. Does Mr. Mulvany think that to lead an organisation and to have oversight, it is necessary to have boots on the ground?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: A major problem at UHL is that in the summer of 2020, the chief executive and her management team upped sticks. They moved up the road approximately 2 km to a lovely office block far removed from the hospital campus. They have no day-to-day oversight. They do not walk the corridors. They are in an office unit remote from the hospital campus. Is that right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: They probably came down in a taxi or a car on that day to meet Mr. Mulvany.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: With respect, they are not on site. We do not expect management to be involved in every clinical decision. We are not that naive but it certainly gives many members of staff confidence to have the chief executive and all the clinical management team walking corridors at certain times of day. It gives huge confidence to patients, the public and staff but that is not the case. It is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: As of today, over the past three years, 972 fully trained Irish doctors - our best and our brightest - have left these shores and been granted visas to work in Australia. We talk about beds, trolleys, building capacity and new hospital blocks but what I heard repeatedly from staff over the Christmas period is that the physical environment in which care is provided is one issue. It is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Would the HSE be open to using hotels, commercial premises, across the road from hospitals to build bed capacity and provide accommodation that will take a long time to build, in the manner the Reeves centre in Tallaght does?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: For patients.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Finally, is there any good news on the Kaftrio drug for these 35 children?

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (15 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 33. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way that her Department will support the development of the Inis Cealtra (Holy Island) site in Mountshannon, County Clare as a public amenity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62333/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Strategies (15 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 40. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an overview of her Department’s strategy to reverse population decline in rural areas. [62332/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (15 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 76. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an overview of locations in which there are publicly-owned air-quality monitoring devices in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62341/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (15 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 102. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has a strategy on ammonia fuel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62340/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (15 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 266. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will clarify a number of points (details supplied) on the ratification on the Optional Protocol of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62970/22]

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: There is nothing wrong with crows.

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome this legislation, but the discussion has been quite broad. I, too, will speak about the planning system more generally. I have to confess, at the outset, that I am one of the 30,000 or so people with an application before An Bord Pleanála at the moment. We are trying to build a family home. I will say no more about that, but I should declare it on the record of the...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I apologise for naming the person I just named, but I will continue.

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The objector to whom I referred is based 190 km from Clonlara, County Clare, where crucial flood defences are needed. He is 170 km from the Killaloe Bridge crossing and 280 km from Doonbeg coastal defences, which are key, important, crucial and essential public infrastructure projects. That an objector on the opposite side of Ireland can take these projects through the ringer and hold them...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Something that happens in Dublin has no relevance to my life. I would not dream in a month of Sundays of objecting to anything in Dublin. I cannot fathom why someone in Dublin would object to a key project in County Clare. The wind energy guidelines have been with the Department for a long time, since December 2019. I believe they are going to the Minister for the Environment, Climate...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Just Transition (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 36. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the actions that he has taken to support the Just Transition process since 27 June 2020. [62782/22]