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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to ask the Minister about Shannon Airport. Its management team has made an application to Government under the Brexit adjustment fund to try to secure European hub connectivity, something that is all the more important since Brexit. I understand it is targeting airports like Paris Charles de Gaulle, Frankfurt and Schiphol in Amsterdam. I understand the matter is before the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (15 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 3. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the residents (details supplied) of a property development will receive their €200 emergency benefit scheme payments. [31345/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (15 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider amending the qualifying terms, including the increment criteria, for primary school teachers applying for supplementary panel rights so as to reflect the fact that schools were closed for considerable periods during the Covid-19 pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31352/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the witnesses. Last night, after leaving the Dáil, I took a train home and ended up having to go to the accident and emergency unit of University Hospital Limerick with a family member. I will talk about some of my experiences. The emergency department was extremely busy and there were some trolleys in corridors. The place was not as chaotic as on other days but it was a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I left the accident and emergency unit of UHL around 1 o'clock this morning. I am hugely grateful to the staff who are under savage pressure and are very good at their job. I say that with huge sincerity. I am grateful I have not experienced other accident and emergency departments. It is by virtue of where I live that I have not been to other emergency departments. It is struck me last...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Yes, but the HSE has advised the Government and advised on where the location should be. There is an expert committee that has advised the Government that there is a need for three, and that they should be in Dublin, Cork and Galway. That is the nub of what I am asking. Given all the pressures UHL and the surrounding counties are under, who has decided that it does not merit an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Surely there is somebody here who can raise his or her hand and say he or she is the person who has decided on an expert basis that we do not need it? Who can tell us this? Can Mr. Watt tell us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: But who advised? The HSE is bringing memoranda to the Government, and I want to know who gave the expert advice here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Was Mr. Watt's desk the last desk that the advisory memorandum left before it went to the Government?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Both Mr. Watt and I know that the Government acts on recommendations from the witnesses. If an expert report says something, that is generally what the Government adopts. There generally is no push back. Can the witnesses please furnish that memorandum in its entirety or redacted? The mid-west and we as its elected representatives need to know what is the logic and what metric has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Are we the outliers of Europe in that regard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Mr. Reid. I will conclude by asking the Chairman, the clerk and the team if we can schedule a full session on this issue of gathering information and storing it and sharing it, because it is essential. We can only have an integrated health system when the information is integrated too. Thank you, Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: NCT knows more about Mr. O'Connor's car and my car and their histories than is known about Mr. O'Connor's and my health histories. Is that not damning in itself?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome Ms Byrne and Mr. Watt. I will start with the positives and then I might move to some constructive criticism. I thank them for everything they did during Covid. An Post was everywhere when much of society was not circulating. It was brilliant. I only found out the other day that PPE was being brought to home carers. An Post had a partnership with Home Care Ireland that involved...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: At what point will the network be pared back to an extent whereby An Post is in a financially healthy state to take off and generate more revenue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The transformation of which Ms Byrne speaks is fully intertwined with the dismantling of the S52 contract. Some people are still on that contract. Approximately one third of postmasters are on the old S52 contract. If I have my figures correct, approximately two thirds have moved onto the new contract. That new contract is largely unsustainable for the small rural post office. There was...