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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (19 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 401. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his officials will be carrying out investigations to determine if the wild goat herd in the Burren, County Clare is carrying tuberculosis, in view of the risk this poses to the herds of local farmers. [25552/22]

Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I think it is relevant.

Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: What Commissioner Harris has brought to An Garda Síochána is a different style of policing. He came from the PSNI which has a more robust form of policing: it is not policing by consent that we have had here for the past century. When the PSNI drives through a community, their vehicles are armoured and protected, which is not the case with An Garda Síochána, who tonight...

Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021 is very positive legislation and I fully support it. Essentially, the Bill is aimed at decreasing the length of time it takes for disposing of a Garda compensation claim from initial application to award by providing for clear time limits in respect of each stage of the process. The new process is also aimed at ensuring that avenues for...

Just Transition: Statements (18 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I ask the Acting Chairman to help me with the timing-----

Just Transition: Statements (18 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: -----and let me know when the four minutes are up.

Just Transition: Statements (18 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I am sure Deputy Cowen will tell me to sit down shortly. We are here to talk about just transition and the word "just" needs to be focused on. It means fair and equal and just transition is good but it is not geographically fair or equal. If you look at a county like Clare, which I represent, over a number of years we have had an incremental winding down of operations at Moneypoint and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates (18 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 84. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will engage with local authorities with a view to reducing and capping the amount of commercial rates payable by not-for-profit and voluntary organisations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25260/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (18 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 194. To ask the Minister for Health if he will revise the rules in relation to access to dental treatment for medical card holders in order that they can have dental cleaning carried out on an annual basis. [25065/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank all our guests from the HSE. It is quite a lengthy plan so I have read the parts relevant to my own region. I thank the HSE for the opening statements. I followed most of the meeting from my office because I am juggling a few other meetings, as are most Teachtaí Dála. My questions are quite region-specific. This Saturday after lunch there will be another large protest...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: When accident and emergency services closed in Ennis General Hospital the whole argument at the time, which I did not buy into, was we would have centres of excellence in each region and people would travel beyond their home base for certain aspects of healthcare. The problem has largely been consultant capacity. It certainly has been in the mid-west, though not to the same extent here in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I get that and I thank Dr. Henry. However, the point is every single week UHL is breaking all numbers for trolleys. It is debated in the Dáil Chamber every week yet the outcome we have come back to again is another inquiry where we will look into what has gone wrong. I am being told by staff within the hospital that when the top brass come down from Dublin or there is a ministerial...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I ask Mr. Reid to deal with the elective hospitals because that is a huge bugbear in the mid-west.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Should a fourth be added to it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I just think it is so wrong. I refer to the major urban centres of Dublin, Cork and Limerick. Every single hospital grouping has its own pressures and we get that but what the HSE is doing is building additional capacity in the groupings that already fare better than the UHL hospital group. By not progressing an elective-only hospital in the Limerick, Clare and mid-west region, it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2022: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: That is positive. I will conclude on those two specific issues, Inisgile at Parteen, County Clare, and Shannon Doc. We are floundering on some of these issues without any great guidance. If someone can respond in the coming days with an update on those two matters, I would be grateful. Ms O'Neill's comments today give me some hope.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome Mr. Martin, Mr. O'Hara and Mr. McEntee to the committee. I was following the proceedings from my office and I have read the written statement they provided. I will get to the finances in a moment because that is why they are here. It is what will save the network. First, I wish to touch on the human aspects of this matter. I have homed in on two things Mr. O'Hara's opening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: No, I referenced that as an example. We have heard from other groups and people come before the Houses of the Oireachtas and they explain how they are pressurised. I used the example of our armed forces and members of the Defence Forces sleeping in cars, which they referenced. In this very room just a few months ago we had representatives of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: It is the very point I am trying to get to. We are supportive of the delegation's position, which Mr. O'Hara explained really well in his opening statement. We are supportive of this financial model and it must be actioned. The postmasters need certainty on this in the next two to three weeks. We are fast approaching June and the uncertainty that brings for all of the witnesses'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Future of An Post Network: Discussion (18 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The delegation will come before the committee again and I would love to hear an analysis of that. The union may not have a position currently and feel it is beyond its realm but in County Clare that 15 km rule can be damning. Deputy Matthews is beside me and if he and I were postmasters and I decided to retire, it would make his position stronger. In my local village the service for that...