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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an overview of the circumstances that allow a teacher to extend their career break beyond the five-year limit, as specified in Circular 0054/2019. [26220/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (24 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 573. To ask the Minister for Health if he, along with HSE officials, will re-engage with an organisation (details supplied) regarding the long-standing pay and career development issues that are impacting on staff recruitment and retention. [25662/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (24 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 737. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures that his Department is taking in conjunction with the relevant agencies to put adequate supports in place for the farming and livestock sector to ensure sufficient fodder supplies and prevent a fodder crisis in the coming winter months. [26468/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (25 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 240. To ask the Minister for Health the way it is proposed to alleviate pressures on University Hospital Limerick; the role Ennis General Hospital can and will play in this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26922/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fodder Crisis (26 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 122. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures that his Department is taking in conjunction with the relevant agencies to put adequate supports in place for the farming and livestock sector to ensure sufficient fodder supplies and prevent a fodder crisis in the coming winter months. [26521/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fodder Crisis (26 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: What strategies and policies has the Department put in place to avert a fodder crisis this winter?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fodder Crisis (26 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. The €55 million silage scheme he has introduced is a positive development that will put money back in the pockets of farmers. It is also good to see the establishment of the national fodder and food security committee. Year on year, the farming organisations have only been brought to the table at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a crisis...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fodder Crisis (26 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: While the national silage scheme is welcome, there is an elephant in the room in that dairy farmers have been omitted from it. They are again asking whether they will be considered for inclusion. We are heading into late May and the silage season is upon us. Dairy farmers will see their beef counterparts receiving €100 per hectare, up to a maximum of 10 ha. It is a positive...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fodder Crisis (26 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I show up every day.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fodder Crisis (26 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: It is important for me to say that.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (26 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 66. To ask the Minister for Health the way that he proposes to build additional capacity in Ennis General Hospital and the other model 2 hospitals in the mid-west region, including Nenagh and St. John’s, to alleviate pressure on University Hospital Limerick. [26520/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (26 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 67. To ask the Minister for Health if he will push for an elective hospital in the mid-west to alleviate pressure on University Hospital Limerick. [26519/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Funding (26 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 176. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will ensure that agricultural shows which are not a member of an association (details supplied) are treated equally in terms of access to grants and funding. [26522/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 342. To ask the Minister for Health if he will liaise with the HSE to provide a more extensive out-of-hours general practitioner service for Shannon, County Clare given the health needs of the population of the town and surrounding catchment area. [25414/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (26 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 343. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider a greater role for Ennis General Hospital, to meet the health needs of persons in the mid-west given the overcrowding and high trolley numbers at University Hospital Limerick. [25415/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Is this the first or second session?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I will come in now if that is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Yes. I apologise. We all have overlapping roles and I am on the health committee, which is dealing with the proposal on the maternity hospital today. I have not been in this room at all today and I apologise for that. I have read the opening statements. Much of the genesis of this body of work relates to the Doolin Coast Guard base in my county and concerns we had about how it was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: When the base was reconstituted, some members came back and others did not. Politically, we stood back from the process, which had to be independent and have integrity. The process has concluded and the people who were not readmitted are wondering if there is any recourse for them to re-enter the Irish Coast Guard at any level or on any base, preferably the local one at Doolin. Does Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: That is not my understanding but we can look into it further. I reiterate that we stood back from a process and took our hands off it entirely. This committee has been very involved with the Irish Coast Guard and meeting groups but we felt that to reconstitute any station, we really needed to take political hands off it and leave this to independent people. That has happened but the...