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Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Amendments Nos. 4, 10, and 12 to 14, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (28 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 227. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will consider transferring responsibility for drainage districts nationwide which are under local authority control, owing to the Arterial Drainage Act 1945, to the Office of Public Works in order that there is a single, streamlined and better resourced entity. [34211/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (28 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding that his Department made available to Clare County Council in 2020, 2021 and 2022 to undertake arterial drainage works required that the council is obliged to undertake owing to the Arterial Drainage Act 1945; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34210/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (28 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 631. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the recent additional special education accommodation approvals at a school (details supplied); the reason that officials from her Department have delayed the development of additional accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34476/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (28 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 903. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the new national cardiovascular disease strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34432/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 904. To ask the Minister for Health if he intends to launch a national screening programme for structural heart disease in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34433/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (28 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 905. To ask the Minister for Health if the Government intend to access funding from the European Union’s EU4Health programme which allows for European Union member states to access funding to support the roll-out of screening programmes for non-communicable diseases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34434/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (28 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 922. To ask the Minister for Health when the provision of dialectical behavioural therapy will be reinstated by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34495/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has received and is close to making a determination on an exceptional review application made by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34704/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Overseas Study Placements (29 Jun 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions that are being made for leaving certificate students who have been offered places in the United Kingdom and overseas institutions provided they meet the required school results, given the 2 September 2022 results date (details supplied). [34689/22]

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome this legislation and thank the Minister and Minister of State for progressing it so far. It is very positive legislation. I spent 16 years in the classroom. This Bill is good as it proposes to truncate the section 37A process and ensure that schools are fully adhering to the requirement to take in children with special needs. The EPSEN Act did a massively positive thing more...

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...