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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Chair for the latitude and the representatives for all the answers. We all want electric vehicles on the roads, but please do not let that be the barrier to the town having a service.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: There should be a similar approach in Ennis. It is a sensible one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome our guests this morning. I apologise. There are four committee rooms down here. I was at the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications and so this is a nice break away from talking about airports. I have read the briefing notes. Unfortunately, I was not following most of the debate here. The witnesses mentioned rural doctors a few times. Last month the Clare Public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Dr. Quinlan for his perspective. Do the out-of-hours pooled resources such as ShannonDoc, need further bolstering to support a GP, particularly in a largely rural county?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Dr. Quinlan suggested that there should be encouragement of graduates to remain for two years. Would he go as far as to say that it should be compulsory?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Those in the field of veterinary medicine are able to quantify how many young Irish people go overseas to train as veterinary surgeons. How many Irish people go overseas to train to be medical doctors?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Presumably, most of those do not return to practise here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: How many Ukrainian doctors have registered to practise here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Would there be merit to them operating on a different contract as a roving, travelling GP to the Ukrainian community? In County Clare, there are 3,700 Ukrainians but very few of them have been able to get onto the local practice lists which are just full. There is probably some logic to having someone with their language and skill set travelling to different accommodation centres. This is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: There are two Ukrainian GPs in county Clare and a similar number of dentists. We have an obstetrician. They are all eager to practise but are finding it very convoluted to get to practise. As I said at the start of my contribution, Clare is 33% below required GP coverage when compared with other counties. It would make an enormous difference to have them operating in the community. Even...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The ICGP would back them, though, would it not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: This deserves more exploration. I just happen to have met people in veterinary sciences recently. If you have a primary or master's degree in agricultural science, you can, through an accelerated pathway, become a veterinary surgeon. It is a whole different realm of healthcare but, in the context of capacity building, there are many superb nurses and doctors, and the chasm or gap between...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Admittedly, I say that through the eyes of a patient. I am a teacher by profession. Some might ask what is the difference between a teacher and a speech and language therapist. I come with that baggage but it is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: No problem. I thank the witnesses for everything they do. In particular, their comments on rural doctors and how to encourage them are very welcome. Those comments need to be digested more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: That is definitely massively off-putting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the representatives of Aer Lingus. I have a number of questions which I will put briefly. If the witnesses are equally brief in answering them, we might get through an awful lot. Now that the fog of Covid has pretty much lifted, I would like to ask how much money Aer Lingus received from the Government during the pandemic.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: That was a period of mixed fortunes. We were very grateful for Aer Lingus bringing PPE and medical supplies into Ireland. It was a period of mixed fortunes because some of the staff were shed. At the same time, Aer Lingus developed a new base in Manchester. How much did Aer Lingus invest in its new Manchester base around that time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Aer Lingus is a commercial entity but it received a lot of Government support during that period. I know how things work. I know there are different funding columns and budgetary columns. Perhaps this is something for the Committee of Public Accounts. Would the witnesses say that Government money was used in some way to subvent or enable the expansion of Aer Lingus operations into the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I will explain what I am getting at. I appreciate that the schemes were not unique to this sector. In the period in question, most companies mothballed, protected what they had and used the mechanisms of Government funding to protect their workforce. When things were ready to recover, they launched themselves back into normal operations. What happened in Aer Lingus-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Aer Lingus (Resumed) (14 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I would argue it is quite different. Aer Lingus mothballed and cooled down certain operations but things got a lot hotter for the airline in Manchester in that same period.