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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: A major problem at UHL is that in the summer of 2020, the chief executive and her management team upped sticks. They moved up the road approximately 2 km to a lovely office block far removed from the hospital campus. They have no day-to-day oversight. They do not walk the corridors. They are in an office unit remote from the hospital campus. Is that right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: They probably came down in a taxi or a car on that day to meet Mr. Mulvany.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: With respect, they are not on site. We do not expect management to be involved in every clinical decision. We are not that naive but it certainly gives many members of staff confidence to have the chief executive and all the clinical management team walking corridors at certain times of day. It gives huge confidence to patients, the public and staff but that is not the case. It is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: As of today, over the past three years, 972 fully trained Irish doctors - our best and our brightest - have left these shores and been granted visas to work in Australia. We talk about beds, trolleys, building capacity and new hospital blocks but what I heard repeatedly from staff over the Christmas period is that the physical environment in which care is provided is one issue. It is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Would the HSE be open to using hotels, commercial premises, across the road from hospitals to build bed capacity and provide accommodation that will take a long time to build, in the manner the Reeves centre in Tallaght does?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: For patients.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE (17 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Finally, is there any good news on the Kaftrio drug for these 35 children?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Could your office, a Leas-Ceann Comhairle, facilitate the Members who are on the list in the round next week instead of using the lottery system?

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to raise a few issues. The first is the wind energy guidelines, which are grossly outdated given they are 15 years old. We have been promised time and time again that a new iteration of them is on the way. On the eve of the last general election, I think in December 2019, a draft version of the wind energy guidelines made its way into the Dáil and was debated. Along came the...

Oil Emergency Contingency and Transfer of Renewable Transport Fuels Functions Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I am glad to support the Bill. The merits of the Bill speak for themselves and it should be roundly supported in the House. I want to make a number of points. A new strategy paper is to be published later this month on offshore wind. I hear there will be segregation between anchored east coast offshore wind turbines versus their floating counterparts off the Atlantic coastline. This is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome everyone from the DAA. I have been following much of the debate from my office, but I have also been in the Chamber. I apologise if I touch on questions that my have been asked or asked in a different way. I congratulate Mr. Jacobs and wish him the best of luck in his new role. His predecessor – and this is not personal about him, this is DAA inc. – has had much...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: We visited a number of airports in the Netherlands, as I am sure other members have told Mr. Jacobs. We were very impressed by Rotterdam airport in particular, where they have embraced the whole realm of sustainability. Along the entire runway there was a network of solar panels with anti-glare effect, which worked perfectly with landing and taking off aircraft. They also had a number of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I will ask about Alliance Aviation, which is an important customer of DAA. It brings a lot of private passengers and private aviation through the airport. I will put a scenario to the representatives. My understanding is that since July of last year, non-commercial passenger traffic, including Alliance Aviation, is directed to the west apron when it lands at Dublin Airport. Passengers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I note the new tunnel the DAA is planning would cost €200 million. It is a big outlay of money. Of course, this alone would not solve the problem but if companies, such as the one I mentioned, are lining up with offers to develop their own facilities from their own finances, would that not be part of a solution the DAA should entertain at this time? Rather than having people drive a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I will ask about wage levels. Many of my colleagues have already asked about staffing and getting people through security. Where is the DAA at when it comes to paying these people? Will the representatives give us an indication as to how the salaries of the lower paid have improved or remained static, if that is the case since the onset of the Covid pandemic?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Is it enough? Is that pay deal under any further reviews at present?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: When members of this committee went to Holland - we often feel like an aviation committee - to examine-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: When we went to Holland, we examined its national aviation policy. One of the things we saw was that it caps the number of aeroplanes that come in and out of Schiphol. That enthused us because Dublin enjoys a position of dominance. Cork, Shannon, which is in my constituency, and Knock airports then grovel to get that other space. Only 9% or so of the market is left for those airports to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Heritage Sites (19 Jan 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a comprehensive update on the transfer of Shannon Heritage-run sites in County Clare from the patronage of the Shannon Airport Group to Clare County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2055/23]