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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (2 Feb 2023)
Cathal Crowe: 407. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a unit within his Department or the Health Service Executive that ensures that recommendations set out in external reports into incidents in public hospitals are acted upon; if he will provide details of the level of oversight this unit has; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5434/23]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (2 Feb 2023)
Cathal Crowe: 408. To ask the Minister for Health the number of incident reports that have been undertaken at University Hospital Limerick; the number of recommendations that have been made arising from these reports; the status of these recommendations; if he will provide an overview of the main changes that have taken place in terms patient care arising from reports; and the recommendations across the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Cathal Crowe: I thank the witnesses for attending. Like Deputy Ó Murchú, Wednesdays are a bit crazy for me, juggling all the meetings here in Leinster House. I was following the meeting in my office and have read the opening statements. I thank the witnesses for providing them. To digress briefly, National Broadband Ireland, NBI, regularly appears before the committee. It does a really smart...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Cathal Crowe: I apologise for interrupting. Do the garages have a separate portal?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Cathal Crowe: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Cathal Crowe: When I met Mr. Waide a few weeks ago, we explored the issue of technicians starting to fulfil certain roles at test centres rather than mechanics doing so. There are certain tasks, such as checking indicator lights and so on, that do not require a mechanic. As such, the skilled labour can be concentrated at the middle of the test line, with technicians at both end points. I ask Mr. Walsh...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Cathal Crowe: My apologies.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Cathal Crowe: I thank Mr. Synnott. He has explained it well. The committee needs to allow him the space to work through that with the staff. The NCT centre in Shannon never materialised. It is a shell of a building. I have been to see it. It looks like every other NCT building I have seen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Cathal Crowe: It looks like every other NCT building I have seen but the contract was not taken up. It is non-existent. Is there a plan B for Shannon, County Clare, or for Kilrush? It is a big county and there is a backlog in testing there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Cathal Crowe: Are there plans for a second site in the county, in Kilrush?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Cathal Crowe: I thank Mr. Synnott. However, the matter needs to be kept under review. I ask that there be in-house consideration of it. I have two more questions. Mr. Waide might answer them. Regarding the driving test backlog, I will be parochial and speak about County Clare. We have been given the national figures. Based on the current testing rate, which is 4,000 a month, how long will it take...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Cathal Crowe: That is right.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Cathal Crowe: I thank the witnesses. This has knock-on effects. I acknowledge that there is a huge backlog, but I have seen scenarios where there are difficulties arising for people who have secured jobs. I know of one individual who passed all his aptitude and medical tests for the Army but could not take up the cadetship because there was a requirement that he needed to have a driving licence. This...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Cathal Crowe: There needs to be an ability to triage applicants. A young nursing graduate going to work in a local hospital must be prioritised. We need some element of triage in processing the backlog whereby people are identified as priority applicants and put at the top of the list. That approach must be central to the process.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays Affecting Car Tests and Driver Tests: Discussion (1 Feb 2023)
Cathal Crowe: I thank the witnesses.
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (8 Feb 2023)
Cathal Crowe: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [5873/23]
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Cathal Crowe: I was following the meeting from the office and I have read the Minister's opening statement. At the outset, it is very obvious on the ground that a considerable amount of building work is going on. Projects that were stuck in the doldrums are starting to see the light of day. One project I pass quite often in County Clare is the amalgamated schools project in Ennistymon, which was ten or...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Cathal Crowe: Over the years, when schools were required to lead an initiative, relationships and sexuality education, RSE, being one, decisions would have been taken to get a cohort of teachers through a body of in-service and train them up. I am RSE trained and I did science, technology, engineering and mathematics, STEM, training at another time. When the Department rightly sees a considerable...
- Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 26 - Education (Revised) (8 Feb 2023) Cathal Crowe: I am not sure whether I have used all my time.