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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I apologise to the Ministers for not being here earlier as I was at another committee meeting but I was following this meeting online. I wish to put several questions and I will put the first to the Minister, Deputy Donnelly. In Clare and the wider mid-west, encompassing Limerick, we have Shannon Doc, an out-of-hours GP service operating out of five centres. It is a vital service and all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: Thank you, Minister. I want to fit in another question. Some members of the volunteer support group, SOUND, for people who have developed narcolepsy and cataplexy, which they claim occurred as a result of being given the Pandemrix vaccine some years ago, are following these proceedings. The Minister's Department is quite familiar with the issue, and his predecessors, including the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: Sure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19 and Review of Budget 2021: Minister for Health (4 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I will certainly do that and thank the Minister. My final question is for the Minister of State, Deputy Butler. As a former school teacher up to February, I believe this suggestion would be really worthwhile. We do not want to overburden teachers and they are burdened at the moment. It is quite difficult for them. It would be no harm between now and Christmas for each teacher in each...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I was in the committee meeting earlier and I had to go to the Joint Committee on Health, but I have been following most of the proceedings here. It was devastating for everyone in the mid-west and the west to hear just a week ago that Aer Lingus and Ryanair were scaling back and pulling some of their winter flights from Shannon and in the case of Aer Lingus, not resuming flights there until...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I feel it is rather late coming together and airlines have not been able to fully plan a schedule in advance, which has certainly hampered Shannon. One of the recommendations of the aviation task force was to look at the financing of Shannon Airport. It is in dire straits and is losing a hell of a lot of money every week. There is a gross imbalance in aviation with 155,000 passengers...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: When will the Government bring forward these proposals for Shannon Airport?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I want to ask the Minister whether he is willing to look at models that have been tried in Finland and the Netherlands to address the imbalance of airports based in capital cities versus regional airports.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2020.
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (4 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to pose some questions on broadband. The Minister is correct to say the need for high-quality Internet has never been greater with many people now working from home, and third-level students having to study from home as well. As I see it, there are a number of problems. First, there is a problem with physically running cables underground or carrying them overground as the case may...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2020.
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (4 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: If we could move beyond the quarterly generation of postcodes to an automatic system of generation, that would be more efficient.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2020.
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (4 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I would also like to get county-level, localised detail rather than amber coloured maps. People want to know when it is coming to their village or when it is going beyond the crossroads up to their road. That is the level of detail we would love to see. We know it is happening but we only know it is happening when we pass an installation crew going down a road in trucks. There is no...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2020.
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (4 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: It is, but it lacks all detail. That is replicated right through County Clare. It is coming, but when is it coming? If there were approximate timeframes that would help to a great extent. People are planning futures around this and how they work from home. A lot of people are potentially facing perhaps another 12 or 18 months of working from home but they do not know if it is sustainable.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2020.
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (4 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: The Minister is certain that Eircodes can be generated overnight or in a matter of weeks.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2020.
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (4 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: In this case, the husband and wife have been asked by their employers to work from home. They are checking in daily if an Eircode has been generated but it has not. It appears that an IT or administrative conundrum is denying them a service that is available at their front gate but needs to be cabled into their living room. It is a simple fix, I believe.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2020.
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised) (4 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: The Minister may or may not know Tom O'Callaghan, a constituent of mine from County Clare who leads an organisation called the Independent Postmasters Group. Over the years, he has come to the Oireachtas a number of times to present and outline the challenges faced by the post office sector, particularly rural post offices facing closure. He and others have come forward with a range of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 219. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a diagnostic scan at the end of October 2020 or the latest date available; the number waiting less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months for each hospital group in tabular form. [34257/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (5 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 220. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a psychology appointment in primary care at the end of October 2020 or the latest date available; the number waiting less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months for each local health office area in tabular form. [34258/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Audiology Services (5 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 221. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for an audiology appointment in primary care at the end of October 2020 or the latest date available; the number waiting less than four, four to12 and more than 12 months for each local health office area in tabular form. [34259/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ophthalmology Services (5 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 222. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for an ophthalmology appointment in primary care at the end of October 2020 or the latest date available; the numbers waiting less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months for each local health office area in tabular form. [34260/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (5 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 223. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 18 years of age waiting for a dietetic appointment in primary care at the end of October 2020 or the latest date available; and within that the numbers waiting less than four, four to 12 and more than 12 months for each local health office in tabular form. [34261/20]