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Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2020)

Seán Crowe: The former Minister, Deputy Creed, spoke in terms of this being a temporary and unavoidable setback. Most of us here would agree that it is an issue which is not going away. Whatever legislation is put forward, good or bad, is useless without resources. The industry employs 12,000 people, mostly in rural areas. It is worth €2.3 billion. It highlights the Government's lack of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (1 Oct 2020)

Seán Crowe: We will shortly go into private session to discuss housekeeping matters. It is a great honour to be appointed as Chairman to this committee. I look forward to working with all members in a genuine spirit of partnership and co-operation. I welcome all members of the committee. The Joint Committee on Health is and always has been one of the busiest committees in terms of its work programme...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Oct 2020)

Seán Crowe: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction of the new permanent school building will begin at a school (details supplied); and when she expects the project to be completed. [29331/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (13 Oct 2020)

Seán Crowe: 271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to reverse the decision to remove a teacher from a school (details supplied); if her attention has been drawn to the fact that the school is asking for the temporary retention of the teacher until June 2021; her views on whether the removal of the teacher will make it more difficult to maintain social distancing in view of the fact...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (14 Oct 2020)

Seán Crowe: We are in public session. We have not received any apologies. On the draft minutes, correspondence and draft work programme, following our private meeting this morning, are the minutes of the meeting of 7 October, the actions relating to the seven items of correspondence and the draft work programme agreed? Agreed. Do members wish to raise any other matters?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (14 Oct 2020)

Seán Crowe: We agreed that at our private meeting so that will happen.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Seán Crowe: I welcome the witnesses to our meeting. They are all presenting remotely and will provide an update on the implementation of Sláintecare. They are Ms Laura Magahy, executive director, Sláintecare, who is joined by Ms Ciara Mellett, Ms Caroline Pigott and Ms Grainne Healy, and from the HSE we have Mr. Dean Sullivan, chief strategy officer. Before we begin I must read out the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Seán Crowe: Loud and clear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Seán Crowe: This is the technical part of the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Seán Crowe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Seán Crowe: Thank you very much, Ms Magahy. I now invite Mr. Sullivan, Sláintecare's chief strategy and planning officer, to make his presentation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Seán Crowe: Thank you, Mr. Sullivan. We will now begin the first round of questions and answers, starting with Senator Kyne.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Seán Crowe: Yes, although the difficulty is that we are working in slots of ten minutes. Other questions were asked of Mr. O'Sullivan and I am not sure when he can answer them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Seán Crowe: They can come in for a minute or two but I need to look at the clock. The lesson for members is that if they ask seven questions, we will not be able to get the answers from everybody.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Seán Crowe: Who are you going to ask?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Seán Crowe: I ask the witnesses to provide a written reply to the remaining questions, as we need to move to our next block of questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Seán Crowe: I ask the Senator to ask his questions. I allowed him to contribute because he indicated he needed to leave soon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Seán Crowe: Two and a half minutes are left for the witnesses to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Seán Crowe: We are working to a two-hour timeframe. I let the Senator in because he indicated he wanted to contribute and I thought he had to leave. The witnesses have about two minutes to respond. If they cannot respond in that time, I ask them to reply to the committee and Senator Conway in written form.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare (14 Oct 2020)

Seán Crowe: I am going to call Senator Black next as I am conscious that the Fine Gael group has gone way over its allotted time. There will be time for others to speak.