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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I ask that it be a priority because as Mr. Gloster knows well, across many metrics CHO 3 is the poor relation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: It is very much needed. Mr. Gloster mentioned that 167,000 people, or thereabouts, are currently working in healthcare. Are there breakdowns available of how many of them are agency staff or staff who have come from non-EEA countries on a visa? As I have mentioned many times to the HSE and to the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, yet again in September we will have graduation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I want to squeeze in one last question. I thank Ms Hoey for her comprehensive answer. There is quite a detailed section in the report on primary care centres. There is a proposed primary care centre in CHO 3 at Sixmilebridge in County Clare about which I am concerned. It has been held up for a long time. Additionally, I have contacted the Department in the past, as has Councillor David...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: It is still years away, it would seem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Mr. Gloster for that. The gap in Newmarket-on-Fergus could be very easily plugged if the HSE purchased or took out a long lease on a number of vacant buildings in the village. There is a huge gap there. The HSE's estates and property team has looked at it but it is very much needed. I ask that fresh eyes are put on the situation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: That is great, thanks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I second that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the Minister and his officials and thank them for their continuous engagement with the committee. I want to go through a few points. One point I have repeatedly made at the committee is that in the months of July and August, when the schools are closed, people can get around any town or city in Ireland with relative ease. This morning, I got the 7.40 a.m. train and as there is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I am sorry for interjecting but the clock is always against us. I thank the Minister for his detailed reply. Some of the positive gains we have made over the past three years are now at risk of being eroded. I am speaking of the Local Link service. Many of the new routes that have been licensed by the National Transport Authority, NTA, are linked to locations in rural Ireland where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I fear the situation will be replicated. I ask the Minister to raise this at Cabinet. Due to what we have gained in respect of those services, we should decouple them from the initial criteria and just say it is merited to have a bus in that community - it could be anywhere in Ireland - and retain that service. I have two final questions. I will go through them quickly. Point 29 of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (9 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 9. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the work of the shared island initiative. [27952/24]

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State for being here for this debate. I will not be using my full speaking time, but there are a few key points I would like to make. Strategic negotiations are getting under way, and I congratulate my colleague Deputy Michael McGrath, who is the Irish nominee for European Commissioner. A certain amount of negotiation will get under way on what role he will fill...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Scoileanna Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (11 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider establishing an independent Gaelcholáiste in Ennis, County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29938/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Scoileanna Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (11 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I am seeking the Minister's support for neamhspleáchas, or independence, for Gaelcholáiste an Chláir, which is operating as a unit, or an aonad, of Ennis Community College. That comes under the auspices of Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board, ETB. I was chairperson of that entity for many years and it was something we always strived for. There is once more a huge...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Scoileanna Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (11 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister for her comprehensive reply. This arose many times, as I said, in the Limerick and Clare ETB when I was chairman. One of the members was Dónal Ó hAiniféin. Thug sé sárthacaíocht don fheachtas chun neamhspleáchas a bhaint amach do bhaile na hInse agus don Ghaelcholáiste atá ann. Gaelcholáiste an Chláir opened in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Scoileanna Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta (11 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I get what the Minister is saying about enrolment, but I hope that if the level of enrolment increases, as I am confident it will, this will remain under review. The Minister has in recent weeks sanctioned a new school for Gaelscoil Donncha Rua in Shannon. The Irish language movement in the county is growing, as is the number of students taking on all-Irish education. We are specifically...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the witnesses for their engagement with the committee. I welcome the Minister of State, whom we were glad to see back in the Chamber. I was interested in the earlier discussion on the hot school meals scheme. Prior to my election in 2020, I was a primary school teacher. My school successfully participated in the Food Dudes programme, which was reward-based. Children were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: And the whole idea of a second dinner in the day? What about the preparation of the foods and those cherry tomatoes being passed around in classrooms of junior infant children?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: As the Minister of State said, there are overlapping Departments here but I think there should also be some concerns about the length of the school lunch break. Small break is typically ten minutes in the morning and big break is half an hour in the afternoon. In that half an hour, it is typically ten minutes in the classroom to eat and 20 minutes to play in the playground. Part of eating...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Childhood Obesity: Discussion (10 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I want to ask the Minister of State about how, three years ago across the water, Marcus Rashford, who is known to most of us as a famous footballer, led a very impressive campaign that was in fact misunderstood by the British Government at the time. He was seeking that during the off-school period, there would also be meals provided to children. The idea was superb but I would say as a...