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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Timetables: Iarnród Éireann (9 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I suggest to Mr. Meade that the airports seem to have found a sweet spot on this. When your flight is booked you can book your parking in advance, and as you approach the barrier system it detects your registration, and you drive in. You have bought your ticket and your parking - in you go and out you go. Something like number plate recognition may work so on the app or website you buy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Timetables: Iarnród Éireann (9 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: We may not be here in November.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the Minister and his team. The Minister has long heard me say that the 2009 decision to close 24-hour accident and emergency care in Ennis, Nenagh and St.John's was absolutely woeful for the mid-west region in which I live, and for County Clare, which I represent. It was absolutely woeful and has led to really poor health outcomes for many people, including death for some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Her death was "almost certainly avoidable". My apologies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I might jump in there, if I may. The clock is against me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. It is no secret that an election is close. My worry is that when we get into that cycle and the formation of government that comes after it, the body politic will potentially get stretched out for four or five months, which would do no good to this process. I would love if the Minister and his officials could expedite the ask of the Johnston family to initiate a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: No. None of this is personal. This is about the functioning of the hospital.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: That is a positive development. I will follow the lines of Deputy Cullinane's questioning, and I will be careful. He has asked most of the questions. While the Minister responded, I was struck by the fact that his counterpart, the Minister, Deputy McEntee, and her Department also have people on administrative leave in An Garda Síochána, but they do not move sideways or get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I hear the Minister but-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I fully hear the Minister, but there is no garda on administrative leave being promoted to the rank of chief superintendent, so the whole thing does not make sense. However, I hear the Minister. I know Ministers do not get involved in HR areas like this, but someone needs to advise on this and slow it all down. A process is under way and we must allow it space. We cannot prejudice the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I will hopefully come back in later, but will ask the Minister a final question. I have long been speaking about Ennis General Hospital and elective surgeries being suspended there for ten weeks. Surgery took place on perhaps four days in ten weeks. The theatre nurses, who are highly skilled, were redeployed to other functions in general medical wards. This is not personal, but the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: They are not carrying bedpans or going to the general wards, but they are somewhere.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: What are those hours?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Ms Broderick.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Could the Chairman allow us a minute each? We have hung on all afternoon.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues relating to University Hospital Limerick: Discussion (10 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I have the shortest question. It relates to the medical assessment unit in Ennis running to midnight from next week onwards. I know there are plans to recruit nurses and consultants but I do not believe there are any plans to recruit clerical staff. That is what the unions have been told. To have all cogs moving fluidly, it is essential that happens. Will the Minister give us some...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (10 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 132. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated annual cost of a scheme (details supplied). [40917/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (10 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 133. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the annual funding provided for SEAI grants for heat pumps; and the estimated annual cost of a policy (details supplied). [40918/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (10 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 198. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the annual Exchequer funding provided, current and capital, for projects (details supplied); and if he would outline current policy in these areas, in tabular form. [40824/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (10 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 199. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the Exchequer funding provided to the National Parks and Wildlife Service to protect biodiversity in 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [40825/24]