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Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: We were the only country that closed the churches.

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: We are broke. Does the Minister of State not get it?

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: Having listened to this debate, do I understand correctly that an office is being set up that will be tasked with getting 1 million electric vehicles on our roads by 2030?

Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (21 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: It simply beggars belief. I am sorry. I am again going to say that I admire the Minister's hopes and ambitions, but at some point policy will have to be grounded in the reality of where we are. I do not have a problem with electric vehicles, but I do have a problem with forcing cars off the road. There are very few charging points in rural Ireland even now. A bigger problem, however, is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Heritage Sites (21 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: 20. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when his Department will issue a decision regarding the funding request received for the proposed takeover by Clare County Council of the Clare assets of Shannon Heritage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46084/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (21 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: 79. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 271 of 14 September 2022, if she will address the case of two children (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46337/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (22 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: 187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason that 17 and 18-year-old students have been left out of the young adult card and student Leap card initiative announced on 5 September 2022; if he will include this age group in the initiative as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46403/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: I want to raise the issue of people with concessionary tickets who previously were on a school bus and are no longer able to avail of that because of the effect of the Minister's announcement. I specifically want to raise the situation of Whitegate in County Clare. It is the last village in County Clare before reaching the Galway border, in the east of the county, on the Shannon. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Issues: Engagement with Minister for Education (21 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: The issue is they would have received concessionary tickets that there was no problem with previously.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: I thank Professor Cowan and all her team for attending. There has been a lot of talk about an elective hospital. It has been suggested by some that St. John's would be the appropriate place. St. John's is part of UL Hospitals Group but has a very different ownership structure. I understand it has its own board. To what degree can UHL direct St. John's to do something or not do something...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: Before the HIQA report was published after the visit to the hospital, a number of letters were sent by senior consultants in UHL, one to Professor Cowan and one to members of her team. The letters called for two things: first, for the non-Covid pathway to be dropped and to go back to the older system and, second, for much more consultation. Nothing really happened immediately. The letters...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: Professor Cowan may say they are not, but that is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: Professor Cowan said Professor Lenehan addressed the letter with the consultants. Has Professor Lenehan met each of the signatories? Professor Cowan said there is an open door and that people can approach different bodies. I presume their doors are also open. Sometimes doors can be opened from either side. Has Professor Lenehan met each of the consultants since the letter was sent?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: Meeting is one matter but has Professor Lenehan had contact with each of them since the letter was written?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: It was said that the letter was raised at management board level. Was it raised before or after it entered the public domain?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: They did indeed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: What happened after the meeting and before the letter went into the public domain?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: Let me move on to Ennis. The Joint Committee on Public Petitions received a petition on the issue. It would be wrong to say that the cause of the overcrowding was stated to be the fact that Limerick was the only model 4 hospital in the area and that there were no model 3 hospitals at Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's, or model 2 hospitals. However, it was referred to, which I believe is as far...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: I accept that there are huge resourcing issues but the issue I am raising concerns the needs of the area in respect of the population, the acuity of patients presenting at UHL and the numbers presenting. It seems there is money for everything now and that, regardless of the problem, the Government says it will just write a cheque. I was surprised that approach, unfortunately, was not taken...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Issues at the Emergency Department of University Hospital Limerick Raised in the HIQA Report: Discussion (21 Sep 2022)

Michael McNamara: I thank the witnesses for their answers and the Chairman for the opportunity.