Results 5,541-5,560 of 8,657 for speaker:Seán Crowe
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)
Seán Crowe: Thank you. I will open it up to members. I call Deputy Bernard Durkan, who has come straight from the Dáil Chamber.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)
Seán Crowe: Thank you. Who wishes to respond?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)
Seán Crowe: We are having some IT difficulties. I ask the witnesses to bear with us. We can hear Mr. Flanagan loud and clear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)
Seán Crowe: Maybe the committee could follow up on that suggestion on monitoring.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)
Seán Crowe: I listened to the submissions this morning. It seems a very tortuous route to try to get access to a product. Mr. O'Connor said that in recent years, the use of cannabis products for medical reasons has been an issue of social and political debate in Ireland and abroad and there have been calls for cannabis products to be made available to Irish patients. My understanding is that trying to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)
Seán Crowe: With regard to the difficulty with the Dutch authorities, is there anything we can do as a committee or as legislators in that regard? Does there have to be a conversation between the Department of Justice here and its equivalent in the Netherlands, or can anybody answer that question?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)
Seán Crowe: I am sorry, Mr. Brennan, but we cannot hear you. We are having difficulty hearing you at this end. What were you saying?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)
Seán Crowe: No, it is still very low. Would taking the headphones off make a difference?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)
Seán Crowe: Thank you. Some more members have arrived. They were at other meetings. I call Senator Conway.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)
Seán Crowe: I now invite Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne. The Deputy is very welcome. I believe it is her first time to address the health committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)
Seán Crowe: A few of those questions were answered during the meeting. Perhaps the witnesses could concentrate on the last one, although it was touched on as well. We are running out of time. This is the health committee and we want to work to guidelines laid down by the Houses.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)
Seán Crowe: Yes, it does. Thank you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)
Seán Crowe: Yes, please. Some of the members could not hear you.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Cannabis Access Programme Update: Discussion (29 Sep 2021)
Seán Crowe: I thank Mr. O'Connor for guiding us through this morning's meeting and farming out questions to the others. It was a useful exercise for the committee and, I hope, for people listening at home and going through a process or seeking information. This morning's meeting has thrown up a number of questions for us, as legislators, but also as the committee dealing with health matters. We might...
- Childcare Services: Motion [Private Members] (5 Oct 2021)
Seán Crowe: There is common agreement that our childcare system is not fit for purpose. Fees are too high and wages are too low. Childcare in my constituency costs, on average, €217 per week or €870 per month, but costs can be higher or lower in one part of the constituency as compared with another. As stated, childcare costs are equal to that of a mortgage. This motion is about...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (5 Oct 2021)
Seán Crowe: 683. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children in the CHO7 area awaiting a special needs assessment. [48158/21]
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Oct 2021)
Seán Crowe: The programme for Government rightly lauds the important work local drugs task forces do, but nowhere does it mention giving a pay rise to section 39 workers, who have not seen an increase in more than ten years, or address the cuts over that period. Does the Government intend to rectify this and stop the flood of fully qualified addiction counsellors and other personnel moving to the...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Oct 2021)
Seán Crowe: It has been ten years. It is unacceptable.