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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Implementation of National Youth Strategy: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: We have received no apologies in advance of today's meeting. I welcome everyone joining us in person or watching the proceedings of the meeting. I ask anyone attending remotely to mute themselves when not contributing in order that we do not pick up any background noise or feedback. As usual, I remind all those in attendance to ensure that their mobile phones are on silent mode or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Implementation of National Youth Strategy: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Ms Murphy. We will now proceed to members’ questions. There are quite a number of members present, and there could be others joining us. Members will have six minutes each. I ask them to be aware that this includes time for people to respond. There are so many contributors here today that I need to keep things moving. As a result, people may hear a little tap of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Implementation of National Youth Strategy: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Yes, there will be a second round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Implementation of National Youth Strategy: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: No, the Senator will get a second round

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Implementation of National Youth Strategy: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I am up next. I thank the witnesses for being here. One of the early considerations of the committee was that it is easy for a committee to go into the depths of education, but we are conscious that the committee and its parent Department include youth in their remit. Someone used the term "parity of esteem", which we first heard in public life around the Good Friday Agreement, but it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Implementation of National Youth Strategy: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I have spoken at the committee in the past about the cliff edge young people face when they turn 18 or 19. Society hopes they will get a career, an apprenticeship or go to college, but many people who have been well supported by youth work, social work and CAMHS, and had many different agencies plugged into their lives, are suddenly and quickly unplugged from those agencies when they reach...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Implementation of National Youth Strategy: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Beyond being morally wrong, is that dangerous?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Implementation of National Youth Strategy: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I have some more questions. Hopefully, I will get in again later. Thank you. I call Deputy Cummins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Implementation of National Youth Strategy: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: We would all agree with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Implementation of National Youth Strategy: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: We will shortly go into the second round of questions. Deputy Ní Raghallaigh will have six minutes and then we will go to Deputies Cummins, O'Rourke and then me. Other members may come in as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Implementation of National Youth Strategy: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: We will have a second round of questions so the Deputy will get back in. I call Deputy Jen Cummins, who has two minutes. Members could arrive in the door and they will have two minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Implementation of National Youth Strategy: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I have tried to get each member in and we have to finish by 3 o'clock. I call Deputy Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh who has two minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Implementation of National Youth Strategy: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I am next, but am going to forgo my speaking time because we are against the clock. There is now a voting scenario in the Dáil. I will give Senator Scahill one minute. We are against the clock.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Implementation of National Youth Strategy: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: That is a good way to finish off the discussion. Would Ms Keane mind passing on that loneliness report at some stage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Implementation of National Youth Strategy: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: If she could send it to the committee, that would be brilliant.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Implementation of National Youth Strategy: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I am sorry, but times do not always work out. I had intended to give all the witnesses additional time at the end. There are two things against us. We are obliged to be finished by 3 p.m. and a vote has now been called. I sincerely thank the witnesses and apologise to them. We had a good discussion even though we did not get into a second round. I thank them for their time and testimony.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Healthcare Services in the Mid-West: Health Information and Quality Authority (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: On average, how long does the process take from the time a 96-bed block is conceived as an idea, goes through the design phase, is submitted for planning, is built, commissioned and opened?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Healthcare Services in the Mid-West: Health Information and Quality Authority (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I think the quickest time it was ever achieved was three years and two months. I was a member of the previous health committee and we held a committee meeting on site. We got a tour of the facility and its representatives spoke about how 96-bed blocks can be built and how the roof can be load-bearing so you can add more onto it. They told us about their frustration that once you complete...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Healthcare Services in the Mid-West: Health Information and Quality Authority (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: We all obsess about the numbers of beds available and how quickly someone progresses from triage to accident and emergency and into the ward system. That is rightly where the focus should be. The point I would make is that it is a complex site down there. Every time you go to build a 96-bed block, you have the rigours of planning. You could have objections. You could have a judicial...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Healthcare Services in the Mid-West: Health Information and Quality Authority (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I will move to ask about all the submissions that were received. The whole process of making submissions was quite tricky. I had to make a submission on three separate occasions. Eventually, I saved and uploaded a Microsoft Word document. You expect when you make a submission to get a confirmation or your submission to be emailed back to you so you can see what went in. Many people...