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Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I am happy to speak in support of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill. There is a whole realm of online content that is pretty unsavoury. We all have to use the Internet every day socially and indeed for work. However, there is a real murky side to it too. Finally we are going to be putting forward legislation that will be enacted and will help us to police that better. The...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Insightful as this report is, it becomes futile unless there is a strategy to respond to poverty in County Clare. That is the very thing Clare PPN and our partners are looking for. We have a Clare county development plan that contains headings on housing, retail and wind energy, but there is no heading dealing with poverty. Currently, that plan is under review. We need a heading and a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Ceann Comhairle's office for selecting this Topical Issue matter. Deputy Carey and I have combined on this matter and I will use two minutes to speak on it. I also thank the Minister of State, Deputy Byrne, for taking this Topical Issue matter, which relates to a very important report. It is the only report of its type I am aware of in Ireland at present. It was commissioned...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Citizenship Applications (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 62. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of an application for citizenship made by a person (details supplied). [46074/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Development Companies (21 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 166. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on plans to establish exclusively independent community-led Leader groups, as committed to in the Programme for Government. [46166/22]

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

Cathal Crowe: In the limited time I have, I would like to raise a few issues. The budget is only one week away. Despite the challenges we have with school transport this year, this measure was born out of goodwill and a wish to ease the financial burden for parents as children return to school. It would be wonderful if we could implement it again next year and fix the teething problems we have...

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

Cathal Crowe: Some European countries have made their entire public transport system free in response to climate change. We do not have that kind of advanced, integrated system at the moment but it makes a massive difference to send a bus to a school. It keeps 50 cars off the road and unburdens parents in the mornings. This is key. I am sure that each Minister pitches for their Department. The...

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

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. There are some positive tales. Quin and Doora in County Clare fought for a for ten years to get a bus service. The temporary alleviation measure which now allows someone to go to their second year school has qualified all of them for a bus. Will the Minister be interested in making temporary alleviation permanent because that has been the big positive of the past 12...

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

Cathal Crowe: Will that review come back before the committee at some point?

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

Cathal Crowe: I welcome everyone from UL Hospitals Group. Given the time constraints, I would be very grateful if the witnesses could move quickly through my questions. What sets the UL Hospitals Group apart from others? Why do we have this HIQA report? Why are we incessantly hearing about the UL Hospitals Group and not Saolta or other groups, whose representative have appeared before this committee?

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

Cathal Crowe: Is there another regional hospitals group in the country with a similar population base and similar hospital infrastructure that we in the mid-west could emulate?

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

Cathal Crowe: The UHL emergency department had a record attendance of 76,473 in 2021. Why such high attendance? Repeatedly, we hear management correctly state on radio programmes that there are different pathways for patients to be seen and people do not always have to attend at an emergency department. Will Professor Lenehan explain the reason for the record attendance?

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

Cathal Crowe: Five weeks ago, I accompanied a relative who was attending the UHL accident and emergency unit. People go to reception, are triaged and must then wait for a long time, which I think they have come to expect. Eventually, they are seen in the accident and emergency unit. There is not enough follow-up done in the corridors while people are waiting. Deputies hear this repeatedly from...

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

Cathal Crowe: The patient advocacy and liaison service needs improvement and we need more of that service. I compliment all the staff, as have others. We want to hammer home the message that we appreciate the great work done by staff. I know that morale can often be low in the hospitals group when staff hear incessantly on the airwaves about failures or services that do not work. The staff are...

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

Cathal Crowe: They did not, but they found deficiencies in management. The captain of any ship should be on the ship, not based remotely from it. I will move on to the elective hospital, where things are going in the future. Ward 8D, where I recently visited someone, is incredible. It is the future, and it is where we all want to get to. We are supportive of this. The ward is what we hope the new...

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

Cathal Crowe: Are Paul Reid and Robert Watt with the UL Hospitals Group on this?

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

Cathal Crowe: I thank Professor Cowan for all her engagement today. It is really appreciated.

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

Cathal Crowe: I want to come in with a few additional questions arising from earlier. Just before the Dáil rose for the summer, Mr. Robert Watt and Mr. Paul Reid sat directly across from the witnesses in this same room. Both Senator Conway and I extensively probed the idea of an elective hospital in the mid-west. It was very obvious it is not something they support. As they have advised...

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

Cathal Crowe: Since the inception of this State - and this is in all countries - there is the so-called permanent government; the Civil Service is there to provide advice and memos are given to Government. The advice given to this Government is that there should be only three elective hospitals and Limerick is not there. People prepared that advice for better or worse. For all his positives and flaws,...