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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the detailed reasons that a school (details supplied) recently had an application for a new SNA post refused by the National Council for Special Education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10598/22]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Donnelly; and the Minister of State, Deputy Butler. I have been following this remotely and I will have to go again shortly because I am due in the Dáil Chamber. It is one of those mornings juggling a few things. This week marks the first meeting of this health committee since the winding back of restrictions. Many times in this forum we have thanked...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. We had representatives of Bainne Beatha before our committee some months ago and they engaged with the Minister as well. It is a really good group for giving advice and a guide to the Department. It should maintain those links and keep contact as the Department continues to fill the positions. I will revert to the elective hospitals. We saw before Christmas that...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Correct.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Could the Minister give the Sláintecare committee, which steered it to this point, new terms of reference and ask it to look at that mid-west problem and whether there is scope, potential or possibility for a new elective hospital in that region? It is going to need a bit of political input. Those on the Sláintecare committee have said that the job is done, they made their...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: It takes the pressure.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The UPMC is the one I referred to. Will the Minister excuse me because I want to get quickly through other questions?

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: When the Minister travelled to UHL last Thursday, which was very much appreciated in the region, he made a journey but the management of UHL also made a journey to the hospital because in the past year or two they upped sticks from the hospital campus. They moved their offices to about 2 km away. They are no longer based in the hospital. Before I was a Deputy, I was a teacher. I have...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: All I ask is that a phone call be made expressing outright concern, the concern we, the elected representatives of the region, have. The staff in the hospital and people who live in the region have significant concerns about this. All I ask is that the Minister takes a strong position and relays that to them in the coming days. They need to be back on the hospital campus. That is all I...

Security Situation in Europe: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the Ukrainian ambassador to the Chamber. We as politicians in this House stand in full solidarity with her country. This building and its roof know better than any other place that every country has a full and unequivocal right to independence and not to be interfered with by any outside nation. We stand in full solidarity with the people of Ukraine, both tonight and in the days...

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and Reports of Police Ombudsman of Northern Ireland: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I have a massive interest in history and I have always admired the work of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which has spent many decades tracking down Nazi war criminals. It has done so with the support of many police forces throughout the world. Indeed, the Home Office in Britain and the UK police forces have been very good to engage in that over the years and they have led the way in Europe...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Shannon Airport has received US customs and immigration pre-clearance for business passengers and for all passengers, in fact, going into the United States. At the moment one can fly by private jet into 230 airports in the United States. There is the potential to land at 5,000 airports if we could address a US Department of Agriculture regulation which stipulates that food waste on the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: With the indulgence of the Ceann Comhairle for ten seconds, an agricultural rule in the United States means that food waste on a plane has to be taken off and incinerated when it leaves Ireland. An easing of this restriction was proposed and it was almost over the line during the final days of the Trump Presidency. It is now being pulled back. The Taoiseach might take this issue up with...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the Minister of State and her officials and thank them for everything they are doing. Theirs is a very energetic team and their office has been very good throughout the time I have been in the Dáil when dealing with complex issues we occasionally encounter in our constituency offices. They have been very engaging in that regard. To follow on from the point our colleague...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (23 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I would like the Minister of State to champion the provision of sensory rooms more generally in respect of public buildings. They are now in hospitals and many schools, and they are beginning to be built in homes. There are many people who started their education in primary and secondary school being highly supported with intervention services and special needs assistants, SNAs, and went...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Communications Regulation (Enforcement) Bill: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the officials from the Department and ComReg and thank them for the presentation and the briefing notes that were emailed to us. This Bill hopes to achieve five strands but I will hone in on one of them. On Monday morning I was out doing my clinics in Clare and somebody gave me a volume of paperwork about mobile phone masts. I brushed it off and said we have been there and heard...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Communications Regulation (Enforcement) Bill: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Yes. I put it to the Department and ComReg we have a proliferation in populated areas because it makes economic sense and is lucrative, while we still have companies avoiding parts of west Clare and other areas. We have proliferation and abandonment. The two do not work. There has been lax enforcement in that regard as well. I will finish there. We need to keep some eye on the health...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Communications Regulation (Enforcement) Bill: Discussion (23 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: To ComReg and Mr. Mourik, to begin with.