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Messages from Select Committee (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022 and has made amendments thereto. The Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach has completed its consideration of the Insurance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022 and has made no amendments thereto.

Defamation Act 2009 Review: Statements (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the review of and report on the Defamation Act 2009. The review was a legislative priority of the Government when it took office in 2020. It is important that the Government and State strike the balance, referred to by other speakers, between our competing sets of rights as individuals protected by our Constitution and the European Convention on Human Rights. Following the review,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I hope the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, can take this question. The current wind energy guidelines date back to 2006. They are grossly outdated. A new set of guidelines, which was to be adopted on the eve of the 2020 election, is still on the desk of the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan. How long more will they be there? We need them operational. We have seen best and worse practice...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the Minister and our other guests. I followed the debate from my office and while here in the committee room. As it was going on, it struck me that Mother Mary Aikenhead passed away 164 years ago or thereabouts. She was a physician. All the way along, we have been debating something that needs to happen. We need advanced modern healthcare for the women of Ireland. I do not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Forgive me for interrupting. Does St. Vincent's Healthcare Group have any break clauses in respect of something happening on its side of the fence and the agreement being pulled?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Yes. Why are there so many layers of protection if each of them is supposedly sufficient?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: As time is running out, my other question to Dr. Mahony was about any existing barriers for her and her colleagues as they go into work each day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Is she saying none whatsoever?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Some of my questions remain unanswered. If we are going in to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Is this the first or second session?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I will come in now if that is okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Yes. I apologise. We all have overlapping roles and I am on the health committee, which is dealing with the proposal on the maternity hospital today. I have not been in this room at all today and I apologise for that. I have read the opening statements. Much of the genesis of this body of work relates to the Doolin Coast Guard base in my county and concerns we had about how it was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: When the base was reconstituted, some members came back and others did not. Politically, we stood back from the process, which had to be independent and have integrity. The process has concluded and the people who were not readmitted are wondering if there is any recourse for them to re-enter the Irish Coast Guard at any level or on any base, preferably the local one at Doolin. Does Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: That is not my understanding but we can look into it further. I reiterate that we stood back from a process and took our hands off it entirely. This committee has been very involved with the Irish Coast Guard and meeting groups but we felt that to reconstitute any station, we really needed to take political hands off it and leave this to independent people. That has happened but the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Yes, that is how I understand it as well. We must stand back from that but these people are entitled to ask, given the years they have served, why, how and what happens next. I suppose they are some of the questions that will remain unanswered after today but I hope the committee can get more substantial answers in that respect. We undertook a body of work relating to the Irish Coast...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Would Mr. Murray say there are skill deficiencies in Coast Guard stations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: When a skill is there, is it maintained through continuous training?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Did any communication come from the Department of Transport and the hierarchy of the Irish Coast Guard to say that certain operational procedures were to be abandoned and passed over to local fire services? Specifically with regard to cliff rescues, was that ever communicated to Coast Guard units in the past two years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: That is good. Cliff rescues are possible again wherever there is a trained crew.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Another issue that arose, which we have discussed in the past, and I am not from a maritime background, is that certain vessels require certain thresholds of training. If one has not reached that benchmark, one cannot take a vessel out beyond the harbour area. Is it the case in any of the Coast Guard stations at present that the station has a nice, shiny, new vessel but it cannot be taken...