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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to ask the Minister this morning what interventions he is taking to intervene in the spiralling costs that farm families are facing at this time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Thousands of people depend on farming in Ireland, including the 6,000 farms in my own county of Clare. If this were a normal year, we would be expecting farm exports such as dairy and meat, etc., to be netting €14 billion for this country and feeding a worldwide population of 40 million. That is where we would be aiming to be at. We have had to look very much inward now because...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Yesterday, a group of us met with the Association of Farm & Forestry Contractors of Ireland, FCI, in the audiovisual room in Leinster House 2000. One of the requests it is making to the Minister's Department and to the Government overall is for 200 million l of green diesel to be ring-fenced for its sector to ensure we get a silage crop. It is now time for grass growing during the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (31 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 33. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a HSE health centre at Sixmilebridge, County Clare. [16795/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (31 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 67. To ask the Minister for Health the number of anaesthetists who are employed to work within the UL Hospitals Group; and the way this compares with other hospital groups. [16796/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (31 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 145. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way his Department determines that land has been abandoned. [16789/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (31 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 327. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide the annual turnover of social care and social work staff members in the children-in-care teams in the mid-west region for the years 2019, 2020 and 2021; the number of social care and social work staff members who were out of work due to work-related stress for the years 2019, 2020 and 2021;...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome this discussion. The Bill flips on its head the whole idea of take, make and waste. There is great waste in this country day in and day out. Some of the changes proposed in the Bill could see an annual saving of €2.3 billion if people just changed the way they function. I was listening to a Deputy talk about a new motorway from Cork to Limerick. That money would build...

Government Response to Situation in Ukraine: Statements (30 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: How beautifully true céad míle fáilte romhat rings from an Irish perspective at the moment. The arms of Ireland are wide open to welcome refugees coming from Ukraine. As of yesterday, my county of Clare had 1,500 Ukrainian refugees. I believe that figure will rise to 1,800 tonight. That is the largest intake of any Irish county. It must be said that it is a rural county...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: There are almost 1,600 Ukrainian people in County Clare, meaning that 1% of our county's population is now made up of Ukrainian nationals. Our arms are wide open and they are all welcome. Many supports have come from the Government in recent days, including English as an additional language, EAL, teachers and additional teaching posts in our schools. However, more is required and we need...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (30 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 21. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider liaising with Bus Éireann to issue free travel passes to Ukrainian refugees for a set period of time in order to allow them to get from rural locations to urban centres for work and school as they assimilate into Irish society. [16840/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Ms Rogers and Professor Hardiman for being here. I have been following the meeting remotely. There is still not a normal working environment here, so I was tuning into this in my office. I apologise for just arriving now. I read the opening statement and I listened to the witnesses' interactions with the members. I am not medically trained. I do not think there are many of us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The written submission indicates that approximately 13,000 people were waiting for neurological appointments in 2015. That has risen to 24,000. How much of that increase can be attribute to the disruption of public healthcare during Covid and how much was caused by a lack of capacity in our public health system?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: It is a case of a bit of both.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I listened to the submission from Ms Rogers and we have been getting lobbying emails. I am particularly interested in the mid-west as I am a Clare Deputy. I do not know if the emails are geography-specific. My take-home point from this is that the mid-west is particularly pressured when it comes to neurological services. I know there has been recruitment and we have gone from two to four...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: There is another issue with nursing in general and it was a topic we discussed here a couple of weeks ago. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, has a concern that in the last two years, whether it has been pay and conditions or the Covid pandemic, its members have been absolutely at the front face of all of this. Many fifth and sixth year secondary students who are looking at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I am in the Minister's party, Fianna Fáil, and I will do what I can to support the alliance’s request. It is far more prevalent in my county than I would have known and many families engage with the service. I will do what I can, along with others on this committee, to advance the cause of the alliance. I thank the witnesses for being here today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cybersecurity and Hybrid Threats Following the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I have to go to the Chamber shortly so five minutes suits me fine. I thank Dr. Browne for attending this committee meeting today. I have been following the meeting remotely from my office. I apologise that I am only now arriving in the committee room. On 9 March, we were all here in Leinster House when the email system for the entire building collapsed. Within about ten minutes of that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cybersecurity and Hybrid Threats Following the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: There were none whatsoever.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cybersecurity and Hybrid Threats Following the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Discussion (30 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: There was no hacking whatsoever related to that incident.