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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...

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

Cathal Crowe: I only know what was in a few of those because political colleagues have shared what they said. It is important that we, as policymakers, see some of what has gone in. Option B would be two hospital systems that are in some way interconnected and the staff would be able to move from one to the other. You would decant services from one to the other. University Hospital Galway and...

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

Cathal Crowe: It is relatively close.

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

Cathal Crowe: I hope we will all get in again, but I will ask my final question of this segment. To what extent are youth workers back-filling gaps in mental health services and child protection? Are they kind of sticking plasters on scenarios where other agencies are letting children down? Somebody may be able to encapsulate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Active Travel and Greenways: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Chair. I apologise to the witnesses and the committee. UHL Hospital Group representatives are next door and I am attending that meeting as well. It is a bit of a juggle here sometimes on Wednesdays. At the outset, for transparency I want to say that, beyond being a TD, I am a farmer and IFA member, so I want to put that on public record today. When I have met farmers, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Active Travel and Greenways: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: One of the reasons I ask is that, during the previous Government, the then Minister, Eamon Ryan, famously came out and said there would be a 2:1 ratio of spending on sustainable travel versus traditional roads and rail, but the new Government, of which I am a member, has changed that. Has that been reflected in the spending purse TII has? Has there been a reduction?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Active Travel and Greenways: Discussion (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: And when TII talks about landowners, does it use intermediaries? What valuation system is used when TII goes to landowners?

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Communications (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 246. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the ministersdiary@dcee.gov.ie email address in his Department is operational and regularly monitored; if incoming emails are responded to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61605/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: EU Regulations (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 308. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify the EU Regulation he was referring to in an interview he gave to a newspaper (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61459/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Offices (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 353. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the anticipated timelines in which vehicle registration books will move from hardcopy to digital format; the role staff in his Department who currently work in the printing & mailing unit of the Vehicle Registration Office will fulfil after records go ‘paperless’; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62006/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 586. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of concerns raised by members of the Dublin Fire Brigade regarding the proposed implementation of the NMACS system (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61058/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (12 Nov 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 660. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide the exact credits and entitlements for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61276/25]