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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Homes (2 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: The Minister of State will know about this question because we recently discussed it in a lot of detail. Will she give consideration to a new capital funding stream to support the voluntary nursing home sector in meeting HIQA requirements and providing for all of the upgrades required each year, which are quite costly? Before I resume my seat, I will congratulate the Minister of State,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Homes (2 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: We had a very positive meeting last week with the Oireachtas Members from Clare. We met Marie O'Malley, representing Carrigoran House, and Michael Harty, formerly of this House, representing the home at Cahercalla. Both of those community hospitals provide fabulous care. These are outstanding facilities in our county providing healthcare to those at an advanced stage of life who have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (2 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 27. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an overview of what teaching roles, in terms of nurse and doctor training, the hospitals in the University Hospital Limerick Group currently have; if he will consider a broadened role in this regard for Ennis General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19780/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (2 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 74. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department will consider purchasing or long-term leasing a building adjacent to the OPW-managed Ennis Friary site, so that a visitor and interpretative centre could be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19784/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (2 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 106. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of unused State-owned buildings in County Clare at this time; what the intended future use for each is; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19785/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (2 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 127. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport why it is compulsory to have a Public Service Card in order to renew your driving licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20076/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will help the family of a person (details supplied) in their quest to have them enrolled in a special school in Ennis for their second-level education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19965/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (2 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 324. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a breakdown, in tabular form, of funding provided in each county under the community centre investment fund, launched in March 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20082/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I join others in welcoming our witnesses. I apologise for not being here earlier this morning because I was at another meeting. I do not mind who answers my first question. We are now more au fait with the number of doctors and nurses in acute hospitals who have come into Ireland from beyond the European Economic Area after availing of D visas. Do the witnesses have any metrics on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Can I ask-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Okay. I will explain the reason I ask. This is anecdotal. I am not a dentist and have no training or expertise in any of this. When the war in Ukraine was kicking off and we had many Ukrainians arriving in our country, I recall a Ukrainian-qualified dentist making contact with my office. She said she had identical qualifications that could have worked in Ireland but she felt that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Is the examination pathway comparable with what colleagues in general practice face? Do doctors and nurses who come into this country also face examinations? Again, anecdotally, I have heard that the steps dentists must take to become a fully practising dentist here are rather excessive and punitive. That is what I have been told. Admittedly, it was 18 months ago that I had the meeting I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I get the points that have been made, and perhaps I am being simplistic, but yesterday, in a different realm, Ireland decided what countries are safe for migration purposes, which is a broad and sweeping statement. Surely some analogy can be drawn with that. If there are other countries beyond the EEA, for example, Ukraine, where the system of education, training and practice is similar to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Do we not have an agreement with the UK yet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: On whose head it is to strike that agreement? Is it for the Minister for Health or the Dental Council to do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Reaching that agreement is of the utmost urgency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: The briefing note is excellent. I will veer away from the education end because it speaks for itself. The funding speaks for itself and I agree that it is absolutely essential. I wanted to home in on the other pathways. On 10 April, Mr. Hourihan emailed a very detailed note to me, which provided a county-by-county brief. I represent County Clare. According to the figures supplied,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: In recent weeks, the committee has undertaken a body of work on the national cancer strategy. I expect that oral cancer can bee seen or spotted first, or certainly the suspicion of its existence can be identified, by a dentist. Is screening for oral cancer and examinations by dentists, be it by self-referral or whatever else, a missing piece of the jigsaw? If that lack of screening for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: If the Chairman will allow, that whole thing of-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Dr. Gallagher for her insight on that. If the Chairman will allow, we could discuss this forever but would there be any possibility that after today's meeting Mr. O'Flynn or one of the witnesses might send correspondence to the committee outlining which countries Ireland has a memorandum of understanding with and where the memorandum has been working? We do not need to say which...