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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (6 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 193. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide some of the anticipated 2021 cost savings from the recent HSE Medicines Management Programme preferred blood glucose strips for adults with type 1 and type 2 diabetes evaluation to fund the provision of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (6 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 196. To ask the Minister for Health if he has received a submission from the HSE primary care reimbursement service recommending that the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system is made available to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23408/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (6 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 197. To ask the Minister for Health the number of meetings that have been held in 2020 and 2021 between the manufacturers of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system and the HSE primary care reimbursement service in relation to making the technology available to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; the outcomes of these meetings; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (6 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 198. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in the decision to make the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system available to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age based on clinical need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23410/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes (5 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is examining the possibility of introducing a pilot scheme for the provision of sewerage facilities in small villages. [23016/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates (5 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 105. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will reconsider the proposal to have bed and breakfast businesses valuated for paying commercial rates. [1712/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (5 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 230. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide a commencement date for flood defence works to be undertaken by the Office of Public Works at Springfield, Clonlara, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22736/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (5 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 284. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has received an application from Clare County Council for the establishment of a defective block pyrite MICA remediation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22741/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Mr. Watt and wish him well in his new role. I will ask a number of quick questions. I have read Mr. Watt's opening statement, in which he takes up this whole issue of his correspondence with RTÉ after the programme aired. What contact did the Department of Health have with the investigation unit of RTÉ, and with Ms Dee Forbes, in advance of this programme going to air?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: To conclude, the FOI officer should be able to quantify the percentage that has been redacted.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Whistleblower Allegations: Department of Health (5 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: A percentage from somebody would be good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I have not joined the Chairman's party but I presume he is speaking of a Fianna Fáil slot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: The Chairman said Fine Gael. We are in coalition of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: The Tánaiste is often mistaken for the Taoiseach so I suppose it all balances out. I thank Professor Ferguson for joining us this afternoon. There are a number of very compelling benefits and arguments to rapid antigen testing. First, the cost factor. It is approximately €5 per antigen test versus a huge variance of anywhere from €30 in North Macedonia, to approximately...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I formally propose, out of today's meeting, that this proposal go forward to the Departments of Health and Transport on a trial basis for the next few weeks. I watched a Sky News report the other night in which people were filmed coming in and out of a disco in Manchester, which was trialled using a sample of the population. We are talking about sampling, potentially, people going to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing Travel Agents and the Aviation Sector: Discussion (5 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Deputies Ó Murchú and O'Rourke for kindly obliging. I welcome the witnesses. We have heard from representatives of the aviation sector and others in the tourism industry of the need for a lead-in period. The opening statement indicates that there is usually a six- to nine-month period from the time of booking to the time of travelling. Has the lead-in period for summer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing Travel Agents and the Aviation Sector: Discussion (5 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the witnesses. I ask them to excuse me as I need to go to another meeting. I am more than happy to engage with them after the meeting also. I thank the Chairman and Sinn Féin for facilitating me.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Apr 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I join with others in congratulating the Minister, Deputy McEntee, on her wonderful news this morning. The programme for Government contains a commitment to ending direct provision. I am delighted that it was announced just a few weeks ago that this will happen by 2024. It cannot happen soon enough. I grew up in Meelick, County Clare, which is the location of one of Ireland's oldest...

Covid-19, Mental Health and Older People: Statements (29 Apr 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, for her engagement over recent days. Last week, in this Chamber, I told her the sad story of Margaret Morgan, who is 101 years of age and probably one of the oldest citizens in County Clare. She comes from the small west Clare village of Kilmurry McMahon. She had not received her Covid vaccination. She is bed bound. The Minister of State was...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Apr 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 76. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address the apparent imbalance whereby self-employed persons who are on the pandemic unemployment payment can engage in a limited level of self-employment (details supplied); and if this will be extended to allow them to take up employment which comes under the remit of the PAYE system with the same financial...