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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Nursing Homes and Development of a New Model of Care for Older People: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I want to touch on the issue of younger people, that is, those under the age of 65, who are in nursing home environments. I have heard Dr. McLellan outlining earlier in the meeting that somewhere in the region of 1,300 people in that age bracket are accommodated in nursing homes. It was broken down in discourse that some were appropriately accommodated and others were inappropriately...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Regulation of Nursing Homes and Development of a New Model of Care for Older People: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: HIQA gets involved with nursing homes when they are opening up their doors to residents and it is involved in the regulatory process. Should it be involved earlier in the process? What I mean by this is that I am aware of a number of nursing homes that have been built and developed perhaps 1 km or 2 km outside of a town or village. Not everyone in these nursing homes is physically...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Impact of Covid-19 on the Hospitality Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Chairman for facilitating my participation in the meeting. Like everyone else, what we have heard this afternoon is compelling and harrowing. We all know local publicans, restaurateurs and hoteliers that have experienced upheaval in their way of life in the past 12 months. I want to touch on a few points and I will try not to repeat what others have said. A few people talked...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Impact of Covid-19 on the Hospitality Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: There are others offering to speak, but I have other questions and we have limited time. What Mr. McGann just said covers it all. There is a lack of information. He said it was criminal not to know. Absolutely, and the audacity of the CRU in the month of March 2021, one year into Covid-19 and closure, to say that there is a lack of interest and lack of take-up is morally wrong a million...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Impact of Covid-19 on the Hospitality Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Covid-19 on Driving Instructors: Unite the Union (18 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I confirm I am within the precincts of Leinster House. I confirm also that I have remembered to wear my suit today. I thought we were having a virtual meeting the last day, so I took the risk of wearing my pair of Penneys jeans and a tank top, not realising I was going to be in the Dáil Chamber.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Covid-19 on Driving Instructors: Unite the Union (18 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Such is life. I welcome our witnesses. I have a number of friends who are driving instructors and they have been burning my ear on this issue for many months. Unite the Union is right to become organised and to talk to us this morning. One of its key asks is that it be at the table. As one of my colleagues just said, it is the most reasonable request of all that decision-making does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Covid-19 on Driving Instructors: Unite the Union (18 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I will conclude. I ask the Chairman and the clerk that it become a key recommendation of our body of work that the Road Safety Authority and the Department of Transport would have a specific category, for this year only, to cater for those who hope to undertake paramedic training. They are going to be caught out. If a solution is not put in place as an interim measure, they will not be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Appointment Process for Chair of Irish Aviation Authority: Engagement with Department of Transport (18 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I would also like to put a number of points to Mr. Towey. I am a bit perplexed, confused and perhaps even frustrated as a member of the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications Networks. Maybe I have totally misunderstood this process but I believed that this had to come before the committee for ratification and yet Mr. Towey has told us that Ms Rose Hynes is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Appointment Process for Chair of Irish Aviation Authority: Engagement with Department of Transport (18 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: What is our function then? I have been a Deputy for the past year. This is the third occasion on which I have seen someone appointed to a State board that has a functionality in the committee's remit. If this comes back in two three weeks' time and for some unknown reason we say we are not happy, what happens then? Could Mr. Towey explain that to me? Maybe I have missed something major...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Appointment Process for Chair of Irish Aviation Authority: Engagement with Department of Transport (18 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Maybe the Chair or the clerk to the committee will write to the Minister to seek a tiny bit more clarification on this. It might have been October when former Deputy Liz O'Donnell was appointed as chairperson of the Road Safety Authority and she came before this committee. I remember that each member, across parties, said in their contributions that they supported her candidacy. We had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Appointment Process for Chair of Irish Aviation Authority: Engagement with Department of Transport (18 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: It is stand-alone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Appointment Process for Chair of Irish Aviation Authority: Engagement with Department of Transport (18 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: This might be for another day and Mr. Towey may not have all the answers to this today but I ask if he and his colleagues in the Department of Transport would have briefed both the Minister and Ms Hynes and the Irish Aviation Authority on the ongoing superannuation scheme dispute regarding Irish Aviation Authority employees. Is there a sphere of briefing going on there that is aimed towards...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Viability of and Opportunities for the Post Office Network: Discussion (16 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I have been following some of the debate virtually from the office but I am glad to be here with everyone now. I will make a few points at the outset. My neck of the woods, Broadford in County Clare, has faced the devastation of a post office closure since the new year. That is 190 years of history and service to the local community now shut, with Covid-19 used as an excuse. This has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Viability of and Opportunities for the Post Office Network: Discussion (16 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: If I may, I have one final question for Mr. O'Callaghan. The An Post deal that was struck with Bank of Ireland approximately ten days ago has been heralded as something wonderful where the bank's tentacles reach all communities in Ireland. From a postmaster's perspective, apart from having some stickers on the Perspex screen of his post office and actually offering a service to his customer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Viability of and Opportunities for the Post Office Network: Discussion (16 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Are members allowed to contribute first? I will be very quick and will not take up anyone's time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Viability of and Opportunities for the Post Office Network: Discussion (16 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: On the whole point about community banking, nobody suggests for a moment that this be brought in between 16 March and June. That would be crazy. As it has taken decades, if not centuries, to evolve Ireland's banking system, I do not want anyone in An Post or in politics to try to - I think the word "conflate" was used earlier - as that misleads the process we are at now. As a committee, we...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (11 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 75. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will accredit architectural technologists as assigned certifiers as per the Building Control Amendment Regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13623/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licences (11 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 275. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he and his officials will provide a response in relation to a tree felling case for a person (details supplied) in County Clare. [13831/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (10 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: A very delicate balance has to be struck. We want to see a shift and transition away from old fossil fuels and towards more renewable energy. The Government needs to speed up the issuing of new wind energy guidelines to all local authorities. We have had some absurd wind applications granted and other ones turned down. For example, in my county of Clare today we had the council...