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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Cancer Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Cathal Crowe: We have limited time. I wish to ask my question, if that is okay. I do not mind who responds after that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Cancer Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Cathal Crowe: In Ms. Power's opening statement, she noted, "We are in the Stone Age when it comes to collecting real-time information on cancer services." My question for Ms Power and the other representatives on the panel is this: do the cogs that were put in place during the Covid-19 pandemic have a purpose beyond the pandemic? I have seen the European Medicines Agency, EMA, the European Centre for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Cancer Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Yes. I know not all of the witnesses had the chance to respond, but I sense great commonality in their responses this morning. We will take them on board.

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out: Statements (27 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister and the Ministers of State, Deputies Butler and Rabbitte, for everything they and the Department are doing. I also thank our front-line staff. The pace of the vaccination programme is incredible. More than 80% of our adult population is expected to be vaccinated by early July. That is a success and the programme is going well. More power to everyone at the front line...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: United Nations (27 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 18. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth his plans to enable stakeholder consultation to Ireland’s first report to the UN under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28735/21]

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (26 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I will make two brief points. I thank the Minister for being here today. Many of us have met representatives of the Irish Air Line Pilots Association, IALPA, today. The pilots are just outside the national convention centre today and they have met many Deputies on their way into the Dáil. The point the pilots want to make is that we are all waiting with bated breath for these...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: This weekend, raw sewage was again being discharged into the wild Atlantic from the coast at Kilkee beach. The HSE and Clare County Council prohibited bathing in the area. Raw sewage flowing through the pipes and out into bathing water has now occurred for three consecutive years, and this has now been in contravention of the EU wastewater directive for 16 years. We had been hearing that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Rare Diseases: Discussion (26 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Chairman. I confirm that I am in the precincts of Leinster House. I had another meeting that meant I missed a large part of this discussion, but I have followed as much of it as I can. Some of the points that were raised draw parallels with the response to the cyberattack some days ago. We are being told repeatedly that there is information and knowledge in other countries but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: One of the take-home points from yesterday was that it could take five to ten years for Ireland to have indigenous domestic capacity to fully fight off cybercrime and yet, in that timescale the whole world will change entirely and there will be new forms of attack and software. We will set ourselves a goal but by the time we get to that goal, it may have passed us out again. A point I made...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Cybersecurity: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State for his response. This gives him a mandate to seek significant funding. In years heretofore, there has been a bit of a Craggy Island approach to computers, including passwords taped onto the covers of laptops, etc. We are at a crossroads from which we either go whole hog, invest heavily and show the world we are cyber safe or we go the other way and say we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome all of the witnesses. I have engaged with many of them recently and in the past months. Many factors have got us to this point with Covid being number one. There is also mandatory hotel quarantine, which was necessary during very high levels of Covid but it certainly has not helped in recent weeks. Lastly, there is the decision by Aer Lingus. The Aer Lingus decision to close its...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (26 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: It is a long-established principle of last in, first out in any company.

International Travel and Aviation: Statements (25 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: On the way into the Dáil, I met with a group of airline pilots from Recover Irish Aviation, all from Aer Lingus. They do not belong on a street corner protesting, but back in our skies. The announcements scheduled to be made this week, and especially on Friday, will be key in giving those pilots and the whole sector the hope desperately yearned for. We must see several developments...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (25 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene in a superannuation dispute (details supplied). [28162/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (25 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 208. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will quantify the employment wage subsidy scheme and temporary wage subsidy scheme supports given to a company (details supplied) since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28344/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (25 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 321. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of contracts for certain Defence Force workers to allay concerns regarding their contracts post-2022 (details supplied) [27666/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (25 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 341. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the staffing appeal for the 2021-2022 academic year for a school (details supplied) will be considered on the basis that a loss of a staff member would result in the overcrowding of 12 pupils in a 25.08 metre sq. classroom making social distancing very challenging to implement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27678/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (25 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 342. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the staffing appeal for the 2021-2022 academic year for a school (details supplied) will be considered on the basis that a loss of a staff member would result in the overcrowding of 20 pupils in a 63 metre sq. classroom and 19 pupils into a classroom of similar size, both scenarios making social distancing very challenging to implement; and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (25 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the staffing appeal for the 2021-2022 academic year for a school (details supplied) will be considered on the basis that a loss of a staff member would result in the overcrowding of 26 pupils in a 45 metre sq. classroom making social distancing very challenging to implement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27754/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (25 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 365. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the recently announced extended summer provision scheme will make it possible as in previous years for children with autism to avail of two weeks in-school provision followed by an additional two weeks provision in their own home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28370/21]