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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (12 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 36. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if infrastructural improvements on the rail and bus networks in County Clare will be considered by his Department. [35523/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (12 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if rail and bus infrastructure improvements are planned to bolster public transport in County Clare. [35522/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (12 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 182. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the restart grant plus for bed and breakfasts will be issued to those awaiting an injection of funding. [35821/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (12 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 195. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when new wind energy guidelines will be issued to planning authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35830/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (12 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 323. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cycles of the PCR test that are being used in the field to diagnose the rising cases of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35846/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I thank all our guests for appearing before the committee but, in particular, I welcome those from Limerick Chamber. At a committee meeting a number of weeks ago, I proposed we would invite them to present the Copenhagen Economics report, which was launched 13 months ago but whose relevance has been heightened, given the current crisis in the aviation sector. It provides the only credible...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: Briefly, I have a question for Dr. Cahill. Denmark and Holland have rejigged their aviation policy to see a more balanced approach to the regional airports. How has that worked? I also ask the Fórsa representative if the Aer Lingus employees in Shannon been short-changed. It seems they have run out of their cabin training hours. They have expired. Their contracts are not specific...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I fully support the Bill. The clock is ticking and we are now just seven weeks away from the UK leaving the Single Market and customs union. Prime Minister Johnson's cavalier approach to Brexit and the possibility of leaving the Union without a deal can be described only as a dangerous political experiment. It appears that appealing to the hard Brexiteers matters far more than doing the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Projects (11 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 82. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will in conjunction with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage devise a new grant scheme in which farmers will contribute colloquial and historical names of fields within their landholdings to an expanded database of local place names. [35676/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (11 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a proposal to acquire land beside a school (details supplied) will be considered by her Department in view of the serious road safety concerns in the village due to a lack of parking facilities. [35471/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I have a number of questions I wish to pose to Mr. Reid. He might forgive me at the outset for jumping in and out, because I have ten minutes and I have a few issues I want to get through. With regard to the HSE's winter plan, what specific measures are being put in place to cater for the University Limerick Hospitals Group, especially University Hospital Limerick, UHL, and Ennis General...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: Could Mr. Woods address Ennis General Hospital because it is in that hospital group and will come under huge pressure over the winter months? What added capacity will it have under the winter plan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I refer to a short email I received from student nurse in my constituency during the week. She is required by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland to complete a minimum amount of clinical placement hours in order to meet the standards to qualify as a registered nurse. During previous years of training, the supernumerary status of her placement was upheld to the best of the ability of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: Will students who are currently on placement or are due to be on placement over this winter period receive any payment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: My next question is on ventilators and is for Mr. Reid. At the very outset of the Covid pandemic there was a global rush to have more ventilator machines in the world's hospitals. We saw car manufacturers and other manufacturing plants across Europe diversifying and starting to make ventilators. It was reported week on week that Ireland's capacity per 100,000 of the population was one of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: We saw footage on our TV screens in the springtime from Bergamo where ventilator machines had to be moved from patient to patient. Ventilators became a very fluid machine that would be trucked down a corridor to get a patient breathing again. What is our capacity specifically on those machines? Has it increased significantly?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: Is the HSE procuring more? Will it be procuring more again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: In the winter plan and budget 2021 there was a strong reference to rehabilitation beds. There is a figure for how many rehabilitation beds will be provided but no breakdown. I would like to know a little bit more. The witnesses may or may not have the statistics today as to where in the country we will see those beds.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: Could we maybe hear first, Chairman? Maybe they have the figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE Winter Plan: HSE (11 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I would like to receive that in writing, if the witnesses do not mind.