Results 901-920 of 5,356 for speaker:Cathal Crowe

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (23 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 688. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline plans his Department has to recruit dentists into the HSE dental service so that the huge backlog of children awaiting dental treatment in CHO3 can be addressed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18032/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (18 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 39. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she expects the sports capital grants to be announced. [16691/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Policy (18 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 12. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department has a strategy to ensure tourism in Ireland is more regionally balanced in terms of the entry and exit points of passengers arriving into Ireland, that is, airports and ferry ports. [16690/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Regional Development (18 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 62. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on his Department’s efforts, in conjunction with IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland, to attract new commerce and industry to County Clare. [16695/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (18 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 117. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will give positive consideration to introducing supports to struggling small and medium-sized businesses to meet the increased costs they are facing. [16694/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (18 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 303. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline which public hospitals in Ireland are considered to be teaching hospitals; and if he will outline figures as to the number of nurses placed in each hospital in an average year, in tabular form. [17214/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (17 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 19. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration will be given to extending the VAT exemption to counsellors and psychotherapists in Ireland (details supplied). [16878/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I apologise for being late. I also sit on the transport committee, and it had an engagement this morning. I followed some of this debate, but not all of it. I apologise if I ask questions that have been asked. Like others, I know of some people with long Covid. One is a man in my local community who is involved in GAA coaching and plays golf the whole time. He came to one of my clinics...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I have no doubt that the occupational health people in the HSE believe this to be genuine and that the witnesses are offering a supporting role. HSE staff interface daily with many different relevant people, including managers. There is a vertical structure of management and there is local HR. Staff repeatedly tell me that even among more senior colleagues in the hospital system, it is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I apologise if my next question was already covered. Where will this end up? Will it eventually be recognised as a lifelong disability? The people who contact our offices by phone or email or who come to our clinics say there was the immediate phase where they were unable to work. Now, they are at home trying to live normal lives but find themselves to be breathless, tired and suffering...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I do not want to comment too much about the agreement that was reached between the Department and the unions. There is a three-month rollover backdated to 1 April, which is good. However, rollover after rollover will eventually run out. Dialogue needs to happen. Some people have, as Dr. Jeffrey stated, had long Covid for three and a half or four years. It is important that we start to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I apologise for being a little late. A few committee meetings coincide on Wednesday afternoons. I have read the opening statement, and I thank the witnesses for their service. I mean that sincerely. Thanks to Irish Rail, I am able to commute from the bottom of County Clare. I have to get an early morning train at 7.45 a.m. to get up for my day's work. I will go back down at 9 p.m....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: This question relates to Dublin Bus in particular and the Luas to a certain extent. There is a large amount of driver training, but is any training offered to new entrants with regard to what they may face in terms of antisocial behaviour? They should not have to de-escalate, but what do they do if something breaks out on a bus or Luas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I have seen incidents kicking off on buses. The buses are fantastic and get people around, but they seem a little flimsy. When a bus goes over a speed ramp, the whole vehicle rattles. The driver's cab seems to be made of perspex or flexiglass. Has the union or have front-line drivers ever said they have had this for between ten and 15 years and they need something more? Going beyond...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Mr. Murphy for that perspective. Under the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act 2003, if someone is before the court for causing bedlam in a certain shop or giving hassle outside Penneys, Dunnes Stores or wherever, the judge can order that person not to go back to the shop in question for a 12-month period or longer. I am sure many employees have had to sit in the dock of a court on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Would Mr. Murphy be open to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Yes, it is very worrying. My final question is to Mr. Wynne to build on that. I get the train an awful lot and it is comfortable and a lovely way to travel. It is so efficient, actually. People who do not travel on the train think it does not run on time, but it runs to the second; it is unbelievable. Very rarely something kicks off on the train and I have seen on Dublin Bus, the Luas...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Mr. Wynne. If the Leas-Chathaoirleach will allow me one tiny last question-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: All credit to Dublin Bus, the service runs very late and it allows people to get home safely from a bar, nightclub or restaurant late at night. The issue with the inter-city buses and Irish Rail is you cannot really leave the capital after 9 p.m. at night, which is a pity when there is a big concert, match or whatever in Dublin. Not everyone can get a hotel. Jim Meade tells us it is...