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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I second that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the Minister and his officials and thank them for their continuous engagement with the committee. I want to go through a few points. One point I have repeatedly made at the committee is that in the months of July and August, when the schools are closed, people can get around any town or city in Ireland with relative ease. This morning, I got the 7.40 a.m. train and as there is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I am sorry for interjecting but the clock is always against us. I thank the Minister for his detailed reply. Some of the positive gains we have made over the past three years are now at risk of being eroded. I am speaking of the Local Link service. Many of the new routes that have been licensed by the National Transport Authority, NTA, are linked to locations in rural Ireland where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System: Minister for Transport and Communications (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I fear the situation will be replicated. I ask the Minister to raise this at Cabinet. Due to what we have gained in respect of those services, we should decouple them from the initial criteria and just say it is merited to have a bus in that community - it could be anywhere in Ireland - and retain that service. I have two final questions. I will go through them quickly. Point 29 of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the witnesses from the HSE for their engagement. I have a number of questions. I will begin with child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS. The Department of Education last year launched a pilot in-school therapeutic support scheme in counties Cavan, Laois, Leitrim, Longford, Mayo, Monaghan and Tipperary. Have the witnesses any metrics as to how CAMHS waiting lists have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: They include counties Cavan, Laois and Leitrim. Perhaps we could take Cavan as a sample county.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: That is interesting. Only seven counties were included in the pilot scheme but two of them, Cavan and Monaghan, are in CHO 1. That is an interesting improvement. I was interested to hear the figure because I come from the primary school profession and there is a long-held belief that many of these supports can be provided in schools if the resources are in place rather than putting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: That is correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Did Dr. Burke say it has not had an impact?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: There is a lot in that question and many counties are involved. Perhaps at some stage the witnesses could come back to the committee about the comparisons between a CHO area that has this pilot scheme and one that has not. I would love to see if the scheme has worked from the perspective of the HSE. The Department has its metrics that are pulled from the same pot. I am wondering if the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I raised the following point previously with Mr. Gloster. We know that people avail of the National Treatment Purchase Fund for eye treatment and for varicose vein treatment. As I said before, it would be another way to reduce CAMHS lists if we brought more children into that realm. Of course, someone has to be seen in his or her locality first of all through a primary care referral but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: In the short term, that is a game-changer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I say that as a former teacher. We used to despair looking at those lists so that approach would be a game-changer in getting assessments and diagnostics at least out of the way. The therapeutic requirement could be met at a more local level. It needs to be routine and regular but to move some of the diagnostic and assessment phase online at a crisis time, which this is, would be great. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I ask that it be a priority because as Mr. Gloster knows well, across many metrics CHO 3 is the poor relation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: It is very much needed. Mr. Gloster mentioned that 167,000 people, or thereabouts, are currently working in healthcare. Are there breakdowns available of how many of them are agency staff or staff who have come from non-EEA countries on a visa? As I have mentioned many times to the HSE and to the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, yet again in September we will have graduation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I want to squeeze in one last question. I thank Ms Hoey for her comprehensive answer. There is quite a detailed section in the report on primary care centres. There is a proposed primary care centre in CHO 3 at Sixmilebridge in County Clare about which I am concerned. It has been held up for a long time. Additionally, I have contacted the Department in the past, as has Councillor David...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: It is still years away, it would seem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Mr. Gloster for that. The gap in Newmarket-on-Fergus could be very easily plugged if the HSE purchased or took out a long lease on a number of vacant buildings in the village. There is a huge gap there. The HSE's estates and property team has looked at it but it is very much needed. I ask that fresh eyes are put on the situation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: That is great, thanks.