Results 341-360 of 4,559 for speaker:Cathal Crowe

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach for extending me some latitude. I understand there has been a budgetary overrun on the national train control centre. Where is it at and who is picking up the tab? All of us here have a rudimentary knowledge of what is going on. The old points levers are well and truly gone. We have an automated system. For the laypeople, and we are laypeople, - I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Has it cost more than was intended?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Yes, it is my final question. I find trains to be a safe, efficient and fabulous way to travel. More people should be on them. On a very rare occasion - once - I had to make a 999 call from the train because of the actions of another passenger. Occasionally, you see someone losing the rag or someone who is possibly under the influence of drugs, but it is tricky to go down to the bathroom...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Yes. It would be great if there was a text facility on board so you could say there was trouble in carriage D or if An Garda Síochána need to intervene at the next station, that there would be a more discreet way of doing it. It is pretty difficult to make a call or to get a message out of a train when you are shuttling along down the track.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the witnesses for all their work.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Projects and Operations: Iarnród Éireann (24 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: It allows the management to resonate with staff within the organisation, so well done. I have quite a number of points and I want to go through them nice and quickly if that is possible. On that 6.40 a.m. train there were three carriages, A, B and C. It was lovely and quiet until we got beyond Thurles. Then we picked up in Ballybrophy. There were stops in Portlaoise and Portarlington....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (23 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 56. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the progress he expects in 2024 towards realising level of ambition 2 for the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2698/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (23 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 80. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to protect the use of the term “Óglaigh na hÉireann”; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2697/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (23 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 226. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW would consider selling the former Garda station in Broadford, County Clare, to the Broadford Parish Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2547/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Ireland (23 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 333. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason Waterways Ireland does not supply electricity to boats moored in Lough Derg over the winter months; if there are plans to change this protocol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2348/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (23 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 523. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on plans relating to a building (details supplied) earmarked for accommodation for international protection applicants. [2688/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (23 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 590. To ask the Minister for Health if an implementation budget has been earmarked for the recommendations that will come from the Rare Disease Strategy Steering Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2490/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 591. To ask the Minister for Health for an updated on the implementation of Electronic Health Records in Ireland; and if he will clarify why Ireland is so far behind its European counterparts in this regard. [2491/24]

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

Cathal Crowe: 592. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be a rare disease clinic at the new National Children’s Hospital. [2492/24]

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

Cathal Crowe: 594. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm the locations of the centres of excellence identified in the 2016 Rare Disease Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2494/24]

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

Cathal Crowe: 593. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify why the Midwest is the only CHO without a Model 3 hospital. [2493/24]

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

Cathal Crowe: 595. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the timeline for the implementation of the European Reference Networks standards for ensuring data from all health settings is captured with regard to rare disease, i.e., community healthcare up to hospital settings. [2495/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 14. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on efforts his Department and the Health Service Executive are undertaking to improve University Hospital Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1990/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (18 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 73. To ask the Minister for Health if sepsis protocols in public hospitals will be updated in order that every patient, at the time of triaging or admission, is asked if they have ever had sepsis before; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1989/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (18 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the development of new campus facilities for the Technological University of the Shannon at Coonagh, Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1992/24]