Results 1-10 of 10 for other and baby speaker:Cathal Crowe

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (31 Jan 2024)

Cathal Crowe: The final issue is quite a sensitive one. At the committee a few months ago, I spoke about psychiatric care given to women who have postnatal depression and-or postpartum psychosis. A woman asked me to represent her case, which was a very delicate and sensitive one. I asked whether she was sure she wanted that and she said "Yes". We went through the whole thing. She watched every minute...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Estates management is a key. The Minister has just spoken about building new 96-bed blocks. In the mid-west region, and this is probably replicated nationwide, there are a lot of public healthcare facilities lying idle. Inisgile is a 16-bed mental health facility located in my home parish of Parteen that briefly opened as a vaccination centre for Covid. In 2019, it was fully refitted and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I appreciate the reply. There is a lot in the report and I will finish with a question about design because I know that is important but I want to home in on the safety aspects. I love the train. I take it three or four times a week to get from Clare to Dublin. I love it, but I have also seen some hairy episodes, examples of illegal, criminal and thuggish behaviour. People who should be...

Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: It has taken some time but I am glad that, finally, the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022 is before Dáil Éireann. This legislation has been long awaited by many people. Over many years there have been repeated attempts to draft legislation to provide adopted people with the right to key information about their birth situation. I am a member of the Oireachtas committee which...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I confirm that I am in Leinster House 2000. I read Mr. Sunderland’s statement, and I followed his delivery of it. The one thing I wanted to home in on was article 15.4 of the GDPR. We are trying, insofar as is possible, to scrutinise this legislation, and ensure that when it comes out the other end is that it is very much favourable to the survivors and victims of the mother and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Updates on Breastfeeding: Discussion (12 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I join the Chairman and others in thanking Bainne Beatha and Cuidiú for being here this morning. I have read the witness statements and I thank them for all the work they are doing. Overnight we heard the positive announcement by the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, of €1.58 million to hire an additional 24 lactation consultants for hospitals. I am also really delighted to hear that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of a Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Apr 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I am in Leinster House. Two or three committees are aligning at the same time today and I am trying to move headphones from one device to another so I thank the Chairman for letting me back in. To concur with what other speakers have said, the past number of weeks at work have involved the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation and the burials Bill. Listening to opening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of a Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I confirm that I am in the precincts of Leinster House. Like others, I begin by thanking Catherine Corless. Without her, we would not be at this point today concerning engagement with victims and survivors. We are trying to bring about justice for all those not just associated with Tuam but also the entire mother and baby system that prevailed in Ireland for far too long. What a horrible...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Engagement with the Minister for Children, Disability, Equality, Integration and Youth (16 Feb 2021)

Cathal Crowe: It is often the case that when archives have to be destroyed they are placed in an archive box somewhere in a Department and may not yet have been destroyed. It is very important to dig deep and immediately establish the position in that regard with certainty. The staff in my office draw up a list of people I have to call back and WhatsApp it to me. I received a call from a lady in my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Sustainable Development Goals and Departmental Priorities: Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I will pick up on the Minister's final comment. It is right that there would be exhumation of the remains of babies who did not receive a Christian burial and were buried wrongly and inappropriately on the sites of some of these mother and baby homes. As we approach the centenary of the State, we will only be able to move forward with maturity and with our heads held high as a people when...