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Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: The advent of Brexit has had a very negative effect on Ireland overall but it is certainly felt more in some of the regions. In County Clare, we very much look to Europe yet our backs are to the Atlantic Ocean. Since the advent of Brexit, we find ourselves very much cut off from continental Europe. We no longer have air connectivity into continental Europe, our only hub connectivity being...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the draft list of strategic risks 2023 in the national risk assessment. [8882/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Shannon Heritage sites like the iconic Bunratty Castle are major cogs in the economy of the mid-west region. In the summer of 2021, the Cabinet decided it would be best to devolve these sites away from the auspices of the Shannon Airport Group and have them managed by the region's local authorities. Councils like Clare County Council in my constituency are eager to make this a success and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will meet next. [8879/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 195. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will meet with a group (details supplied) regarding concerns with visa processing. [8961/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 251. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is of the view that his Department should take on the responsibility of submitting form 1 forestry applications for grant-aided schemes, in light of the amount of work it is taking for foresters to do, to allow foresters instead complete ground work (details supplied). [8997/23]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I was following some of this in my office. I am not a member of the committee but I would like to contribute. First, I thank the Minister of State and his staff for their work in Cloonlara. The Minister of State has been down there several times with the Oireachtas representatives and local residents. It is a success and we thank them for that. The water levels were getting quite high in...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Yes.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Recently the Dutch ambassador came in here to meet some representatives of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport and Communications, and a few of us travelled to the Netherlands. We asked them how can they maintain all of their water channels routinely and every day of the year. The man we asked said he would find out and get back to us. We expected a big volume of a report but the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: That is correct, yes. Maybe it is a controversial thing to say but we need to remove the protected status from certain sections so at least, on the meander of a river, a machine can do work without having to first go through a rigmarole of protection and the opposite side could be for bird nesting. That is how other countries seem to have got around this matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome our witnesses and thank them for being here this morning. I was following much of the earlier discussion in my office. I ask that they forgive me if I ask any repetitive questions. I am trying not to. I think all my questions are new. I will ask about the requirement one has with regard to vehicle licensing. What level of driver licence does one need, to work for NAS?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Does NAS have a metric on how many people may have lost out on entry to the course in Cork or University of Limerick, UL, on the basis of not having the right licence at the time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: One of the reasons I ask is that I am on the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport and Communications. We were in this very room last week, talking about driver licences. I was able to give an example from my emails, of a youngster in west Clare facing a 29-week wait to get tested. He missed out on becoming a paramedic, because of that. We were told last week, in this very room, that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: That is good to hear. Will the practical placement of the reconfigured course involve placement in Ireland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: That is a sensible approach. I commend NAS on it. That is where everyone wants it to get to. One of those UL graduates has recently been in contact with my office. The person is fully graduated and has three or four years' practical experience with the NHS ambulance service. The person is mad to get back here to Ireland and is finding it impossible to get in to NAS. I will read about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: That is good to hear. A new protocol took effect in the mid-west in early January whereby many patients who would have attended University Hospital Limerick are now being transferred to the medical assessment unit in Ennis. I believe there are plans afoot to implement something similar in Nenagh. How is that working operationally for ambulance crews? It is working from a public point of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I am finished my questions. I thank the witnesses for their answers. They are making good headway. I have my fingers crossed that we will see more recruits. I thank the witnesses for everything they are doing and ask them to pass on my best wishes to all of the services' front-line staff for everything they are doing.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Promotion (21 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 108. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the steps her Department is taking to promote eco-tourism across the country. [8397/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (21 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 225. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider pausing the planned VAT increase in order to protect a sector (details supplied) in danger from the increase. [8291/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (21 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an urgent update on a re-checked Leaving Certificate exam result for a student (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8326/23]