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Social Welfare Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The Deputy is fooling nobody apart from maybe a few people down home.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: In the recent budget our colleague the Minister, Deputy Norma Foley, secured a budget of €5 million for in-school counselling supports in primary schools. It is fantastic. I hope it will go some way towards beginning to deal with anxiety and the mental health issues that very much came to the fore in our country's young people during the Covid pandemic. A couple of weeks ago I...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 47. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a new Employment Regulation Order can be implemented to increase pay for the security industry; and if the pay will be backdated, given the delays experienced. [58207/22]

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the Minister of State and her team. I hope the Minister of State does not mind me asking who is on her team. It is a genuine question. We have had a lot of online sessions. This is only the second face-to-face meeting. I would like to know the names of everyone in the room.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: It is not a curveball question. It is just-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State. I am trying to join the dots. What was emailed to us this morning concerned several elements. It included the Minister of State's speech, which had a lot of content, and tables. I will hone in on the tables. Reference was made to public service obligations, PSOs. There was a budget heading of €23.8 million. I want to drill down on that figure....

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Forgive me, but the clock keeps ticking down.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Comments can be made on local media. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Coveney, was doorstepped a few weeks ago with a question on a PSO for Shannon Airport, to which he replied it might not happen. What is the Minister of State's perspective on the PSO application? Is it about to leave her Department positively and move to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, is it...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Is that separate to the national aviation policy review?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I do not want to pre-empt what could be a positive process, but it should not lead to a two-tier aviation policy, if the Minister of State will pardon the expression, where national aviation policy deals with Dublin while the regional airports programme deals with other airports. I would like the two to run concurrently. There is merit in what she is doing and we need to develop a growth...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: And when will it end?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: There is a bit of a panic about this. When we discuss aviation, we are all guilty of thinking about airlines and airports and forgetting about leasing, drones and aviation's other subsectors. I met representatives of some of them yesterday. They are in a bit of a panic. The policy review will get under way in a few weeks and could conclude in the spring, leading to a flurry of activity in...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Will the Minister of State tell us what the dates are as they become clearer?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: There are time lines though?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Like all of us, the Minister of State was a local authority member. They are facing into a budget without knowing what they are planning for. This, if it happens, could account for one third of all expenditure in County Clare. They do not know if they will have it or not next year. There needs to be some certainty. I respect that multiple Departments are involved here but none of the...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I will conclude with a few comments rather than questions. The Minister of State needs to have some oversight over TII and the NTA. They are very tricky for us, as elected representatives, to deal with. They are faceless. Half the time, we do not know who we are dealing with. We cannot get answers from them. It is a level of quangoism that came in some years ago with the HSE. There...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 31 - Transport (Supplementary) (23 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: On Friday, Clare County Council will have its annual budgetary meeting. Its budgetary year does not align fully with the Government's budgetary year because local authorities and the Government have different budgetary years. Clare County Council is facing into 2023 not knowing whether it will be the custodian of the Shannon Heritage sites. This matter is a large component of the Minister...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (22 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 123. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide a report on the latest developments on the Northern Ireland protocol. [57567/22]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Disaster Response (22 Nov 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 140. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding that Ireland has provided to tackle the crisis in Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea. [57626/22]