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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I have seen the shot of the textbook and it is a very short paragraph. It lacks an awful lot of definition. A paragraph does not say everything but it looked to be quite open-ended. That is what I would always have seen discretion to be. Discretion is open-ended. A referee on a sports field has a degree of discretion. He or she has a rule book and then there is a little bit of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: There is an issue if someone is suspended for three years or more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I will leave it at that. Finally, we had a national debate on the airwaves this morning about e-scooters. Given that many youngsters now have e-bikes and faster ways of getting around, will An Garda Síochána be seeking an update of the Garda bike fleet to include e-bikes, e-scooters and more modern ways of moving around? When one goes to the US, one sees police officers on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I have a few points to make. I listened with interest to the responses given by Mr. Harris and Ms Hilman to Deputy Kenny. They were very much going down the avenue of discretion. In the context of a situation where a person is pulled over on suspicion of being under the influence of drugs, the witnesses started to elaborate on how gardaí have discretion. To build on a point from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I nearly know the answer to my next question but it is worth asking anyway. There is a drive on to recruit new members of the Garda Reserve. Can members of the latter have any role in terms of road policing or is this totally locked out? Is this a role for the rank-and-file gardaí?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I have a question about the Criminal Assets Bureau, CAB. It relates to road safety. There is not a town in Ireland where the Garda is not investigating a guy who does not go out to work but who has a big car in the driveway, takes luxury holidays and has a nice watch on his wrist. These people are in every community, unfortunately. They are the scourge of society. An Garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: That is reassuring, but it is at odds with what is often said in the organisation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Commissioner. My next question concerns age-old laws that allow horses to be on the roads in Ireland. It is probably a throwback to yesteryear, when many families did not have cars but did have a pony and trap, a donkey or whatever they could afford. It is still nice to see a horse being brought around when appropriately tethered to a cart. It is a nice traditional thing....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: There is a nettle to be grasped. This is a major public safety issue in the context of our roads. I am glad the Garda is being proactive. No one is entitled to own a horse or another animal. I am a farmer - I inherited a farm. I would not have been able to decide, seven years ago, that I wanted horses, cattle or sheep because I did not have an inch of ground to put them on. Yet, some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Absolutely, and horse welfare. There are many reasons. We are discussing road safety in particular. Deputy Lowry mentioned this earlier. Three or four years ago, call centres moved to civilian staffing. Whether for road safety or other crimes, when people phone that line or when you phone your station to get a car dispatched, you are fed through this phone system. I think it is a centre...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I understand, from an efficiency point of view, that the Garda wants to free people up from manning lines and have gardaí out there policing the streets. I do not mean this in a disparaging way - the people do not have policing smarts. None of the members of the committee is a garda; none of us has Garda training. It is the witnesses and the members of the force who have that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the witnesses for their contributions today. I represent some of the population - only a small part of Ireland. I would love to see the staff get better training. It is a system that is not going to be dismantled anytime soon, it would appear. It needs to be significantly beefed up. I do not know what the correct term is but the policing smarts need to be in this system. If...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (14 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify the rules regarding the building defects scheme as they pertain to rental properties (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21733/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (14 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 608. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has any plans for reducing bureaucracy and paperwork in the oxygen provision reimbursement system (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21635/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (9 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: It is a reduction on last year.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (9 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister for taking these questions. The LIS is extremely important to rural areas, as she well knows. In County Clare, 172 applications have been approved. Clare County Council estimates that even though these are approved applicants, it will take eight to nine years to fulfil them on the basis of the current funding model. As Deputies, we receive announcements. We received...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (9 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister for her engagement and for her answer. I have looked at the funding for last year and this year. Many counties have gained. Clare could be unique - I accept that there may be more counties involved - because it has seen a diminution in funding. I am a Government backbencher. Across nearly all funding streams I can think of - including sports capital funding, the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (9 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 7. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will significantly increase the allocation from her Department to the local improvement scheme. [20838/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (9 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for a report on his recent meeting with the Northern Ireland Secretary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20768/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (9 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his response to the ruling earlier this year by the High Court in Belfast in relation to the UK government’s legacy legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20769/24]