Results 41-60 of 5,781 for speaker:Cathal Crowe

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Irish Aviation Authority: Engagement (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I propose that when we go about the national aviation policy - we will have to do quite a body of work on this - our committee should be cognisant of the lack of regional balance in it and we should seek to insert new criteria. We appreciate what the IAA does. It works in frameworks and we have to set the frameworks. Going forward, there should be some criteria whereby when an application...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Irish Aviation Authority: Engagement (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: You will get the Liam MacCarthy Cup and that will be enough for you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Irish Aviation Authority: Engagement (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I want to go back to the point I made a short while ago, lest it be misconstrued. A few months ago, I floated this idea and within an hour, the DAA had issued a press release to the effect that I was ridiculously suggesting that there be a Shannon stopover. I know that cannot happen. That would be illegal, ludicrous and contrary to EU law. No one is talking about winding back the dial,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Irish Aviation Authority: Engagement (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Irish Aviation Authority: Engagement (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I appreciate that. It is a majority. Something like 60% or 70% is being picked up by the Woodcock Hill radar. For disclosure, I own farmland abutting that facility and am from that community. It concerns me. Woodcock Hill has existed since the 1970s and that radar is all-important, above everything, to air safety, but it is also a lucrative national asset. Many of those aircraft that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Irish Aviation Authority: Engagement (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: But they are paying money to Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Irish Aviation Authority: Engagement (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: It is a different rate collector but they are paying. Air safety is number one and it is also generating money. Would Mr. Fitzpatrick agree that it is a strategic national asset?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Irish Aviation Authority: Engagement (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Is that compromised by the many wind turbine applications that are currently being applied for in the east Clare area? Some would stand 180 m tall and it could be argued that rotating blades, with four, five or possibly more rotations per minute, would interfere with the radio wave that goes from the radar, pings off the airplane and gives the air traffic controllers the vertical and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Irish Aviation Authority: Engagement (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I appreciate Mr. Fitzpatrick's answer. I am conscious that we throw a lot at the witnesses at these meetings. What I am going into is very granular. In this case, the Irish Aviation Authority is a vast organisation and we are a big enough country, even though people say it is small. It has on this occasion identified problems and risks. It has objected and appealed in the planning...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Irish Aviation Authority: Engagement (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: It told me to ask the IAA.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Irish Aviation Authority: Engagement (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: In conclusion, the IAA has been very good on this position. I know I am throwing a bit of a curveball, but the IAA has been solid and is protecting a national asset from a safety point of view and an air navigation point of view, so I thank the authority thus far for its efforts in prioritising air safety.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 134. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider loosening the criteria for the vacant property grant, which does not allow the property to be occupied during the grant application process as it can cause difficulties for the applicants (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39810/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 252. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department will undertake a full assessment of the financial impact of heart failure on patients with recommendations on appropriate actions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39903/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (16 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 253. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an overview of actions that are being taken to ensure a reduction in current waiting lists of up to two years for cardiac rehabilitation programmes, which reduce death from heart disease by at least 20%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39904/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Enterprise Policy (15 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 127. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to review and simplify the current business and enterprise tax system to promote innovation and economic growth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39357/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Policies (15 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 168. To ask the Taoiseach the main policy achievements of his Department since 23 January 2025. [38763/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Policies (15 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 175. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the main policy achievements of his Department since 23 January 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38755/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Policies (15 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 216. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the main policy achievements of his Department since 23 January 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38749/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Policies (15 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 237. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the main policy achievements of his Department since 23 January 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38751/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Policies (15 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 267. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the main policy achievements of his Department since 23 January 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38764/25]