Results 581-600 of 6,048 for speaker:Cathal Crowe

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (29 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 683. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the €1,000 reduction relating specifically to the student contribution payable by students eligible for free tuition in publicly funded third level colleges will be available for the coming academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28462/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the leeway; I was chairing a committee. I want to ask about the HIQA report into emergency care in the mid-west region, in particular University Hospital Limerick. The report was commissioned early last autumn and is due to come to the Government by the end of this month or possibly early next month. Is there any update on that? When might we know the...

Gaza: Motion (28 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: The 7 October terror attacks on Israel are to be condemned outright but the eye-for-an-eye approach adopted by the Israeli state since has been indefensible. The bombing of hospitals, schools and tents and the killing of children and babies, including newborn babies in hospitals, is reprehensible. It is the worst we have seen in our lifetime. What is happening is not a war anymore; it is...

Committee on Transport: National Transport Authority: Engagement (28 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the witnesses for being at our meeting today and for the opening statement . There are quite a few points to get through so I might go quickly into them. I recently tabled a number of parliamentary questions and wrote to the NTA and the Minister for Transport on this. When coach operators apply for licensing, the NTA, in my opinion, looks at this in a very one-dimensional way. The...

Committee on Transport: National Transport Authority: Engagement (28 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I totally get that point when it is a case of A to B, Limerick to Kilkenny, or Galway to Dublin, or whatever, but for tourism it has to be viewed a little bit differently. Some of the timetables they submit to the NTA are totally unrealistic. In trying to get around this crazy route and back up again, they are putting huge pressure on themselves as drivers, on the service and on the local...

Committee on Transport: National Transport Authority: Engagement (28 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: While we will, we hope, have Irish Rail before this committee in due course, it is my understanding that the NTA has a large function with regard to scheduling, timetabling and service provision. The last train out of Dublin is at nine o’clock at night. In the past year, there have been some pretty big matches in Croke Park and Taylor Swift concerts in the Aviva. As people cannot...

Committee on Transport: National Transport Authority: Engagement (28 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Mr. Creegan. The apps used by Bus Éireann and Dublin Bus to indicate when the next service is coming along lack accuracy. Google Maps is far more accurate, despite it not being the platform our State is plugged into. Why is that? What can the NTA do to improve that?

Committee on Transport: National Transport Authority: Engagement (28 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: The Ennistymon bus service has been mooted for many years. We heard it could happen in 2025, but now it is 2026. When will it happen? The NTA might also review an application before it for a bus service for Meelick in my home village. I ask the witnesses to come back to me specifically on that bus service. We have been waiting and waiting for it, and all the while we see other buses...

Committee on Transport: National Transport Authority: Engagement (28 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Mr. Creegan might come back to me with regard to that bus service. I would not want him to forget about it when he leaves here. I thank the witnesses for everything.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (28 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 150. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform and Reform if he will report on the measures he is taking to provide flood relief and to guard against future threats in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28322/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 236. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans he has to change the regulations for small dwellings, such a portacabins to be built in people’s gardens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28469/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (28 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 308. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will intervene to expedite an urgent visa appeal for a person (details supplied). [28327/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (28 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 391. To ask the Minister for Health if she will intervene to assist a patient (details supplied) who is in need of an urgent bed in a nursing home in Ennis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27970/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Business Supports (27 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 143. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department will reverse plans to close the National Digital Research Centre (NDRC); his Department’s plans to support early-stage digital enterprises and start-ups here if the NDRC ceases operations in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26973/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 292. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason children attending ASD pre-schools are not entitled to a special transport grant unlike those enrolled in ASD classes in primary and secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27104/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department can financially support the daily travel costs incurred by family of a child (details supplied) who has an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis and attends an ASD pre-school far from their home, on the recommendation of a special educational needs organiser; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27212/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Reunification (27 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 491. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will facilitate the reunification of a family currently housed in two temporary protection accommodation centres on either side of the country (details supplied). [27716/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Family Support Services (27 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 549. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for information regarding the little baby bundle pilot scheme, as it has evolved since 2023, both in terms of feedback from the 2023 initiative and in terms of whether iterations of the scheme have been carried out since 2023 or will be carried out in a planned year again, e.g., in 2025 or 2026; and if she will...

Biodiversity Week: Statements (21 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I am sharing my time with Deputy Cormac Devlin. Sometimes they say a Minister is well geared to his Ministry. There is no better Ministry for Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan than the one he has. I congratulate him on his new role. It is great to see him sitting on the Front Bench. Those who do not know Deputy O'Sullivan, or Christopher as we know him on this side, should note that when he...

Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support Schemes: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: It is my first time seeing the Minister of State sitting on the Front Bench. I congratulate her. She is a fine representative for Carlow and it is great to see her in the elevated office of Minister of State. I will make a few comments as part of this debate. I am glad that the programme for Government includes as a priority the abolition of the means test for carers. It is only...