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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: We will have a kind of cliff-edge situation in a few weeks, when the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, has to assess TII's fairly hefty submission and decide whether he accepts it. I will be very clear that I am not disputing the road safety argument for a moment, but I, along with Deputies and Senators on a cross-party basis, am telling him that the blanket approach will not work here. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I appreciate that it is a tricky question. Deputy O'Connor elicited some answers that spoke volumes to me as well. I thank the witnesses for the work they are doing. We might not agree on everything. We appreciate the engagement. I urge TII to please try to work a bit better with local authorities. TII should ask the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, for a doubling of the unit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Toll Increases and Ongoing Projects: Discussion with Transport Infrastructure Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Yes. We can follow up with our party colleague.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (27 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 61. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the estimated cumulative value of the investments to be made in counties Clare, Tipperary and Limerick, respectively, under the timeframe of the National Development Plan 2021-2030; the estimated funding drawdown to date in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30986/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (27 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 71. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an overview of the progress to date under national strategic outcome No. 2 of the National Development Plan 2021-2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30987/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fisheries Protection (27 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 144. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his attention has been drawn to a recent fish kill in the Ballymacraven river, County Clare; if he will provide details of what investigative work his Department and the Environmental Protection Agency have undertaken following this event; how he proposes to support the restoration of the Ballymacraven river; and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Availability (27 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 208. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware that owners of homes with defective concrete blocks are, in the main, unable to have their homes remortgaged; how he proposes to address this with pillar banks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30936/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (27 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 375. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update and indicative timeline on the legal action the Government intends to take against manufacturers of defective concrete blocks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30929/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (27 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 376. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects applications for defective concrete block redress will go live; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30930/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (27 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 377. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware insurance companies are refusing to offer certain levels of insurance cover to homes with confirmed and suspected pyrite and mica defects and that this is causing many house sales to fall through; how he proposes to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30931/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (27 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 378. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has sanctioned a facilitator role in Clare County Council to oversee the roll-out of the expected defective concrete block redress scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30932/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (27 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 379. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the new facilitator roles he has approved to oversee the roll-out of defective concrete block redress at county level are being funded from the overall purse the Government has ring-fenced for redress; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30937/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (27 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 515. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the Strategic Environmental Assessment and Appropriate Assessment processes that are currently being undertaken with regard to the Forestry Programme 2023-2027; when he expects these processes to conclude; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31296/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (27 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 693. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the difficulties that owners of homes with defective concrete blocks are having in fully accessing the fair deal scheme; how he proposes to address these difficulties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30935/23]

Youth Justice Strategy: Statements (21 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 5 o’clock The youth justice strategy is quite a positive document that has the young people of Ireland front and centre. I taught in quite a sheltered community where my local school was located. Many teachers I trained with in college told me of their immense despair when, several years after teaching a lovely innocent child in a classroom, they found out that a couple of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (21 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 174. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage in talks with community pharmacies and their representative body (details supplied) on a restoration of the dispensing fee to a flat-rate model, a pay restoration in line with public sector pay agreements, and reimbursement for the ever-increasing administrative burden they face; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29905/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 321. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) can expect to have their UP2CD forms to be returned to them by the primary payroll division of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29489/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (20 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 478. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will introduce grants to assist non-organic farmers to install rainwater harvesting systems; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29354/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (15 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the building works at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28965/23]

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I congratulate the Minister on how she is leading her Department. She is doing a great job. She has been to County Clare many times and she has been a good friend to the county by providing plenty of funding. In particular, I am delighted to see our digital hubs now enabling people to work in high-tech, smart and pharmaceutical companies in Dublin, but be domiciled in County Clare. They...