Results 2,141-2,160 of 5,405 for speaker:Cathal Crowe

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (30 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 21. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider liaising with Bus Éireann to issue free travel passes to Ukrainian refugees for a set period of time in order to allow them to get from rural locations to urban centres for work and school as they assimilate into Irish society. [16840/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 119. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way that he proposes to support farmers who are struggling to meet inflationary input costs. [16788/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to ask the Minister this morning what interventions he is taking to intervene in the spiralling costs that farm families are facing at this time.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Thousands of people depend on farming in Ireland, including the 6,000 farms in my own county of Clare. If this were a normal year, we would be expecting farm exports such as dairy and meat, etc., to be netting €14 billion for this country and feeding a worldwide population of 40 million. That is where we would be aiming to be at. We have had to look very much inward now because...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (31 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Yesterday, a group of us met with the Association of Farm & Forestry Contractors of Ireland, FCI, in the audiovisual room in Leinster House 2000. One of the requests it is making to the Minister's Department and to the Government overall is for 200 million l of green diesel to be ring-fenced for its sector to ensure we get a silage crop. It is now time for grass growing during the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (31 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 33. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of a HSE health centre at Sixmilebridge, County Clare. [16795/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (31 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 67. To ask the Minister for Health the number of anaesthetists who are employed to work within the UL Hospitals Group; and the way this compares with other hospital groups. [16796/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (31 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 145. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way his Department determines that land has been abandoned. [16789/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (31 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 327. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide the annual turnover of social care and social work staff members in the children-in-care teams in the mid-west region for the years 2019, 2020 and 2021; the number of social care and social work staff members who were out of work due to work-related stress for the years 2019, 2020 and 2021;...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: There are five secondary schools in Ennis, County Clare, and they are very pressurised. Over the years, many children applying to them were refused and had to try another school and then another. These days, a common application system is operational and works well. The problem is there are children in second, third and fourth year in other schools who could not get into a school in Ennis...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The war in Ukraine rightly dominated the agenda of the European Council. Many people are wearing the colours of Ukraine today and many have asked about my tie. Conveniently, it is my old Clare County Council tie. Once the yellow and blue of Clare were the colours of war and battle. They were the colours that Brian Boru wore as he went into battle.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: They instilled fear in the enemy, but these days, the yellow and blue of Clare are the colours of welcome, love and peace. As of census night last Sunday, 1.5% of the entire population of Clare is Ukrainian. We have one third of all Ukrainians in Ireland. Up until last week, we had more Ukrainians than the entirety of Britain. We are very proud as a county and community for the role we...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Regeneration Projects (5 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 118. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of a town and village renewal scheme application by a centre (details supplied). [17843/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (5 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 124. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she can outline a pathway forward for a proposed marine training facility in west County Clare, which was unsuccessful in an application for funding. [17861/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 241. To ask the Minister for Finance if the 2.5% transaction charge applicable to transactions handled by a company (details supplied) emanating from Northern Ireland versus the 1.4% fee applicable to those that originate in the Republic of Ireland is congruent with the Brexit agreement and financial protocols in it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17611/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (5 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 570. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) regarding a SUSI grant issue. [18384/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (5 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 725. To ask the Minister for Health if he will waive the requirement to have a general practitioner sign a medical card form for Ukrainian refugees in view of the fact that many general practitioners are not taking on new medical card applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17728/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (5 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 947. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the provisions that are contained in the new CAP programme for Irish rare breeds (details supplied); and if apart from GLAS, which is closed to new entrants, there are schemes available for promoting farmers to keep Irish rare breeds. [18322/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Ms Rogers and Professor Hardiman for being here. I have been following the meeting remotely. There is still not a normal working environment here, so I was tuning into this in my office. I apologise for just arriving now. I read the opening statement and I listened to the witnesses' interactions with the members. I am not medically trained. I do not think there are many of us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Neurological Services, Care and Capacity: Neurological Alliance of Ireland (30 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The written submission indicates that approximately 13,000 people were waiting for neurological appointments in 2015. That has risen to 24,000. How much of that increase can be attribute to the disruption of public healthcare during Covid and how much was caused by a lack of capacity in our public health system?