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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: On a slight tangent, National Broadband Ireland, NBI, is fulfilling a huge contract for the State but, when you go down the highways and byways of rural Ireland, you will not always see an NBI van. You will see contractors and sole traders. Plumbers, electricians and telecommunications companies have taken on smaller sectional contracts and their vans are darting up and down the road. By...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I will move on to the issue of international driving licences. I have read through the list of countries we have partnerships with, and I have read about the length of time conversions are taking, but I will focus in on the United States. A woman came to my clinic in west Clare two weeks ago. The situation has now been regularised but, for a long time, when she and her compatriots from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: It is just very frustrating. I am from the mid-west but I am sure this is an issue in every part of the country. As a nation, Ireland Inc. is inviting in these multinationals and trying to entice and attract in big American businesses. The €11 billion package in the budget two weeks ago is largely based on taxes from these big companies. It is kind of what is keeping the country...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I will conclude on road safety. I have tabled a parliamentary question on this issue but the RSA may be better placed to answer it. Cycling Ireland has a campaign it has named Stayin’ Alive at 1.5. It aims to have cars stay out from cyclists as they pass. However, there is no such campaign for pedestrians. In rural Ireland, it is very often the case that pedestrians have to stand...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: What about the avoidance of pedestrians?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Mr. Waide.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The Minister for Finance just left a moment ago. Would the Government consider a deferral of the rates re-evaluation that is currently under way in Clare, Donegal, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, Galway, Kerry and Mayo? These areas are currently facing their first commercial rates re-evaluation in 160 years, the last one having taken place in 1862. They have been well supported by the...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: This whole "step aside" thing is not, unfortunately, how democracy works. We had an election. There is a Government. Sinn Féin had its chance to be in that. I would love to see its housing solution because it does not stack up. That is what commentator after commentator has costed and analysed. I welcome the legislation before us. It is positive legislation and protects...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: School Transport (25 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 214. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of an application by a school (details supplied) for the safe-routes-to-school programme. [52920/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (25 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 263. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider requesting the Revenue Commissioners to streamline and simplify the online filing of form 11s to include a method to automatically calculate the preliminary tax due to the person, along with an option to either accept this or enter a different amount if they wish (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53510/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (25 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene in an urgent school transport case for a child (details supplied). [53522/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (25 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 525. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all third level students regardless of their SUSI entitlements will be eligible for the €1,000 reduction in student contribution fees in 2022; and when and the way that this reduction will be rolled out. [52882/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (25 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 602. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide further detail on the national diabetes registry provided for in Budget 2023; if there is a framework for the delivery of the registry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52883/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (25 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 810. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if officials in her Department will undertake a study of Kilkishen, County Clare, with the view to designating it as a Clár area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53502/22]

Development (Emergency Electricity Generation) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome this legislation. It is imperative that we secure energy supplies in Ireland this winter and beyond. We all want to see Ireland transition to renewables. It cannot happen quickly enough but it takes time to build the infrastructure we so desperately want to see, be it on land or offshore in the form of the wind-generating facilities. I want to speak for a moment about...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Foreign Direct Investment (27 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 16. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has a strategy to attract overseas investors to invest in Ireland's renewables sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53600/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (27 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 104. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will examine the possibility of new CLÁR designations for additional villages in the west of Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53602/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to deal with contracting issues on the Bus Éireann school transport scheme that have resulted in pupils being left without transport in areas in County Clare (details supplied). [53957/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (27 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will directly intervene in the cases of two school transport routes (details supplied) where children are left without a means to get the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53959/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Coach Sector: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I have been following some of the debate from my office. The witnesses were a bit kind and generous to the NTA because if I were on their side of the room, I would probably be hitting my head against the wall at times having to deal with its staff. On the licensing issue, there is guidance of eight weeks. It should take eight weeks for a licence to be turned around. Mr. Lynch said in...