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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Air Quality (15 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 76. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an overview of locations in which there are publicly-owned air-quality monitoring devices in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62341/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (15 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 102. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has a strategy on ammonia fuel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62340/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (15 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 266. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will clarify a number of points (details supplied) on the ratification on the Optional Protocol of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62970/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Minister for Transport and Minister of State at the Department of Transport (7 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I have quite a few questions but I will be brief if the Minister and Minister of State can be brief. This matter is key to the Department and where it goes in the coming years. In June 2021, the Cabinet agreed a memorandum to transfer Shannon Heritage, which comes under the patronage of the Department of Transport, to the local authorities in the mid-west. This issue is still up in the air...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Minister for Transport and Minister of State at the Department of Transport (7 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The desire to have this completed is not just for frivolous reasons. The site has a booking system which kicks in again in January 2023. Workers wish to know it will be operational seven days per week, as it was before Covid arrived. They need certainty. There is only a little over a week of Dáil sittings left. Will that certainty be given before everything wraps up before Christmas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Minister for Transport and Minister of State at the Department of Transport (7 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: This is time sensitive. Most airlines have launched and announced their summer 2023 schedule. They are starting to sell flights. If this is to happen and the Government really has Shannon's back, the decision needs to move off the Minister of State's desk and over to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to green light it. If it is not to happen, given that Schiphol Airport...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Minister for Transport and Minister of State at the Department of Transport (7 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The reason I ask this from the environmental lens is that the Minister's counterparts in the Netherlands and all the other aviation people we met three weeks ago told us there were other forms of restrictions. Initially, we went over believing that the centre of Dutch policy was regional balance. It turned out, however, that this was a bit of a factor but the main factor was that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Minister for Transport and Minister of State at the Department of Transport (7 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Ms Mary Considine, CEO of the Shannon Group, and her board have made an application to the Department for a public service obligation, PSO, service to operate from Shannon Airport to Schiphol Airport. This service is crucial, all the more so since the advent of Brexit which has been a disaster. We in the west feel geographically peripheral. This matter has been with the Department for some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the witnesses for coming here. I believe that all problems are relative so a bus arriving late in Dublin would be manna from heaven to someone in the west of Ireland where there might only be a morning and late-evening bus service with no service in between. I respect that all members represent their communities. It is frustrating for everyone in an urban or rural environment to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I was not aware of that. Is consideration being given to refining these systems? I am sure this issue has already been spoken to. Google is a vast organisation. God only knows where the headquarters of its maps division is located. Google has a base in Dublin city. The NTA has its headquarters here too. The reason I ask for the NTA to join up with Google is that when a person standing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The green and yellow livery looks very nice but I want to know how much it has cost. The buses are the same under the bonnet and the seat configurations are pretty much the same. How much has the colour change cost Ireland Inc. and the various bodies that the NTA represents here today?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: It must cost something.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: A lot of the 2017 and 2018 buses have been rebranded.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: There has to be some cost. Could the committee be told what the cost is?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: During the summer months, my colleague, Senator Mary Fitzpatrick, and some other colleagues in Fianna Fáil commissioned a public survey on antisocial behaviour. The issue is out there and has been in the media. What does the NTA propose to do in that regard? When I met Mr. Hann's counterpart in Bus Éireann, I asked if Bus Éireann would consider installing a bicycle rack...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: On antisocial behaviour, has Dublin Bus immediate plans for the Christmas season or beyond to make its buses safe for drivers and passengers?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I just have one more question. I hope the other members can draw out this topic also. I thank the drivers. I do not often use the bus but believe the drivers are incredibly helpful. I have said in the past to Ms Graham, when she has been at committee meetings, that taking a bus or other form of public transport can sometimes be confusing to someone who does not use it the whole time. A...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: That is great. It is reassuring.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Dec 2022)

Cathal Crowe: It will be in 2023.