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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Schemes (4 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the schemes and initiatives his Department has introduced to benefit rural Ireland since 2020. [21006/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the bus and rail networks servicing rural areas have expanded since 2020; and if so, if he will provide examples of such expansion. [21007/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (4 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 172. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department has taken for rural Ireland since 2020. [21002/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Programmes (4 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 183. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the schemes and initiatives his Department has introduced to benefit rural Ireland since 2020. [21004/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (4 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 184. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how many new builds have been completed in rural areas since 2020. [21005/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (4 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 273. To ask the Minister for Health the steps his Department has taken for rural Ireland since 2020. [21003/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (3 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 89. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there have been any developments on reducing the unacceptable delays for driving test applicants and how the plans for the recruitment of additional testers are progressing, given that currently the delays are negatively impacting on some applicants' employment appointments and are inhibiting them from being offered positions...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: International Bodies (3 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 109. To ask the Minister for Finance if he aspires to have any major European Union or United Nations institutions headquartered in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19629/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: House Sales (9 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 59. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of homebuyers in counties Clare, Limerick and Tipperary who have availed of the enhanced help-to-buy scheme since 23 July 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21469/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the mayor of Ennis, Clare Colleran Molloy; Councillors Paul Murphy and Mary Howard; Carmel Kirby and all the Ennis 2040 team; and especially the students who have come here today from Coláiste Muire and St. Flannan’s College in Ennis to spell out their vision for Ennis 2040. It is a sad irony that, on a day when so many young people from Ennis have come to Dublin, a...

European Year of Skills: Statements (10 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate. I congratulate the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, for the work he is doing in his Department to lead on the strategy. It is essential that we widen and deepen our skills space here in Ireland. I note that the European Year of Skills centres on the whole idea of reskilling 6 million people in the area of digital and green...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: This amendment has been clearly outlined. I hope the Leas-Cheann Comhairle will allow me to speak on a tangent to the amendment.

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I will speak to it. This is an interesting amendment and I will wait to hear what the Minister has to say. What I would really like to say, and I need to disclose that I am-----

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I absolutely will. It is always important to embody the Irish language as much as we can. I am an organic farmer and want to disclose that on the record. It is important that there is a market for finished organic beef because at the moment, a large amount of people are entering the organic scheme and there is no finishing market for them. They are going to conventional sales. The...

Agriculture and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: It is important where at all possible to use Irish names for State or semi-State bodies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: That is no problem. I am not a member of this committee but I am interested in its work. We farmed at home in Clare. We do not do this often but sometimes it is nice to namecheck someone on the Dáil record. I refer to our local vets in the mid-west, including Kevin McNamara who is fantastic, compassionate, helpful and everything else. I think highly of vets. We hear repeatedly from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I asked about UL, but Dr. Wall has answered all my questions. What the witnesses pass on to the Minister is very important. Last year, a memo about elective hospitals went to the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly - it was a whole different committee and a whole different realm - and the memo pretty much spelled out that it should be Dublin, Cork and Galway. Lo and behold, the Minister...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (19 Apr 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. A few moments ago I was in a Zoom meeting with representatives of MS Ireland. They are watching this meeting. The representatives in question are Susan Coote, who is a physiotherapist from Killaloe in County Clare, and Alison Cotter. They have a business case before the Department. I understand the numbers are probably being crunched. Essentially, they are looking...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (9 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 65. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of businesses in counties Clare, Limerick and Tipperary, respectively, that have applied for assistance under the temporary business energy support scheme to date; the number that have been successful in each county; the estimated value or worth of the support to date for businesses in each county; and if he will make a statement on the matter....