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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (13 Jul 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 379. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form on a county basis the average class size for primary schools in each county in the school years 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022 and 2022/2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35288/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (13 Jul 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 668. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider leasing or purchasing a vacant commercial unit in Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare, for the provision of community-level healthcare in this populated centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34944/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 Jul 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 669. To ask the Minister for Health if grants are available to help a GP set up a new practice facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34945/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 Jul 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 670. To ask the Minister for Health if there is any funding stream by which a community can undertake capital works to facilitate the establishment of a GP practice in their locality; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34946/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Decarbonisation Strategy for Aviation and Shipping Sectors: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (12 Jul 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I will come in after Senator Dooley, if that is okay. I thank the Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Decarbonisation Strategy for Aviation and Shipping Sectors: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (12 Jul 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Sometimes you have to gather your thoughts when you come into a committee room. There is so much we juggle here in the day. I thank the Minister of State for his engagement, as always. He is really leading out his side of the Department very well and we are very grateful. I will begin on SAF. There is an issue I have raised in the Dáil a number of times. We have a very exciting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Decarbonisation Strategy for Aviation and Shipping Sectors: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (12 Jul 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I am glad to hear the hydrogen strategy will be announced. I am looking at what other countries have done. The two things play off each other quite often. There is only one chemical exchange between hydrogen and ammonia and so many other demands are fulfilled by doing that conversion. I think there is a role for Shannon in this. In the 1970s, Aeroflot had a big presence in Shannon...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Decarbonisation Strategy for Aviation and Shipping Sectors: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (12 Jul 2023)

Cathal Crowe: A few months ago, Michael O’Leary from Ryanair was before the committee. He bemoaned how environmental taxes were being levied more on passengers on short-haul flights. It suits the long-haul carriers, bigger airlines such as KLM, which go from hub airport to hub airport, while passengers on airlines such as Ryanair and Aer Lingus are penalised more by comparison. Strictly speaking,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Decarbonisation Strategy for Aviation and Shipping Sectors: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (12 Jul 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I have two quick final questions the Minister of State might be able to answer. First of all, he recently visited County Clare with me and we were very grateful to have him there. He visited the motor taxation office, which is the headquarters for everything in Ireland and where vehicle log books are processed. It is a fascinating place. I never knew until we went into the bowels of that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Decarbonisation Strategy for Aviation and Shipping Sectors: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (12 Jul 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I am sorry to interrupt the Minister of State. If the review and budget day do not align perfectly, could he somehow give reassurance that the funding model will continue until the new system is up and running?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Decarbonisation Strategy for Aviation and Shipping Sectors: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (12 Jul 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State. I encourage him to keep up the good work

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I want to raise the issue of Garda rostering with the Minister. Right now we have a shortage of gardaí and yet in spite of this, the Commissioner, Mr. Drew Harris, is hell bent on overhauling the national Garda roster. This overhaul would seriously dilute our Garda force and see many rural stations becoming unmanned and many specialised units being stood down so that rosters in larger...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (20 Sep 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider giving a tax concession to small-scale landlords in Budget 2024, in line with the tax concession that is currently been given to those who rent out rooms in their own homes under the rent-a-room relief scheme, with a view to helping to keep such landlords in the rental system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40709/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (20 Sep 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 187. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the long-awaited increase to pensions for former An Post workers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39570/23]

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

Cathal Crowe: 726. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will devise a scheme with improved compensation for those with plantations impacted by ash dieback; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39607/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (21 Sep 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 28. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the provision of new and upgraded primary care centres in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40620/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (21 Sep 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 54. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on actions being taken by his Department to ensure that the services of a general practice medical doctor remain in Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40621/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (21 Sep 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 195. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide emergency funding for people who own defective apartments in order that their properties can be remediated to a safe level and they can be unburdened from paying incessant levies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40880/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Offshore Islands (26 Sep 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 58. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when she will publish a new policy and action plan for the development of our offshore islands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41172/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Strategies (26 Sep 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 63. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will report on her Department's new Statement of Strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41171/23]