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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Properties (26 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Earlier this year, I visited the motor tax office in Shannon with the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers. It is in a deplorable state. There are basins and buckets in various parts of the corridor. There is water dripping down on some of the computer servers that house the national database for motor taxation. I do not think it is a very safe environment for the people who work in there....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Properties (26 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I could understand if unit 153 involved some light reconfiguration, but what is going on in there at the moment is heavy reconstruction. This shell of a building will never be able to be used by any other Department now after this work has happened unless the Department gets in the big diggers and pulls it all out again. Going back to the airport, that passport control is the gateway to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (26 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: The national development plan saw some projects blocked for ideological reasons. They did not make it in, and yet the Minister and his colleagues in Cabinet had the foresight to put in some enabling text. Sometimes that sentence at the end of a plan facilitates the projects that others would like to kill off. It allows them to proceed. I do not want to get the Minister to comment on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Earlier this year, the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donovan, came to Springfield, County Clare to open the Clonlara flood defence system, for which we had campaigned for more than a decade. We are grateful to him and to his Department. The people in Midleton and elsewhere in Cork who have endured this awful flooding in the past week should be aware that the flood defences planned for our...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: It is a planning fact that he held up this flood defence for years.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: There must be some pre-qualification rules to ensure that someone at the opposite side of the country cannot object-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: -----and cannot hold up a key critical project. The same thing will repeat itself in Cork.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: This is hugely relevant to people in Cork.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I mentioned the issue. It is a fact of planning. The point I am making and wish to reiterate is that-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I am entitled to another 15 seconds. You interrupted me. The point I wish to conclude on-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: -----is that there is a need for pre-qualification rules. You cannot have someone on the opposite side of Ireland blocking-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I have not broken any rules, with the greatest respect.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: My question was relevant.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: It is entirely relevant.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 20. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will outline plans by the OPW to provide for flood relief works in County Cork in light of the recent catastrophic flooding there; and if he will provide an update on flood relief works continuing and planned for County Clare. [46932/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (26 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions his Department is taking, in consultation with the National Transport Authority, to improve public transport connectivity to and from Shannon Airport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47123/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (26 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 266. To ask the Minister for Health if, in light of the embargo on recruitment in the HSE, existing staff who have been approved for transfers from one area to another will still be accommodated with their transfers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47045/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the Minister of State. I will make a few general points and then move on to some more specific issues. First, a homogeneous approach to speed limit reduction will not work. We can all think of examples of roads in our constituencies and home communities that have a speed limit that is too low and many more roads that have a speed limit that is too high. The Department will have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: As one travels from Galway to Dublin there is a stretch of the motorway around Athlone town-----