Results 4,561-4,580 of 5,405 for speaker:Cathal Crowe

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Northern Ireland (9 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 108. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his response to the ruling earlier this year by the High Court in Belfast in relation to the UK government’s legacy legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20769/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Licences (9 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 208. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify when a licence (details supplied) will transfer over to a fully online application process; and if he will address GDPR concerns surrounding the photograph associated with the same licence. [21040/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (9 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 223. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a school (details supplied) can reassess how funding allocated by her Department through the hot school meals programme can be spent; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21064/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Contracts (9 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 270. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a contract renewal (details supplied) has been signed off on. [21156/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Children in Care (9 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 301. To ask the Minister for Health the number of ‘children in case’ social worker posts in County Clare; the number currently in post; and the length of time any posts have been vacant. [21055/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (9 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 304. To ask the Minister for Health when he, in consultation with the HSE, will lift the recruitment embargo currently in place within the HSE (details supplied). [21074/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (14 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 383. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify the rules regarding the building defects scheme as they pertain to rental properties (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21733/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (14 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 608. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has any plans for reducing bureaucracy and paperwork in the oxygen provision reimbursement system (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21635/24]

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the announcement that HIQA will examine the possibility of a model 3 hospital in the mid-west region. It is so essential and we have had many private conversations on this. I thank the Minister, over the past 18 months, for meeting with Deputy Willie O'Dea and myself one evening in his office. he came down to Ennis and met with the Friends of Ennis Hospital Committee and he met...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 76. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason a person (details supplied) has been refused temporary protection; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21989/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Commissioner Harris and Assistant Commissioner Hilman for being here this afternoon. I have quite a few questions, which I might go through quickly in order that we might get a maximum amount of responses. In the aftermath of the Dublin riots, there was a national debate about whether the gardaí were allowed to use force or not. The Commissioner came out very quickly and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I am sorry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: It 100% is. If the Chair will let me finish the question, it makes perfect sense. Can the clock be started again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: In the aftermath of the Dublin riots, the Commissioner moved very quickly to clarify that An Garda Síochána representatives were allowed to use reasonable force when carrying out their duties. In respect of road policing, can similar reassurances be given to rank-and-file guards that go in behind the wheel and put on the siren and the beacon? Can they too use reasonable action...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Commissioner. When people turn on Channel 4, Sky One at night time, there are police shows from other countries and other jurisdictions where they seem to be able to exercise an awful lot of force to bring a vehicle to a stop to keep the public safe. While I will not comment on any case because we are not the justice committee here nor would it be right to comment on cases, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Is completing a blue beacon course a requirement to pursue a vehicle?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: In the absence of this policy, the law that the Commissioner refers to supersedes everything at the moment. It is about keeping the public safe. Blue beacon course or not, a garda can pursue someone if it is in the interests of public safety.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: It just seems to me that we have the law and law enforcement but there is a middle layer from Garda headquarters. I am specifically referring, on this occasion, to scrambler bikes. A diktat went out from Garda headquarters in Phoenix Park. We have the law which provides for the apprehension, confiscation and removal of these bikes and we have gardaí wanting to enforce it but in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: In terms of the legislative process in the Oireachtas, we continue to update road traffic Acts, penalty point regulations and so on. Things continually evolve and change. Has Garda training changed to match those changes? I refer specifically to penalty points. Of course, An Garda Síochána gets updated on changes to same. When gardaí were being trained in Templemore...