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Banking Sector: Statements (3 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate. It has been a bad ten days or so for the banking sector in Ireland. First we had the NatWest announcement that it would be closing its Ulster Bank branches, which will have a huge impact in my county of Clare where there are branches in Shannon town and in the county town of Ennis. Many of the branches are in buildings in iconic locations....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (3 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to make history a compulsory or optional subject for the junior certificate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12060/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Data (3 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 615. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of adoption applications relating to children in care; and the duration these applications have been waiting for decision in tabular form. [12065/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Adoption Services (3 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 616. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department will recruit additional social workers in order that backlogged applications for children in care to be adopted can be advanced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12066/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Access (3 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 850. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will contribute towards the accommodation expenses incurred by families who need to travel to the United Kingdom for operations that cannot be carried out here (details supplied); and if his Department will prioritise these persons on the vaccination list. [11521/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (3 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 896. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will issue funding to the HSE to provide FreeStyle Libre sensors for checking glucose in diabetes patients free of charge to all diabetics. [11715/21]

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill today. The Land Development Agency Bill is one of the transformative measures in bringing about accelerated social and affordable housing in this country. I am glad that it is my colleague, the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, who is leading the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage because Fianna Fáil over many decades...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (4 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 43. To ask the Minister for Finance if an exemption can be made in the case of a family (details supplied) being billed for import tax in view of the extenuating circumstances. [12265/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I confirm at the outset that I am in the precincts of Leinster House. I have a number of questions for Mr. Reid. I am sure that Mr. Reid has had many questions this morning from Deputies and Senators around the State about vaccine roll-out. In Clare we have seen strident improvements. A lot of people have been vaccinated since. There are fabulous examples, such as Sixmilebridge last...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: May I ask whether staff working remotely are within the same prioritisation? Will Mr. Reid confirm this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I want to ask about something that has been a feature in the mid-west region in recent weeks. The new 60 bed block in University Hospital Limerick has opened and it is great to see it. It is alleviating some of the pressure in the hospital. A key issue raised with me by patients and some staff is that there is no discharge co-ordinator in the new block. During peak Covid when patients are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Public Health Measures: Update from Health Service Executive (9 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I appreciate that. I do not expect Mr. Reid to know every nook and cranny as he leads a huge operation. After this meeting I ask him to look, with his senior staff, at appointing a discharge co-ordinator. It is the final piece in the jigsaw of making the facility a success. With regard to intern doctors, I know it is a ministerial decision ultimately but last year there was a pilot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Consultation on the National Development Plan (Resumed): Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, and for Transport (9 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister for appearing before the committee. We have been doing a large volume of work in recent weeks. The clock is against us, so the Minister might return to my questions in the allocated time. The most important thing is that the national development plan review will see strategic infrastructural programmes delivered, moved out of the doldrums and achieved and realised....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government-Church Dialogue (10 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Perhaps the final few points could be responded to in writing.

Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Statements (10 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I have a question on a particular issue, to which I hope the Minister can respond. In the 17 years since I graduated from the University of Limerick, UL, the campus has grown exponentially but it no longer has the space to develop further. There is not adequate land to do so, nor is there sufficient road access from both sides. The campus straddles two counties, encompassing a part in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (10 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 43. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which the existing Climate Action Plan 2019 can be enhanced in order to increase the speed at which renewable energy generation projects are brought online particularly in the context of the expedited downsizing of the Moneypoint power station. [13290/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (10 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister, Deputy Ryan, for being in the Chamber. I wish to ask him, in his brief as Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, how the existing climate action plan can be enhanced to increase the speed at which renewable energy projects are brought online, particularly in the context of the expedited downsizing of the Moneypoint power station in west Clare.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (10 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. He said that Moneypoint will cease burning fossil fuels in 2025. There is a belief, and a worry, in Clare that that will happen much quicker because it is losing out in key energy options. It has colossal 400 kV power lines running from the coast of west Clare right across to Leinster. It is the best specification of power line in Ireland and that is where the future...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (10 Mar 2021)

Cathal Crowe: A very delicate balance has to be struck. We want to see a shift and transition away from old fossil fuels and towards more renewable energy. The Government needs to speed up the issuing of new wind energy guidelines to all local authorities. We have had some absurd wind applications granted and other ones turned down. For example, in my county of Clare today we had the council...