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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Road Traffic (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: Minister for Transport (30 Jun 2021)

Cathal Crowe: When is it happening specifically for air travel? If it is not, when will the Minister have it up and running? We are getting so worried about 19 July and a potential lack of preparedness and being laggards in Europe. Will the Minister tell us what the plan is, specifically for air travel?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of the Road Traffic (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019: Minister for Transport (30 Jun 2021)

Cathal Crowe: We must go well beyond thinking about it at this stage. We are looking down the barrel of a gun. All of Europe has jumped already. We are either doing antigen testing or we are not. We have heard too much of looking into it and thinking about it. This is either happening or it is not. If it is happening, I say respectfully that we should spell out a timeframe so that, good or bad, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues facing the Aviation Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jun 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Mr. Thompstone and Ms Fitzgerald Kane for being appearing before the committee. As the Chairman and other members know, there is significant engagement with Shannon Chamber, the Irish Hotels Federation and all who hold Shannon close to their hearts and have concern for the airport. Far more happens beyond the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications. I have read Mr....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues facing the Aviation Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jun 2021)

Cathal Crowe: One of the eye-openers of the past 18 months has been the minuscule level of air cargo into and out of Shannon Airport. Apart from a Turkish Airlines 747 which lands there quite regularly, DHL flights etc, there is very little cargo traffic. Some 1% of cargo leaving Ireland goes by air. I was alarmed to see crates of cargo from Boston Scientific, each valued at €1 million, on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues facing the Aviation Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Jun 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Mr. Thompstone has my full support and I thank him for all the work he is doing.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: National Action Plan for Childminding 2021-2028: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I confirm that I am in the convention centre. I thank the witnesses for their contributions. I wish to make a few comments. I have read the opening statement and briefing note. I have a query regarding the foundation training and the threshold at which one becomes subject to regulation. I know that there are various legislative measures dating back to 1991 and there has been an...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: National Action Plan for Childminding 2021-2028: Discussion (Resumed) (6 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I get that there is a need for a structure and regulation. However, the worry I have is that women in villages who have minded children all their lives very adeptly, and with love and care, may look at this and decide that it is time for them to leave the stage. That is a major concern for me. To move things on a small bit, the discussion we are having here aligns to the home help sector....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I confirm I am in Leinster House. I wish Senator Hoey the best. I read in a newspaper last week that she is due to be married next week. We do not always meet face to face and have been meeting virtually for months. I wish her the very best from all of us. I have a number of questions. I am glad Mr. Gunning has come back with some live data on claims. In these meetings we ask for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: My next issue is construction inflation. This was built in at the outset of the contract. It worries me because construction inflation is significant for everything, from someone trying to build an extension to a home right up to master projects such as the national children's hospital. I am concerned that the next phase of the development could be the most costly when internal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: We know that. Are there sufficient supplies to take this project through the summer and into the winter period? Have the developers flagged problems in that regard? It concerns me that a typical house build is held up by three or four months at the moment, even taking Covid out of the equation. That delay is due to the lack of supplies. We know how critical things are nationally and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I appreciate that. I ask Mr. Gunning to forgive me for jumping in but time is against us. It concerns me that some of the most expensive stages of the project may be yet to come in terms of the procurement of cladding, insulation and all of that. There are still unknowns in that regard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I will move on to ask questions of Ms Hardiman. I will follow on from what some other committee members have asked. Our guests can tell by the questions they have asked that those committee member are not based in Dublin. Taxpayers around the country will read about this meeting in the newspapers tomorrow or hear about it on the radio. There are mixed feelings about the project. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Has there been an aspect of robbing Peter to pay Paul in recent months so that the national children's hospital project could plough on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I would like Ms Hardiman to do that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Will there be primary and secondary schools under the roof of this hospital when it opens?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: To what capacity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Infrastructure: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I confirm I am in the convention centre. I have a few brief questions. My first question is for Mr. Carvalho. I am interested in the fixed wireless option given that everyone has a mobile phone in Ireland. Very few do not have one and some even have two. They are to be found in every household. In terms of the 4G and 5G signal, Mr. Carvalho was correct in saying there is pretty good...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Infrastructure: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I particularly want to hone in on that last point. It is one that I have raised a few times at committee meetings in recent months. A co-location policy was introduced in Ireland nine or ten years ago, through which there was to be a decent roll-out of mobile phone masts nationwide to ensure that signal would be maximised. However, that principle has been abandoned by the sector and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Infrastructure: Discussion (7 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: My final question is for Mr. Fitzpatrick. I hope he will forgive me for going a little off topic. Mr. Fitzpatrick is from the National Space Centre and he is most welcome. As I understand it, Ireland has been affiliated with the European Space Agency, ESA, since 1975. We embraced it early on. At that stage, we probably did not have much of a notion, as a country, as to where we were...