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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019 (Resumed): Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I appreciate Ms Power's honesty. I refer to the old black and white photographs of nine-year-old or ten-year-old children with peaked caps smoking cigarettes. One could see the pathway of those children's lives. They probably aged far more quickly and faced more health problems than would have been the case if they did not smoke. We want to avoid situations such as that. Significant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I have several points I wish to put to the Minister. Perhaps we can have an exchange on them. The first issue is that of the Limerick northern distributor road. Phase 1 of the project, from Coonagh across to Meelick, straddling the Clare–Limerick county boundary, is well under construction, but it is going to end at the middle of no place in Meelick. Phase 2 is currently a concept...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I raised this matter in the Dáil last night during oral parliamentary questions. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath, indicated that the project would progress and that it would continue to move through phases. In his response, on the Dáil record, he said that Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, would advance this in the spring of 2022...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: The National Transport Authority, I should have said. I believe he referred to TII as well. If I can continue with my point, I am from Meelick, the community where this road will end. It will terminate in Knockalisheen, Meelick, the community I was born and bred in. Some people cannot wait for the road to be built. Some people have major reservations. That is pretty standard in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I love greenways. I love putting the bikes into the boot of the car, taking off on a Saturday and getting fresh air in my lungs with my wife and kids. I love that. I love travelling by train. Greenways are fine for weekends. They are recreational. They do not get someone to work, school or college. We need roads. We are still in the era where we depend on roads. We cannot have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I respect the point the Minister makes about taking down walls. There are also fences. There are fences fencing off the route corridor, a route corridor that looks even more uncertain today. It is great to take down walls because they are social and all kinds of barriers. However, there is a route corridor along which people are living and working, some of whom are farming. For better or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Chapter 11 of the national development plan refers to the need for a brand new aviation policy. The last national aviation policy we had dates from 2015. It still exists but it is pretty much defunct now as we come out of Covid. When will we have a new national aviation policy, one that recalibrates aviation in our country and gives back to the regions, including the likes of Shannon,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I will be going up to the Chamber in a minute so I want to squeeze in one final point. I thank the Minister for his engagement this afternoon. Like many others here, I came into Dáil Éireann to fight for my county, which is a rural one. Indeed I care passionately about the western corridor referred to by the Chairman. I believe if our island was not rooted on deep bedrock, it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to conclude my remarks. The greenway is for the weekend and getting out on bikes with one's children and family. There is no greenway that can take me or anyone around me to work on a Monday morning. We can talk about it but we need baseline infrastructure such as roads. We do need them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: We will support each one of them. They are great but baseline roads infrastructure is still needed to get to work and school. I am someone who uses the bike and the train. I have bought into the Minister's way of thinking and it is a good way of thinking. We are all green and the whole country is becoming green but some baseline infrastructure is still required in Ireland. The Limerick...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to ask a question because it is important to leave the committee room with some certainty. Our colleague, Deputy James O'Connor, made Custer's last stand a few weeks ago and went away with certain reassurances. There are other members here today who also need reassurance. What the Minister said a moment ago is welcome. I need to know about the phases ahead and I am not talking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: That is fair enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I, too, have heard this idea of a €200 million penalty fee to buy out the clause of the Limerick Tunnel Toll Plaza. I have heard that idea for many years. Recently, it was clarified for me that the penalty clause truly and accurately is the percentage estimate of what traffic would shift from the tunnel across to the new road if it was built. The amount has been calculated at around...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (9 Dec 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 27. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider devising a new compensatory scheme for suckler beef farmers who have tuberculosis reactors in their herd. [60767/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (9 Dec 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 65. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to develop more broadleaf forestry in Ireland. [60768/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Dec 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 117. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the way he plans to allocate the €100 million his Department has available for discrete Covid-19 measures in 2022. [60818/21]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 Dec 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 151. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement he has had with businesses and their representative organisations with regard to supports for same in the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. [60819/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (9 Dec 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 333. To ask the Minister for Health when free general practitioner care for under sevens will be introduced. [61021/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: At the outset, it is a pity that the witnesses are all appearing here this morning via virtual link. I understand that is an option afforded to the witnesses, but a lot of what we will hear about today is about the geographic, and indeed, the operational disconnect that people feel there is with the Irish Coast Guard. The Irish Coast Guard is headquartered on Leeson Lane, Dublin 2. That is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (18 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: There is an urgent need to reopen the Doolin Coast Guard station. The volunteers there live locally and have a response time of minutes. The other stakeholders who now provide cover are too far away. Kilkee coast guard unit is 55 km away, Ennistymon fire brigade is 18 km away and the Civil Defence in Ennis is 32 km away. Most worryingly of all, the Aran Islands lifeboat which, operating...