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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coast Guard Service (13 Oct 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the make and model of all seafaring vessels based at each Irish Coast Guard station in tabular form; the number of crew at each station that have completed the appropriate training relating to the seafaring vessels based at their station in tabular form; the number of crew at each station that have not received appropriate training in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I apologise for being late. It very often happens here that meetings coincide and clash. I will continue on some of the points that the Chairman has raised. What was to happen with the new NCT test centre in Shannon was raised a number of weeks ago. Responding in the Dáil, the Minister, Deputy Ryan, said there were significant contractual difficulties and that negotiations on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Engagement with the Minister for Education (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: We will have a definitive date next week. That is positive news. The students want to see the fruits of their labour. They want to celebrate their results. I have had a lot of contact from students who have gone straight into fifth year and who need to decide whether to sit certain subjects at higher or ordinary level. That will be determined by how they got on in the junior certificate....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Impacting the Taxi Industry: Discussion (14 Sep 2022)

Cathal Crowe: That brings me on to my next question and the very point of local authorities. Everywhere, be it Ennis or Limerick city, where our Chairman is from, we have cycleways and new paving schemes being brought into towns. The taxi rank was always on the main thoroughfare, the square or the main street. At 12.30 a.m. or 1 a.m. you knew exactly where to get your taxi to get safely home. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (27 May 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an additional teacher will be appointed at a school (details supplied) to improve the pupil-teacher ratio at the school; and the status of the application for additional accommodation, including a purpose built special class at the school. [7104/20]

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (27 Apr 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister for being at our select committee meeting, for his detailed overview, and for the material that was circulated to us yesterday, which I appreciate. In a year of negatives, as Covid has been a major negative in everyone’s life, it is good we are coming to a point where it has become more manageable. There are two trajectories almost at intersection point now,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Even at this very late stage, is Mr. Reid prepared to look at the possibility of impropriety and that the process used to stymie payment was tainted? That has been flagged with both Mr. Reid and Mr. Watt by senior management. Is Mr. Reid willing to look at why this has been stymied and not implemented?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: That is what is coming in. I apologise. Has the RSA at any time looked at mechanics, men and women who work in garages throughout the country? They sometimes work 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., although they mostly work beyond those hours. They have a skill set and know their way around a car. Has the RSA at any time offered the lure to them that they could come in on a temporary contract to earn a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (23 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I will add to what my colleague has been saying. The most expensive years are probably the years when someone heads off to college. As many people now will no longer be living on campus because of the shortages of college accommodation, they will be commuting. The costs are astronomical for parents. If you are below a certain income threshold, there are many really good supports that the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I raise the closure of the Doolin Coast Guard station in County Clare on Tuesday. This fabulous Coast Guard station opened in 2015 at a cost of around €2 million. There are 18 people working there, nearly all of whom are volunteers. Six of them resigned this week due to: "... irreconcilable divisions that have unfortunately existed within the unit for a number of years". That spake...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: All credit to Dublin Bus, the service runs very late and it allows people to get home safely from a bar, nightclub or restaurant late at night. The issue with the inter-city buses and Irish Rail is you cannot really leave the capital after 9 p.m. at night, which is a pity when there is a big concert, match or whatever in Dublin. Not everyone can get a hotel. Jim Meade tells us it is...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (13 Jan 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I too pay tribute to the many people working in our front-line health services at this time. All that has been said by senior management in the HSE in the last few days indicates just how stark this battle is. This is not all about vaccinations. It is about people playing their role by staying at home, staying safe and keeping out of harm's way, and making that mammoth task a little easier...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Cathal Crowe: For the record, you have allowed one member to speak six minutes over their time. I had a meeting across the city and I am after pedalling over here. If it is ending at 12.30 p.m., then it is ending at 12.30 p.m., but if it goes over time for one member, then I should be allowed to contribute a single question at the end of it.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (30 Jun 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 710. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the charges for NCT tests at the test centre in Ennis will be waived at the time of next testing to reflect the fact that the undercarriages and chassis of many vehicles have not been inspected in recent months due to a non-working vehicle lift at the facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13194/20]

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Does Airbnb have a mechanism to refine that heading further? That data set feeds into public policy a bit. It gets spoken about at council meetings, in the Seanad and in the Dáil, and we are now looking at a block of legislation. When people look at the headline figure of 25,303 vacant properties across Ireland, they say that if we had a policy decision, we could solve not all but a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (14 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State. What he said is logical and sensible. However, it is at odds with what we were told yesterday, that this would be at departure gates. What the Minister of State has just said and the Commission has recommended makes sense. To think that you could spend an hour and a half weaving your way through an airport without being asked to present this digital...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (20 Apr 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. When the protocol was introduced, it was quite positive. It was at a time when we are at an all-out crisis at UHL. The figure of 72 patients between Ennis and Nenagh hospitals is a combined figure. I would love to hear a figure for Ennis in particular because, in the first month following the protocol, we were still down to single-digit figures for how many were...

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

Cathal Crowe: ---- and then one reverts back to motorway speed again. In the main, our motorway network is really well designed and it lends itself to driving at 120 km/h. Generally, that speed is safe. However, I want to give the Minister of State an example of a place where it is not safe, namely, junction 13 on the M18 from Limerick to Galway. This is the Tulla exit on the motorway. In 2018 a 57...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Engagement with Road Safety Authority (12 Oct 2022)

Cathal Crowe: We would appreciate an update. I have been out to visit the building that was, at one point, touted to become an NCT centre. It was fully kitted out and looked every inch an NCT centre. It looks like the centres I have been to except for the branding and equipment inside it. The difficulties were not at the builder's end or the company's end but at the RSA's end. Is it fair to say that...