Results 181-200 of 996 for speaker:Cathal Crowe in 'Dáil debates'

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (2 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Will the Minister positively consider the reopening of Cratloe and Crusheen railway stations in County Clare?

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Like others here, I welcome this very important legislation. Credit unions are the bedrock of all communities. I am still a member of the Irish National Teachers Organisation credit union, Comhar Linn. I would love to have got more money off it over the years but I suppose that is the way that credit unions work. They are fantastic. What credit unions can provide in moneylending...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: At the moment there are 47,000 L-plate drivers awaiting a driver test and there is a huge delay, as we all know, at the Road Safety Authority, RSA. The wait is 19 weeks on average nationally, but in County Clare there is a 35-week waiting period. That is all the more punitive for younger drivers in rural areas. Because of the cost of living away from home and the lack of accommodation,...

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to speak in support of this very important Bill. I hope it progresses through the Houses without too much ado. There are a number of policing issues I wish to raise in the context of the Bill. An issue I keep coming back to is that of gardaí who have been suspended. At present, 87 members of An Garda Síochána stand suspended. I have raised this repeatedly in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: The advent of Brexit has had a very negative effect on Ireland overall but it is certainly felt more in some of the regions. In County Clare, we very much look to Europe yet our backs are to the Atlantic Ocean. Since the advent of Brexit, we find ourselves very much cut off from continental Europe. We no longer have air connectivity into continental Europe, our only hub connectivity being...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Risk Assessment (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 22. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the draft list of strategic risks 2023 in the national risk assessment. [8882/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Shannon Heritage sites like the iconic Bunratty Castle are major cogs in the economy of the mid-west region. In the summer of 2021, the Cabinet decided it would be best to devolve these sites away from the auspices of the Shannon Airport Group and have them managed by the region's local authorities. Councils like Clare County Council in my constituency are eager to make this a success and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy and investment will meet next. [8879/23]

Civil Defence Bill 2023: Second Stage (15 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I wish I had Deputy Berry's military training. I am after running a few laps of the building. I join others in welcoming this legislation. It is very positive. It is very interesting historically that this combines the old Air-Raid Precautions Acts 1939 to 1946. That was very old legislation when we were in a very different historic period. I had a grand-uncle who served in the LDF...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I hope the Taoiseach will give some positive indication that the Government will retain the 9% VAT rate on tourism and hospitality. This sector is a major employer in our country. While budget 2023 went down really well and was a very positive budget, this was the one unanswered question. People are looking for certainty. The 12,500 people in County Clare working in this sector contribute...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I heard it on the grapevine.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (9 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: There is a steady flow of information here today, but this was information the Minister could not give me three or four weeks ago. I and other politicians in the county have been left firefighting. We are trying to give accurate information to people who have genuine concerns. Beyond that, there is huge exploitation coming from the far right. The Minister needs to give us information. I...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (9 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (9 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 66. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on new accommodation being procured in County Clare to cater for those entering Ireland seeking international protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6056/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (9 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Since March last year County Clare has welcomed thousands of Ukrainian and international protection refugees. It is important to note that these refugees have been warmly welcomed and provided for in County Clare. Frustratingly, the high level of stakeholder engagement and boots-on-the-ground co-ordination we saw in March last year has all but disappeared and evaporated. The oversight and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: International Protection (9 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: In December I was contacted by a number of Shannon residents asking whether stories they had heard on the rumour mill about an accommodation facility in a factory were true. I asked a parliamentary question because I did not know anything about it. In early January I received a reply from the Minister stating it was commercially sensitive. There was not a scintilla of information after...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [5873/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (2 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I commend the Minister. Last year's free school transport scheme was fantastic. It had its teething problems but the very concept of it was one of the most positive we have had in years. Our colleague in the Government, the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, believes in public transport, as we all do. While it takes years to build railway networks, which are very linear and do not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Corps (2 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (2 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I want to speak to the point my colleague, Deputy Smith, made. Soldiers, men and women, are very much willing to rough it and tough it but they want to come home to a home environment as well. Accommodation is something that needs to be addressed. In Meelick, County Clare, which is my home village, a housing scheme was built in the 1980s in partnership with Father Harry Bohan. It was...