Results 2,001-2,020 of 5,398 for speaker:Cathal Crowe

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (9 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 179. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider reviewing a speed limit on a road (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12011/23]

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach and wish her and all female Members of this House a happy International Women's Day. I wish a happy International Women's Day to my wife Maeve, my mother Irene, my little girl Eve, who is at home, my sisters and especially to Mary and Sonia who are in my office. They tell me they always have the television on the Dáil channel. I do not fully...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the Government's response to Ireland's Competitiveness Challenge 2022. [11546/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: On the topic of Ireland's Competitiveness Challenge 2022, how does the Government propose to deal with the lack of housing, especially where workers are concerned? Foreign direct investment is flooding into Ireland. Companies are advertising jobs but are unable to recruit people because of a lack of housing in certain areas. Shannon town in County Clare is one. It is a constraint we never...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a report on any recent discussions with political parties in Northern Ireland in regard to the shared island initiative. [11611/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Most people embrace science and understand that we need to respond to climate change. I have switched to organic farming. I used a train and bike to get here today. However, we want to ensure that the seismic changes we are making as a country are not punitive to rural Ireland. Proposals have come out in recent months about cow culling, penalising car ownership and tapering back the likes...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 46. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a situational update on the application of an Employment Regulation Order (ERO) for those who work in the security sector; if a new ERO is to be introduced; when an ERO will be implemented vis-a-vis the signing of a statutory instrument; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11909/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Redundancy Payments (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 47. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what actions he and officials in his Department are undertaking to ensure that appropriate redundancy pay is paid by an organisation (details supplied) to 38 of its employees at Raheen, Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11910/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance if he can devise a mechanism to prevent developers from not accepting the help-to-buy scheme as a deposit for a new house purchase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11688/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Protection (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 97. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform with responsibility for Office of Public Works if he will ensure that coastal defence works are carried out at a property (details supplied) to ensure that erosion does not continue to impact on the owners. [11767/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 105. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider introducing legislation to ensure that there are not unreasonable and inexplicable delays on the part of developers in completing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11689/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 173. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will urgently intervene to ensure that payments owed to a company (details supplied) in respect of accommodating Ukrainian refugees are made. [11653/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 250. To ask the Minister for Health if the new protocol introduced in the University of Limerick Hospital Group in January 2023, whereby ambulances could bring patients to the medical assessment unit of Ennis General Hospital instead of the UHL emergency department, could be further extended so as to also include the local injuries unit at Ennis General Hospital; and if he will make a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds: Discussion (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome all the witnesses. I am not a member of this committee but the Oireachtas committees allow non-members to attend from time to time. Earlier I was across the corridor attending another committee where we were dealing with the issue of national car tests but I had to attend this committee meeting as discussing investment funds is very important. A couple of weeks I was invited to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds: Discussion (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I am not sure whether the number of cases relates to the past year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds: Discussion (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Is that 32 before the people who were lost last winter?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds: Discussion (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: The witnesses have explained it well, and it is certainly the take home point I got after visiting the offices in Ennis. I met with Elaine Clifford and her colleagues. On the figures, if I understand correctly, there were 40 dedicated mortgage advisers. There are now 32. That means 20% have left the workforce because of uncertainty. I fear a lot more will be lost because, using County...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Investment Funds: Discussion (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: MABS has negotiated reasonable mortgage repayment rates for many people. Some families can take the hit of the recent mortgage interest rate hikes, but many more families cannot. However, it is certain that a family that has gone through MABS certainly cannot take the hit. From what I can see, all of the pillar banks have written to their borrowers stating that while they and MABS have...