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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (7 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 480. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will provide an update on plans to ensure that those with disabilities who are living in nursing homes can be supported to move out of the older-people-care setting to more appropriate facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11492/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (7 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 567. To ask the Minister for Health if officials in his Department can urge CAMHS in County Clare to fast-track the preparation of a 'Connors Report' for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10999/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (7 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 664. To ask the Minister for Health if he will clarify the reason allowances in all disability day care centres were stopped by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11490/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 665. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE will reopen the motorised transport grant to new applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11491/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (7 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 692. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will re-examine the rules excluding robotic farmers for the proposed new TAMS farm equipment grant-aid (details supplied). [11065/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (7 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 706. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he accepts that the Forestry Service needs to supplement the income for foresters, in light of the fact that the Forestry Service is not accepting grant-aided applications or issuing new approvals for forestry schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11547/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Monuments (2 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 117. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works will install CCTV cameras to help deter vandalism at Clare Abbey, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10274/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Monuments (2 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I echo much of what Deputy Carey has said. This is a beautiful Augustinian abbey founded by Domnall Mór Ua Briain in the year 1195, who was king of Thomond. It is a fabulous building and it is almost a millennium old. It is, unfortunately, being damaged every weekend by antisocial behaviour, with people smashing beer bottles off headstones, cider parties; you name it, there is every...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Monuments (2 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I also thank the Minister of State for his engagement today and for his frankness on this issue. I can think of one major building in Dublin that will shortly, probably, have its CCTV infrastructure removed. I daresay that the Chinese Communist Party might take more joy out of watching the shenanigans and the goings-on on the River Fergus than they might in this Chamber. Sometimes it can...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Coast Guard Service (2 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I echo some of what Deputy O'Rourke said. This has been a common theme at the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications. I too would like to see the Irish Coast Guard Volunteers Representative Association afforded the opportunity to meet the Minister and contribute to matters in this area. We have heard repeatedly that volunteers feel there are inadequacies regarding the hierarchy of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Driver Test (2 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing me some speaking time on this. I fully support what my colleague has said. The wait time is extremely punitive in counties in the west such as Clare. Many of the people affected are youngsters whose parents bought them a car so they could commute to college and work. A lot of them cannot find accommodation and now they find themselves...

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

Cathal Crowe: I am an avid user of the rail system. Shortly, this morning I will get on my bike, I will go on the train and I will return to County Clare. The railway system is linear, as the Minister will be aware. It only benefits certain communities that are on the railway line or approximate to it. In the case of Cratloe and Crusheen, it is frustrating for these communities to see the train pass them...

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

Cathal Crowe: There is quite a large population in the area when looking beyond the immediacy of both of those villages. There is significant demand for this service. This service, pre-Covid, was Ireland's fastest growing railway line in terms of usage, edging close to 600,000 in late 2019. One of the two factors that I suppose deters some people from using it is the line speed. There are commuter...

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

Cathal Crowe: 8. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will give positive consideration to the reopening of Cratloe and Crusheen railway stations in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10271/23]

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?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (2 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 64. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details of the measures his Department proposes to adopt to ensure operations at Irish airports are not impeded by the illegal flying of drones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10270/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Properties (2 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 134. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Public Works or he will provide an inventory of unused State-owned buildings in County Clare at this time; the details of which of these buildings he has proposed as suitable accommodation for Ukrainian refugees and-or individuals who have arrived in Ireland seeking international protection; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Offices (2 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 202. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is aware of problems with the State-owned building in Shannon, County Clare in which the Department of Transport has its offices (details supplied); if he will urgently acquire more suitable replacement accommodation in Shannon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10731/23]

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,...