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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (28 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 36. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will engage with his counterparts in the European Union in order that the VAT treatment of home heating oil in Ireland can be revised, similar to be recent VAT reduction in electricity and gas. [21337/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Properties (28 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 119. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has received and considered an application from a club (details supplied) to purchase State-owned lands adjacent to the club grounds at Knockalisheen, Meelick, County Clare. [21336/22]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (28 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 135. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has received and considered an application from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage or the Department of Transport in respect of funding sought by Clare County Council to make its imminent takeover of sites (details supplied) a success. [21335/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí agus ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy and Legislation (27 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: As with many Deputies, a large amount of work in my office involves dealing with medical cards and people who are struggling to get a medical card approved or have a decision on appeal. As we are halfway through our budgetary year cycle, I ask that in the autumn the Government consider providing that when someone has a cancer diagnosis he or she will automatically qualify for a medical card....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Control of Firearms (27 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 129. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she has progressed plans to formulate a committee to review existing legislation relating to the control of firearms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21371/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I join others in welcoming Ms Brogan, Mr. Mullaney and Mr. Ebrill to the committee. I apologise as today is exceptionally busy and there have been many overlapping meetings. I read the opening statement and I have followed most of the debate from my office. I want to pick up from where Deputy Ó Murchú left off. The planning process for roads is very frustrating. In Dublin city...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Does the Department of Transport have views on whether an objector should live near a project?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Mr. Mullaney is an adviser on investment policy and roads in the Department. Is it good investment policy and practice to commit to building half of a road yet omit the remaining half?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: In all the years in which Mr. Mullaney has worked in the Department if a road is phased, with which many of us are accustomed, would phase 1 be delivered and then phase 2, etc. until the A to Z of it has been completed? Is that the general practice?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Yesterday, the Chairman and I participated in an online briefing in the mid-west where Oireachtas Members and councillors were briefed on the Limerick Shannon Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy that will carry the mid-west region all the way to 2040. We heard at the presentation, and it was news to all of us and many of us were floored by the revelation, that the Minister for Transport has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Yes, I understand. It is very important that this committee speaks on behalf the workers today. It is also very important that we should speak about how these contracts are constructed. I was told by an employee of one of these large contractors that if they remained on a contract that the fuel burn of heavy machinery on the road would cost €5 million more than the tender price,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: There is gravel, traffic lights and traffic cones. Can the officials give us hope by telling us that something will happen in the interim to ameliorate the situation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Mr. Mullaney for his replies. In conclusion, I was a councillor before I became a Deputy and the Chairman is a former councillor. Over the years we attended similar briefings, as Oireachtas representatives and councillors, and I never ever heard the Limerick northern distributor road be treated as just being a discrete infrastructure project from Coonagh to Knockalisheen. It was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I want to withdraw,if possible, my comments relating to subcontractors and plant machinery. I thank the Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Thank you. I welcome Mr. Parlon and Mr. Sheridan to the meeting. There were overlapping meetings for me today. I have been following most of this meeting and have read the CIF's opening statement but I apologise for arriving a little late. I do not know if our guests watched "The Great House Revival" on television on Sunday night with the architect, Mr. Hugh Wallace. It is about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Very good. The entire series was filmed during Covid. Basically, a house renovation begins and halfway through the programme, after the ad break, Mr. Wallace says that they ran into trouble because costs spiralled out of all control. Every week they seem to resolve it because the contractor and the family split the costs. It resolves itself and then in the second part, the project gets...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: We have a lot to chew over here. I am glad the CIF is engaging with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform but it concerns me that it is has been months since both parties met. We are talking about big projects at this committee but my main concern is how this is impacting across housing and smaller scale projects throughout the country. We are not supposed to get into that too...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The next question is a big "if" and the witnesses might not want to answer it. I am being company-specific here and I know there may be liquidity information to which none of us is privy. Could one of these more flexible contracts, had it been in place for the northern distributor road in the Limerick-Clare area, have saved Roadbridge from going wallop last month?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: The other point I would add, and I would have said it earlier when the departmental representatives were here, is that while we are talking today about the cost of materials such as aggregates, steel and so on, fuel is also an issue. Roadbridge employees, who are able to speak freely now having been unshackled from the company, told me that if they had remained on contract, they heard that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Reform of Public Works Contracts for the Construction of Transport Infrastructure: Discussion (27 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: That is huge, especially when we are talking about projects costing tens of millions of euro.