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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (22 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 648. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average hourly and daily number of uninsured vehicles that are identified by An Garda Síochána through the use of the automatic number-plate recognition system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9643/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (22 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 866. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for a discontinuation of dental treatment for medical card holders in Kilrush, County Clare; when he expects this service to be reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9991/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Urban Development (17 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 14. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the criteria that each local authority must meet when developing their town centre first plans; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8766/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome Mr. Muldoon, Mr. Meade and Mr. Kenny. I am delighted to see them here. They will be glad to hear that I will be taking the train home to Clare in a while, via Limerick. I have become an avid user of it. I have a number of questions and I will try to get through them quickly. I ask our guests to respond quickly. First, when will catering on trains resume again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Does Irish Rail have a position on mask wearing? Is it concerned about it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Irish Rail does not have concerns about easing restrictions on mask wearing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: When travelling on the train there is the 51444 text service so that if there is a problem on the train, one can alert somebody. I find the train very safe and comfortable to travel on. In fact, I love it. However, twice over the past 18 months I saw incidents happen on the train. I texted this facility on 16 November and on a separate occasion on 20 January. On both occasions I gave...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: A similar text facility would be great on the intercity trains, if that can be done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: It is not easy as a passenger to go down and talk to the attendant on the train when the passenger causing nuisance might be sitting only three or four seats away. A text facility would be fantastic, if that could be considered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I have a question about late night trains. The buses between all the cities run up until midnight and some of them operate beyond midnight, but the last trains one can get in Ireland are at approximately 9 p.m. Has Irish Rail got an interest in going beyond that and late into the night?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Mr. Meade mentioned that Irish Rail wants to get to 200 kph trains, which would be incredible. That would mean the line I will travel on today, the Limerick to Dublin line, possibly taking about an hour and the extension onwards to Ennis being even shorter again. Does he envisage that on all lines or is it just on the main intercity routes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I believe the Chairman and I have cracked the Irish Rail algorithm, in that we know how to get the tickets booked on time and cheaply. I am on a €14 fare home today and it will get me home lightning quick. However, if I try to book for my wife and three children to go to Dublin for a day in the zoo, a rite of passage for every Irish family, it is €150 return. For the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I have a question about Ennis railway station. It is really drab and has a rundown feel to it. Many people feel their cars might not always be safe parked there. Is an upgrade planned for it? What is Irish Rail intending to do there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Finally, there is the capacity to deliver the LSMATS, this beautiful network of stops planned at Cratloe and Shannon, the rail spur into Limerick and the rail spur out to Shannon Airport. The Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, says that a lot of that line exists, apart from the airport spur, and that it can be delivered quickly. There is a station in Cratloe and a network there already. If Irish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Iarnród Éireann (17 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Mr. Meade. We squeezed a lot in there.

Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Fianna Fáil welcomes the Bill. I am confident it will enhance and strengthen the protections for whistleblowers in this country. Ireland has had a legislative framework on whistleblowers dating back to 2014 and we have learned a lot more since that Act came into force. Ireland is one of a small number of EU countries that continues to have such a regime in place before the EU...

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I will finish my point. I did not interrupt other Deputies. We have relied on each and every occasion on the Royal Air Force to come and scramble its jets and that is not something that should happen. On the issue of Russia, I am usually complimentary of the actions the Minister takes as the helmsman of the Department of Foreign Affairs but I think we were a little soft-footed with the...

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: They did but I think we could have been more robust.

Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Statements (16 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: There is somebody else who is involved in protecting our nation and that is the Garda Commissioner, Drew Harris. His term of appointment was lengthened yesterday. We need to have a bit more scrutiny as a State and there are two major outstanding issues we need to look at. One is the suspension of the trial of the hooded men. That has been brushed aside and we have not focused on it. The...