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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: With the greatest respect, we should not try to sanitise this. I have made this point numerous times within the confines of this building. If we fluff over it, we are denying that it is happening.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I confirm that I am in Leinster House 2000. I wish the committee members and the witnesses a very happy and healthy 2022. I thank the witnesses for their opening statements and for their contributions so far. I have been following the meeting all the way through. I refer to something the Minister of State, Deputy Hildegarde Naughton, said in the Dáil Chamber when this matter was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: That is good to hear. We all saw that "Prime Time" special a few weeks ago on e-scooters. It was screened a few weeks before Christmas. A lot of these e-scooters have a restricter on them that inhibits the speed one can travel at. As the witnesses may recall, it was shown on "Prime Time" that a few clips of wire can be used to reset that restricter and enable those scooters to do much...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I have concluded. I merely would ask that Ms Tinsley and Mr. Fulham comment on my questions. There were many questions in terms of the widths, etc. I find that some of these guidelines become more than guidelines. They become overly prescriptive to the point that in practical terms they do not work as well as they were intended to.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Ms Tinsley. If Mr. Fulham has any views on the same questions, I would appreciate them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Mr. Fulham. That has been very constructive. The guidelines I referred to, as have others, were devised at a time when the Ford Fiesta, which was a small hatchback, was the bestselling car in Ireland. We have very narrow parking spaces set down and prescribed by local authorities when planning permissions are granted and new developments are happening. It is happening all over the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (16 Dec 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 97. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the impact that Brexit has had on the employer and public liability insurance market in Ireland. [62320/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (16 Dec 2021)

Cathal Crowe: The principle of risk equalisation works well and it makes sense in the health realm. It makes no sense whatsoever insofar as flood cover insurance is concerned. In my county of Clare, a county of 118,000 people, one person in 12 is unable to get flood cover on his or her insurance largely due to flood events that happened ten, 12 or 15 years ago. What we have since is a national database...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Dec 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister for his response. Some hotels will be left out of the scheme. Elaina Fitzgerald has been on the airwaves quite a lot lately. She is head of the Irish Hotels Federation. Her hotel in Adare, County Limerick, is one such hotel that will probably do pretty well coming into Christmas, but will not benefit from the scheme. That is her analysis, something that is replicated...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Dec 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I wish the Minister a happy Christmas.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Credit Unions (16 Dec 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Scríobh an Teachta O’Dea ríomhphost chuig oifig an Chinn Comhairle ag athrú na ceiste chugamsa.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Dec 2021)

Cathal Crowe: How many people in Clare, Limerick and the mid-west are currently availing of the EWSS, and how many businesses in that same region are availing of the CRSS?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Dec 2021)

Cathal Crowe: This has been one of the real successes of the Covid pandemic. It has been 18 months of misery on the health front, for those in employment and those who are trying to shore up a business and keep it surviving at this time. This has been one of the successes in stabilising the economy and it is very much appreciated by those in business. I am glad 6,000 people in Clare are benefiting from...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (16 Dec 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the Government will consider introducing incentives in order that Ireland can position itself as a world leader in pioneering sustainable aviation. [62251/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (16 Dec 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 85. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when his Department will begin preparing a new national aviation policy; and if he will provide an indicative timeframe for the completion of same. [62250/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (16 Dec 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his engagement with insurance underwriters and brokers to promote more competition in the past six months. [62319/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Heritage Sites (16 Dec 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way his Department and the Government overall will support Shannon Heritage sites as they continue to operate through the Covid-19 pandemic and prepare for the management of the sites they currently operate to be divested to local authorities. [54695/21]

Appropriation Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Dec 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Fianna Fáil will fully support the Bill. It is an essential element of the financial housekeeping that must be concluded by the Oireachtas within the calendar year. The passing of the Bill will authorise in law all of the expenditure undertaken in 2021 on the basis of the Estimates voted through by the Dáil during the year. The passage of the Bill will also ensure payments funded...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I had indicated that I wished to speak.