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Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I will therefore deliver my speech quickly. In the main, I am very supportive of this and have been so at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Transport and Communications. We have heard of worst-case scenarios and there are many of them. When one goes online, one will see videos of people going crazy on e-scooters. That is the worst-case scenario but I have also seen youngsters using...

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the Minister and congratulate her on the birth of a little girl, I believe.

Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Okay. It was one or the other. I congratulate her again and it is great to see her back. Well done on taking maternity leave. That was an important thing to do and showed how this House should function. Fianna Fáil fully supports the Land and Conveyancing Land Reform Bill 2021. It is very important because there is currently a huge backlog of applications to PRA for prescriptive...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: During July and August, we can get from one side to the other of any town or city in Ireland without any great traffic congestion. This is the case in counties Cork and Clare and any place we can think of. This is largely due to schools being closed and the 200 or 300 cars doing the school drop-off not being on the road each morning. We have had an overhaul of school transportation but...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Redundancy Payments (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 39. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if persons now facing redundancy from their place of employment will have their reduced working weeks forced on them during the Covid-19 pandemic counted as fully paid weeks for the purposes of calculating redundancy pay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56259/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance if adjustments will be made by the Revenue Commissioners in terms of determining the basic exemption and increased exemption rates applicable to paid redundancy lump sums; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56259/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019 (Resumed): Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: My apologies. I ran down the stairs to get to the meeting room. I had been following the whole debate. These days, members have to juggle a few things. I have been following the debate from my office. I thank the witnesses for their contributions so far this morning. I have read their written submissions. It is great to see Ms Power back in Leinster House. The Bill has several...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019 (Resumed): Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: The positioning of vending machines is probably more important than the fact they exist. In some cases they are located behind a bar counter. A token is given and down you go. It is kept as a financial transaction separate from the food or drinks that are sold at the till. We definitely want to curb smoking. I have never smoked a cigarette in my life. I am very anti-smoking. However,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019 (Resumed): Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I agree.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019 (Resumed): Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I agree with regard to advertising. There are not many instances around the country but I can think of one in my county where there is antique tobacco advertising. In many places, it is replicated signage that people put up for a nostalgic look in a shop. I know one shop in Clare where the signage is authentic and dates back to the 1920s or 1930s. It would be no harm in some scenarios to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019 (Resumed): Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I appreciate Ms Power's honesty. I refer to the old black and white photographs of nine-year-old or ten-year-old children with peaked caps smoking cigarettes. One could see the pathway of those children's lives. They probably aged far more quickly and faced more health problems than would have been the case if they did not smoke. We want to avoid situations such as that. Significant...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I have several points I wish to put to the Minister. Perhaps we can have an exchange on them. The first issue is that of the Limerick northern distributor road. Phase 1 of the project, from Coonagh across to Meelick, straddling the Clare–Limerick county boundary, is well under construction, but it is going to end at the middle of no place in Meelick. Phase 2 is currently a concept...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I raised this matter in the Dáil last night during oral parliamentary questions. The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath, indicated that the project would progress and that it would continue to move through phases. In his response, on the Dáil record, he said that Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, would advance this in the spring of 2022...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: The National Transport Authority, I should have said. I believe he referred to TII as well. If I can continue with my point, I am from Meelick, the community where this road will end. It will terminate in Knockalisheen, Meelick, the community I was born and bred in. Some people cannot wait for the road to be built. Some people have major reservations. That is pretty standard in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I love greenways. I love putting the bikes into the boot of the car, taking off on a Saturday and getting fresh air in my lungs with my wife and kids. I love that. I love travelling by train. Greenways are fine for weekends. They are recreational. They do not get someone to work, school or college. We need roads. We are still in the era where we depend on roads. We cannot have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I respect the point the Minister makes about taking down walls. There are also fences. There are fences fencing off the route corridor, a route corridor that looks even more uncertain today. It is great to take down walls because they are social and all kinds of barriers. However, there is a route corridor along which people are living and working, some of whom are farming. For better or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Chapter 11 of the national development plan refers to the need for a brand new aviation policy. The last national aviation policy we had dates from 2015. It still exists but it is pretty much defunct now as we come out of Covid. When will we have a new national aviation policy, one that recalibrates aviation in our country and gives back to the regions, including the likes of Shannon,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I will be going up to the Chamber in a minute so I want to squeeze in one final point. I thank the Minister for his engagement this afternoon. Like many others here, I came into Dáil Éireann to fight for my county, which is a rural one. Indeed I care passionately about the western corridor referred to by the Chairman. I believe if our island was not rooted on deep bedrock, it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to conclude my remarks. The greenway is for the weekend and getting out on bikes with one's children and family. There is no greenway that can take me or anyone around me to work on a Monday morning. We can talk about it but we need baseline infrastructure such as roads. We do need them.