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Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Within the region and among those who work in aviation, there is an appetite among the big stakeholders for a shake-up of the board. To be clear, I commend and compliment what Mary Considine is doing as chief executive, but sometimes a few new players can help to reinvigorate a board. I am sure Pádraig Ó Céidigh and Mary Considine will complement each other. My point is just...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. Regarding aviation overall, there is a need for a number of interventions. It is going to be one of the last sectors to experience a post-Covid recovery. A number of interventions have been made. Fianna Fáil was very respectful of the coalition of parties in government but there is also delineation between parties. We put forward a submission paper with some...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I agree with the Minister that the growth needs to be regionally balanced. He signed off on the Limerick northern distributor road project at the start of this year. It is making huge headway, as the Chairman can attest to. It straddles both of our constituencies. It is a shining light in what has been a few dull months nationally and in the mid-west. It is a major infrastructural...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: We want to see a park-and-ride facility near Thomond Park, or a light rail system. It would be fabulous.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Yes.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: It would be fantastic. There is significant buy-in for it. I have made a submission in support of it. It is great to hear the Minister's views on it. My concern is the project includes a roundabout, 3 km of dual carriageway and another roundabout. On reaching Meelick, traffic will leave the road in small lanes heading towards minor country roads. We cannot have a situation where phase 1...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I am getting fit running between committee rooms and the Chamber.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Yes. I have raised a number of points-----

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I ask that my timer is restarted or that I am given me a minute extra.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: The Minister is an advocate of rail travel. He will be glad to hear that I made the switch in recent months. I cycle and use rail from Clare to here, which is a long distance, but it works. We need a western railway track. West=on=Track is a long-standing movement in the west. It is a shame that a fabulous rail line comes out of Limerick, travels through Cratloe, Sixmilebridge, and...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: It is a 15-minute cycle.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I live in the border area.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister for the nice accolade. Is there any good news on some of the issues I raised?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: We could go on tandem bikes and we would get there in double the time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: The University of Limerick offers a fabulous paramedic degree course and has done so for several years. The course has many positive attributes but one of the negatives is that the students need to go to Liverpool to complete part of their training. In many cases, that leads to brain drain, with people qualifying from the University of Limerick and remaining in Britain to work out their...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 24. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health will meet next. [44818/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I raise the issue of capacity for secondary school students in Shannon town. The Taoiseach visited one of the secondary schools there with me two years ago, namely, St. Caimin's Community School. The other school is Shannon comprehensive. As we come out of Covid, there is a need for the post-primary buildings unit to take a comprehensive look at both schools. St. Caimin's was built...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education met last; and when it is next due to meet. [44817/21]