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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (21 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 36. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will take measures to ensure that the insurance sector does not apply the principle of risk equalisation whereby homes that have never been flooded are being denied insurance that incorporates flood protection cover. [44673/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parliamentary Questions (21 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 196 of 1 December 2020, if he was referring to an EU regulation (details supplied). [44616/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (21 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the date by which the two appeals on pension matters made to his Department in February 2020 and November 2020 under section 41(7) of the Irish Aviation Authority Act 1993 will be deliberated upon. [44617/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Legislative Measures (21 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will call on the Labour Court to engage with the Irish Aviation Authority and the constituent trade unions of the staff panel to formulate an industrial relations agreement to facilitate the enactment of the Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020 and the subsequent establishment of AirNav Ireland. [44618/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (21 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 415. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) and persons like them can be considered for a form of social welfare income given the unusual circumstances surrounding their case. [45196/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Forestry Sector (21 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 688. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of planting and felling licences received and approved by his Department over the past 12 months in tabular form. [44782/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Forestry Sector (21 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 689. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of planting and felling applications relating to County Clare that are currently awaiting decision by his Department.. [44783/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Forestry Sector (21 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 690. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way he plans to deal with the backlog in applications for planting and felling licences; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44784/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regional Airports (16 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: It is not just a geographical stepping stone between Europe and the United States; Shannon Airport offers much more than that. We have the pre-clearance facility in Shannon which is so important. We need to see that back up and fully functioning again. In the past number of weeks, the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, was in the airport to open and see at first hand the new baggage screening...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regional Airports (16 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a chairperson will be appointed to the board of the Shannon Group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44116/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regional Airports (16 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to ask the Minister for Transport when we can finally expect to see a chairperson appointed to the board of the Shannon Group.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Regional Airports (16 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. I want to thank his colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, for coming on site to the airport two weeks ago and seeing first-hand all the preparatory work that is under way to ready ourselves for the season ahead. It was August of last year when Rose Hynes stepped down as chairperson of the board. We then saw an appointment process getting under way and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (16 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 53. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way Ireland can ramp up production of renewable energy in order to prevent future energy supply issues. [44230/21]

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

Cathal Crowe: 91. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures his Department is taking to ensure better air connectivity to Ireland’s regions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44117/21]

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence: Motion (15 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: We should not be here tonight. Merriongate from the very get-go was a problem of Fine Gael's making and it should have been for it to deal with, for it to determine the thresholds of ethics and for it to determine what level of sanction should apply. It is wrong that coalition partners, including my own party, are left to deal with this mess tonight, a full eight weeks after it first broke.

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence: Motion (15 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I did not interrupt the Deputy.

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence: Motion (15 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: This Government has worked very well so far and it will work well tomorrow and in the days that follow but, let us be clear, there are three very separate parties in this coalition Government. There are very clear lines of demarcation between us. The Tánaiste, in my opinion, should have dealt with this quickly without a perpetuation of the matter for the length of time it has run its...

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence: Motion (15 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: It has played gamesmanship with this. Its Abú system is working in overdrive because people far beyond the boundaries of Clare, from south Armagh and Derry, are piling on our pages in recent days. I will conclude. It is working in overdrive. It loves these opportunities.

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence: Motion (15 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: They do not want to deal with the real crisis in Ireland.

Confidence in Minister for Foreign Affairs and Defence: Motion (15 Sep 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I will conclude by saying the Minister, Deputy Coveney, is a good man. Several times over the past fortnight he has taken calls and texts from me relating to an Irish family stuck in Kabul. That is a real crisis. He has given of his time to listen to that case. Many in my party tonight will reluctantly vote confidence in the Minister, Deputy Coveney, but, let me be clear, this is not...