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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (14 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I confirm I am in Leinster House. I thank the Minister of State for being here. Credit is due to him and his team because recent weeks have been dogged by almost daily speculation that this would not happen. Today, 1 million digital Covid certificates are on their way out to people by post or email. Well done. I will put a number of questions. The first is on the batching of files....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (14 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I have a few other questions. When this was first being designed there was just the international travel dimension to it but now it very much looks like it will also have a purpose here on the domestic front. Specifically with regard to restaurants, bars, etc., the Minister of State's referred to the verifier app and that each gateway will hold a correct QR code key for each country. Not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (14 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State. I appreciate that he does not have the answer to that today, but it is essential because beyond serving up a pint and packets of peanuts and getting dinners on tables, people who run pubs and restaurants need to know this is pretty much bombproof and simple to practice. They need an awful lot there. They are now gearing up for reopening which everyone really...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (14 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Has the Minister of State the costings for the Department at which he is based?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (14 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: If he can do so, will Minister of State reply to my remarks regarding the point at which people will be asked to produce this for verification?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (14 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State. What he said is logical and sensible. However, it is at odds with what we were told yesterday, that this would be at departure gates. What the Minister of State has just said and the Commission has recommended makes sense. To think that you could spend an hour and a half weaving your way through an airport without being asked to present this digital...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (13 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 154. To ask the Minister for Health if HIQA stipulations that all elderly residents in care centres should have a personal space around their bed of 7.4 square metres will result in the loss of any beds at St. Josephs’ Hospital, Ennis. [28428/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (13 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 164. To ask the Minister for Health if there is on-site capacity at University Maternity Hospital Limerick for bloods to be tested on a 24/7 basis. [28429/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (13 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 200. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he expects grants under the circular economy innovation grant scheme to be awarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37381/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (13 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 268. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason the help to buy scheme only applies to new builds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37371/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (13 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 278. To ask the Minister for Finance if homeowners in County Clare who have confirmed cases of pyrite in the structure of their homes are exempt from paying the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37642/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (13 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 279. To ask the Minister for Finance if being part of a pyrite remediation scheme is a criterion for exemption for payment of the local property tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37643/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (13 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the site selection process relating to the proposed development of a new school building for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37572/21]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I confirm that I am in Leinster House 2000. I read Mr. Sunderland’s statement, and I followed his delivery of it. The one thing I wanted to home in on was article 15.4 of the GDPR. We are trying, insofar as is possible, to scrutinise this legislation, and ensure that when it comes out the other end is that it is very much favourable to the survivors and victims of the mother and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Chair for facilitating me. A meeting of the health committee this morning coincided with this meeting. We were looking at the new legislation to reopen bars and restaurants for vaccinated people. While that was a significant debate and took precedence over this, I have been following this meeting. I have a number of quick questions. I apologise if some of these have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: May I ask what the phone number is, Ms Canavan?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I suggest the departure gate is rather late in the system, given that everything from the boarding card to the passport is screened further back in the airport concourse. It is quite late if somebody is kicking up a fuss, which will happen. There were even court challenges a few months ago, frustratingly. There will be people who will try to wriggle their way out of this, not having been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Implementation of the EU Digital Covid Certificate: Discussion (13 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: There should be a small team in each airport to guide people through. God knows there have been enough airport workers laid off temporarily over the last 16 months, so it would be good for a directive to come from Government that at a minimum a certain staffing level relating to this alone be retained. People are hoping to get back to work and I will propose that. I hope that will be...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Defective Building Materials (8 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: Exemption from paying local property tax is not a new phenomenon. It has been there for a number of years for new builds but also for houses in what were deemed to be unfinished estates. What we are talking about here in terms of defective blocks, pyrite and homes that are cracking from the gable end down is much different. It far outweighs any other category of exemption we have had...