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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...

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

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for facilitating this important Topical Issue debate. I also thank the Minister. He has had a busy day and I appreciate that he is in the Chamber tonight during one of the final speaking slots of this week in Dáil Éireann. I hugely appreciate his attendance to deal with this matter. Many Clare families have pyrite in their homes. Those houses are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (8 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, on the basis that one of Europe’s largest off-shore windfarms is planned for development off the Clare coast, he will give consideration to developing a centre of excellence for skills and training in the renewable energy sector in County Clare. [36589/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (8 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to offer new and additional courses at the Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest’s Ennis campus. [36590/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Process (8 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the expungement of 607 sex-work convictions announced by her Department on 25 April 2021 has taken place. [36591/21]

CervicalCheck Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I join the previous speaker in paying a short tribute to Vicky Phelan. I was pleased to hear earlier this week that she is on her way home. She has had six rough months in the United States. She was on "The Late Late Show" with Ryan Tubridy last summer, a day or two before her departure. She was filled with hope but also trepidation and fear. She has embraced the science of this from the...

Education (Student and Parent Charter) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I will speak in support of the Education (Student and Parent Charter) Bill. I see it as positive legislation. It puts a legal onus on schools to have a student-parent charter devised, published and available for the school community. That is a good thing. The main focus of this will improve the level of engagement and communication in the school community by inviting feedback, comments...

Education (Student and Parent Charter) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (7 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I apologise that the clock disappeared momentarily but we have been tracking the time manually.

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (7 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I am glad to be able to speak to this motion. I bow to the expertise of the previous speaker, the Minister of State, Deputy Troy, whose family has given a lifetime to the postal service and post office network. It is important that we work very quickly to bring about a medium to long term solution for the national post office network. The community and politicians, including the Acting...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (7 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills The progress made under the Action Plan for Apprenticeship 2021-2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36853/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (7 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 154. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to accelerate the administration of a second vaccine (details supplied) to the 60 to 70 age group who have to wait 12-weeks for their second vaccine given the low level of protection that one dose of the vaccine is providing against the newer variants of Covid-19 specifically the Indian and the Thai variants; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (7 Jul 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 141. To ask the Minister for Health if a mechanism will be introduced post-30 June 2021 in lieu of the temporary assistance payment scheme to support nursing homes in continuing to implement infection prevention measures. [30450/21]