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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I have not joined the Chairman's party but I presume he is speaking of a Fianna Fáil slot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: The Chairman said Fine Gael. We are in coalition of course.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: The Tánaiste is often mistaken for the Taoiseach so I suppose it all balances out. I thank Professor Ferguson for joining us this afternoon. There are a number of very compelling benefits and arguments to rapid antigen testing. First, the cost factor. It is approximately €5 per antigen test versus a huge variance of anywhere from €30 in North Macedonia, to approximately...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Report of the Covid-19 Rapid Testing Group: Discussion with Science Foundation Ireland (5 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I formally propose, out of today's meeting, that this proposal go forward to the Departments of Health and Transport on a trial basis for the next few weeks. I watched a Sky News report the other night in which people were filmed coming in and out of a disco in Manchester, which was trialled using a sample of the population. We are talking about sampling, potentially, people going to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing Travel Agents and the Aviation Sector: Discussion (5 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Deputies Ó Murchú and O'Rourke for kindly obliging. I welcome the witnesses. We have heard from representatives of the aviation sector and others in the tourism industry of the need for a lead-in period. The opening statement indicates that there is usually a six- to nine-month period from the time of booking to the time of travelling. Has the lead-in period for summer...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing Travel Agents and the Aviation Sector: Discussion (5 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the witnesses. I ask them to excuse me as I need to go to another meeting. I am more than happy to engage with them after the meeting also. I thank the Chairman and Sinn Féin for facilitating me.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Apr 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I join with others in congratulating the Minister, Deputy McEntee, on her wonderful news this morning. The programme for Government contains a commitment to ending direct provision. I am delighted that it was announced just a few weeks ago that this will happen by 2024. It cannot happen soon enough. I grew up in Meelick, County Clare, which is the location of one of Ireland's oldest...

Covid-19, Mental Health and Older People: Statements (29 Apr 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, for her engagement over recent days. Last week, in this Chamber, I told her the sad story of Margaret Morgan, who is 101 years of age and probably one of the oldest citizens in County Clare. She comes from the small west Clare village of Kilmurry McMahon. She had not received her Covid vaccination. She is bed bound. The Minister of State was...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (29 Apr 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 76. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address the apparent imbalance whereby self-employed persons who are on the pandemic unemployment payment can engage in a limited level of self-employment (details supplied); and if this will be extended to allow them to take up employment which comes under the remit of the PAYE system with the same financial...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (29 Apr 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 103. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider giving persons in the 60 to 69 age group that are currently being given the Covid-19 vaccine a greater choice regarding the vaccine that they will be given. [22368/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (28 Apr 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 54. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans post-Covid-19 for an international marketing plan to highlight the EuroVelo 1 Route, which travels along the western seaboard in tandem with the Wild Atlantic Way. [21598/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (28 Apr 2021)

Cathal Crowe: I know the Minister is a cycling enthusiast, so I have a cycling-related question. I love cycling myself. For the last seven years, the Wild Atlantic Way has been a huge success. It has been a magnet in bringing tourists to our country - pre-Covid, of course. Recently, we have seen beautiful signs being erected in County Clare and the west of Ireland, which read: "EuroVelo 1". It is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (28 Apr 2021)

Cathal Crowe: That is music to my ears. Speaking of music, the Minister will certainly have heard the song "It's a Long Way from Clare to Here". It is fabulous for one to step up on the pedals of a bike in my home village of Meelick, knowing that going north, one will pass through Galway and Mayo and ultimately get to Norway if one keeps following the route, and travelling in a southerly direction,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (28 Apr 2021)

Cathal Crowe: An obvious extension of the initiative would be to invite the Tour de France to come to Ireland, as we did very successfully in 1998. It passed through Dublin and into counties Wicklow, Wexford, Waterford and Cork. It was a huge success. The tour has a global audience each year of 1 billion people. It would be an obvious extension of the EuroVelo 1 initiative. When I was Mayor of...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Apr 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 142. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the rules in relation to appointment-based shopping for furniture and home furnishing retailers in the current set of restrictions. [21291/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Legislative Measures (28 Apr 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 159. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of policy papers or legislation he plans to introduce to ban the use of fracked gas sourced domestically and internationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21174/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (28 Apr 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 385. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to ensure the revival of tourism in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21798/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Apr 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 384. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her engagement with the hospitality sector in relation to the reopening and easing of restrictions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21797/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (28 Apr 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 635. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the proposed pension deal her Department has drafted in conjunction with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to provide for pensions for community employment scheme supervisors also extends to rural social scheme and Tús supervisors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21173/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Apr 2021)

Cathal Crowe: 841. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will issue guidance to businesses relying on international students as a matter of priority in order that they can make provisions for the summer 2021 season on the basis of either accepting or not accepting international travellers. [21137/21]