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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (1 Dec 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the deferred payment of the leaving certificate examination fees announced by her Department in early 2020 also applies to cases in which students are repeating the leaving certificate. [39766/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Assessments of Needs for Children with Disabilities: Engagement with Ombudsman for Children (1 Dec 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I apologise. This is really 2020, in that I have been attending three meetings simultaneously, two of which are virtual. I am listening through headphones and watching on screens. Dr. Muldoon will be glad to know that I have saved the best meeting for last. I read his statement last night and I thank him for all the work that he and the Ombudsman for Children's office are doing for...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Undocumented Irish in the USA (26 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 23. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the way in which his Department is engaging with US Government agencies with regard to the undocumented Irish. [38082/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (26 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of businesses in County Clare that have qualified for support under the Covid restrictions support scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39202/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Value Added Tax (26 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 109. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider a proposal to abolish VAT on condoms. [39121/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Environmental Impact Assessments (26 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 248. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will consider carrying out an examination of the adequacy and accuracy of environmental impact assessments being undertaken on behalf of wind farm developments in sensitive areas. [39415/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (25 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 168. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce legislation on the revenge porn issue. [38905/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome our witnesses. In some ways, the witnesses and members on opposite sides of the room have similar jobs. Members face people at election time, they vote for us and they do not really know how good we are until they need us. It is the same with Eir. People sign up to Eir and become its customers but the real litmus test is when something goes wrong with network, their billing or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: Does Eir use chatbots because I was certainly duped? Customers go on Twitter and believe they are getting a response but are then asked for an account number and to call 0901 before all of this is regurgitated. Is Eir using chatbots?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I might ask Mr. Storey to comment. Is Eir using chatbots?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: When one looks at the scale of calls that have not been dealt with, Eir clearly needs to recruit more people. That is a simple thing to do. There should not be many barriers to recruitment. Many places are conducting online training at the moment. I had to do so some months ago in a different area so we can all do that. I understand that in May 2020, Eir sold its mast and tower...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: One is for when I get a call to go home. Proliferation of anything is not good enough. There are five or six masts in my community. Eir is not living up to the planning policy of co-location because each set of antennae it fits to a tower is lucrative. It is worth €6,000 to €10,000 in a calendar year. Eir is putting up a dozen of these and there are another dozen across the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I refer to the whole planning policy of co-location. I am in a community with approximately 8,000 people in two square miles. It is a huge population density. There are approximately 25 mobile phone masts and there is no problem with the signal. There is no need for more again. Eir's network can probably take, perhaps, four times the population it is currently drawing out, and yet it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: That is good. I want to be very clear on that. I believe, however, Ms Lennon needs to look in-house at this whole issue of co-location-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Broadband Connectivity and Telecommunications Issues: Eir (25 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: Eir is putting them in in some communities but the communities that really need them do not have any. There is something wrong with that. I know because I have delved into this quite a lot over the years. It is lucrative, and this is the bottom line. It is lucrative because space can be sold. For example, making a 12 m tower into a 24 m one, which is the application currently in my...

Covid-19: Statements (24 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I was a schoolteacher until February. As a former schoolteacher, I never doubted for a moment the capacity of schools to be able to withstand the ravages of Covid-19. Yet, in the back of my head I was concerned that the mass gatherings of children and parents at the school gate every morning would lead to a spread of Covid-19. Great credit is due to our country's schools for the work they...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (24 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if additional funding will be made available to provide sewerage mains in unsewered villages in County Clare. [36518/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (24 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is progressing a remediation scheme for defective blocks containing pyrite. [38081/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Aviation Authority (24 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will intervene in the ongoing superannuation dispute in the Irish Aviation Authority (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38829/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it will be ensured that the agency filled caretaker role at Limerick College of Further Education will be made a permanent role on LCETB payroll. [38225/20]