Results 5,441-5,460 of 5,627 for speaker:Cathal Crowe

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme (8 Sep 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 259. To ask the Minister for Finance if clarification will issue on the newly enhanced help-to-buy scheme for first-time buyers who have commenced the process and have received approval for HTB at the 5% rate and need to know their entitlements under the new rate; and the way in which the extra finance will be issued in cases in which a 5% deposit may already have been paid by the buyer....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (8 Sep 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 260. To ask the Minister for Finance if the level of tax rebate for dental treatment will be re-examined with a view to being increased to make it easier on parents and adult patients to meet the costs of the necessary service [21431/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Supervision and Substitution Scheme (8 Sep 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to a relaxation of the criteria to take up employment as a substitute teacher for those with a relevant undergraduate qualification, for example, in a language and teaching experience through TEFL or similar. [21364/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Sep 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 606. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions being made for families nationwide who have not found a place for their child on a school bus in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22296/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Sep 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an overview will be provided of the arrangements she plans to put in place to deal with primary and secondary students who have been refused concessionary bus tickets in 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22437/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (8 Sep 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 747. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if specific Covid-19 payments will be introduced for publicans in view of the ongoing embargo preventing them from trading; the supports that will be put in place to protect the industry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22298/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (8 Sep 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 975. To ask the Minister for Health the reason funding has been cut for a service (details supplied) resulting in some of those availing of the service being cut from five to two days; and the steps which will be taken to rectify the situation. [21835/20]

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I pay tribute to the many principals, teachers and caretakers who have worked tirelessly over the month of August and recent days in particular to get the doors of schools reopened and children back in classrooms so that the learning can begin. My eldest son, Sam, started junior infants at Parteen national school on Monday morning. I was delighted the Dáil was not sitting and I could...

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (2 Sep 2020)

Cathal Crowe: At the outset, I congratulate the new Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy McConalogue. I also congratulate my party colleague, Deputy James Browne, on his promotion to the role of Minister of State in the Department of Justice and Equality. I wish to pick up from where the previous speaker left off and refer, very briefly, to "golfgate", which was wrong a million times...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (30 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the procurement of a site for a school (details supplied). [19326/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (30 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the acquisition of a site for a school (details supplied). [19325/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 659. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing release time for administrative and management purposes of one day per week for each teaching principal of a primary school; her plans to bring this about as standard, in view of the increased workload and demands on principal teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19813/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 1066. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address inadequacies in HSE diabetic care in County Clare and the UL Hospitals Group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19554/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (30 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 1105. To ask the Minister for Health when the proposed increase in the income limit for medical cards will be enacted [19815/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Citizenship Applications (29 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 260. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied) will be progressed to decision stage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19238/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (28 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 299. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the options available to the board of directors of a building (details supplied) that has been closed for three years and has been refused a grant under the rural regeneration and development fund as part of efforts to reopen. [18358/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (28 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the working group comprising senior representatives from his Department and planning authorities which was established in May 2017 following the Flemish decree of the European Court of Justice in 2013 to review the new rural housing guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18707/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (28 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 800. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if consideration will be given to carrying out an independent review of the direct provision centre in Miltown Malbay, County Clare in view of the concerns raised by residents there. [18668/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to raise a few points, the first of which is for Mr. Gray. We have heard the word "outlier" quite a lot over the past week. It is a term I seldom heard used before the aviation sector came before this committee. It means not sitting with others and somewhat disadvantaged. The figures I want to put to Mr. Gray are those for inbound air traffic for the first 19 days of this month. A...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I understand that when everything was being shut down, the previous Government rightly said that it is essential we have some international travel links. That was at the time when nothing was taking off. I think there was one day when only one or two passengers left Dublin. It was right to keep routes open but at that point did the previous Government work out any deal with Dublin Airport...