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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care and Complaints Process: Tusla (24 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: The inconsistencies are a huge issue. Can I ask that in maybe six months time we would have a special meeting with Tusla again to see where that is at? It would be great work on behalf of this committee and the approach must be one of partnership. I was not here today trying to beat Tusla. I value an awful lot of what it does but it is our job as public representatives to probe and voice...

Other Questions: Tourism Industry (19 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 10. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports from a tourism perspective that will be provided to a company (details supplied) in order to help it keep its key tourism sites in the mid-west open from 1 January 2021 onwards. [37157/20]

Other Questions: Tourism Industry (19 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: Yet again, there is huge uncertainty in the mid-west pertaining to the Shannon Heritage sites and whether they will be open or closed in the new year. I would very much like to know what proposals the Department has to engage with the Shannon Group to ensure these sites do not close and that jobs are not lost there.

Other Questions: Tourism Industry (19 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: It is very much a case of déjà vu or Groundhog Day, call it what one likes. Once again, the management of Shannon Group is saying that, due to the downturn in international tourism and ongoing loss-making, it will be forced to close iconic sites such as Bunratty Castle and King John's Castle from January onwards, and that these sites will remain closed until the start of the summer...

Other Questions: Tourism Industry (19 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: The Minister is correct that the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform awarded €2.6 million to keep the sites from closing last August. However, it subsequently transpired that the net figure in terms of meeting operational costs and averting closure from August to December was €550,000. If these sites were closed again in January, it would cost the State in the region of...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (19 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 28. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports her Department will put in place for the development of the Irish language in County Clare. [37158/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (19 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 96. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to enact the Private Members' motion previously passed in November 2016 by the previous Government regarding the future of the Post Office Network. [37632/20]

Community Safety and Preventing Crime: Statements (18 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I understand that a pay freeze is currently in place for An Garda Síochána but reforms continue to be rolled out. Gardaí are the real knights in shining armour at the moment, policing our country during a time of crisis. Some feel that this is happening rather quickly and by stealth, without incremental pay changes. These reforms include the much-discussed Garda operating...

Rural and Community Development: Statements (18 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I am sharing time with Deputies Christopher O'Sullivan and Cahill. It is just over a week since Joe Biden was declared President-elect of the United States. The Clare Echo, a free sheet newspaper in my home county of Clare, ran a very witty headline regarding the election which trended nationally. The headline read: "West Clare hotelier loses out in US Presidential election." Truth be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (18 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 123. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons already taking part in the community employment scheme will be allowed to continue to finish out their tenure; and if new referrals will be made for the scheme going forward. [37307/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (18 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 173. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) will be provided with an appropriate hospital bed at home for end of life care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37237/20]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: Earlier this morning at the meeting of the Joint Committee on Transport and Communications Networks, we heard from representatives of National Broadband Ireland that they anticipate its contract with the State will not only come in on time but below cost. That information should frame what I want to say in the next few moments. Mr. Gunning said in his contribution that the board last...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: Surely the weekly dialogue is what works are completed, where costs are at and where completion is at. That goes for any building project, whether it is a home extension, a new build house or the biggest hospital in Ireland. Surely that is part of weekly discourse. I again ask: when will the project be completed? I do not think it is a detail that Mr. Gunning would need to search too much...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I hope that it is a very hammered-down timeframe at that point because the whole country waits with bated breath. Mr. Gunning in his statement said that, since the commencement of this project, there have been hundreds of claims for hundreds of millions of euro. Will he give us a few examples of what kind of claims BAM comes to the board with? What kind of dialogue is there? Who is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: Will Mr. Gunning tell this committee of an example of one claim that was not accepted?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children's Hospital (18 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: What presence has the board on site every day in terms of monitoring this project and ensuring public moneys are being well spent? How often are there meetings with BAM and what is the nature of them to ensure that things are on course in terms of timescale and expenditure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Roll-out: Discussion (18 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the witnesses. I apologise in advance as I must leave in a few moments to attend a meeting of the health committee next door. We will be talking about the national children's hospital. We all know what that means: overspending. It is in this regard that I want to start today. The NBI contract is massive and extremely important. It is all the more important given the Covid...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Roll-out: Discussion (18 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: On the multi-annual roll-out, homes that are to get broadband this year or next year will get current technology. Will a home having broadband installed in four or five years get the industry standard at that point or will it get what its neighbour a mile down the road got way back in 2020 or 2021?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Roll-out: Discussion (18 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: What really concerns people is the question of when their homes will get broadband. I realise it all revolves around Eircode postcodes. At a previous meeting of this committee, I highlighted that in most cases postcodes are generated only on a quarterly basis. Quite a number of people have come to my office stating they have missed the current quarter's capture. Therefore, some will not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Broadband Plan Roll-out: Discussion (18 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: National Broadband Ireland is like the ESB in rolling out a large nationwide network. At this time of the year, when ESB cables are down, it has a large team to get the networks back up again. National Broadband Ireland has many overground cables in its network, some of which will come down over the winter due to storms. With a workforce of 800, boots on the ground, has it an equal...