Results 5,681-5,700 of 6,078 for speaker:Cathal Crowe

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Primary Care Centres (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 87. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the provision of new primary care centres in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33468/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Primary Care Centres (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I ask for an update on the status of planned primary care centres in County Clare.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Primary Care Centres (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. I am glad to hear of the progress with the five new centres which are greatly needed in our county. When the primary care centre model was developed by the Department of Health it was to provide modern purpose-designed buildings for a wide catchment area with care by a multidisciplinary primary care team. I live quite close to the Westbury primary care centre. I have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Primary Care Centres (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister for those words of encouragement. As with everything, rumours circulate on social media these days, including the rumour over the summer that these projects would not happen and that funding for them was questionable. I am glad to hear tonight in the Dáil that they are progressing. Ennis is the largest town in Munster that is not a city and it needs the two new...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Sales (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister for his reply. The mart in Sixmilebridge continued and some sales took place, including the sale of my uncles’s yearlings, but too many animals went home in trailers. Many rural farms in Clare do not have a broadband connection, and for those that have it, the connection is rather slow. Given the age demographic of the farmers going to marts, I am sure they...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Sales (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 36. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures that will be taken to ensure that farmers' marts nationally can access adequate Internet infrastructure to allow their online sales to proceed to abide by Covid-19 restrictions (details supplied). [33305/20]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Sales (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister for outlining the situation. The Livestock Live online bidding system, LSL, has not been fit for purpose so far this month. Back in April and May, when there were blended sales and people in the ring, the system was not under as much pressure but on Saturday, 24 October, the system crashed for about two hours at Sixmilebridge mart, with the result that many of the...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 211. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if funds or plans are in place to provide for innovation enterprise digital hubs to facilitate remote working clusters and small businesses in medium to large sized towns. [32581/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 248. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the requirement to have an Eircode for broadband installation can be removed temporarily to allow those awaiting an Eircode can have internet installed in their new homes to allow them to work remotely during Level 5 restrictions. [32521/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 298. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if National Driver Licence Service centres can remain open during level 5 restrictions; if driver licences that are due to expire will now be extended in view of the heightened restrictions; and if persons who have booked to take an appointment in another county can now do so. [32430/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 345. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the procedures being put in place for those who need to renew a driver licence but who are facing lengthy delays and have been told they are unable to have their existing licence extended. [33370/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 379. To ask the Minister for Finance if the six-month moratorium on business loans which has now expired will be extended in view of the stricter Covid-19 restrictions. [32299/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Retail Sector (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 385. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps he will take to ensure that the retail export scheme threshold will not change. [33099/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Charities Regulation (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 456. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there has been a review of the State spend on the non-profit third sector in the past 10 years; his plans to carry out a review to achieve greater transparency; and the percentage of non-profits in Ireland that have publicly available accounts. [32356/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Prevention Measures (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 475. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if funding can be drawn down via the Office of Public Works to address long-standing flooding issues effecting 54 farmers along the River Inagh, with initial focus on the area around the townlands of Knockdromagh and Glann. [33494/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rent Increases (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 619. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a ban on rent increases will be considered for the duration of the level 5 restrictions in view of the fact that this occurred during the previous lockdown. [33141/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 644. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the level of engagement that his Department has had to date with the County and City Managers’ Association to date in so far as community CCTV schemes and use of CCTV equipment for environmental enforcement purposes is concerned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33865/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 645. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities and his Department plans to address the large reduction in commercial rates to Clare County Council arising specifically from the revaluation of the Moneypoint power station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33866/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Functions (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 646. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if local authorities and his Department will consider bestowing town status on the heavily populated Westbury Shannon Banks community in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33867/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme (3 Nov 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 706. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the emergency works scheme application for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32344/20]