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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: The way radar interacts with aircraft is that a little ping signal goes up and back, positioning at all times the aircraft on a vertical and horizontal axis on an air traffic controller's screen. The Irish Aviation Authority has said very clearly in recent planning files that it is unsafe to put wind farms in close proximity to radar. It distorts the signal of where those aircraft are. It...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Taoiseach. On a point of order, a Cheann Comhairle, let the record show-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: -----that Deputy Cullinane sniggered at this issue, which is very real in Clare. Let the Sinn Féin voters in Clare know about this.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tillage Sector (14 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 116. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the supports for the tillage sector announced in Budget 2026. [55034/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tillage Sector (14 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 138. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has had discussions with an organisation (details supplied) on the issues facing the tillage sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55035/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Conservation (14 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 199. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to enhance the retrofit grant system to allow for individual elements, such as windows or doors, to be retrofitted, in order that households that cannot afford a full retrofit can do so incrementally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55279/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Data (14 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 343. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures he is taking to safeguard Ireland’s business aviation interests through the anticipated significant financial burden that would follow the proposed revision of the Energy Taxation Directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54851/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (14 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 359. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on a matter (details supplied); and the timeline for reviewing the matter. [55125/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (14 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 356. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of properties in County Clare which fall under Band 1, Band 2 and Band 3 of the local property tax; the way in which these properties are valued for this purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55092/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (9 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: 72. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the fact that Lisdoonvarna, County Clare has taken in more IPAS applicants and Ukrainian war refugees than any other town; if, on this basis, he will review ongoing accommodation arrangements in this town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54030/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the witnesses and the Chair for allowing me to contribute. I am not ordinarily a member of this committee. I was in the last Dáil but Members are accommodated if they want to come in at the end. I want to take up the last member's questions on 999 calls. In the past two years, the procedure for making emergency calls has changed. Heretofore, if an antisocial incident was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: On 999 calls, people answering the calls are call answering civil servants and are not medically trained or trained in policing. It has long been bemoaned that they do not have a level of expertise. They are taking a call at face value, yet calls are triaged. How does that work in practice? I will give an anonymised example that illustrates the difficulties of the system. A parent in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Are they trained in house?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Ambulance Service: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: My time has run out. I suggest the service make that change. I have given one example, but have as others have said there have been accidents in my county where people have waited two and half to three hours. There is radio silence from the National Ambulance Service. The service has fantastic paramedics and no one is criticising that. They are great when they arrive, but the issue is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the witnesses, especially those from An Garda Síochána. I have many friends in the force and their job has become more difficult in recent years. As public representatives, when we have opportunities to express gratitude on behalf of the people we represent, we should do so. Some cohorts of society have decided to make up their own rules, whether it is on the road or when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Forgive me, I wish to jump in again because of the clock. Technology has moved on light years in that ten-year period and policy has not matched it. I have questions for the witnesses from An Garda Síochána. The last time we dealt with this body of work in the previous Oireachtas transport committee we looked at drug driving. An Garda Síochána has a way of testing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: What about smoked drugs, specifically, where a person could be inhaling a drug that is being consumed across a room from them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Is that loophole still there?