Results 41-60 of 109 for cork speaker:Cathal Crowe

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland Projects and Related Issues: Discussion (6 Apr 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...do about it. The issue relates to a form of traffic calming. A national road and a primary school do not sit well together, with tourism and a lot of other things happening in the area. The Cork-Limerick motorway matters a great deal to all of us in the west of Ireland and it is great to see a bit of progress through a definitive route line emerging. The Chairman was pressing our...

Circular Economy, Waste Management (Amendment) and Minerals Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...out. Some of the changes proposed in the Bill could see an annual saving of €2.3 billion if people just changed the way they function. I was listening to a Deputy talk about a new motorway from Cork to Limerick. That money would build most of that motorway and probably a bit extra as well. That puts perspective on the annual waste of some of the bad environmental habits we have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overcrowding Crisis in Hospitals: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: Would an elective-only hospital alleviate the burden of pressure that the mid-west is feeling at the moment? Incredibly, while Sláintecare recommended elective-only hospitals for Dublin, Cork and Galway, the mid-west and UHL, with 700,000 people funnelling through it under huge pressure, have no such recommendation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Travelling in a Woman's Shoes Report: Discussion (9 Mar 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...Ms Cahill have an opinion on these matters? Should alcohol be served on trains? Is the day of the bag of cans being brought onto the Heuston Station platform and drunk on the train to Limerick or Cork over? It can be fun but it can also be very messy. It invariably leads to trouble as the journey moves passed its halfway point and the alcohol intake increases.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (24 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...contact as the Department continues to fill the positions. I will revert to the elective hospitals. We saw before Christmas that the Cabinet approved the progression of elective hospitals for Cork, Dublin and Galway. I admit I was devastated to see the mid-west left out. I know this has come from a recommendation system but the Minister visited the mid-west just six days ago,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...group that is looking at elective hospitals under Sláintecare? A key recommendation was made to the Government last autumn that there would be three new elective hospitals in Ireland at Dublin, Cork and Galway. For the life of me, I cannot fathom why the mid-west and University Hospital Limerick were omitted from that. Will Mr. Reid and Mr. Watt please detail who is on that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Oversight of Sláintecare: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: By any metric or logic, I cannot understand why the most pressurised group of hospitals in the country was omitted. This is now progressing. A business case has already been filed for Cork and plans are pending for Galway and Dublin while there is no suggestion of an elective hospital in the most pressurised corner of the country, the mid-west, Clare, Limerick and Tipperary. I will make a...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ...companies, however, have been applying risk equalisation for the past 11 years to homes in County Clare and homes further up along the River Shannon area, and to homes along other rivers such as the River Lee in Cork where homes have also flooded. They apply risk equalisation where one home floods and they pass the burden and the principle of risk equalisation onto thousands of homes in...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (9 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: .... In parts of County Clare, there is a proliferation of turbines, some of them twice the height of Big Ben, the famous clock in the heart of London. The siting of turbines in Gougane Barra in west Cork was on the news last night. They are springing up everywhere. They are positive on one hand but there is a proliferation of them in some parts of Ireland. When I get the train, once I...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Feb 2022)

Cathal Crowe: ..., Tony O'Brien, the former director general of the HSE, recommended that the mid-west, and UHL specifically, have an elective-only hospital. Sláintecare has recommended elective hospitals for Galway, Cork and Dublin. I am asking the Taoiseach, as helmsman of the Government, to try to push for the mid-west to have its own elective hospital to end once and for all the incessant...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to install a bike share station on the Cork University Hospital campus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1176/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (19 Jan 2022)

Cathal Crowe: 232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to install safe cycling infrastructure on the Model Farm Road in Cork city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1177/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid Testing for International Travel into and out of Ireland: Discussion (8 Dec 2021)

Cathal Crowe: ...now changed. If a passenger were to come through a transit flight, maybe landing in Heathrow Airport, and travelling onwards to Shannon Airport, we would need to have capacity in the mid-west and near Cork and Knock airports. It is quite conceivable that someone could be coming from a flight this week or next from an African nation, especially South Africa or its adjoining countries,...

Covid-19: New Measures: Statements (24 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: ...the Department. More importantly, I pay tribute to all of the front-line health workers. This morning I met the Acting Chairman on the 9.50 a.m. train from Limerick to Dublin. I joined the Cork train at Limerick Junction and I was appalled to see so many people not wearing masks. We have made sacrifices over the last two years. There are people who did not get home to meet their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Aviation Authority: Chairperson Designate (24 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: ...headquarters but it struck me it is very removed from where the real action of the IAA is happening Most of the authority's workforce is based in Shannon, with many more in Ballygirreen, Cork, Dublin, Knock etc. Would the authority consider coming out of Dublin city and basing themselves below in Shannon? I met Ms Hynes below. She has spent much time down in Shannon. I am sure it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: An Post: Chairperson Designate (24 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: .... That is a nice soft way of saying it will close down every second post office in rural Ireland. That is what has happened in reality. Very few of those 190 closures have happened Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Waterford or Galway. They have happened in rural parts, such as County Clare and other counties in the west. We need to look at what the post office really provides I accept the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: During July and August, we can get from one side to the other of any town or city in Ireland without any great traffic congestion. This is the case in counties Cork and Clare and any place we can think of. This is largely due to schools being closed and the 200 or 300 cars doing the school drop-off not being on the road each morning. We have had an overhaul of school transportation but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: ...defunct now as we come out of Covid. When will we have a new national aviation policy, one that recalibrates aviation in our country and gives back to the regions, including the likes of Shannon, Cork, Knock etc? Tomorrow, we will have a meeting with the Coast Guard and I do not wish to comment on a particular matter in Clare at present. That is progressing quite well after the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Development Plan 2021-2030: Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Cathal Crowe: ...and back here concerns me. I do not think there can be any ideological block to projects that need to happen. A road is basic infrastructure that people in the west of Ireland need. If we look at the Cork to Limerick motorway, which is intrinsically important to us in Clare because it provides that continuous link, I am sure many members have passed through the village of Banogue....