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Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: The purpose of today's meeting is to consider programme D of the 2024 Further Revised Estimate for Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications. I remind members that the committee has no role in approving the Estimate. It is an ongoing opportunity for the committee to examine departmental expenditure, to make the process more transparent and to engage in a meaningful way on relevant...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Is Deputy Alan Farrell still online? Would he like to come in next?

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: We can hear Deputy Farrell loud and clear. He may proceed.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I will come in next. I thank the Minister for his presentation. I have a few questions, but not too many, to put to him. It is obvious with respect to the national broadband plan that enormous progress is being made. I congratulate the Minister and the Department, as well as all of the work crews. Every day I move around my constituency and see National Broadband Ireland vans or...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister. When he and his Department have high-level engagement on this matter, it is important. There was colossal public debate on this matter approximately 15 years ago when applications for masts and antennae were going in every week. That was a national debate. These days, the industry seems to go back again and again for masts and antennae in urban settings. Stadiums,...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I will next ask about eircodes. Would the Minister consider making it mandatory that an eircode is displayed on public buildings? On our farm at home, we decided a few months ago to hang a sign on the door of the shed because the moment you need to know your eircode is when you will forget it in a panic. The local school I taught in before becoming a member of the Dáil has its eircode...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I want to hone in on the public warning system, as others have. I do not have the correct name for the cell broadcast public warning system. I would love to hear more on that. It is a fantastic idea. We are a nation of hypochondriacs as well. Will it be the case that when there is a red weather alert, this will go out onto someone's mobile phone, or will it be something of a greater...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: He was the better salesman for hoaxes.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I have two small questions to end. There is a strategy around offshore wind that will see much of the Irish Sea having an offshore wind infrastructure, as well as a similar infrastructure coming westward from Britain. With all this fixed infrastructure in the Irish Sea, has the Minister and his counterpart in the British Government examined the possibility of there being a cellular network...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: That is a smart approach. My next question refers to digital stamps. The national rate for a digital stamp is €2. The national rate for the paper sticky stamp is €1.40. Some say the price discrepancy is because the digital stamp can be tracked, and the sender is notified when it gets delivered. Surely from a sustainability point of view, we should be trying to encourage...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Does Deputy O'Rourke wish to come in again? I have one final question for the Minister, as I do not know if Deputy Farrell is here. The Minister casually mentioned a couple of years ago, and we are not trying to catch him out, a lovely example last year in Switzerland. Swiss postal vans have what is called a crew cab, where it goes around the villages with all the bags of mail in the back....

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Further Revised Estimate) (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister and his officials for their attendance today and for their very positive engagement with our committee.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Message to Dáil (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Transport and Communications has completed its consideration of the following Further Revised Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2024: Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications - programme D.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I raise the issue of the supply of the drug Ozempic. Someone called into one of my advice clinics this week. She has been prescribed Ozempic by her GP and had gone to many pharmacists in County Clare and beyond trying to get this all-important medicine. When she went into one pharmacy, the pharmacist looked her up and down and asked her if she had diabetes or was obese. He asked this...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 36. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider changing current taxation rules which are overly burdensome on individual investors who are seeking to grow their savings and plan for the future (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27487/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Minimum Wage (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 44. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when he expects to act on the Low Pay Commission recommendation that sub-minimum youth rates of the national minimum wage be abolished; if he will also take into account some of the financial hardships (details supplied) that are currently being faced by business owners in the retail and hospitality sectors; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently approve the application for additional accommodation made by the board of management of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27489/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (26 Jun 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 119. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will reconsider the decision to require Limerick students to travel to Dublin to obtain their Irish residence permit cards for the first time (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27307/24]