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Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Ms Considine. May I ask-----

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: That is no problem.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I have a number of questions to pose to our guests. I will direct my first question to Mr. Doyle. We all understand that the industry is suffering from a shock. It is on its knees and I want to preface everything I say by recognising that. I represent County Clare and I live on a flight path for planes landing in and taking off from Shannon. I do not need Flightradar24 to tell me that...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: One had to be logged in and online in order to watch those videos. I was in the company of one employee shortly after she heard of the temporary lay-offs via a WhatsApp message she received from a colleague. That is not good enough and, despite of all the restrictions under which we are all living, there would have been better ways for that to have communicated that information from a human...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: Did Mr. Doyle offer cabin crew an opportunity to relocate to Dublin and minibus up and down for a couple of weeks? Airlines have done that in the past. Did he offer them a plan B in that regard?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: Their contract is with Aer Lingus, not with Shannon Airport, so there was an onus on Mr. Doyle's company to at a minimum offer them the possibility of taking a minibus up and down to Dublin. Other airlines flying from Shannon have done it in the past. They could at least take home a salary every week. Some of them with 20 and 25 years service have lost out to someone who is only with the...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: In talks we have had with airport management, September has been flagged as a potential return to that service. Could Mr. Doyle confirm that, if possible?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: Is it the case that if somebody books online vis-à-vis the Aer Lingus for a Shannon flight they will get an email a day or two later stating that flight is not possible and offering them an alternative flight out of Dublin?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I understand the traditional customer demand, which is obviously the driving motive of a company. It has to meet customer demand and that is how it schedules flights but we are in extraordinary times. I understand that people who were booked on flights out of Shannon got emails to state they can fly out of Cork or Dublin airports. Alternatives were given so ipso facto that works also. Aer...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I ask Mr. Wilson about the change fee in Ryanair. Yesterday evening, I got an email from a constituent and I asked her if I could outline her case. She has not replied yet so I will anonymise it. Essentially, it was very attractive, costing approximately €1,000 for her to fly out of Shannon on a Ryanair flight to sunny Spain but the change fee Mr. Wilson's airline is applying is...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I would dispute that given it cost €1,000. I have a final question which may be replied to in writing. Aer Lingus Cargo continues to have very profitable cargo, much of it from Boston Scientific, sitting on the apron of Shannon Airport. It is trucked overnight to Heathrow. It does not make any commercial sense for that to be happening but I understand my time is up so Mr. Doyle...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (resumed) (28 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: Mr. Doyle might comment on that because it is codeshare airlines that then take that from Heathrow Airport and fly it to the United States. It makes no sense. It is on the runway of Shannon Airport and trucked overnight to Heathrow. I wonder what our Green Party colleagues would say in terms of the carbon footprint but leaving all that aside, it seems illogical and costly-----

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Citizenship Applications (29 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 260. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if an application for citizenship by a person (details supplied) will be progressed to decision stage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19238/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (30 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the procurement of a site for a school (details supplied). [19326/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (30 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the acquisition of a site for a school (details supplied). [19325/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 659. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing release time for administrative and management purposes of one day per week for each teaching principal of a primary school; her plans to bring this about as standard, in view of the increased workload and demands on principal teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19813/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 1066. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address inadequacies in HSE diabetic care in County Clare and the UL Hospitals Group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19554/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (30 Jul 2020)

Cathal Crowe: 1105. To ask the Minister for Health when the proposed increase in the income limit for medical cards will be enacted [19815/20]

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (2 Sep 2020)

Cathal Crowe: At the outset, I congratulate the new Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy McConalogue. I also congratulate my party colleague, Deputy James Browne, on his promotion to the role of Minister of State in the Department of Justice and Equality. I wish to pick up from where the previous speaker left off and refer, very briefly, to "golfgate", which was wrong a million times...

Back to School, Further and Higher Education and Special Education: Statements (3 Sep 2020)

Cathal Crowe: I pay tribute to the many principals, teachers and caretakers who have worked tirelessly over the month of August and recent days in particular to get the doors of schools reopened and children back in classrooms so that the learning can begin. My eldest son, Sam, started junior infants at Parteen national school on Monday morning. I was delighted the Dáil was not sitting and I could...