Results 201-220 of 4,516 for speaker:Cathal Crowe

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 334. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on an application submitted by a school for assisted technology for a pupil (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6589/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (13 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 420. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the next steps for pilot sewerage schemes announced for County Clare villages (details supplied). [6618/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (13 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 620. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will support calls for post-graduate medicine courses in Ireland to be upgraded from QQI level 8 to QQI level 9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6497/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (13 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 621. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the shortage of medical doctors and nurses in Ireland, if he will give consideration to introducing an additional qualification category for SUSI grants so that students who have already completed a QQI level 8 degree, and are undertaking an additional postgraduate course to train as a medical doctor or nurse (also QQI level 8)...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (8 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister for his response. He has listed some of the additional challenges and costs these businesses are facing. I would like to highlight one of them. Just last week, we all saw supermarkets unveiling new bottle and tin can recycling machines. They cost €15,000 apiece but there is no Government support for that. They have all had to go down this route. There is a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (8 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 5. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment how many businesses in Clare are likely to qualify for the increased cost of business grant; what discussions his Department has had with Clare County Council in relation to this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5563/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (8 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister for taking the questions. On budget day, the Minister announced that a €257 million pot is being made available for an increased cost of business grant scheme. I would like to know how many Clare businesses he expects to be able to avail of the scheme and, additionally, what engagement he and his departmental officials have had with Clare County Council in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Business Supports (8 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister for the reply. It is a good scheme and I am glad that 3,955 Clare businesses will benefit. The whole way of calculating and working out who will get what needs a little more thought, because this is based on the square footage of the floor space. It is based on the rate space. I found during the Covid period that there was real agility in the Government in identifying...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (8 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 46. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of IDA supported jobs in Clare at the end of 2023; how this compares to 2020, 2021 and 2022 respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5562/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (8 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 97. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide details of flood relief and river drainage works that the OPW will undertake in County Clare this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5721/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Protection (8 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 111. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an overview of works planned to alleviate coastal erosion in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5720/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) can expect to hear the outcome of their application to have their salary increments reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5839/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (8 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 232. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a cohort of workers funded by her Department (details supplied) have not received a pay increase in 15 years; if any pay increases are planned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5813/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (7 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider reducing the VAT rate for the tourism and hospitality sectors back down to 9%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5068/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: State Properties (7 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 120. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an overview of the works, including costs incurred, undertaken at the Sate-owned Shannon 153 building in Shannon, County Clare as plans were being developed to transform it into an accommodation centre for international protection applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5231/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (7 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 252. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify whether a successfully awarded defective concrete block grant for a home is available to an individual who inherits the affected home or if they need to reapply as a fresh applicant (details supplied). [5069/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (7 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 263. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has made any funding allocations to Clare County Council in order that a Section 180 application (Planning and Development Act, 2000, as amended) made by the residents of an area (details supplied) to have their housing estate taken into public charge by the local authority, can be advanced; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (7 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 433. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department is considering any properties in Shannon or Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare for IPAS accommodation. [5075/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (7 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 434. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the current contract his Department has, in respect of an international protection applicant accommodation centre at a location (details supplied) expires; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5109/24]

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (7 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the Minister and his officials. I do not have speaking time in the Dáil, so I take this opportunity put on record my deepest sympathies to our colleague Deputy Richard Bruton and all of the Bruton family on the passing of iar-Thaoiseach, John Bruton. The Minister's presence and contributions are always valued by this committee. My first question is about the Dublin Airport...