Results 561-580 of 4,516 for speaker:Cathal Crowe

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (9 Nov 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 92. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects to make a decision on the applications made to his Department in respect of developing sewage schemes for the villages of Broadford and Cooraclare, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48826/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Commemorative Medals (9 Nov 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 196. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a 2016 service medal (commemorating the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49147/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Waterways Issues (9 Nov 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 211. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will assign the Office of Public Works, vis-à-vis a Service Level Agreement with Clare County Council, to clean the watercourse of the Inagh River, County Clare, given that Clare County Council do not have the specialist machinery or budget required to undertake remedial works; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (9 Nov 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 228. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide clarity as to what housing estates in Ardnacrusha, County Clare, will benefit from the €5,466,825 funding allocated by his Department in June 2023 under the multi-annual developer provided water services infrastructure resolution programme; what remedial works the funding will cover; when remedial...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Nov 2023)

Cathal Crowe: In recent months, there has been huge recruitment to An Bord Pleanála and cases are starting to move once again. However there is now a trend where people are appealing the residential zoned land tax, RZLT, which becomes a liable taxation payment on 1 January. All those cases are being appealed to An Bord Pleanála and it is clogging up the system. Last week, 146 cases were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I thank everyone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Air Navigation Service: Chairperson Designate (8 Nov 2023)

Cathal Crowe: We have received apologies this afternoon from Deputy Steven Matthews. The purpose of today's meeting of the committee is to meet with Mr. Bryan Bourke, chairperson designate of the Irish Air Navigation Service, AirNav Ireland. On behalf of the committee, I am pleased to welcome Mr. Bourke and his advisory colleague. On formality and privilege, witnesses are reminded of the long-standing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Air Navigation Service: Chairperson Designate (8 Nov 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to clarify that this committee has written to the DAA which, in turn, has been in contact with AirNav.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Air Navigation Service: Chairperson Designate (8 Nov 2023)

Cathal Crowe: It is my turn now and next will be Deputy Martin Kenny. I congratulate Mr. Bourke on his new role. I think I heard him say he has had ten meetings already and I hope he is well bedded in at this stage. We wish him every success. We always want people to succeed in new roles and in this one because Mr. Bourke is leading a very important instrument of the State. New business...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Air Navigation Service: Chairperson Designate (8 Nov 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Business is important too because there are opportunities beyond Shanwick and we are getting into other spaces, which is welcome. I wish to mention a concern that is often expressed by the rank and file air controllers. The fear is that as we go down this market that there is a risk of it becoming slightly yellowpack but not in terms of safety, which has never been compromised. I mean...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Air Navigation Service: Chairperson Designate (8 Nov 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Air Navigation Service: Chairperson Designate (8 Nov 2023)

Cathal Crowe: On a similar vein, and I do not plan on going into this because it has been well documented, but employee grievances have featured in all the national press over the last year. The one heading all that could come under is a shortcoming in communications. I will not go over old ground but I want to say that the more the chairperson can invest in good communications-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Air Navigation Service: Chairperson Designate (8 Nov 2023)

Cathal Crowe: -----with the board and the wider pyramid of the organisation, the better. The best thing we could hear from Mr. Bourke is that he is a communicator, he listens and that the internal dispute mechanism that the IAA has introduced is a well oiled machine. AirNav Ireland has a beautiful office on D'Olier Street, which the committee should visit as it is only five minutes' walk from here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Air Navigation Service: Chairperson Designate (8 Nov 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I was struck by the thought that the office is far removed from where the real action takes place. I believe that communication is the only way to bridge any differences and ensure there is a happy crew of air traffic controllers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Air Navigation Service: Chairperson Designate (8 Nov 2023)

Cathal Crowe: A chairperson is not omnipresent in the organisation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Air Navigation Service: Chairperson Designate (8 Nov 2023)

Cathal Crowe: A chairperson does not see everything and that is a good thing. I was a teacher for a long time and the chairperson of the board of management used to visit every now and again. The chair did not have knowledge of all the day-to-day stuff but had a sufficient level of oversight and that is positive. One should not have to know. I am going back on some of the questions levelled at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Air Navigation Service: Chairperson Designate (8 Nov 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Mr. Bourke and I would appreciate if a note could be supplied to the committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Air Navigation Service: Chairperson Designate (8 Nov 2023)

Cathal Crowe: There are two major conflicts taking place and Irish airspace has been exploited. When world conflicts take off different superpowers think-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Air Navigation Service: Chairperson Designate (8 Nov 2023)

Cathal Crowe: -----they can flex muscle in our skies when they cannot. I would love to see a briefing note on whether anything has happened in the past six or seven months and whether there have been any communiqués to the Department of Foreign Affairs, which has to be notified when it happens. The drones issue has been correctly taken in hand by the DAA, with the support of the IAA. I commend them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Air Navigation Service: Chairperson Designate (8 Nov 2023)

Cathal Crowe: It is only down the street. For anyone who has not been, I remember going into the board room and that the photographs are incredible. The history of Irish aviation is laid bare in those corridors. It is wonderful to see.