Results 141-160 of 4,464 for speaker:Cathal Crowe

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: A huge bugbear in County Clare is that TII, in conjunction with the office of the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, has written to Clare County Council, as I understand it, saying national roads in the country can no longer be considered for planning permission purposes. Another Deputy raised this matter earlier. Generally, that makes sense. If there is a fast road or main thoroughfare...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I think most of us were councillors before we became Oireachtas Members. I remember years ago a full council meeting, lasting for two or three hours, to debate guidelines, the conclusion of which was that guidelines, though important, are only guidelines. The guidelines carry substance and clout but is it the case that where a planner with all his or her expertise and professional knowledge...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: An inner relief road scheme has been planned for many years for the N67-N85 at Blake's Corner in the town of Ennistymon, north Clare. It has gone to judicial review, I believe. Do the TII chiefs have any insight into the status of that and when the people of north Clare might expect to see work taking place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I have a what-if question. If it got beyond judicial review with a favourable outcome, is it still years off or will it be a priority for TII?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank Mr. Walsh for his engagement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: There are 50 shades of car paint on the corner, which will tell you how often it gets clipped.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I think I spotted some on your bumper there.

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]