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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Travel Operations Update: National Transport Authority (10 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: The carriages should be going west and south in the night-time. That is certainly how the airline industry works. The capacity goes a certain way in the morning. Next, I want to ask about an issue that I raised as a parliamentary question. It was responded to yesterday evening, and I thank the NTA for that. Licences are granted by the NTA for day trip coach tour operators. I will not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (9 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of new SEN accommodation for a school (details supplied); the indicative timeline for when works are likely to commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29383/24]

Tackling All Forms of Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (3 Jul 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the House for facilitating this important debate. Previous contributors referred to watershed moments and Groundhog Day. Unfortunately, we have had those too many times. We devoted an entire afternoon in the Dáil to statements about the late Ashling Murphy 12 or 18 months ago and the issue was in sharp focus, both in the media and in political discourse. It was being spoken...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: ...and we have had many private conversations on this. I thank the Minister, over the past 18 months, for meeting with Deputy Willie O'Dea and myself one evening in his office. he came down to Ennis and met with the Friends of Ennis Hospital Committee and he met with Angela Coll, the chairperson of that committee just recently in Dublin. I thank him for all that background dialogue and we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: An Garda Síochána (15 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I have a few points to make. I listened with interest to the responses given by Mr. Harris and Ms Hilman to Deputy Kenny. They were very much going down the avenue of discretion. In the context of a situation where a person is pulled over on suspicion of being under the influence of drugs, the witnesses started to elaborate on how gardaí have discretion. To build on a point from...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (9 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: ...increasing by most metrics. I do not know if this was an oversight because most counties have done extremely well. I would love if the departmental officials could look back at Clare. It looks like a great deal of money is going to Clare. When it is spread across two years, however, it boils down to a reduction. I wish to make a constructive suggestion about the timing of these...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Accommodation (8 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State for taking this Topical Issue matter this evening. Tubber is a very small village situated right on the Clare-Galway border. It is a few kilometres south of Gort and a few kilometres north of Crusheen. It is a beautiful village. I am sure that as a Mayo man, the Minister of State can almost imagine how rural, scenic and beautiful Tubber is. In 1852, like...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Challenges Facing the Bus and Coach Industry: Discussion (8 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: No one in this room professes to be a bus expert; that is the witnesses. Surely, it belongs in the realm of medical fitness, as mentioned. That must be paramount. Perhaps a lower tachometer for someone over a certain age could be used so they can fulfil certain tasks. It seems totally illogical that someone can pull up at the school gate at 11 a.m., take a full class to swimming and bring...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Nursing Homes (2 May 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State. That meeting sounds very positive. Long ago I used to believe the budget was set each autumn but I know work on the new budget has already begun. It is positive the Minister of State has had those negotiations and talks. Even though we are talking about our country's older population, a comparison could be drawn with childcare at the other end of the age...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I will speak for seven minutes. If someone sneaks up behind me, the Leas-Cheann Comhairle can alert me and I will stop talking. I share many of the concerns that other Deputies have articulated today. I farm. I have 26 sucklers, short-horn Herefords and around me are farmers. My father and older members of my family recall a time when our village had 25 or 30 farmers. It is now down...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: ...being late. I also sit on the transport committee, and it had an engagement this morning. I followed some of this debate, but not all of it. I apologise if I ask questions that have been asked. Like others, I know of some people with long Covid. One is a man in my local community who is involved in GAA coaching and plays golf the whole time. He came to one of my clinics approximately...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Delivery of Health Services for Patients with Long Covid: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I do not want to comment too much about the agreement that was reached between the Department and the unions. There is a three-month rollover backdated to 1 April, which is good. However, rollover after rollover will eventually run out. Dialogue needs to happen. Some people have, as Dr. Jeffrey stated, had long Covid for three and a half or four years. It is important that we start to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I thank the witnesses for attending. I have a few brief questions to put to them. Like Deputy Shortall, I would like to see a breakdown of where the funding has been spent to date. Furnishing that to our committee would be appreciated. During the Covid pandemic, we all became very aware of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDC. It was the mother ship in terms of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I know it may not have been a question the witnesses had expected this morning, but I would like some additional information because this is a body we became very much aware of during Covid. It did some excellent work and we are affiliated to it, but an Irish cancer strategy cannot exist in isolation, particularly when we are part of a wider European bloc. We saw during the Covid pandemic...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Bill 2024: Committee Stage (28 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I would just like to add to what other members have said. As I see it in my constituency, I would largely find that the problem is people not adhering to existing speed limits. When I drive within the speed limit on certain roads I am still going far in excess of what is safe. There are other roads, such as my housing estate, where if I was to drive within the speed limit a bicycle could...

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: We are having an important debate this afternoon. We were all glad to see restoration of the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Executive. I sincerely and heartily congratulate Michelle O'Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly on assuming their roles as First Minister and deputy First Minister, respectively. It is shameful it took this long to get everyone back around the table. It is particularly...

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...

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

Cathal Crowe: I want to squeeze in a few questions about the rail network. I missed the 10.50 a.m. train from Limerick to Dublin earlier. I was on time but the car park was chock-a-block. I know the Minister believes people using bikes. I do too. I brought the bike in the boot, I got the train and I cycled off, but you have to park the car somewhere. I come from rural County Clare to a train station....

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

Cathal Crowe: The trains to Dublin are very successful. They are full most mornings. It is great to see. The Cork to Dublin service picks up passengers from Limerick at Limerick Junction. It is really successful. There are two early morning direct services from Limerick to Dublin and there are only three carriages on that service. It is fine. I get on that service every Wednesday morning and I have...