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Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: At the outset, I mentioned that the Minister was in Clare to cut a ribbon and open a road. This happened thanks to the previous Government, which funded it. People said it would never happen but it did happen and it is now open and functioning very well. Another road is being developed in County Clare straddling the Clare-Limerick border. It is called the Limerick northern distributor...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I think they are the calm figures the two financial Departments need leading them out, so the best of luck to them. We have every confidence that they will navigate us through the choppy waters that unfortunately still lie ahead for all of us globally. I will start by speaking about a former Minister of this House. I listened to Eoghan Murphy's audiobook over the Easter holidays. I...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Annual Progress Report 2025: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: In terms of the firepower various Departments have, we are certainly lacking on the HR front. We do not have enough people in certain sectors. There is sometimes a lethargy and delay in getting things moving. I have a few questions in that vein for both Ministers. We have pretty rigid procurement rules and tendering processes determined by the European Union for larger projects. Is there...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: One of the metrics is employment and economic affluence. My constituency includes Shannon, which is a significant industrial base. A total of 40% of US companies have a presence in Shannon. This situation is repeated in many constituencies with an industrial base of employment. Every morning, people flock there from four counties to work. The census will tell us that a significant number...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: It is over a decade since the infamous Croke Park hours were introduced for teachers requiring them to provide an additional 20 hours' service per annum. I was a teacher for many years and a member of the INTO. I think it is rather insulting to the men and women who take school teams after school and facilitate choirs, drama and fabulous activities like yoga. Every sort of afterschool...

Proposed Approval of the Agreement Between the European Organization for Nuclear Research and Ireland: Motion (11 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this discussion. As other speakers said, it is important that we move in the near future to full membership of CERN. It is an incredible organisation at the cutting edge of science. The health sciences showed us during the Covid years how important it is for countries to work beyond international borders. Scientific questions, health problems and...

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Some weeks ago I made a suggestion in the Dáil which led to praise and criticism but that is what happens. I suggested that in a rural county like mine where there is no Luas, DART or significant public transport, young people in particular are penalised by the requirement to have a fully licensed trained driver in the car with them. It is not very practical in rural areas,...

Biodiversity Week: Statements (21 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I am sharing my time with Deputy Cormac Devlin. Sometimes they say a Minister is well geared to his Ministry. There is no better Ministry for Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan than the one he has. I congratulate him on his new role. It is great to see him sitting on the Front Bench. Those who do not know Deputy O'Sullivan, or Christopher as we know him on this side, should note that when he...

Committee on Education and Youth: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I wish to advise Deputy Ní Raghallaigh that everyone has made very general contributions. Does she wish to comment now or in a few minutes' time? She has indicated the latter. We have drifted into an area we will discuss shortly. I will make a few comments. Unlike Senator Conway, I made two efforts to escape education. I promised myself when I had my leaving certificate done that...

Committee on Education and Youth: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Cathal Crowe: People have suggested general areas they would like our committee to work on.

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate. It is good that there has been a review of the NPF. The previous planning framework was introduced too hastily. It is good that we slow down a little, take stock and review where all of this is going. I know there is a different term used in government but I welcome the appointment of this "housing tsar", as it is being dubbed in the...

Housing Emergency Measures: Motion [Private Members] (2 Apr 2025)

Cathal Crowe: -----Members to avail of this because we have a democratic mandate as well. There were a hundred issues that I would like to have raised last week but I got two minutes speaking time in the entire Dáil week to speak about legislation from the 1820 to the 1850 period. How irrelevant when I want to speak on topics like this. I am glad that anyone who is watching at home can look at the...

Support for Householders, Businesses and Farmers Affected by Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2025)

Cathal Crowe: It is good to see the Ceann Comhairle back in the Chair. I have full confidence in her. Let us now drive on with the work we need to do in this Chamber. This is a very important debate. I have quite a few bits to say. I have three minutes so the Ceann Comhairle might remind me when my time is up. I will speak about the issue of trees, as other speakers mentioned. Leylandii cypress...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I hope the Deputy will be writing to the Ceann Comhairle tomorrow in that regard. Deputy McDonald assumes we on this side have collective amnesia but we have waited two years to hear about her connections with convicted criminal Jonathan Dowdall. I guess, like Slab Murphy, he is a good republican and so gets a pass. We would love to hear about Deputy McDonald's connections to him because...

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this. I am sharing time and will use three minutes, if that is okay. I have long represented the issue of suspended gardaí here in this Chamber. At the moment, a total of 112 gardaí are suspended. Some are suspended for very good reason and some may have done things that merit being kicked out of the force. However, many of them are...

Third Anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I would like to welcome ambassador Gerasko Larysa and the Ukrainian population to our Dáil Chamber this evening, and all those who are in the Public Gallery. It is very hard to believe it is now three years since the war in Ukraine began. I remember the morning it began. I was in my office watching "Sky News" and there was huge fear for the capital that Russian troops would advance...

Programme for Government: Statements (Resumed) (12 Feb 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I do not think I have ever praised Deputy Michael Healy-Rae but it is great to see him on this side of the House. After the election, everyone had a mandate to sit here. Some chose to come over here, make a difference and not speak out of both sides of their mouths but only from the side that could deliver and lead on policy. I welcome hearing the Deputy speak as a Minister of Government....

Government’s Response to Storm Éowyn: Statements (Resumed) (5 Feb 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I congratulate the Ministers of State, Deputy Martin Heydon and Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan, on their appointments. Deputy O'Sullivan is a good friend of mine and while I am delighted to see both Ministers of State in their positions, I think Deputy O’Sullivan is going to do a particularly good job. People often get appointed to roles they have half an interest in, but anyone who...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Cathal Crowe: A Cheann Comhairle, thanks for calling me to speak. Like other Deputies I welcome the Bill. This is one of those pieces of legislation each year that is up there with the Social Welfare Bill and the Finance Bill. It is very important. It needs to go through the Houses. It is about ensuring that older people in society will end up with insurance cover, that there is risk equalisation,...