Results 41-60 of 218 for long speaker:Cathal Crowe

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (20 Sep 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 187. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the long-awaited increase to pensions for former An Post workers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39570/23]

European Council Meeting: Statements, Questions and Answers (12 Jul 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...own a horse come hell or high water. That is how many people see it. Their attitude is, "Sure, we can put a rope around the horse's neck, tie it up wherever we want and let it graze the proverbial long acre." That should not be tolerated anymore. Maybe it was fine in the 1940s and 1950s, but it certainly is not now. When I was growing up, I would have loved to have a pony or a horse...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Jul 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...Deputies have been over there meeting with them this afternoon. The INMO is suggesting legislation to underpin and secure staffing in hospitals. I said that sounds good but legislation takes a long time. It is cumbersome and involves red tape. Surely there are shorter term ways by which we can do this - perhaps even through the budget. It was devastating during the Covid period to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Decarbonisation Strategy for Aviation and Shipping Sectors: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (12 Jul 2023)

Cathal Crowe: A few months ago, Michael O’Leary from Ryanair was before the committee. He bemoaned how environmental taxes were being levied more on passengers on short-haul flights. It suits the long-haul carriers, bigger airlines such as KLM, which go from hub airport to hub airport, while passengers on airlines such as Ryanair and Aer Lingus are penalised more by comparison. Strictly speaking,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Security, Recruitment and Training at Dublin Airport: Discussion (14 Jun 2023)

Cathal Crowe: Are passengers who arrive at the airport who are small private jet business travellers still taking the long circuitous 8 km route around the airport curtilage? What I am really asking is whether platinum services is the only point where these passengers can be received at the airport?

Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...welded to it has definitely changed at constituency level in so far as I can see it. At times, we are all guilty of profiling people, which is wrong, but I recently saw a young person whom I have known for a long time who is now on a very slippery slope. This pattern is very much starting to emerge. On the actions needed, we can no longer have a head-in-the-sand approach when it comes...

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...at the indices of good quality breeding for the national herd will see that some of the lineages and DNA are hundreds of years old. Some of the breeds that are considered continental have been in Ireland for a long time. It would take a long time to rebuild the genetic stock that we have in Ireland and we would want to be very slow to do anything to affect it. My final point relates...

Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Statements (26 Apr 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...of enlightenment in 2023, thinks he can roll tanks over an international border, subvert a people, kidnap children and lead another world conflict. It simply does not work, and the trauma and impact of it is long lasting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...mental health facility, refugee accommodation or cater for our homeless population. I have repeatedly asked what is happening with the facility but we have not got a sufficient answer. There is a long-term plan for the facility and to have it sat idle in this day and age is quite unforgivable. Also, from the State's point of view, it is wrong, which I have often said to the Minister,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges in Hospitals: Minister for Health (26 Apr 2023)

Cathal Crowe: .... That goal cannot be achieved overnight and requires investment. There is a whole lot of implications when it comes to staffing, and let us not be naive about that. A second unit should be the long-term aim for all of us here who serve the region both politically and, indeed, those who lead the Department, including the Minister. Will the Minister offer a commentary on the matter? In...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (25 Apr 2023)

Cathal Crowe: 605. To ask the Minister for Health if he will intervene and direct the HSE to recognise foetal alcohol spectrum disorder as a lifelong neurodevelopmental disability in its own right, to ensure that those who are affected by FASD can access the required medication under the long-term illness scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19473/23]

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Convention on the International Organization for Marine Aids to Navigation: Minister of State at the Department of Transport (22 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...committee by Dáil Éireann for further consideration. I welcome our colleague from the Oireachtas the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, and his officials. Witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice to the effect they should not criticise nor make charges against any person or entity by name or in such a way as to make him or her identifiable or...

International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...and clothe her children. That is before we get to bills and keeping a car on the road. It is simply too much for many people, and they are struggling. We need to have an honest debate - there has not been such a debate for a long time - on maintenance payments in circumstances where families are estranged. There is also the male side of it. Then often tell me they cannot get to see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Insurance and Uninsured Drivers: Motor Insurers' Bureau of Ireland (8 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: If the Chairman will allow me just one last question I omitted earlier, the young male driver has long been pilloried in the media as the worst offender on the roads. Does that really stack up any more, in the opinion of the witnesses, or is everyone-----

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Coast Guard Service (2 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...death of Catríona Lucas. The Marine Casualty Investigation Board needs to have oversight of that. We also need the release, finally, of the Clinch report, which has been held back for far too long.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...home available for someone. She can only do that if her business is legitimised, and at the moment, the way this is manifesting itself it puts huge question marks over the legitimacy of things. It will not be long before others, including the insurance industry, fall in behind that and start to question the very validity of what people like Ms Ní Mhurchú is doing and suddenly...

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...that power, and the Commissioner certainly does not have it. Some of these cases have been before the National Bureau of Criminal Investigation for up to three years. It is wrong that they have been there for so long. Many of these people have been suspended because of the controversy relating to the squaring of road traffic offences. If they committed a common law crime by...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (Revised) (22 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: ...about 18 months ago. Again, his presence was very much appreciated on the day. I am talking about Clare Abbey, which is a beautiful abbey. The Office of Public Works had undertaken a lot of work along the riverbank and the Minister of State came in to visit the historic structures there. Essentially, the abbey is being vandalised quite a lot. Plenty of drug paraphernalia can be seen...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications (Revised)
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (8 Feb 2023)

Cathal Crowe: I welcome everyone. I will fulfil this role for a while. I may have to go up to the Chamber but I will stay as long as I can. We will surely find some practical arrangements and work our way through the afternoon. I welcome the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and his team to the committee to deal with the Revised Estimates. I invite the Minister to make his opening statement.