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

Cathal Crowe: It is a reduction on last year.

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

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister for taking these questions. The LIS is extremely important to rural areas, as she well knows. In County Clare, 172 applications have been approved. Clare County Council estimates that even though these are approved applicants, it will take eight to nine years to fulfil them on the basis of the current funding model. As Deputies, we receive announcements. We received...

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

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister for her engagement and for her answer. I have looked at the funding for last year and this year. Many counties have gained. Clare could be unique - I accept that there may be more counties involved - because it has seen a diminution in funding. I am a Government backbencher. Across nearly all funding streams I can think of - including sports capital funding, the...

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

Cathal Crowe: 7. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will significantly increase the allocation from her Department to the local improvement scheme. [20838/24]

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...

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

Cathal Crowe: I thank the Minister of State for that good, positive response. It is in line with what the Minister, Deputy Foley, communicated to me earlier. It is really good news. I have a few points to make. I will not name a Department official because it is not fair to do so in this Chamber but there is one official who has been outstanding on this matter. I and the school have plagued him...

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...

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

Cathal Crowe: Can I correct the record? I said "public childcare" but I meant childcare providers that are engaged with ECCE contracts. There is no public childcare per se.

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

Cathal Crowe: 6. To ask the Minister for Health if a new capital funding stream to support the voluntary nursing home sector in meeting HIQA requirements and upgrading facilities can be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19781/24]

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

Cathal Crowe: The Minister of State will know about this question because we recently discussed it in a lot of detail. Will she give consideration to a new capital funding stream to support the voluntary nursing home sector in meeting HIQA requirements and providing for all of the upgrades required each year, which are quite costly? Before I resume my seat, I will congratulate the Minister of State,...

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

Cathal Crowe: We had a very positive meeting last week with the Oireachtas Members from Clare. We met Marie O'Malley, representing Carrigoran House, and Michael Harty, formerly of this House, representing the home at Cahercalla. Both of those community hospitals provide fabulous care. These are outstanding facilities in our county providing healthcare to those at an advanced stage of life who have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (30 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 90. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures he has taken since the Government came to office to ensure family leave entitlements have been expanded, to ensure new parents have been supported and to build new entitlements to work-life balance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19136/24]

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...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (18 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: 39. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when she expects the sports capital grants to be announced. [16691/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I congratulate the Taoiseach and wish him the very best in his new position.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: I raise the inability of thousands of people in County Clare to get flood insurance for their homes and businesses. I recall when, in 2009, the lower River Shannon spilled its banks and flooded streets, pitches and many areas. However, only two homes in the whole county of Clare actually took water inside the front door that winter. Yet, the response of the insurance industry has been risk...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: You have got Jonathan Dowdall's back.

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: At least the Deputy has the decency to say that.

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Deputy McDonald did not say a single nice word.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (9 Apr 2024)

Cathal Crowe: Get yourself nominated.