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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Why has the Government deliberately chosen not to cap the cost of electricity or implement a windfall tax on electricity providers in this country? Never has there been a more important time to be decisive and to reduce the crippling bills that households, small businesses and farmers are facing. All energy customers are once again facing extremely significant increases in their bills from...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: That was a pretty feeble answer. The Government is tired; it has created this problem itself. The Government likes to blame the war in Ukraine but, as awful as that is, the Government has created this problem. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. That is what the Government is trying to do here. Some 40% is not nearly enough for businesses. I know of one SuperValu in...

Community and Voluntary Sector Workers: Motion [Private Members] (12 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: This is an important motion which has been brought forward by the Labour Party and I compliment it on doing so. I wholeheartedly support the community and voluntary sector. The people working in that sector have not had a wage increase in 14 years. What other section would put up with that? These people are the glue and the building blocks that keep our country together. In many cases,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (12 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when his Department will increase the social housing income threshold for housing applicants in Tipperary County Council given that the increase is long overdue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50392/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 352 of 4 October 2022 (details supplied), the steps that can be taken in cases in which parents have contacted the SENO but have been advised that their child will not be given a place in an ASD unit in the absence of an ASD diagnosis despite having very similar neurodevelopment difficulties and needs and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (12 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 103. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason that no community welfare officer is available in Carrick on Suir, County Tipperary; when regular meetings with community welfare officers in local communities will resume; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50402/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early School Leavers (12 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 118. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason that the Access and Inclusion Model (AIM) scheme is restricted by age limits, whereby children must have reached the age of two years and eight months before 1 September, meaning that any children who have not reached this age are met with inflexibility and will be unable to qualify for a further...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (12 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 153. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí who have left An Garda Síochána since the beginning of 2022; the number of retirements and the number of resignations and the number of resignations per district; the net total Garda number per district as of 30 September 2022; and the total garda numbers per district in 2021. [50547/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (12 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the number of senior occupational therapists who work with the children’s disability network teams, CDNTs; the number of days that they are employed; the number of children who attended this service; the number waiting to be seen by the occupational therapist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50552/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (12 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 180. To ask the Minister for Health the number of individual family service plans that have been produced within the CDNT 5 and south Tipperary to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50553/22]

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (11 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion. I will say my few words on it. Carers have been abandoned, especially during the Covid pandemic but also since then. They expected something meaningful this year in that they would be linked to other extra payments. They did not get that linkage. They got their once-off payment but that will not bring them very far. The Indecon...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The snakes are all around Deputy Bruton over there.

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: All the snakes are over there.

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: It is a very old saying in Gaillimh and Tiobraid Árann.

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: It looks like that to me, if we put in 10 newton concrete that will probably be the strongest batch, but we will never again use that pipeline. If that happens, I will call it an act of treason. I ask the Minister of State to clarify immediately, or tomorrow, whether this is poppycock or a wild dream someone has had. Could the Minister reach so far as to sign an order to instruct people to...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022 - Second Stage. What a mouthful. The Government does not intend to do anything for the hard-pressed people. Households are facing annual gas and electricity hikes of €6,000 from early next year. That is more than triple the €1,900 they were paying at the start of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: There is huge angst over the LEADER programme going forward. Notwithstanding the increase in Exchequer funding for the overall CAP 2023-27, there is a significant cut in LEADER funding for rural areas, with the proposed allocation for the programme falling from €425 million for the 2007-13 programme to just €180 million for this programme. This is astonishing. The...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: It was.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: It is down by more than half.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Not for here.