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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (22 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 34. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the housing assistance payment rates for single applicants will be extended; if so, when these rates will be extended in cases in which the options that are available to a HAP approved applicant cannot get accommodation within their allowed limits to ensure that they do not become homeless; if the rates will be increased...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation (22 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 39. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of hotels, bed and breakfasts and guesthouses that are currently providing homeless accommodation; the number of beds being provided to homeless persons in hotels, bed and breakfasts and guesthouses; the cost of such emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32913/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (22 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 40. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the guidelines pertaining to mobile homes can be relaxed or amended to take into account the housing crisis and the difficulties of those who are currently using mobile homes to put a roof over their head; if the planning and housing section of his Department will work on this matter to provide guidance to planning...

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I compliment the Deputies who proposed this motion. We have seen what happened in Monaghan, Ennis and Nenagh. Ministers act as if they are bystanders at a wake. All they are missing is the snuff. They might make the caointe cáin. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, allowed a wonderful hospital in Carrick-on-Suir to be closed in the middle of Covid - it was used for Covid - and...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I too have questions about the Taoiseach's nine-page speech, in which he did not say much about his cheerleading last week for the European Council to agree to turn off all the Russian gas. Will our Government protect the hard-won freedoms and sovereignty of our people and our foreparents? Will it continue to hand away our freedoms to the EU and international globalists, namely, the World...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Where will that get us? We are supposed to be a sovereign country. We cannot ride two horses so we should ride one properly.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: We cannot ride two horses-----

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I believe I have the floor. We have limited time and Deputy Richmond will not take it up. Will the Leas-Cheann Comhairle allow us the time?

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I will. I just said it is time we came in.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I understand. Táim beagnach críochnaithe agus beidh beirt Teachta eile ann. These are my feelings about what is going on. It is a total sell-out and clean-out similar to when we were supposed to be bailed out by the European banks. We were cleaned out and robbed and we are now handing over the keys. The Taoiseach is proud to do that. He wants a big job in Europe. The sooner...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I too am pleased to be able to say a few words and to welcome Austin Currie's wife, Annita, his children, Estelle, Caitríona, Dualta, Austin and Emer, and the former Taoiseach, Enda Kenny. Austin Currie was one of the leading figures in the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland and, as we know, co-founded the SDLP. He became a poster boy...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Two weeks ago, HIQA published an assessment of Tusla's foster care services in Cork which, as the Taoiseach well knows, has a quarter of the country's children. Tusla was compliant in only two of the 12 standards assessed. One example is that some children with complex needs taken into State care by Tusla in Cork were housed in hotels. The report is the latest among scores of reports that...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: It is bad enough that they are being taken into care but to be neglected in care in this way is shocking.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: His European masters.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Ever before the war there was a spiral in prices. Everyone knows that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: It is robbery.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 626. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who were taken into State care in each of Tusla’s 17 service areas in each of the years from 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022 who were returned home to their birth mothers. [32049/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 627. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of social workers in each of Tusla’s 17 service areas in each of the years from 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022 who were sanctioned for professional misconduct. [32050/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 628. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of social workers in each of Tusla’s 17 service areas for each of the years from 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022 who were sanctioned for a failure to meet professional standards. [32051/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 629. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of social workers in each of Tusla’s 17 service areas in each of the years from 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022 who were dismissed for professional misconduct. [32052/22]