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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Will the Minister of State increase the current income limits to qualify for social housing immediately given the ongoing rising inflation and the difficulties experienced in meeting the rising costs of rent within the current income limits? Will the Minister of State make a statement on the matter, lena thoil?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (5 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 157. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify the precise objectives that Article 8F of the Planning and Development Regulations 2001-2022 (as inserted by SI 45/2020) provides; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22380/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (5 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 158. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify whether it is the case that the following scenarios (details supplied) under the Planning and Development Regulations 2001-2022 require both a licence under s.6 of the Forestry Act 2014 and planning permission under s.32 of the Planning and Development Act 2000, and whether that means that in these...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide full clarity in relation to the status of the application for additional school accommodation for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; the latest correspondence between her Department and the school and design team; the date of the said correspondence; the information requested within the said correspondence; if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (5 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 226. To ask the Minister for Health the date in which he will announce the identity of the successful bidder of the tender to complete research into the views of service users and service providers as part of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Act) review. [22428/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (5 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 255. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is the case that where tree felling is exempt from a licence, under s.19 of the Forestry Act 2014, whether or not this tree felling requires planning permission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22379/22]

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Acting Chairman.

Rising Rental Costs: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I wish to continue on the same theme because my office is overrun with unfortunate people who are looking to rent, have notices to quit and cannot get properties, etc. We have a perfect storm here. We have parties on the left, and some on the middle left, that are demonising landlords. Some landlords are accidental landlords and never wanted to be. We cannot keep demonising the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I met a group of people today, mainly parents and siblings whose loved ones and family members are suffering with Lyme disease. It is time to tackle Lyme. They met the Tánaiste in 2015. They have met with so many people. All they want is quality of care and proper lab tests, which are available in Germany, to be recognised here. These people are getting old. They are parents and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: They need supports and they need help.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Maith an fear.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Are we having a debate on agriculture next week?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I totally concur with Deputy Carthy. As I indicated to Deputy Denis Naughten, who was deputising for the Ceann Comhairle at the meeting of the Business Committee last Thursday, we have been asking for several weeks for a proper debate on agriculture and the many issues relating to agriculture and food supply, such as the cost of fertilisers, oil and everything else. The Government last...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (4 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 441. To ask the Minister for Health if a review has been carried out on the consequences of the reconfiguration of acute health services in the mid-west region; if he will make findings of this review available; if not, if he will expedite a review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21798/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (4 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 442. To ask the Minister for Health if he will launch an investigation into the failure of University Hospital Limerick to lower the trolley numbers at the hospital despite opening a new 60-bed unit recently; if he will request the reopening of 24-hour accident and emergency services in Nenagh, St. John's, and Ennis to take the pressure off the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (4 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 443. To ask the Minister for Health the current cost of the national children's hospital to date; the projected final cost of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21800/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (4 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 444. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the HSE chose not to include the mid-west region for any additional acute, subacute and ICU beds for 2022 as part of the 411 beds allocated nationally as part of the national service planning programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21806/22]

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)

Mattie McGrath: It is, of course. This is supposed to be a reforming Bill. I thank the Acting Chairman for his advice but I am, of course, referring to the Bill. I am referring to serious anomalies. There will be no lay chairperson, a major flaw. What does the Government have against laypeople? Is everyone not entitled to exercise his or her intellect and to respect, whereby he or she can bring...

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Apr 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on the Bill. It is very loose and very weak and, unfortunately, it is not doing what it says on the tin or what it was meant to say on the tin. The Minister needs to get that opener for the tin and open it, because we know what happens to the fruit inside if it is left too long - it goes out of date. We are stale. Mention was made of a...