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Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I thought the Deputies were in government together.

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Fair play. Fair play. Fair play.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: The social welfare officer and the community welfare officer are a very important part of resourcing vulnerable people. From next week, offices, including in my county, will stop contacts totally. Officers used to come to villages but then retreated to their offices before Covid. Now someone has to call a call bank, the call will be logged and a community welfare officer may or may not...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: The Tánaiste told me last week that the review of the national development plan is imminent. I again raise the plight of the people of Tipperary town. I refer to Jobs for Tipp, the March for Tipp, the task force, the Chamber of Commerce, Councillor Annemarie Ryan and others. It is vital that the bypass is included. Hopefully, it will be in the footprint of the new M24 which will go...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Some of them, yes. Ba chóir don Taoiseach an cheist a fhreagairt seachas a bheith ag magadh fúm.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I know. It is not funny.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Tá an Taoiseach balbh now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: They are badly underpaid.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Work Permits (29 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 64. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the immediate efforts that are being made to fast-track the employment permits for the meat processing industry and the pig slaughtering plants in particular to avoid the imminent crisis facing the industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47043/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Assisted Decision-Making (29 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 156. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the position regarding the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015; when the commencement of the decision support service is scheduled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46915/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (29 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 165. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the spend on foster care in each of the years 2014 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the percentage of this that was allocated to for-profit agencies; and the amount paid to each individual agency. [47109/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (29 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 166. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount Tusla has paid for the placement of Irish children abroad in each of the years 2016 to 2020 and to date in 2021; the details of the placements; the number of children involved and their ages; the locations they have been sent to; the reasons for being sent abroad; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (29 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 167. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children reported missing from residential care homes from 2018 to date in 2021. [47111/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (29 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 168. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the longitudinal study his Department is conducting on children leaving the care system (details supplied). [47112/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (29 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 203. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of all facilities available to the public at Our Lady’s Hospital, Cashel; the terms for attendance at each service; the numbers attending each service per year for the past five years; the number of staff working in each section; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46914/21]

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: It is personal.

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad the Minister and the Ministers of State are here to listen. The situation is truly shocking. I was again contacted yesterday evening to go to the accident and emergency department in the hospital in Clonmel. There were five ambulances parked there at 5.45 p.m. on a beautiful September evening. What are we going to do in the winter? When I arrived, there were three big...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I checked with our head of services and was told there are 118, as of today. I sent the Minister of State a text and she came back to me to say she was giving figures for August. Why mislead the Taoiseach and, in turn, the House? The Taoiseach was trying to answer the question without the Minister of State misleading him. She also misled him last week with regard to St. Brigid's in...

Housing for All: Statements (28 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Deputy Murnane O'Connor referred to County Kilkenny. I want to wish Bobby Aylward, our former colleague from that county, well. He is going through a bad patch at the moment. Is an-chara liom agus le gach éinne é. He is a former colleague of the Minister. I previously asked the Minister of State to come to see one of the great Irish houses near where I live, in Knocklofty....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Who is giving that information?