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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (4 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 456. To ask the Minister for Health when children in receipt of the domiciliary care allowance will be provided with a medical card; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16059/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (4 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 551. To ask the Minister for Health the progress in locating modular patient accommodation on the South Tipperary General Hospital campus to alleviate the overcrowding situation at the hospital; if a company has been sourced to provide the modular accommodation; if the Health Service Executive has engaged proactively with the local authority involved as regards the planning process for same...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Expenditure (4 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 634. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a public consultation process which was to have involved the local community and businesses in Ardfinnan and surrounding villages in County Tipperary, prior to Tipperary County Council submitting an application under the bridge rehabilitation scheme for Ardfinnan bridge, with regard to plans to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Expenditure (4 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 635. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if it is in the remit of Tipperary County Council to reallocate the moneys to other projects in the county if the proposed works come under budget following the allocation of €800,000 toward bridge rehabilitation works on Ardfinnan bridge, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16176/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann Services (4 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 658. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the Clonmel to Dublin Expressway bus route, X7, following the decision to axe the service from midnight on Saturday, 1 April 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16633/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (4 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 659. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he will take following the lockout of drivers from Bus Éireann facilities in Clonmel which occurred from 1am on Sunday, 26 March 2017 depriving them of toilet facilities and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16634/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (4 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 660. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the fact that 12 members of senior management in Bus Éireann are on over €100,000 in salaries per annum and 11 members of senior management are earning just under €100,000 in salaries per annum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16635/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The programme for Government refers to the need to build general practitioner capacity to respond to patients' needs and provide access to X-rays, ultrasound and other investigative services, in addition to the need for chronic disease management by those in general practice. The outpatient unit and accident and emergency unit in Clonmel are overrun. Will the Minister visit Clonmel with me?...

Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Bureaucracy.

Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: And the medals.

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Since when? It was not full when I was there last summer season. It was not full; there was no one in it. Maybe the Minister of State would want to check the facts. It is very close to me, and I will be taking a walk along the strand and I will see and come back to him. I will accept if I am wrong. It was always full with people - holiday-makers and locals - but there was nobody in it...

Direct Provision: Statements (30 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to speak on this very important issue, which will haunt us in the future. I welcome the visitors in the Gallery. The system of direct provision for asylum seekers is almost 17 years old and from the beginning it has been a cause of significant controversy and debate. Among the issues raised most recently are the duration of the stay in direct provision, the impact of this...

Report of the Committee of Public Accounts re National Asset Management Agency’s sale of Project Eagle: Motion (29 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important topic. It is not a minute too early to set up this commission of investigation. I want to compliment, as I did earlier, Teachta Fleming and members of the Committee of Public Accounts for the outstanding work they have done. They are our last bastion in this House, as Teachtaí, representatives of the people, to deal with the...

National Children's Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thank everyone who has contributed tonight. I thank all Members for giving their honest and frank assessment. I am disappointed with the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne. She came to the Chamber tonight but did not answer the questions we had asked about the helicopter and parking that is worse than the parking at the hospital in Crumlin. People have asked why stand-alone...

National Children's Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thank everybody who assisted in the work on this motion. I thank everybody who assisted with this motion including the staff in my office, Triona, David and Maureen. I also thank my colleagues in the Rural Independent Group for agreeing to the putting forward of this motion and putting so much time, energy and effort into it. I welcome our guests today, the sick children and their...

National Children's Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I move:That Dáil Éireann: notes:— the urgent need to develop appropriately sited, world class prenatal, perinatal and paediatric medical services for all the nation’s children and their families; — the critical need for a short corridor-linked or full service maternity hospital, integrated with the National Children’s Hospital to prevent the current...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of clarification, is the Minister happy to stand over a situation where somebody from Bus Éireann management locked the drivers out of their bus depot in Clonmel on Saturday last at 1 a.m. after the buses were parked there? Is he content to allow that to happen? Is the Minister also aware that 12 senior managers in Bus Éireann are getting over €100,000 a year...

Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister and the Government are in charge. His Ministry was part of the favourite four during the previous Government's term. They are in charge of the banks and lending. Small farmers and self-employed builders who want to build houses for the housing crisis cannot get a bob - not a shilling. They are not working. We need banks that are community focused and financially viable. We...

Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: They are codding the Government all the way.

Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is in control.