Results 13,701-13,720 of 21,019 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Order of Business (23 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: Government by twits would be more like it.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Eligibility (23 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: 256. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason eating distress therapies for persons with eating disorders are not covered under the medical expenses MED 1 tax relief scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24962/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (23 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: 472. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available for adults with eating disorders who are undergoing eating distress therapies; the reasons such therapies are not covered by health insurance policies or under the tax credit relief system for medical expenses; the way a patient with a long-term eating disorder requiring such therapies is expected to pay for such therapies, which cost...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (23 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: 532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way a child (details supplied) in County Tipperary, who has been classified as having a severe to profound learning disability, can be refused access to the July education school-based programme, because the child is not classified as being on the autism disorder spectrum; the reason other severe and profound learning disabilities are not...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Register of Electors (23 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: 605. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1025 of 9 June 2015, his views on whether he answered the question asked; the course of action he recommends should be taken where persons whose names were not on the register of electors were provided a vote on the day of the election and referendum; if he will confirm that a local...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Project Funding (23 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: 656. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will he support a grant application for funding toward a Rock of Cashel Promotions outdoor concert event (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25117/15]
- Order of Business (18 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: Midnight.
- Order of Business (18 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: Tomorrow, they are turning the sod for a building that is already built in Carrick-on-Suir.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: The Government got a wake-up call.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: Put on the wellies.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: Put on the wellies.
- Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: 6. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that are being taken to improve travel and transport facilities for persons with a disability; his assessment of the Government's commitments to the travel needs of persons with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23242/15]
- Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister confirmed to me last October that despite commitments of 100% wheelchair accessibility for the Bus Éireann public service obligation, or PSO, coach fleet by 2015, the proportion will reach a mere 60% by the end of 2015 from a current level of 56%. At that rate of going, it will take up to ten years to meet the commitment.
- Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: Given that the plan was published in 2006, reviewed in 2008 and remains a plan, it is not acceptable that by the end of the 2015 deadline, less than 60% of the fleet will be accessible. I asked this question of the Minister having become aware that there is no daily bus service from Clonmel designed to accommodate wheelchair users. According to Bus Éireann's own information, its...
- Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: I am talking about Tipperary. Ireland does not end at the Naas Road.
- Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister is not.
- Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: There is no seat on the bus.
- Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: It is not all about Dublin where the Minister's constituency is located. Money has been pumped into Dublin and the fleets in Dublin, Galway, Waterford and Sligo have been made 100% accessible. I am talking about Tipperary, which I represent in case the Minister does not know. This is a scenario that cannot be allowed. The Minister can talk about his new bus shelters, but when the bus...
- Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: I did in respect of Tipperary.
- Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: I am talking about Tiobraid Árann.