Results 15,101-15,120 of 20,803 for speaker:Mattie McGrath

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (28 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: 104. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide information on the total cost of the digital audio recordings system to the State in 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23418/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (28 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: 106. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the reason that transcription work and the typing is carried out in a Third World country in the Far East when Irish jobs could be created at lower cost; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23420/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (28 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: 105. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will consider making it easier and less expensive to access digital audio recordings in order to protect citizens' legal rights and simply the process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23419/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (28 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: 115. To ask the Minister for Health the State's current statutory obligations in relation to the provision of psychological, psychiatric and all other relevant services for children and young adults clinically diagnosed with autism and Asperger's syndrome; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23439/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (28 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: 117. To ask the Minister for Health the courses of action open to parents and families who have children or members diagnosed with autism and who wish to seek redress for the State's failure to adhere to its minimum statutory obligations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23441/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (28 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: 119. To ask the Minister for Health his view regarding the resources available within the health care system to deal with clinically assessing whether or not a child or adult has a condition on the autism spectrum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23443/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (28 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: 116. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form the resources that are available on a Health Service Executive regional basis to families who have children or members diagnosed with autism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23440/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Proposed Legislation (28 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: 118. To ask the Minister for Health his plans in relation to accepting the provisions outlined in the Autism Bill 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23442/14]

Employment Permits (Amendment) Bill 2014: Second Stage (27 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on this Bill. It is timely that we are amending and extending the 2003 and 2006 Acts and that the provisions in respect of employment permit schemes are being updated in line with policy and economic development since 2007. There have been many and varied changes since 2007, at which time there had also been many changes which were...

Order of Business (27 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: I have questions on two items, one of which concerns the EirGrid Bill. Will the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources now listen to the people? He did not listen to their submissions but I hope he listened to their votes. Will the Minister for Finance give us a date for the publication of the EirGrid legislation and stop the plundering of our country with pylons? The...

Order of Business (27 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: It is terrible to be depending on favours to get votes.

Leaders' Questions (27 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: We want one.

Leaders' Questions (27 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: Any time.

Leaders' Questions (27 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: He abandoned the people.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (27 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of small schools countrywide that are in a similar position to a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary which lost a teacher because it was one pupil short of the required number of 86 needed for next September; the financial benefit of this to the Exchequer; if there was a freeze on the pupil-teacher ratio for the 2014-2015...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Departmental Offices (27 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: 352. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide a file relating to a decentralisation project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22187/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Functions (27 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: 502. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland regarding the Local Government Reform Act 2014 and in particular to that part of the Act abolishing town and borough councils which the AMAI was statutorily obliged to represent, relied heavily on legal opinion of one...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Reform (27 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: 503. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the person who was President of The Association of Municipal Authorities of Ireland in October 2012 when the document Putting People First was published; if he will document all of the correspondences, discussions, minutes of meetings and so on that took place between his Department, the Department of the Environment,...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (27 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: 513. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of children and families currently availing of emergency accommodation in south Tipperary; the types of that accommodation hostels, hotels, bed and breakfasts; the amount her Department has spent in providing emergency accommodation in south Tipperary since the Governments term of office began; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (27 May 2014)

Mattie McGrath: 519. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if the works contract for the Burncourt/Fethard regional water supply scheme has been signed and if not the reason for same; when work will commence in view of the fact that it is approximately six months since the funding for the scheme was approved by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22223/14]