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Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 736. To ask the Minister for Health who decided to go ahead with reconfiguration of the mid-west region despite the 600 beds required by the Hanly Report to offer safe patient safety not being in place; if he will launch an investigation into this decision, given that it has caused untold suffering on patients and staff in the mid-west region for 14 years; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 738. To ask the Minister for Health following his comments that reconfiguration was not working (details supplied), if he will put an urgent plan in place to reopen Nenagh, Ennis and St. Johns accident and emergency departments, given the new 96-block bed unit will only actually realise 48-beds meaning that the mid-west region will still not be at the 600-beds needed to provide patient safety...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 739. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the evidence he relied upon when he stated that reopening an accident and emergency department in Ennis Hospital was inadvisable on safety grounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33758/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (11 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 740. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit to meeting with TDs and Health Forum members from the mid-west as requested by the HSE Mid-West Forums meeting recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33759/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (11 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 737. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the figures he relied on when speaking on a radio station (details supplied) when he stated that trolley numbers were down at UHL while comparing trolley numbers at the same period in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33756/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: With all that is going on in RTÉ at the moment, when will there be an investigation into the conduct of the National Asset Management Agency, NAMA? I have been contacted by Mr. John Fraher, a hard-working businessman in Clonmel who has been working since he was 13 years of age. He is alleging that his tax number was fraudulently used by officials from NAMA and then attempts were made...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I am being as careful as I can.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I am not. Parts of land that were traditionally owned by South Tipperary County Council have now been acquired by this company. This all sounds very murky. We had Project Eagle. Is this going to be project Cluain Meala? It is a lovely name, meaning the vale of honey. There are serious questions to be answered here about persons who were on the board of NAMA and interfered with Revenue...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I have.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: That is his own business. I have encouraged-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I have been passing on-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: This is serious. A total of 7%, or one in every 14, of early learning and care providers for school-aged children will not reopen in September. This is a startling figure. The Government has failed to address the concerns of early childhood care providers regarding low pay and core funding. The failure not only impacts on providers but also on families who desperately need these places...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group I would like to express our sympathies to the family of the late Brendan Daly, iar-Aire, iar-Aire Stáit agus iar-Theachta Dála. I had many an interaction with him. He was a jolly man and a hardworking and diligent public representative always. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis. Last week the Federation of Early Childhood...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: What hope does that give us?

Nature Restoration Law: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Not agreed. Vótáil.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Vee Valley Day Care Centre in Clogheen, County Tipperary, is facing a funding crisis with community employment, CE, staff finishing and its inability to hire staff from the HSE funding. The centre, which is run by Michelle Sweeney and a voluntary board with PJ English as chairman, has sought additional section 39 funding, which was refused. When I put a question to the Minister on this,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I have to concur with every sentiment and syllable Deputy Healy-Rae said. I am tired and weary of listening to Deputies in this House from the left, like Deputy Bríd Smith and Deputy Cairns, talking as if we were Neanderthals or backward people. We understand the land. We know about land. We do not bring in lurchers when we talk about greyhounds and we do not do stupid things like...