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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (8 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I appreciate it is not the Minister of State's reply - he is reading it out - but it is not about quotas, deadlines and systems like that. It is about ordinary children with needs. It is not fair on the schools that expected to open these schools to now have to wait to see if the decision will be reversed. By the Minister of State's account, I do not think it will be. We are approaching...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (8 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to raise this very serious issue. A number of ASD units were approved for three secondary schools in south Tipperary. Three principals and their staff, boards of management and parents of children with special needs were waiting for places and expected them to come on stream. In fact, the SENOs asked them to generate space and accommodation...

Parental Choice in Education: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: In accordance with Standing Order 85(2), the division is deferred until the weekly division time next week.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (8 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 39 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Michael Cahill - To discuss the disparity faced by school secretaries in terms of leave entitlements and pension rights. Deputies Rose Conway-Walsh, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, Pearse Doherty, Donna McGettigan - To discuss the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (8 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Before we start, I would like to express on my own behalf and that of the House good wishes to our new Pope elected this evening while we were doing the session. I wish him well. Our hearts and prayers are with him. I thank everyone who supported the cardinals for their diligent work. It was a speedy process. Go n-éirí go geal leis an bPápa nua.

Parental Choice in Education: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Tá nóiméad go leith ag an Teachta.

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, compliment Sinn Féin on bringing forward this very timely and important motion. Mol an óige agus tiocfaidh sí. It is a bad state of affairs if we do not look after our young people and nurture them properly. Ar an gcéad dul síos, I salute na máithreacha go léir, the mothers who care for children in their homes, as well as the extended family -...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Contracts (7 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 75. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the role his Department played in bringing about a settlement (details supplied); to confirm that no monies were paid by his Department, or were legally agreed to be paid, to either operator by his Department in the future, as a result of this court case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22292/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Contracts (7 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 76. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the search and rescue service impacts that will result from the present failure of the AW189 helicopter to receive regulatory approval to carry stretchered casualties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22293/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Contracts (7 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline his Departments investigation into the ability of SAR helicopter crew to carry out cardiac resuscitation in flight, given the lack of headroom and space in the new helicopter platform; if he will publish the analysis that was undertaken with respect to this issue when choosing AW189 for SAR service; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Contracts (7 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update as to whether the other competitor tenderers who were unsuccessful in search and rescue tender award had provided for fixed wing aircraft with capability to transfer stretchered casualties to UK hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22295/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Contracts (7 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the present King Air fixed wing aircraft, based at Shannon, are to be re-specified in order to conduct UK stretcher transfer; if this is not possible, the negotiations that are ongoing the provider (details supplied) to achieve this service level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22296/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Contracts (7 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to publish any advice given to his Department by the Attorney General regarding aspects of the National Search and Rescue contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22297/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (7 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 223. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports his Department can provide to a body (details supplied) to ensure the return of motorcycle racing in Ireland, having been unable to hold any events in the past number of years due to issues obtaining insurance; if the Department will support this association to allow it to run the seven road races planned in the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Welfare Services (7 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 325. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the supports in place for Community Service Supervisor to replace essential equipment required to carry out their role and work within the community service sector; how community service supervisors are funded to replace essential equipment for their role; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22393/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (7 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 335. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 104 of 29 April 2025, to clarify the identity of the wider commercial group involved in the IPAS contract in question (details supplied) in order to ensure full transparency as to the beneficiaries of a contract worth €20 million of taxpayer money; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (7 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 471. To ask the Minister for Health if funding supports are available for families to access private mental health assessments where the public waiting lists are too long; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22268/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Policies (1 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 33. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he is taking to minimise the damage of potential US tariffs. [16672/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts (1 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 293. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procurement processes are in place to ensure that Government contracts are not entered into with regard to properties that are not compliant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22004/25]

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I wish the Minister of State well in his new position. I welcome some of the proposed changes in the NPF review. Ultimately, the document must restore power to councils to form their own plans and address the overriding powers of Uisce Éireann, the Office of the Planning Regulator and Transport Infrastructure Ireland in dictating the development of rural constituencies. When I was a...