Results 20,601-20,620 of 20,830 for speaker:Mattie McGrath

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Personal Injury Claims (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 43. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the concerns facing businesses (details supplied) regarding the proposal to increase the personal injury awards by 17%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14285/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 44. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of a case regarding NAMA and land in Cork city (details supplied); if he will provide assurance that NAMA has not been outmanoeuvred in this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14356/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 54. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the success ratio of cases involving reasonable accommodation adjudicated on at the Workplace Relations Commission, under the Employment Equality Act 1998-2015, and under the Equal Status Acts 2000-2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14310/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason why a school in south Tipperary has not been sanctioned a second autism class; whether this school will be sanctioned for a class as promised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14265/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the blind pension is means-tested and counted as taxable income; the reason is it removed when visually impaired people earn over a certain amount; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14306/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 184. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth regarding the disabled persons’ representative organisations’ (DPROs) specific consultations on the National Disability Strategy, the reason the Government is not closely working with two DPROs (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14307/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 185. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the State is providing contracts and funding to service providers for human rights-based needs without close consultation with disabled persons’ representative organisations, as per Articles 4(3) and 29 (b(ii)) of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 186. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline, given that Ireland ranks last in terms of European disability employment, how the Government looks to address these concerns; if the Government will consult all disabled persons’ representative organisations (DPROs) in this respect; to outline the Government’s response to the failure...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 187. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when creating and consulting on new employment strategies for disabled people, the reason the Government is prioritising consulting from service providers (details supplied) over certain specialised disabled persons’ representative organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14311/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (27 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 35. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the amount a student can earn per week during term time and be exempt from the SUSI means testing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13539/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (27 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 420. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the continuing fallout of a cyber attack to SETU IT operations; the steps and schedule in place to restore student and staff access to the IT network, which is hampering provision of classes and course delivery; if the minister will outline his awareness of the issue and the schedule to its full remediation following...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (27 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills of his awareness of the continuing lack of IT access to SETU Waterford campus and the continuing negative effect this is having on course provision and review. [14894/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (27 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the total quantum of funding broken down by capital and current expenditures from his Department that will be allocated to the overall TU network in 2025; to provide similar expenditure capital and current heads for each national university for comparison in 2025 estimates, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: As a person who nominated and voted for the outgoing Ceann Comhairle, Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl, who did a fine job, I accepted the democratic result when Deputy Murphy was elected Ceann Comhairle. The treatment she has been subjected to - it has been outlined by my two colleagues, so I do not have to repeat it - is nothing but shocking. I had a school group up last week;...

Support for Householders, Businesses and Farmers Affected by Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis an Cheann Comhairle. Déanaim comhghairdeas léi ar an vóta inniu. It is great to be able to talk as backbenchers on the first Private Members' debate for which we have time. Everybody should get time here. I am sharing with Government backbenchers, although Deputy Nolan and I are not in that category. I praise all the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (2 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos, gabhaim buíochas leis an Cathaoirleach Gníomhach, an Teachta Ó Murchú, for allowing me to table this Topical Issue. I am disappointed that neither the Minister for Justice nor the Minister for Education are here. I know the Minister of State, Deputy Higgins, has responsibility for procurement, so she might be able to answer me. I refer...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (2 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Much of what the Minister of State read out to me in that reply was simply untrue. Dundrum House Hotel - the famous Crowe family for generations has had that hotel - is the only hotel not only in Dundrum village, but in the whole west Tipperary community. That turns the Department policy on its head. We have the wonderful Cahir House Hotel in Cahir operated by Robert Scannell and David...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Today is World Autism Awareness Day. Children with autism are being abandoned in south Tipperary. The HSE has confirmed that the waiting time for autism assessments is now in excess of two years. A total of 233 children are waiting for an autism assessment. Cara Darmody was told in the past that children could access assessments privately if the HSE continued to fail but that is not...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Bansha National School.

Diverting Young People from Criminal Activity: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I also add my voice to the condolences for the great legend, Mick O'Dwyer, and offer my sympathies to his family and the GAA community. The GAA community does so much, as do rugby, soccer, boxing and all the different sports, to divert young people away from harmful behaviour. In my area we are lucky that the diocese of Waterford and Lismore provides a youth service that covers much of...