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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons a school (details supplied) in south Tipperary that had previously had a new special class sanctioned has had the class withdrawn without any engagement to overcome the issues; if she will urgently review this decision by the NCSE which has left a number of students without an appropriate class place; how this class could have been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Projects (12 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position regarding a project (details supplied); the likely timeline for this project to proceed to the next stage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31627/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the school transport review; in a case in which a student that attends an all girls primary school and wants to continue her secondary education in an all girls secondary school but there is no all girls school in her closest town will she be granted a bus ticket to travel to her nearest single sex school; and...

Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I will speak again on behalf of the hard-pressed homeowners of this country, especially those in rural Ireland and in my constituency of Tipperary, from Tipperary town down to Cahir, Clonmel, Cashel and Carrick-on-Suir as well as the villages and rural houses. These people continue to be squeezed by this unjust and unnecessary local property tax. The Bill proposes to increase charges on the...

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Tá triúr cainteoirí againn agus tá ceithre nóiméad ag gach Teachta. As far as I can see, everything is an emergency. The housing situation has been handled so badly for so long that it is now a crazy situation. The Members from Independent Ireland - so called Saor Éire, the freedom fighters - talked a few weeks ago about 100% mortgages. Who can take...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Register (17 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 274. To ask the Minister for Finance how someone who believes their name is unfairly on the Credit Register can have their name removed as they are unable to access any credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32099/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in south Tipperary has not been allocated a single SNA despite a number of children with needs in the school; if this decision will be reviewed on appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32004/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 762. To ask the Minister for Health if she will give an update on equal access to treatments for adults living with spinal muscular atrophy; when a review of fair criteria for age-based assessment is expected, so that all individuals with SMA are treated equally under the healthcare system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31878/25]

Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I wish the Minister well in his new role. It is time for it. I hope he will come to County Tipperary - I know he will - to see the different gaps we have. I welcome the new TFI Local Link. This is a town bus in Clonmel that has been an outstanding success and well used. The Waterford bus is now linking into Kilmanahan and Clonmel. We need it to come to Newcastle and on to Knocklofty,...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (18 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, am glad to be able to speak on this Bill. I am as confused as many others. We have a desperate housing crisis that we have failed to tackle. We have debate in this House. We have ideology, really, coming from the left and a lack of solutions coming from the centre, which I have always been proud to represent, and the Government parties. Panic has set in. I wish the Minister and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Work Permits (19 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 6. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the steps being taken to address the huge delays associated with work permit applications, particularly for the licensed haulage sector in Ireland; if he has met with the Irish Road Haulage Association, IRHA, to discuss the issues it is experiencing due to these ongoing delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33471/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Work Permits (19 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: What steps is the Minister for trade and employment taking to deal with the huge delays relating to and the bureaucratic system that companies in Ireland face in trying to get work permits for foreign applicants? I refer especially to the IRHA and many other industries - agriculture, to name one - and parts of industries. Has the Minister met with the IRHA to discuss these issues? The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Work Permits (19 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: It was not too long ago that the Minister of State was on this side of the House. I wish him well in his new position. He is aware that the situation faced by our licensed hauliers is disgraceful. Hard-working Irish businesses are trying to operate legally only to be choked by a lot of regulatory issues and a dysfunctional recruitment process. It is unbelievable. If a haulier in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Work Permits (19 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I do not believe those figures. They do not reflect my experience. People come here illegally and get all the treatment, including free housing and everything else. The message the Minister is giving out is to penalise those who play by the rules. Multinationals can get away with stuff as well. This affects small businesses. It is not just the hauliers; it is also agriculture and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Work Permits (19 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I do not believe them.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Work Permits (19 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: They are numerous.

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Today, I want to speak to the Tánaiste about the escalating crisis in policing across south Tipperary, a crisis made worse by the deplorable policy of neglect, under-resourcing and mismanagement by this Government and the previous Government. In communities across south Tipperary, from Carrick-on-Suir to Clonmel, Ardfinnan, Cahir, Cashel, Ballyporeen and Tipperary town, people are...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Tánaiste for his reply but it is simply not acceptable that we are standing still. As I have put to the Commissioner before, officers, be they male or female, are put in danger if they are sent out on their own in a patrol car to all kinds of incidents. We saw what happened to Garda John Walsh after he had to go out on his own. Please God, he will recover. It is terrible...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Not in Tipperary.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: It is a pity the Minister of State has just left. I want to raise a situation about a special class in Ballyporeen school in County Tipperary. The principal there, Mr. Shane Molan, and the community council have come together. The community council purchased the old school. They upgraded it with a grant and are willing to give it at a very low cost - a nominal fee - to the school. Six...