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Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: The listening devices are on the Minister of State's side.

Ireland and the Eurozone: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: It is a pity the Leas-Cheann Comhairle did not get to call me in the last debate but I will forgive him for tonight.

Ireland and the Eurozone: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I commend Deputy Thomas Pringle on tabling this well-researched and carefully crafted Private Members' motion. Like most Private Members' motions from the Independent group or the Technical Group, there is little interest in it. A recent motion was tabled by Deputy Tom Fleming and during the debate on it, the Minister finished her script seven minutes before the end. She sat down and the...

Ireland and the Eurozone: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I was in one party and now I am an Independent. The Tánaiste can speak for himself. He is in a spin because he does not know where to stop. We are in an unequal union. We are being mistreated and bullied in Europe for the failures of many aspects of our governance and financial issues. As Deputy Pringle pointed out, the Europeans banks and regulators allowed money to be pumped...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Courses Availability (21 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of CAO applications for BSC Honours Computing and Creative Multi-Media Courses in Limerick Institute of Technology; the number of these applicants that have applied for LIT Tipperary Clonmel Campus; the direct cost of educating such students in the LIT Tipperary Clonmel Campus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24328/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Institutes of Technology Staff (21 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Limerick Institute of Technology staff specifically supporting the Clonmel Campus of LIT Tipperary as defined from shared services; the total salary cost of staff at the Clonmel Campus of LIT Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24329/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Exceptional Needs Payment Eligibility (21 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 438. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if an elderly or disabled person who requires work to their home would be considered for an emergency needs payment when the local authority is no longer accepting applications for housing aid for older people or housing adaption grants and where works are necessary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24272/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Special Housing Aid for the Elderly (21 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 472. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will consider the reintroduction of the special housing aid for the elderly scheme to assist the elderly and disabled who require works to their home and where the local authority is no longer accepting applications for housing aid for older people or housing adaption grants due to their lack of funding; and if he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome our guests. Head 11 of the Bill removes freedom of information from the ambit of the proposed Bill. Nobody proposes that individuals' names and addresses be mentioned in any official record keeping yet head 11 goes much further than that. Bearing in mind the seriousness of what this Bill proposes, and the political and cultural struggle with matters of transparency, do the...

Leaders' Questions (22 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: He does not do apologies.

Leaders' Questions (22 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: No, he has not.

Leaders' Questions (22 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Abuse.

Leaders' Questions (22 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Not even the Minister, Deputy Shatter.

Leaders' Questions (22 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: That is allowed, is it?

Order of Business (22 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: When the Water Services (Amendment) Act 2012 was announced, we were promised that there would be local employment and work for businesses. Nobody can seem to get any-----

Order of Business (22 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: It is part of the Act that local contractors would be employed.

Order of Business (22 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: They are now setting high thresholds that contractors cannot meet. That is Labour's way. I ask whether the Tánaiste will look after those people because they are unemployed businesspeople.

Order of Business (22 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: In respect of the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill, there is no Garda clearance and it is now taking up-----

Order of Business (22 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: The Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill. I welcome the Ceann Comhairle back. I am glad to have him back. I hope he had a good time overseas with my colleague.

Order of Business (22 May 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I know he was and I appreciate that. It is taking four months for community groups to get Garda clearance for participants on community employment schemes and any project in the community. Heretofore, it would only be when someone was working with children but now any participant must get clearance so it is taking four months to get Garda clearance. Something is seriously wrong.