Results 501-520 of 1,061 for speaker:Séamus McGrath

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023 - Children's Health Ireland
Financial Statements - National Treatment Purchase Fund (3 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: They were doing their Monday to Friday work, and then doing additional overtime on Saturday. Okay, it was just the on-call commitment. I just wanted to clarify that. I thank the witnesses.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: I thank the Minister of State for being here to take this matter. I raise an issue in respect of certain organisations across the country and particularly their staff and workers, who have not benefited from the pay agreements of recent years. They are former section 39 organisations. I acknowledge that many of the section 39 organisations have benefited but there is a cohort out there...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Sector Pay (9 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: I thank the Minister of State. I appreciate his response. Unfortunately, it has not addressed the core issue I raised regarding the handful of organisations that have not been brought into the tent in respect of the pay agreements. To elaborate further, prior to 2010, a section 39 block grant funded St. Luke's Home in Cork. Since then, it has had a number of different sources of funding,...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: I thank the Minister for facilitating this debate. As many speakers have said, domestic, sexual and gender-based violence is a significant issue throughout our country. At the extreme end of it, 275 females have died violently in this country since 1996. That is a huge number. An Garda Síochána has said that in 2024, it dealt with 65,000 domestic abuse calls alone. The...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: It is.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: On the correspondence, when we had CHI before us, it was able to give us the legal costs involved for the dispute relating to the former chief executive. The representatives were not in a position to give us a figure for CHI's own legal costs. We sought that from them; they committed to provide it. Has there been any correspondence in that regard since?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: That is fine. Can we just ensure we get something back on that? It is critical information that we should know.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (8 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 323. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount collected in 2023 and 2024 from the vacant homes tax. [37187/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (8 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 328. To ask the Minister for Finance if he would amend the rules governing the residential zoned land tax to exclude the period where an active planning application or appeal is underway on a given site.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37286/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 402. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the new Owenabue Educate Together primary school for Carrigaline, County Cork; the stage this project is currently at; and the remaining stages and estimated timeline for construction. [37290/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (8 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 516. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will significantly increase the mortgage allowance scheme for those vacating a social house with a view to purchasing a property, as creating a strong incentive should free up additional social housing units. [37291/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (8 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 592. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department or any body under its aegis has any estimate of the value of unclaimed private pension assets in Ireland; if he outline what happens to such funds; if he will outline the current tracing system in place to ensure that deferred scheme members receive the pension they are entitled to; if he has any plans to...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (8 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 735. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on actions already taken or commenced to improve the critical accessibility issue as set out in the programme for Government (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37546/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Priorities of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: The Cathaoirleach's directions are duly noted. I thank the Minister, Deputy Browne, the Ministers of State, Deputies O'Sullivan and Cummins, and the officials from the Department for coming in. I have a number of questions. I will ask three initially. I hope I will have time to come back in with the others. I thank the Minister for his opening statement, which was very informative. I...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 61. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to outline the long term plans for the Cork Passport Office; and if it is intended to provide additional services at the office. [38236/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Community Development Projects (10 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 106. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to consider additional funding supports for community and voluntary organisations to assist with regular running costs, such as utility bills and so on, considering that the vast majority of current grant schemes are for capital works or the purchase of items. [38238/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (10 Jul 2025)

Séamus McGrath: 202. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of properties in the possession of the OPW that are currently vacant-disused, setting out the vacancy period, such as, less than six months, less than 12 months, and so on, in tabular form. [38517/25]