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Disability (Amendment) Bill 2014: First Stage (16 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill, although I would prefer to be addressing the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Deputy Alan Kelly, rather than the Minister of State, Deputy Coffey, on the crisis in housing. We are only tinkering at the edges of the crisis with this Bill, which we are ramming through at this hour of the night. It is like a fellow...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: I am sorry. Of course, he is the Minister. They might as well go out to Mount Melleray and pray to a statue out there because there is no review. Building activity has ceased in every county because of this phoney promise made by a phoney Minister. He is a man who got to know everything in a very short time. He should have crawled before he walked and walked before he ran, but he came in...

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: If the Minister of State told me the sun was shining I would go out to see if it was raining. l would not have to go out because I would be wet before I came in. No one believes him. He should not fall into the same old trick as the Minister, Deputy Kelly, because that is not like him or his family before him. He should not fall into that old trick of making announcements that no one believes.

Urban Regeneration and Housing Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: When? The election is coming so will it be announced the week before that? Will they spell it out to the people? Unless there is maize in the field in which they are seeking votes, they will be found out because they cannot hide and the long grass will not be long enough to hide them.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Post Office Network (16 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: 134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the position of the Government in relation to supporting the post office network, especially in view of the fact that social welfare recipients are being encouraged to change their payment method from post offices to banks, a move which will directly undermine the viability of the post office network; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Proposed Legislation (16 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: 161. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the advice or recommendations advanced in the formulation of the Gender Recognition Bill 2014; if she is satisfied that the proposed removal of a provision for a medicalised model of recognition is adequate or safe in view of the fact that a long-term study (details supplied) of up to 30 years which followed 324 persons who had sex reassignment...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (16 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: 177. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary was refused disability allowance; the grounds on which the person was deemed to be not substantially disabled; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23161/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Invalidity Pension Payments (16 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: 229. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary is being taxed on an invalidity pension, second pension, for the year 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23831/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector Redundancies (16 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: 241. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on correspondence (details supplied) regarding outsourcing by a bank, and its implications for customers and staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23156/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (16 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: 547. To ask the Minister for Health the reason construction has not commenced on the approved two-storey building for South Tipperary General Hospital (details supplied) despite a commitment that the build would be completed by November 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23059/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (16 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: 548. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide in tabular form a county statistical analysis of those presenting for eating-related disorders, by type of disorder; by male and female; the strategies in place to deal with this crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23061/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (16 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: 701. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to ensure that a child (details supplied) in County Wicklow will receive all necessary special needs assistance care and resources, in order to enable the transition to mainstream schooling; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23154/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (16 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: 767. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to implement changes to the building control amendment regulations, Statutory Instrument No. 9 of 2014, to exempt or ease the burden on self-builders; his plans to implement such changes; if he is aware of the difficulties that these regulations are causing to self-builders; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Register of Electors (16 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: 802. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1025 of 9 June 2015, in which he stated that there is no provision in law for making changes to the register of electors at a polling station, the reason a local authority could have issued a vote by way of a letter to a person whose name was not on the register, to enable that...

Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: 6. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that are being taken to improve travel and transport facilities for persons with a disability; his assessment of the Government's commitments to the travel needs of persons with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23242/15]

Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister confirmed to me last October that despite commitments of 100% wheelchair accessibility for the Bus Éireann public service obligation, or PSO, coach fleet by 2015, the proportion will reach a mere 60% by the end of 2015 from a current level of 56%. At that rate of going, it will take up to ten years to meet the commitment.

Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: Given that the plan was published in 2006, reviewed in 2008 and remains a plan, it is not acceptable that by the end of the 2015 deadline, less than 60% of the fleet will be accessible. I asked this question of the Minister having become aware that there is no daily bus service from Clonmel designed to accommodate wheelchair users. According to Bus Éireann's own information, its...

Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: I am talking about Tipperary. Ireland does not end at the Naas Road.

Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister is not.