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Order of Business (18 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: They are relevant.

Order of Business (18 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: The deadline went by.

Other Questions: NAMA Portfolio (18 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 10. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the use of compulsory purchase orders to acquire housing stock from the National Asset Management Agency to alleviate the social housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10199/16]

Other Questions: NAMA Portfolio (18 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I certainly do not support taking houses from tenants but I want to discuss a particular issue. Edmund Honohan attended the Oireachtas Committee on Housing and Homelessness and what he said was very interesting. We all know how compulsory purchase orders have been used in the case of developing roads and other infrastructure but he put forward an imaginative suggestion that they could be...

Other Questions: NAMA Portfolio (18 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I mentioned the issue of vacant properties in my question and we would like those types of properties to be taken in hand. We need some kind of imaginative examination of the situation to give some indication to people being made homeless that the Government is doing something to find a solution. We want some indication vulture funds are not just being allowed to come in and sweep up these...

Other Questions: NAMA Portfolio (18 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister did last night. I was here.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland (18 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 17. To ask the Minister for Finance the efforts to place the Central Bank's code of conduct on a statutory footing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10200/16]

Report of Sub-Committee on Dáil Reform: Motion (Resumed) (19 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to speak about Dáil reform. Ar an gcéad dul síos, mo chomghairdeas a ghabháil don Cheann Comhairle. I thank the Ceann Comhairle and congratulate him on his stewardship of the sub-committee. I also congratulate the sub-committee which worked so hard. The reforms include more power for the Parliament to plan and make arrangements for its own business, with...

Report of Sub-Committee on Dáil Reform: Motion (Resumed) (19 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: We accept that, but it may have troops from time to time. We might all support it on certain issues on various occasions. I certainly will, on constructive items of legislation and business. That is my intention. There is no point in being reckless. If the Government wants to engage and be meaningful, we have to reciprocate. I disagreed with the fact that Private Members' Bills taken on...

Adjournment Debate: Transport Policy (19 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister is back home.

Adjournment Debate: Job Retention (19 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle, sa chéad dul síos, for allowing Deputy Healy and I to raise this matter on the Adjournment. The risk of job losses in Suir Pharma is a body blow for the workers concerned. The workers in Clonmel have been aware that things are not going well for a number of weeks. I was contacted by them approximately three weeks ago but I could get no engagement from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (24 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the recent findings of the Institute of Guidance Counsellors, particularly the finding that since the 2011-2012 school year, in terms of overall practice hours, schools with Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools status have experienced a 30% loss and schools without this status have experienced a 26.7% loss, while...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (24 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 353. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason for the delay in passport applications on the grounds that applicants have not submitted a public services card, although they have submitted other photographic identification such as a driving licence; why he is specifically requesting the card where other photographic identification is available and has been submitted and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Applications (24 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 518. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why he has yet to complete an application under the natural reserve, the young farmers and the areas of natural constraint schemes and issue payment to a person (details supplied); if he will progress the application as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11173/16]

Order of Business (25 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Page 97 of the programme for Government contains many aspirations regarding Garda resources and policing. A very unsavoury incident happened in Corofin, County Clare, last week, and such distasteful incidents occur regularly. Members of An Garda Síochána accompanied men in balaclavas and an agent of a sheriff-----

Order of Business (25 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: -----in an unmarked car with the number plates blocked out.

Order of Business (25 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: It is relevant to the legislation set out in the programme for Government.

Order of Business (25 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: The legislation to strengthen the role of An Garda Síochána. The incident in question certainly is not strengthening the role of the An Garda Síochána but, rather, constitutes a waste of Garda time. It was a very unsavoury incident, and such incidents are taking place.

Order of Business (25 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: No. We want to strengthen and support An Garda Síochána, which I always seek to do, but not when gardaí accompany masked men in a car belonging to an agent of the sheriff, with the number plates blocked out and no tax or NCT certificate displayed on the windscreen. It was a car similar to that used in the gangland crimes committed in Dublin. That was disgusting and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (26 May 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 21. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will support a motion in Dáil Éireann declaring the activities of the so-called "Islamic State" in Syria and the Middle East as a genocide against the Christian population and other religious and secular minorities, following similar declarations by the House of Commons in the United Kingdom and by the House of...