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Nice Attacks: Expressions of Sympathy (19 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Our behalf of rural Independents, I add our voice to the condemnation of this most savage and horrific attack on Bastille Day. Many colleagues attended a reception at the French ambassador's residence to celebrate Bastille Day. I was unable to attend but attended the event last year. It is unbelievable to think that a celebration and joyous occasion could turn into such an atrocity. As...

Order of Business (19 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: The county councils, through a memorandum of understanding, are transferring water charging functions in relation to non-domestic water to Irish Water. This means supply to all types of businesses, including farms, shops and so on, will be affected. In the context of the so-called "ceasefire" in relation to water charges, why are businesspeople being asked to pay for water? Why is this...

Order of Business (19 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I am asking about the Water Services (Amendment) Bill. As I said, what the county councils are doing is a retrograde step. Why are we moving in the artillery from the side given the moratorium on water charges while the report of the expert commission is awaited? Are businesspeople the patsies who are going to pay all the expenses? My concern is that charges on private contributors will...

Order of Business (19 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach's response is not an answer my question.

Housing Strategy: Statements (19 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the report and wish the Minister well. I wish Deputy Bailey well as Chairman of the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government, which I look forward to working and engaging with. I pay tribute to Deputy Harty and others who worked on the interim committee. I know the work that Deputy Harty put in and he has provided very interesting statistics on foot of his...

Domiciliary Care Allowance: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Deputy Danny Healy-Rae also wants to contribute, but if he does not come in, I will do the best I can. I am glad that this motion was tabled but I am even more pleased that the Government has accepted it. It is a sign of new politics. People may scoff and laugh at the new workings of the new Dáil, but this is practical proof, and it is not the first time in recent weeks that it has...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Promotion (19 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position of a tourist office (details supplied) and the reason for its apparent closure given its importance to the Ancient East tourism initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21969/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Autism Support Services (19 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place to develop autism spectrum disorder units at primary and secondary level schools in Clonmel, County Tipperary; the numbers of those diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder in County Tipperary; the number of autism spectrum disorder units in Tipperary and their location and capacity; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (19 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 301. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application for funding will be approved for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22642/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Panel Rights (19 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 302. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which a qualified special needs assistants and Montessori teachers can be placed on the relevant panels for employment in their area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22679/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) Eligibility (19 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 467. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to outline his plans to review the qualifying conditions for the contributory state pension, particularly in respect of the yearly average and the effect that a low-year average has on an pension in the case of a break in contributions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22677/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (19 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 564. To ask the Minister for Health when funding will be made available for a residential placement for a person (details supplied) in south Tipperary who has been a patient in St. Luke's Psychiatric Hospital, Kilkenny, since December 2015; the time a person must be hospitalised in an acute facility due to a lack of funding, when a residential placement would be more suitable to their needs;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (19 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 668. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adolescents waiting to be seen by the CAMHS teams in County Tipperary; the current waiting times from initial referral; the efforts being taken to reduce the waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22659/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Young Farmers Scheme Eligibility (19 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 756. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reasons a combined application under the young farmers scheme by two persons (details supplied) was unsuccessful for one of the persons despite the fact that the criteria suggested that at least one, and not only one person, could apply for the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22687/16]

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: The South East Economic Monitor report produced by the Waterford Institute of Technology, WIT, school of business confirmed that unemployment in the south east is at crisis levels and is rising. It currently stands at 12.5% compared to other regions that are experiencing a national trend of 8.4%. The report finds further that the quality of employment in the south east is dramatically lower...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Tá a fhios agam. That will not get us jobs.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: My point was that IDA activity over three decades has not been up to par, so it needs to improve. Part of the reason for the continuing stagnation of the economy in the south east is down to the administrative burden being placed on SMEs and other business ventures that are having their entrepreneurial vision and passion restricted or crippled. In reply to a parliamentary question I...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (20 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: There is not one of us in this House who does not come across the tragedy of suicide in our communities on a weekly basis. In light of recent scandals and so on, when will legislation be introduced to deal with the issue of suicide and the delivery of services in that regard, including intervention services specifically tailored to families and victims?

Housing (Sale of Local Authority Housing) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I am also glad to be able to speak about the Bill, which is timely given the Minister's announcement of his grandiose plan yesterday. We will be housed out of it before we are finished, pardon the pun, but that will not give any houses to the homeless. I remember when Part V was introduced. I was a member of a county council in south Tipperary and was a big supporter of it because the boom...

Standing Order 149: Motion (20 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad to get some speaking time and I thank the Business Committee for allowing extra time to at least have some debate on this subject. It was going to go through the House without debate, which would have been a very retrograde step. I am not surprised by this action by the ECB and the EU because that is they way they have been behaving. As a man who campaigned over the years for...