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Tillage Farming: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: -----but only one garda for every 340 people.

Tillage Farming: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I accept that. I ask the Minister to pay up and look after the farmers.

Tillage Farming: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thought we were partners.

Communications Regulation (Postal Services) (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to speak to the Bill. First, I convey my good wishes to the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Deputy Denis Naughten. I wish him a speedy recovery. It was an awful trauma for himself and his wife, but I believe he is making a good recovery. I hope the Minister of State, Deputy Kyne, will pass on my good wishes. I am appalled by this situation...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Reductions (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 88. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason radon barriers are taxable at the higher rate of VAT and treated as a luxury item when it is an essential item for the health and safety of persons; the efforts that will be made to reduce this VAT rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2030/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts being made to ensure that children that are currently attending an ASD unit at preschool level will have their needs met in their communities at primary school level; his plans to develop ASD units at primary level in Clonmel, County Tipperary; his further plans to develop an ASD unit at second level which is accessible for girls...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am interested in what was said by Deputy Pat Casey about rapid build and modular housing. Mr. McCarthy gave the impression that these units were of high standard. I am sure we have all been approached - I have - by people who provide these modular homes and they look perfectly good to me. I do not know why there has been such a huge delay. This irritates me, given that we are all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: If I may intervene, Mr. McCarthy referred to a multidisciplinary team. My goodness, where have we had that? I shudder at the term.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: If they get the job done, we will all be fine and there will be no complaints.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The process takes forever. If they send something to the Department, it takes six months to get it back. It would take six months to send it again. It is pathetic. It is what they have told me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It takes six months to get an answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: May I comment briefly on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It will be a short comment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Quarterly Progress Report Strategy for Rented Sector: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: This is a problem. The witness and I are public servants, as are the councillors, so somebody is kidding somebody else. It should not happen that six years after the fact people do not know what problem existed. It is a shameful admission.

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I wish to ask about the ongoing situation in South Tipperary General Hospital and the general crisis in accident and emergency departments. South Tipperary General Hospital, formerly known as St. Joseph's and still called that in Clonmel, which the Minister, Deputy Harris, has visited, is a very old hospital. First, I wish to salute and pay tribute to the front-line staff - doctors and...

Leaders' Questions (19 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Nor did I. On a point of order-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I refer to the recognition in the programme for Government of the role played by education in tackling disadvantage. Will the Tánaiste and Government commit to escalating the examination that is currently taking place in forming a list of new DEIS schools to be designated? I refer specifically to St. Joseph's primary school in Tipperary and its sister schools. I understand the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: National Women's Strategy (24 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 131. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the national women’s strategy; the groups and organisations that contributed to the formation of the strategy; the measures the strategy will utilise to support stay-at-home parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3162/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Critical Incidents in Schools (24 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times the critical incident policy has been implemented in primary and post-primary schools; the funding provided by his Department for the delivery and implementation of the critical incident policy each year from 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2704/17]