Results 9,121-9,140 of 20,768 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Minerals Development Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (22 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I agree.
- Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Outrageous.
- Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: You are so used to telling it.
- Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: You did not actually.
- Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I watched as a few minutes elapsed. I also want to speak about the Alpha One Foundation and how concerned and worried it is. It is a travesty that the Government would not continue negotiations. I compliment Senator Marc MacSharry who brought in some unfortunate families, family members and mothers of children suffering from cystic fibrosis. One powerful young woman testified that she...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (22 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 175. To ask the Minister for Health if the contract for the construction of the proposed national children's hospital at St James's Hospital, Dublin has been awarded; the name of the company that the contract has been awarded to; the estimated cost of the contract; if that contract has been officially signed off on by the Cabinet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8876/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Location (22 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 176. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide all peer-reviewed evidence to support locating the national children's hospital at the St James’s Hospital site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8877/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (22 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 178. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the implementation of the HSE universal newborn hearing screening programme; if the programme is available for newborn children in every county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8881/17]
- Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: No helipad.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is going up by €300 million.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I was there when the programme for Government was negotiated. The Minister of State with responsibility for disabilities is in the Chamber. When will the mobility allowance and the transport grant be reintroduced? We have commitments in the programme and statements in the House to the effect that it is imminent. Families are suffering all around the country. The Minister of State, Deputy...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the fact that local authority housing output from the first quarter to the third quarter of 2016 for County Tipperary amounted to three new builds; the measures his Department will take to increase this number in partnership with the local authority in County Tipperary; if his Department will allow...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: According to figures supplied to me, in County Tipperary, from the first to the third quarter of 2016, the county council only constructed three new builds. This is an utter shame and a shambles. The Government has failed in this regard. Between the Departments, the Minister of State, including his role in the previous Government, and the local authorities, there has been utter failure....
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: There is nothing moving. The Minister will be moving pretty hastily in a couple of months' time looking for votes from the council members. I have the figures. For years houses were built in their hundreds, or 150, in Tipperary. I have the statistics here. Nothing has been built in the past couple of years.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Please do. I cannot see them. I have asked the Minister to call in the county manager to explain what is going on. The National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, offered the Department houses. The council gave me the range of reasons it had to reject properties offered by NAMA, through the Government housing agency and its mediator. When I put the question to NAMA it insisted that it was...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Why?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: They have not been delivered. The council says it does not have the money. The Minister is advancing money all the time. How many new schemes has the Department approved since June of last year? The figures show that only three were built in the first three quarters of the year and none in the final quarter. There are several blockages and too much of a delay. People only want a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is houses we want. A person cannot live in a statistic.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The county council is saying it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister should call in the county manager.