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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (23 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I appreciate that. I was not here when the question was called initially.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (23 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is a long way to Tipperary. I hope the Minister can find it.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (23 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I apologise, as long as the Minister has some good news for me.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (23 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I met the Minister and given her a long-standing invitation to Tipperary since she took office. Unfortunately, she still has not given me a date for the visit and she is putting me off. We are getting worried that the sentiments of the old song "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" are apt for this Government. Can it not find us in Tipperary? I know about the inter-agency group led by Mr. Joe...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (23 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: That is fictional.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (23 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The leak was most regrettable. I am not blaming the Minister. If the Minister is trying to stop leaks in the Dáil, she has enough problems with Irish Water and WikiLeaks besides talking about leaks here. The Minister needs to refocus on Tipperary, both north and south. It is a long county. It used to be served by two different regional authorities - the south east and mid-west....

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (23 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister is now like a schoolteacher lecturing.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (23 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I said the CEO.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Job Creation (23 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I rise with pleasure to support my colleague's Bill. I know it is short but much research has gone into it. The Bill is long overdue and I am glad the Government is not opposing it. That is a sign of some resemblance of the new politics in the context of which we are supposed to be operating. I note there will be some amendments but they sound quite reasonable. We will tease them out on...

Intoxicating Liquor (Breweries and Distilleries) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I support it and I compliment the Deputy. He mentioned his experience of Fáilte Ireland, which we all have, and we are trying to get out tourist products and promote our country. There are job losses every second week in our provincial towns but what we are talking about now is the best of rural Ireland. We have it in our culture. The Deputy's colleague, Deputy Penrose, recently...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Support Schemes (23 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 17. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the status of the Succeed in Ireland scheme; if she will direct the IDA to suspend any proposals to deny the operating contract of the scheme to ConnectIreland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14418/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Action Plan for Rural Development (23 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 28. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the efforts she is making to secure and create employment opportunities in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14419/17]

An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Like Deputy Healy-Rae, I fully support the Tánaiste in the job she has but I believe at this stage that the position of the Garda Commissioner, Nóirín O'Sullivan, is untenable and that she must immediately step aside to prevent any further erosion of the reputation and the integrity of An Garda Síochána. I came to that conclusion after the Commissioner acknowledged...

Money Advice and Budgeting Service and Citizens Information Centres: Motion (28 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I acknowledge the work of Deputy Willie O'Dea in bringing forward this motion which reflects the enormous concerns among the volunteer staff in MABS and the Citizens Information centres around the country. People would have been adrift in the past few years but for MABS. I recently asked the Minister in a parliamentary question to outline the plan to centralise the operations of the MABS...

Money Advice and Budgeting Service and Citizens Information Centres: Motion (28 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Money Advice and Budgeting Service and Citizens Information Centres: Motion (28 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It was anti-rural.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Internet Safety (28 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 36. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of the measures her Department is taking to combat cyber blackmailing, cyber bullying and other forms of online abuse directed at children or carried out by children on other children; the details of any data on the prevalence of reported cases of these activities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14776/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Policy (28 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 46. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the abolition of the 40 year age gap requirement that was previously used by Tusla as part of the assessment for suitability to foster; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14777/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (28 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 258. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be issued on a social protection appeal by a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15436/17]