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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am not carried away at all.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am mystified. There is only one way to sort this out, which is for the Minister of State, myself and any other Members of the Oireachtas who so wish should sit down with the county manager. We are being told one thing. The Minister of State is saying the county council is being flooded with money and is not building. He cannot blame the council for everything. The council is under...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Expenditure (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 33. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amounts paid by his Department in grants and supports for those operating private or group water schemes in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45097/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Planning Framework (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 264. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address concerns regarding aspects of the national framework plan that are creating uncertainty for local authority funding streams particularly in rural areas. [45540/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Property (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 266. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he is taking to address the level of commercial property vacancies in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43365/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Nitrates Usage (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to amend the regulations regarding slurry spreading to introduce greater flexibility as to when this practice is permitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41849/17]

Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: In North Korea.

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: In the programme for Government there is a clear commitment to reform and strengthen the legal system in an effort to support the victims of crime. Will the Taoiseach or the Minister for Justice and Equality clarify whether elements of the Criminal Justice Act 2017, formerly the Bail (Amendment) Bill, have not been implemented? I believe that is the case. I raise this issue in the wake of a...

Order of Business (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I asked a question about tagging.

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 54. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the supports she is putting in place to support self-employed persons if, for example, the business fails or closes due to unexpected sickness or ill health. [43366/17]

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I draw the attention of the Minister to the plight of the self-employed. We know how important they are in this country, especially in the recovery, in keeping employment going and keeping the coffers filled through the payment of taxes. Could the Minister outline what the Government is doing to support those very people when they get into difficulty, when they fall ill or get an injury?...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: There is a totally unlevel playing field. The recession brought that home to so many. The Minister mentioned people who were not able to continue to get work but many of them did work and could not get paid for it and their businesses folded as a result. Such people were great generators of employment and they had good employees. They were the only people who were left with nothing and...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: They say, tús maith, leath na h-oibre. However, we need to recognise and give more recognition to the people who have set up their own business, whether they are farmers, shopkeepers, undertakers, plasterer or plumbers. They are entitled to get some security. I honestly believe they would not mind paying a little extra in PRSI for some kind of insurance policy, because they have...

Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am not asking the Minister to charge them.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: For a strange reason, I will support this amendment. I opposed the Irish Water setup might and main from its first day. It was a big dream in the sunrise or sunset clause - I do not know which to call it - of the former Minister, Big Phil the enforcer, the then Deputy Hogan.

Water Services Bill 2017: Report Stage (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Yes. He is now Commissioner Hogan, with his pension in Europe for the devastation that he wreaked on the Irish people not only through this, but also through the abolition of local democracy. He thought that he could walk on water. That is why he called it "Irish Water", I suppose. He thought that it was his water and he could walk on it, but he found out quickly that he could not. A...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Eligibility (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 245. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will amend the medical criteria as laid out in regulation 3 statutory instrument No. 353 of the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers (Tax Concessions) Regulations 1994 to include those with neurological or degenerative disorders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46846/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Treaties (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 463. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46515/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 547. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of judges appointed to the Court of Appeal; his views on whether this is sufficient; the status of the case backlog in the Court of Appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46845/17]