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Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 669. To ask the Minister for Health if all fire safety regulations have been adhered to with respect to the national children's hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45897/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 668. To ask the Minister for Health the status of legislation governing assisted human reproduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45896/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TAMS Administration (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 958. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to extend the TAMS scheme to include the funding of underpasses in cases in which persons have land banks on both sides of local, national and regional roads in view of the excessive costs of same, the safety of both motorists and farmers and the return of finances under the TAMS scheme to the Exchequer; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Reviews (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 1169. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of the Gender Recognition Act 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45895/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Reviews (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 1198. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is conducting a review of the Gender Recognition Act 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45893/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Reviews (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 1199. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a legal pathway is being put in place for children under 16 years of age to obtain a gender-recognition certificate. [45894/17]

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Two week ago I raised in this House the matter of the predatory behaviour by our banks with regard to tracker mortgages. As I said at the time, most of the bank robbers are now deep in the boardrooms and not on the streets as used to be the case. I believe it was important to speak on the issue, because episodes like the tracker mortgage scandal reveal where the real centres of power lie in...

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach did not provide me with any information about the former Minister, Deputy Noonan, and how people went to Revenue to disclose their offshore dealings. Before he gets carried away with the OECD saying how good we are with tax compliance, the dogs in the street know what is going on. They also know what is going on in the banks because ordinary families have been terrorised and...

Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Did the Minister attend the bank's extraordinary general meeting?

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: We have 20 minutes between us.

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Is it seven minutes?

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat. The Employment Equality Acts and the Equal Status Acts prohibit discrimination on nine specified grounds. As the explanatory memorandum for this Bill makes clear, statutory intervention to expand the protection of both Acts to prohibit discrimination on the basis of disadvantaged socioeconomic or social background would involve an amendment to the Employment Equality...

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Not quite. I have gone over the border to Kilkenny an odd time and, indeed, to east Cork as well. Thankfully, we know the people. The people give loyal service and I salute them. One retired recently after 25 years, so I must not have been that bad an employer. I am only making the point that businesses cannot work without good employees but one must have respect for employees as...

Heritage Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to be able to speak about this Bill. Its principal purpose is to amend the Heritage Act 1995 on foot of the report of the critical review of the Heritage Council and to provide for the regulation of the cutting or burning of vegetation. I will confine my remarks mainly to Part 3 amendments to the Wildlife Acts. In section 7, which concerns the current provisions in the...

Heritage Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am speaking to the Bill. Common sense has gone out the window. We need to be able to cut roadside hedges in the interests of road safety. We have plenty of legislation, including a piece last week concerning fast tractors and another today which suggests that we will be locked up if any of our children go out driving at the age of 17 or 18 without a licensed driver accompanying them....

Heritage Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Good woman, but this Bill needs to support them and allow them to do that. They are volunteers. They are taxpayers who have paid their taxes and are doing the work that they want to do and that they love doing, to help and foster nature and wildlife. We are not all mad with machines, cutting the heads off people along with everything else. We are constantly being talked at by the head of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: On what grounds has the Chair made that decision?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Did the Chairman mention advocacy groups?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: No. There is but point noted.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: For my own information, what I am noting is that I do not expect advocacy groups, that is, those having no involvement with political parties, to be here.