Results 1,021-1,040 of 1,061 for speaker:Séamus McGrath
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)
Séamus McGrath: We need to move on.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)
Séamus McGrath: Yes. Make one quick point.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)
Séamus McGrath: I thank Dr. Crowe. We will take Deputy Sheehan followed by Deputy Danny Healy-Rae.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)
Séamus McGrath: Those are directed at the whole group or whoever wants to take them.
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (21 Oct 2025)
Séamus McGrath: 103. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on changing the process used by the passport office to verify a Garda witness (details supplied). [56821/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (21 Oct 2025)
Séamus McGrath: 586. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of convictions regarding the offence of poisoning or endangerment under the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997 where the suspected criminal act was drink spiking in each of the years 2022, 2023 and 2024; and the number of investigations carried out by An Garda Síochána where the suspected...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (21 Oct 2025)
Séamus McGrath: 748. To ask the Minister for Health when the Medtronic Simplera device will be provided to a Type 1 Diabetes patient (details supplied) who already uses a continuous glucose monitoring system under the long-term illness plan. [56595/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (22 Oct 2025)
Séamus McGrath: 33. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of mortgage loans sold by banks to non-bank entities vulture funds in 2022, 2023 and 2024; and if he plans to introduce further protections for mortgage holders to reduce the number of loans being sold off by the main banks. [57557/25]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)
Séamus McGrath: The Deputy has ten seconds. He is pushing his luck.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)
Séamus McGrath: That is a good way to end this discussion and I will steal that line. Let us see it as an opportunity rather than an intractable problem. Can we agree on that? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)
Séamus McGrath: I thank everyone for being with us. We could spend the entire night discussing this topic and people's passion about this issue came across. I think we all agree that we need to do an awful lot more about both vacancy and dereliction, and I will add the underutilisation of buildings because it is a significant part of this. We will keep the conversation going. We, as a committee, will do...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) Séamus McGrath: I thank everyone for being here. Some of my colleagues raised the issue of compliance and non-compliant procurement issues and so on. Ms McPhillips said we are getting better value for money now. To what extent were we not getting value for money?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) Séamus McGrath: What kind of an uplift would there have been back in 2022 and 2023?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) Séamus McGrath: Were we paying 50% more than we should have?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) Séamus McGrath: Is there any estimate of how much we were overpaying? No. Okay. The budget for 2026 is less than the budget for 2024. It is at €1.8 billion. Can the witnesses explain the rationale behind that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) Séamus McGrath: In terms of the volume of international protection seekers, Ms McPhillips does not anticipate that coming down next year.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) Séamus McGrath: That prompts my next question. What is the average processing time for an international protection seeker?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) Séamus McGrath: What percentage would typically be under the accelerated programme?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) Séamus McGrath: Has the appeals process been streamlined? Yes. In the past, one would hear stories of people being here a couple of years. Are the witnesses saying that is not going to happen in the future?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2024
Vote 21 - Prisons
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - Programme E Expenditure
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 9 - Assessing Cyber Security in the Public Sector
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024
Chapter 9 - Criminal Justice Operational Hubs
Chapter 10 - Management of International Protection Accommodation Contracts (23 Oct 2025) Séamus McGrath: The main focus is trying to drive down the processing time-----