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- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (23 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: 133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills on the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004, if she will confirm if a child with special needs currently has a legal entitlement to an individual education plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32435/15]
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Double Taxation Agreements Motion: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (23 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: I welcome the Minister of State's address. I apologise for being late. I had a look at the draft orders earlier and I have no difficulty whatsoever with them. My party very much supports the three orders giving effect to the double taxation agreements, the one protocol and the three tax information exchange agreements. I commend the officials from the Office of the Revenue Commissioners...
- Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance: Double Taxation Agreements Motion: Minister of State at the Department of Finance (23 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: As I understand it, some of them are regarded as overseas territories and others are Crown dependencies. The most blatant tax havens in the world have very strong relations with the United Kingdom.
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: We are in the midst of a full-blown national housing crisis. It is a crisis which needs to be tackled with determination and a real sense of urgency. As the Tánaiste knows, rents are soaring. Up to 130,000 applicants are on social housing waiting lists and housing supply is minimal. The rent caps in the rent supplement scheme are so out of line with market rents that they are little...
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: People want to hear solutions to this crisis.
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Michael McGrath: If the rent supplement-----
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Michael McGrath: If I may, Deputy, please.
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Michael McGrath: People want to hear-----
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Michael McGrath: Will the Leas-Cheann Comhairle stop the clock, please?
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Michael McGrath: I have clearly touched a nerve.
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Michael McGrath: This situation has gone out of control.
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Michael McGrath: Let me tell the Government Deputies a few home truths.
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Michael McGrath: If the rent supplement scheme is so flexible and accommodating, why are people becoming homeless?
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Michael McGrath: We are all practising politicians. We know what is happening on the ground.
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Michael McGrath: The level of flexibility that the Tánaiste talked about is not there.
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Michael McGrath: Deputy Stagg does not like listening to the truth.
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Michael McGrath: The truth of the matter is-----
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Michael McGrath: People want to hear solutions.
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Michael McGrath: They want us to debate rationally-----
- Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2015)
Michael McGrath: -----what is a major crisis facing the country.