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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (6 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 198. To ask the Minister for Health the costs associated with the work and report of the independent review group examining the role of voluntary organisations, such as remuneration for members, expense and allowances, drafting and publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11102/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan Expenditure (6 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 249. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the cost-benefit analysis of the national broadband plan; if the cost-benefit analysis has been updated recently; the projected cost of the plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11099/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the visits by the IDA to County Tipperary and each county from 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11390/19]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: How many visits has the IDA made to County Tipperary in comparison with other counties from 2016 to date? According to the findings of the South East Economic Monitor, IDA supported jobs are among the highest paid in the country, with 75% of all such jobs having incomes in excess of €35,000. While 8.8% of the population resides in the south-east, just 5.4% of all IDA supported...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I very much welcome the fact that there is foreign direct investment in Clonmel and south Tipperary. They are great companies providing great employment and spin-off activity. As I said, 2017 was a very good year for the IDA in the south east, with a significant deficit reduced by almost 200 jobs. The number of IDA-supported jobs increased by 10.9% in the south east, an impressive...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: IDA Ireland Site Visits (7 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I know the Minister's constituency quite well. It is similar to Tipperary with regard to employment. Worryingly, of the 3,530 jobs announced in the IDA's 2018 mid-year performance update relating to 21 publicly announced projects, out of a total of 139 projects, no project was expected to generate employment in the south east. A year and a half ago, statistics from the EUROSTAT yearbook...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The programme for Government is strong in its commitment on rural regeneration. Thurles is famed for the founding fathers of the GAA, the trip to Semple and the matches. Now An Post, which has become a quango, has unilaterally decided to move the post office from the square in Thurles, an iconic location near Hayes hotel, out to a shopping centre. That is killing the centre of the town, as...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: There is promised legislation to rejuvenate towns. The Department of Deputy Michael Ring has given funding for Liberty Square of over €1.5 million. Last Monday evening I saw them painting a new sign on the post office. They are spending €6 million on new signage in post offices yet Angus Laverty said on radio last week that this one is being moved in six weeks' time. This is...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The Tánaiste should not wash its hands of it.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Remuneration (7 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 163. To ask the Minister for Health if the demand by a union (details supplied) for parity of pay for its members within the flexibility available to him under the terms of the public sector pay agreement will be reconsidered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7515/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Remuneration (7 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 164. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reconsider the demand of a union (details supplied) for parity of pay for its members within the flexibility available to him under the terms of the Public Sector Pay Agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7365/19]

Tributes on Retirement of Member of Staff (12 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Ba mhaith liom mo chomhghairdeas a ghabháil ar son na Rural Independents do Patricia. Thirty years or more is a great service, which was done so unassumingly and effectively. No matter what the issue, she was always so friendly. I recall one occasion. I was a buachaill dána and I had to leave the House. Patricia was advising the Ceann Comhairle, but she does it always in a very...

Tributes on Retirement of Member of Staff (12 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, I did. Tharla sé sin lá amháin. I want especially to thank Patricia for her kindness, courtesy and indeed sound advice at the different committees at which I have worked with her. On behalf of the Rural Independents, I wish Patricia many happy years of - I will not say retirement - enjoyment in the rest of her life and that she will enjoy the many things that she...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: An independent commission was set up to examine boundaries for local electoral areas. The commission reported and we all accepted it apart from the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government. Cahir has been put into the electoral area of Cashel-Tipperary. The Galtee Mountains are in between. The Tánaiste must travel past these mountains on his way home to Cork. There is no...

Civil Law (Presumption of Death) Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (12 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am also pleased to be able to speak on the Civil Law (Missing Persons) Bill 2016, which is important legislation. I have just heard about the result from Westminster, which is a sad and bleak place at the moment. At the outset, I commend the work that took place on this Bill in Seanad last year where the Bill originated and was debated. I specifically note the work of Senator Colm Burke...

National Children's Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (12 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

National Children's Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (12 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

National Children's Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (12 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: He does not know what he is doing and nor does the Government. It is shameful, a farce.

National Children's Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (12 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: It is terrible.

National Children's Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (12 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: It is not good enough.