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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Common Security and Defence Policy (9 May 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I apologise for having had to leave for a meeting of the Business Committee. I am delighted to welcome the witnesses and thank them for their contributions. We are at an important crossroads in Europe. Certainly, I have concerns about some activities taking place under the flag of and with the financial support of the European Union. We need to be more awake, engaged and vocal and to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Common Security and Defence Policy (9 May 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I apologise for having had to leave for a meeting of the Business Committee. I am delighted to welcome the witnesses and thank them for their contributions. We are at an important crossroads in Europe. Certainly, I have concerns about some activities taking place under the flag of and with the financial support of the European Union. We need to be more awake, engaged and vocal and to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Common Security and Defence Policy (9 May 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I apologise for having had to leave for a meeting of the Business Committee. I am delighted to welcome the witnesses and thank them for their contributions. We are at an important crossroads in Europe. Certainly, I have concerns about some activities taking place under the flag of and with the financial support of the European Union. We need to be more awake, engaged and vocal and to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (14 May 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 398. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the funding provided to each local authority to tackle illegal dumping for 2017, 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20505/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (16 May 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has contractual arrangements with companies to provide school prefabs; the details of companies or organisations that own the school prefabs in use in view of the fact that his Department will pay €19 million in renting same in 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21247/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Corporate Governance (16 May 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 96. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the role her Department plays in ensuring that multinationals here operate according to the principles laid down in the Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21274/19]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Civil Defence (21 May 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 108. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to address concerns that the Civil Defence is being prevented from participating or assisting at community events and functions in which it would have normally taken part due to changes in its function; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21661/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Applications Data (21 May 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 287. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the backlog of cases on the courts asylum list; the number of such cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21501/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Advanced Healthcare Directives (21 May 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 373. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the work of the multidisciplinary working group to assist in the development and preparation of the code of practice for the advance healthcare directives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21506/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Ash Dieback Threat (21 May 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 477. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of efforts to combat ash dieback; if an assessment of the economic cost of the disease has been undertaken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21486/19]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Environmental Efficiency Scheme (21 May 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 478. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the operation of the beef environmental efficiency pilot scheme; if there has been broad national interest in the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21487/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Corporate Governance (22 May 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 123. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 96 of 16 May 2019, the social partners her Department has been in contact with regarding the appointment of a national focal point; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22223/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The Government is destroying them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Swings and roundabouts.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 May 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Swings and roundabouts.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Leave Waterford alone.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Mattie McGrath: My question is about jobs for Tipperary. A task force was promised to be set up in Tipperary by the Taoiseach some months ago when he was speaking in the seat from which the Minister is now sitting. The people were delighted, including the different groups such as March for Tipp, Jobs for Tipp and all the community groups. An eminent lady, Ms Alison Harvey, was appointed to lead this task...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Cá bhfuil sí?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Tá sí as láthair.

Vulture Funds: Motion [Private Members] (28 May 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.