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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Consultancy Contracts Data (22 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 562. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the consultancy service providers engaged by her Department from 1 January 2018 to 1 January 2019; the costs associated with each (details supplied); the reason for each service engagement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43308/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Value for Money Reviews (22 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 563. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by her Department from 1 January 2018 to 1 January 2019; the cost of each exercise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43325/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Value for Money Reviews (22 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 581. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the consultancy service providers engaged by his Department from 1 January 2018 to 1 January 2019; the costs associated with each (details supplied); the reason for each service engagement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43320/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Value for Money Reviews (22 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 582. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by his Department from 1 January 2018 to 1 January 2019; the cost of each exercise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43337/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Consultancy Contracts Data (22 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 625. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the consultancy service providers engaged by her Department from 1 January 2018 to 1 January 2019; the costs associated with each (details supplied); the reason for each service engagement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43313/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Value for Money Reviews (22 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 626. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by her Department from 1 January 2018 to 1 January 2019; the cost of each exercise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43330/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Value for Money Reviews (22 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 643. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the consultancy service providers engaged by his Department from 1 January 2018 to 1 January 2019; the costs associated with each (details supplied); the reason for each service engagement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43317/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Value for Money Reviews (22 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 644. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by his Department from 1 January 2018 to 1 January 2019; the cost of each exercise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43334/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (22 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 645. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if bespoke housing supports for those who are homeless and pregnant are being provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43345/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Consultancy Contracts Data (22 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 662. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the consultancy service providers engaged by her Department from 1 January 2018 to 1 January 2019; the costs associated with each (details supplied); the reason for each service engagement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43310/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Value for Money Reviews (22 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 663. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of each value for money and policy review conducted by her Department from 1 January 2018 to 1 January 2019; the cost of each exercise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43327/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I acknowledge that the Taoiseach has set up a task force for Tipperary town, but there is another problem there. I refer to a group of 27 small traders who are very spirited and want to make sure Tipperary town will remain open for business. This is a question for the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy. Roadworks have been ongoing in the town for more...

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak on this Bill which seeks to give effect to the taxation changes announced on budget day. Section 2 of the Bill provides that the reduced rate of universal social charge for full medical card holders whose individual annual income does not exceed €60,000, will be extended for a further year until the end of the 2020 tax year, which I welcome. We know from the ESRI...

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am being very cúramach. This is fact.

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am not straying. The Government was straying when it was brought down. The conglomerates always had Fianna Fáil in hock but it is now Fine Gael. It is a case of Tweedledum and Tweedledee and of saying, "To hell with the ordinary people." I accept that after the budget last year, the Minister introduced some additional measures in this area that were that were not announced on...

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am just saying that the people are waiting in the long grass for Fine Gael. Why would they not be? Fine Gael has never had any interest in the little people, na daoine beaga. That it is supported and kept in power by the Deputies beside me is a shocking state of affairs. We have no Opposition when it comes down to it. Fine Gael has been found out. In the privacy of the ballot boxes,...

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The whole lot will fall down and there will be a big rupture in the pipe. The confidence and supply agreement will blow up through the dome of the Chamber. That is where it is going to go.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (23 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 152. To ask the Minister for Health when he plans to remove the age restriction on the FreeStyle Libre device and make it available to persons with type 1 diabetes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43739/19]

Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (24 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I apologise for being delayed. I was attending a meeting of the Business Committee. I am delighted to speak to this Bill and the Minister knows what I am going to say. Yesterday was a black day for employment, from Cork city to the Minister of State's county of Clare. I passed the iconic building that houses the printing presses of Independent Newspapers Limited in west Dublin this...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Oct 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad the Minister of State for housing is here because I am writing to him today on behalf of Nicole Cronin of 28 Railways Cottages, Kilsheelan, in Clonmel, who is living with her brother in a house since their dad passed away some months ago. I am very disappointed that Clúid, a national housing body - I am a member of one also - has given the family a notice of eviction for 12...