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Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (6 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 682. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for speech and therapy appointments in County Tipperary; if full speech and therapy services have resumed in the county; if there is a full complement of speech and language therapists working the county; if not, if there are vacancies waiting to be filled; if speech and language therapists have been redeployed to other areas...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (6 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 683. To ask the Minister for Health when day and overnight respite sessions will recommence in each community health organisation, in tabular form. [28400/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 684. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to open a new dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry scanning unit in South Tipperary General Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28401/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (6 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 701. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home helps that have retired from the HSE since 2008; the number of new home helps that have been employed in the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28535/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 703. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Covid-19 related deaths reported in August and September 2020 that occurred in a hospital setting; the other settings in which these deaths occurred; the number of deaths that occurred in nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28564/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (6 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 729. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cycles used in the PCT testing here for the detection of Covid-19; if he has concerns regarding the over-sensitivity of these tests; the steps he is taking to introduce more rapid testing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28704/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 734. To ask the Minister for Health if both Gorey and Thomastown district hospitals had been designated as Covid-19 step-down facilities; if the step-down designation of both Gorey and Thomastown district hospitals has been removed, when this occurred; if the two hospitals have reverted to their pre-Covid-19 operation status and use; the reason St. Brigid's Hospital has not reverted to its...

Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment: Motion [Private Members] (7 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle might tell me if Deputy Michael Healy-Rae arrives in the Chamber, as we will share the remaining time otherwise. The PUP must be reinstated. We came through a great deal in the first stage. People have put their shoulders to the wheel, ní neart go cur le chéile, and worked hard but with the change in Government and the consequent hand over, the ball...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I wish to return to the sad and scandalous situation of there being no mental health or long-stay beds in Tipperary. In Crisis House, Clonmel, we cannot progress the tender. Some 724 patients presented at South Tipperary General Hospital last year with mental health issues. That is 14 per week. Only 11 per month, or 140, were transferred to the psychiatric unit in St. Luke's General...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Nothing in Tipperary.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: It is not there.

Brexit and Business: Statements (7 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I will be sharing time with Deputies Michael Collins and Danny Healy-Rae. The Tánaiste has been told repeatedly by speakers in this debate that there are only 90 days left before the end of the transition period. That is not a long time where international and European relations and negotiations are concerned. I want to salute the work of the late Fr. Alec Reid and Dr. Martin...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (7 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if supports will be made available in budget 2021 to families of college going students that have paid full accommodation and college fees but are advised to reside at home resulting in a significant loss for families; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29008/20]

Bille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2019: An Dara Céim - Official Languages (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (8 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I too am delighted to get cúpla nóiméad chun caint faoin straitéis don Ghaeilge. I am proud to come from Caisleán Nua na Siúire i dTiobraid Árann Theas agus na Déise - an paróiste chéanna. In fact, my grandmother did not have any English. Caisleán Nua was a breac-Ghaeltacht area up until 1957. For the record, I happened to be born...

Bille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2019: An Dara Céim - Official Languages (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (8 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Anois tá na Teachtaí Harkin agus Pringle againn ar son an Ghrúpa Neamhspleách.

Bille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2019: An Dara Céim - Official Languages (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (8 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Ba dhalta dána mé go han-mhinic ar fad agus is ceann mé fós to this day.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (8 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 29A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputy Jennifer Whitmore - to discuss the funding deficit in local authorities; (2) Deputy Fergus O'Dowd - to discuss the delayed appointment of staff in Drogheda town to work on the national development plan; (3) Deputy Dessie...

Estimates for Public Services 2020: Message from Select Committee (8 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The Select Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sports and the Gaeltacht has completed its consideration of the following Further Revised Estimate for public services for the year ending 31 December 2020: Vote 33 — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

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Covid-19: Statements (8 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad to hear the Minister speak those words so genuinely because these people's lives and jobs have been upturned. I speak of generations of families. I stay with one in the Minister's own constituency in Bray - he knows where it is. It is a family business employing 250 people and they want to keep those people. I was there last night and saw they still have 30 or 40 staff. They...