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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (16 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Minister for Finance the steps that he is taking to improve the competitiveness of mortgage interest rates particularly with rates due to increase and the withdrawal of banks (details supplied) from the Irish market; the steps that he is taking to bring the variable interest rates here back in line with the Eurozone average rate of 1.46 % compared to Irish average variable rates...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (16 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 187. To ask the Minister for Finance the immediate steps that his Department is taking to ensure that those with thatched properties can obtain insurance; the supports that are available to owners of thatched properties in cases in which they are currently unable to obtain insurance to ensure that they can insure their properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31522/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 545. To ask the Minister for Health if clarification will be provided on the practice by the HSE in relation to the hiring of couriers and taxis to transport abortion pills to a woman through telemedicine given the claim made by a person (details supplied). [31721/22]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: It is robbery.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: His European masters.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Ever before the war there was a spiral in prices. Everyone knows that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Two weeks ago, HIQA published an assessment of Tusla's foster care services in Cork which, as the Taoiseach well knows, has a quarter of the country's children. Tusla was compliant in only two of the 12 standards assessed. One example is that some children with complex needs taken into State care by Tusla in Cork were housed in hotels. The report is the latest among scores of reports that...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: It is bad enough that they are being taken into care but to be neglected in care in this way is shocking.

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I too am pleased to be able to say a few words and to welcome Austin Currie's wife, Annita, his children, Estelle, Caitríona, Dualta, Austin and Emer, and the former Taoiseach, Enda Kenny. Austin Currie was one of the leading figures in the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland and, as we know, co-founded the SDLP. He became a poster boy...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I too have questions about the Taoiseach's nine-page speech, in which he did not say much about his cheerleading last week for the European Council to agree to turn off all the Russian gas. Will our Government protect the hard-won freedoms and sovereignty of our people and our foreparents? Will it continue to hand away our freedoms to the EU and international globalists, namely, the World...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Where will that get us? We are supposed to be a sovereign country. We cannot ride two horses so we should ride one properly.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: We cannot ride two horses-----

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I believe I have the floor. We have limited time and Deputy Richmond will not take it up. Will the Leas-Cheann Comhairle allow us the time?

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I will. I just said it is time we came in.

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I understand. Táim beagnach críochnaithe agus beidh beirt Teachta eile ann. These are my feelings about what is going on. It is a total sell-out and clean-out similar to when we were supposed to be bailed out by the European banks. We were cleaned out and robbed and we are now handing over the keys. The Taoiseach is proud to do that. He wants a big job in Europe. The sooner...

Our Lady's Hospital Navan Emergency Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I compliment the Deputies who proposed this motion. We have seen what happened in Monaghan, Ennis and Nenagh. Ministers act as if they are bystanders at a wake. All they are missing is the snuff. They might make the caointe cáin. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, allowed a wonderful hospital in Carrick-on-Suir to be closed in the middle of Covid - it was used for Covid - and...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 626. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who were taken into State care in each of Tusla’s 17 service areas in each of the years from 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022 who were returned home to their birth mothers. [32049/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 627. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of social workers in each of Tusla’s 17 service areas in each of the years from 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022 who were sanctioned for professional misconduct. [32050/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 628. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of social workers in each of Tusla’s 17 service areas for each of the years from 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022 who were sanctioned for a failure to meet professional standards. [32051/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (21 Jun 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 629. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of social workers in each of Tusla’s 17 service areas in each of the years from 2017 to 2021 and to date in 2022 who were dismissed for professional misconduct. [32052/22]