Results 19,841-19,860 of 20,830 for speaker:Mattie McGrath

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (21 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 521. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide details of the current number of international protection applicants who are currently in IPAS accommodation awaiting either a decision on their international protection application or their application for leave to remain; the number who had been granted status either international protection or...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Business Supports (23 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 53. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will reconsider the qualifying criteria of the ICOB grant to allow tenants qualify as it is tenants who are struggling with the increased cost of business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23168/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Business Supports (23 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I thank Deputy Verona Murphy for allowing me to go first as I have a Business Committee meeting. I congratulate the Minister and Minister of State on their new roles. I appeal to the Minister to re-examine the ICOB supports. It is a good scheme. Council officials and everyone worked hard on it, but it disqualifies people who rent a business premises. The owner pays the rates and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Business Supports (23 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister for his reply and the officials in Tipperary County Council and the Department who are dealing with the scheme. The Minister gave the reasons he cannot. He wants to spend the money and get it into the pockets of businesspeople who are struggling to keep the doors open. However, there is a considerable cohort that have an arrangement to pay rates as part of their rent....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Business Supports (23 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I do not know if the Minister does value them. He says that, but the scheme has to be tweaked because there is a big cohort of people in this situation. The Minister said it takes time from an announcement made in the budget. The budget speech is hardly over before his colleagues go around the country saying this or that scheme has been announced before any legislation is in place to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: My earphones are not working.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: There is a huge crisis at Tipperary University Hospital, TUH, which was previously know as South Tipperary General Hospital and St. Joseph's Hospital. The embargo that is in place is preventing recruitment. According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, safe working and other practices are being eroded. We need these posts. It is not a matter of funding. Those posts exist...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: This is for 70 posts.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is 70 posts.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I raised again last week the migration treaty not being scheduled for debate here today. We tried on the Business Committee to have it included. There is time on the schedule, so the Government is deliberately hiding and burying the migration pact until after the local and European elections because it is getting it on the chin everywhere. It is the same situation with the hate speech...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: We have a situation now in Clonmel, Carrick-on-Suir and Dundrum House Hotel, which was housing Ukrainians, with 60 international protection applicants going in there now as well. All over the country, in every town, village and hamlet, this is going on and the Government will not debate it in this House. We have had two debates thanks to our Private Members' time, one lot of statements and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: You are hiding from the debate.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The people will let you know.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: We all want to respect the hedgerows and biodiversity but ladies and gentlemen are going around in cars and vans taking on the role of officers of some State body or something. They are part of an NGO which is intimidating ordinary workers driving machines, cutting hedges for health and safety reasons by order of the county council and sometimes for farmers to stop cattle from going over the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: -----that people can do this and take the law into their own hands.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (28 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applicants that have applied to his Department under the farm film plastic recovery scheme since 1997, under the applicable regulatory framework in Ireland; the process involved in advertising the scheme; the process used to approve the body to legally operate a farm plastics recovery scheme; the reason...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (28 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason his Department has not established an independent regulatory mechanism to regulate the farm film plastic sector in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24067/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (28 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how the approved operator of a farm plastics recovery scheme is funded; the precise process for setting the associated plastics levy and collection charges at the point of collection; the exact legislative provisions to allow for the relevant financial charges to be set; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (28 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide an overview of the operational procedure and required documentation by his Department prior to granting approval to an organisation that operates a farm plastics recovery scheme in Ireland, citing the relevant legislative provisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24070/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (28 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 126. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to make changes to the legislation pertaining to the farm plastics Regulations, which were originally introduced in 1997 and later revised in 2001 and amended in 2017, in light of exclusivity, monopolistic practices and anti-competition concerns surrounding the current process, no independent appeals or...