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Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I agree with most of what people have said tonight. It is a shocking situation. I welcome Cara and her dad. I think of her mam at home as well as her two brothers. It is such an indictment. I know Cara lives in a lovely house in Ardfinnan. Looking out her back window, she can see the Liam Lynch monument, a man who gave his life for our freedom and democracy in this country. What has it...

Assessment of Need: Statements (20 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: The crisis surrounding the assessment of needs process for children with disabilities sees it not just under severe strain. It is a system in breach of its legal obligations, leaving thousands of children without access to vital supports which they are entitled to by law. This should be a national emergency. What we are doing to young children and families is criminal. The HSE has been...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (20 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 827. To ask the Minister for Health her plans for the future of a health centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25470/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Government Reform (15 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 111. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has costed the re-establishment of borough councils; if he will lead a reform programme to ensure the return of town and borough councils; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15142/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Building Regulations (15 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 95. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will carry out an urgent review of policies to move to allow new builds to install stoves and chimneys for solid fuel in all homes to ensure that all homes have an alternative heating source at times of electricity outages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16673/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that exceptional needs payments could be used towards the purchase of a new disability friendly vehicle since the abolition of the motorised transport grant; the supports available for disabled citizens who require a new vehicle;; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24693/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (14 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 181. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the priority 1 list for residential care in south Tipperary over the past three years; the number of children who have received residential care in the past three years from this priority 1 list; the number of children expected to receive residential care this year in south Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (14 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 182. To ask the Minister for Health the additional respite care services being provided in south Tipperary over the past three years; the plans to increase respite care services in south Tipperary for both adult and children services; the number receiving respite care monthly in south Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24548/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (14 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 195. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the progress made in the recruitment of an ophthalmologist in south Tipperary following a retirement (details supplied); the number of children who are now waiting to be seen in the eye clinic; the supports available for parents with children who require an appointment with the eye clinic but have been forced to be seen privately due to the lack...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (13 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 184. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently address the lack of home help services where people are approved but there is no services available; the efforts being made to improve the recruitment of home helps; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23185/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 199. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently review the restrictions to hospital transport services in Tipperary, which are leaving many patients without transport; to increase the budget for the service to ensure that those in real need of transport are not left without; the reason for the increase in the demand; if hospital transport for beneficiaries of temporary protection or...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (13 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 782. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the allocations for local authority and housing adaptation grants for people with disabilities will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24500/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (13 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 912. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the full costs of modular housing for Ukrainians at Heywood Road, Clonmel, County Tipperary; the reason for the excessive costs; if the full costs of the project are not yet available, if he will provide the costs to date of the project given the project is almost finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport (13 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 995. To ask the Minister for Health the hospital transport budget for all hospitals in the south-east and mid-west regions; the qualifying criteria for patients availing of hospital transport; the application process for hospital transport; the way in which a wheelchair user can avail of their own transport; the supports available to a patient who must seek their transport; the way in which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport (13 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 996. To ask the Minister for Health the level of expenditure on hospital transport provided to members of the Travelling community from Tipperary; if members of the Travelling community are automatically supplied with hospital transport when transport services are restricted for most patients; the level of expenditure on hospital transport being provided to IPAS or BOTP residents in Tipperary...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (8 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I appreciate it is not the Minister of State's reply - he is reading it out - but it is not about quotas, deadlines and systems like that. It is about ordinary children with needs. It is not fair on the schools that expected to open these schools to now have to wait to see if the decision will be reversed. By the Minister of State's account, I do not think it will be. We are approaching...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (8 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to raise this very serious issue. A number of ASD units were approved for three secondary schools in south Tipperary. Three principals and their staff, boards of management and parents of children with special needs were waiting for places and expected them to come on stream. In fact, the SENOs asked them to generate space and accommodation...

Parental Choice in Education: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: In accordance with Standing Order 85(2), the division is deferred until the weekly division time next week.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (8 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 39 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Michael Cahill - To discuss the disparity faced by school secretaries in terms of leave entitlements and pension rights. Deputies Rose Conway-Walsh, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, Pearse Doherty, Donna McGettigan - To discuss the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (8 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Before we start, I would like to express on my own behalf and that of the House good wishes to our new Pope elected this evening while we were doing the session. I wish him well. Our hearts and prayers are with him. I thank everyone who supported the cardinals for their diligent work. It was a speedy process. Go n-éirí go geal leis an bPápa nua.