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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Transport Authority (22 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister of State for being in Ardfinnan last week. I want to ask about the situation and the reason the National Transport Authority, NTA, has removed Ardfinnan from the 2023 list, particularly given previous commitments on the matter from the Government, and indeed from the Taoiseach. The NTA receives a lot of funding. To take out this application beggars belief. The bridge...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Transport Authority (22 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: This matter has a long and sad history. I was on the bridge the night of the flood in 2015. It closed because of danger. The bridge was repaired. There have been numerous consultants’ reports dealing with fishing, every kind of aesthetics and architecture. I was under that bridge. It is repaired. There is no understanding of why it has been left as a one-way arrangement for this...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Transport Authority (22 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I have already asked how much has been spent on consultants for this bridge. It would nearly be enough to build a new bridge. Active travel has done great things in many areas. I disagree with some of the things that have been done. There has been funding everywhere for all kinds of bridges through bogs and across rivers. We have seen that these bridges can be erected so I do not know...

Youth Justice Strategy: Statements (21 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad to be able to speak on this today. I believe in the phrase mol an óige agus tiocfaidh sí, and I think that we are not doing that. I want to salute all of the organisations, including the youth clubs in Tipperary. My daughter, Councillor Máirín McGrath, is involved in setting up the club in Newcastle again, and Ballybreen. Then there is the Waterford and South...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: At this time of year, many people are travelling abroad for holidays, weddings, funerals and, in many cases, work. There is an issue with the passport service. I am not knocking the staff in the Passport Office, who are very co-operative, but there are many different problems. In the Post Passport system, which we should support, it is a minimum of eight weeks before applications are even...

Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I too support the motion. It is important we have a debate on this issue because this is an important service involving important people, as Deputy Healy-Rae and many others said, who deliver these services to our elderly and vulnerable and those who need supports. We have been on about this so many times. There is a dichotomy in many areas. A couple of years ago, people were all the...

Home Care and Support Services: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Why are these things made so cumbersome? That family was put through enormous stress, as are many other families, waiting for a week or ten days with nobody. Thankfully, the case is somewhat resolved. There are many issues that need to be addressed but do not seem to be getting addressed. We have seen cases where home helps have been moved from the families they had or the people they...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Student Accommodation (21 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 163. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of all contracts between his Department and student accommodation providers; the number of refugees or persons seeking international protection currently being housed in student accommodation facilities; if he will confirm whether all such contracts will end before the new college term in September;...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The situation regarding recruitment and retention in An Garda Síochána is very acute. There are four gardaí and two sergeants in the town of Carrick-on-Suir in the Clonmel Garda district. They would want four times that number to fill the rosters. They can only fill one roster. We see the slow rate of input into Templemore but we also see the resignations, retirements and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: They can sit at the back.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Pages of words.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I also question this consultative forum on international security policy. If the Government wants to pay the Army, support it and give it proper conditions, it should do it. We do not need to have a select group up in Dublin Castle and around the country, at huge expense. It is literally a talking shop to get the answer the Government wants and to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Pay (20 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the remuneration that will be provided to the link person referenced in the letter to principals on the Pilot Programme of Counselling Supports in Primary Schools; the resources that will be put in place for them; the hours that will be made available to them to co-ordinate this programme in their school; and where her Department sees capacity...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (20 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 364. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline clearly his Department's plans regarding the open seasons Order; to outline the reason a position paper and plans by the NPWS Management Board (dated September 2022) were not referenced during the public consultation process held between March and May 2023; the reason two options were outlined in these plans and...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (20 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 432. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the full details of the EU General Agreement on Migration and Asylum reached recently; the obligations this agreement would have on Ireland; whether or not Ireland will have the option of opt-out of this agreement; the contributions of her Department in reaching this agreement; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (20 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 523. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children who are currently in temporary (bridging) foster placements and/or using emergency accommodation such as hotels, youth homelessness- or hostel-type accommodation, who are approved and are awaiting a residential placement, broken down by CHO, in tabular form; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Closures (20 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 680. To ask the Minister for Health to outline how donors to St. Brigid's District Hospital Carrick-on-Suir can claim their money back after the hospital was closed in 2020. [29444/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2023)

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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2023)

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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Jun 2023)

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