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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)

Mattie McGrath: It is.

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)

Mattie McGrath: I am.

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

Mattie McGrath: Tuesday.

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

Mattie McGrath: Has he met them?

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

Mattie McGrath: At the outset, I welcome Cara Dermody, her mother, Noelle, her principal teacher, Brid Quinlivan, and her teacher, Andrea Mee from Ardfinnan National School. I compliment Cara on doing her leaving certificate mathematics examinations last Friday and on Monday. To the Minister, I say that I too was out with the firemen. Will he please give us an outline today of what he is going to do on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (15 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 160. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason post passport applications are not being processed at the same rate as online passports applications; and if the Government plan to introduce measures to enable both applications (i.e. online and post) to be processed in similar timeframes. [29100/23]

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos, I thank the Minister present here for all her good work. On a personal note, I also thank her for calling to a nephew of mine and his family when he had an accident recently, which I appreciate. Beidh fíorfháilte roimpi go dtí an Fiodh Ard i dTiobraid Árann an Domhnach seo chugainn. She will be welcome to Fethard and we do not need...

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: While the Deputy is thanking people, I thank him for his co-operation with me and the members of my group in his time as Minister of State. Fíor fáilte go dtí an slua san gailéaraí from Tiobraid Árran active retirement, with Councillor Siobhán Ambrose. Céad míle fáilte riomh.

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Is it a boggy place?

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: If the people in the Monaghan team are looking for a new manager, they know where to look.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The response from the head of disability services in my area in south Tipperary makes for stark reading. We have two children's disability network teams, CDNTs, in Tipperary and the unfortunate reality is that these teams are not only falling apart but they are non-existent. I have raised this before with the Taoiseach and both CDNT managers posts are vacant, with a temporary appointment to...

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I too declare that I am an employer for a long time - 41 or 42 years now - and I appreciate the right of Solidarity-People Before Profit Members to bring forward this Bill. However, it is a phoney Bill because we do not appreciate the workers and the people out there. They take an ideological stance and I accept that; it is their right. However, they do not understand or respect employers....

National Minimum Wage (Equal Pay for Young Workers) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: This constant bashing of employers has to stop. I am not going to talk about Pat McDonagh or anybody else. They are good employers but there might be issues there; I do not know. However, employers should be respected because workers will walk away and work elsewhere if they are not paid. The market is there and there is the market value. People must be respected in work. However, I...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (14 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the ICT grant for the school year 2022/2023 will be sent to schools. [28696/23]

Retained Fire Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I thank Sinn Féin for putting down this motion. Have the Minister and the Minister of State - an bheirt Airí - any shame? I know they do not have respect for many groups and organisations in this country and for our front-line workers across a plethora of areas, but the Minster's former colleague Noel Dempsey admitted 22 years ago that this was a problem and had to be sorted out....

Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat. Déanfaidh mé sin, a Cheann Comhairle. I welcome this Bill that seeks to introduce a licensing system for retail sales of tobacco and e-cigarettes. It also seeks to introduce a range of restrictions on sales of the products. I could say much on this but my colleagues are in the Chamber, and they may not be here the next day. This is a big issue for young...