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Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Seo í seachtain na Gaeilge. Déanfaimid ár ndícheall chun an Ghaeilge a chur chun cinn. This is a Government-Rialtas of the three-card trick, as I call it: Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party. We are now talking about emergency energy generation. Here we are, about 18 months since we in our group said this was a crisis, a crisis was upon us and was going to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Taoiseach as ucht an cheist seo a fhreagairt. I welcome the measures the Taoiseach announced today regarding housing, especially those relating to empowering local authorities to buy more houses. In the context of this ceist agus an fhreagra, we just cannot keep pace. I thank an Aire Stáit, an Teachta Joe O'Brien, who met me recently and went through some...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Immigration will next meet. [9799/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (7 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [9798/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (7 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. It is nice to get an insight into his Department and the number of senior officials who give him advice and help formulate policy, but I have some issues around the economic decisions of our country that have impacted on us so badly since the bank guarantee and the bailout. I have issues with the way we deal politically with the banks and the hands-off...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The programme last night was a huge exposé of how people can call themselves psychologists and practice in the private sector. Barry O'Kelly could interview mothers of children with special needs because they are not bound by the in camerarule unlike mothers whose children are taken into State care by Tusla who are victims of these charlatans operating in the family law courts. We saw...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: We in the Rural Independent Group have a problem with the allocation of six hours this week for debate on Second Stage and Remaining Stages of the Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023. There will also be a guillotine at the end of debate. It beggars belief that this kind of emergency legislation has to be rushed. Only a little over six...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (7 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 311. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase the income threshold for eligibility for housing adaptation grants from local authorities to support working families who encounter illness or life-changing physical disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11412/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (7 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 312. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase the maximum grant awards available under the housing adaption grants from local authorities to reflect the increasing costs in construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11413/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Attendance (7 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 394. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the statistics that are collected by the Tusla education support service and education welfare officer in relation to absenteeism in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11414/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Attendance (7 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 396. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide statistics from the education welfare officer in relation to absenteeism in schools in Tipperary; the number of students that have disengaged from mainstream education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11416/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Welfare Service (7 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 395. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department's process for students who have disengaged from mainstream education and have shown several signs of challenging behaviour; the supports in place for students; the services her Department offers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11415/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I ask the Government to set up a task force to do something about the dereliction in Clonmel town and the closure of many businesses, particularly Market Place, a spanking new development that was a division of iar-Sheandóir Fergal Quinn, God rest him, and a fabulous place. It is now vacant and derelict, and it is an appalling vista. There are many other areas on Gladstone Street and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: In Clonmel town – the vale of honey.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, that is what I said.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I am talking about the centre of town.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I said that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group I want to thank gach éinne a raibh ag obair go crua inné agus a rinne sárobair san ospidéal i Loch Garman. We support the ongoing efforts there, which included Irish Red Cross units and the likes of Kenneth O'Connell and others from as far away as Tipperary town. That is the spirit of the meitheal that we like to see and hopefully...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I agree that the grants have been good and widely availed of but times have surpassed them. Due to increased energy, material and labour costs, people cannot get the work done within the schemes. The eligibility is also too low in the first instance - it has not moved on in 13 years, as I said. Ireland is a signatory to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which...

Credit Union (Amendment) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil le gach éinne ar na boird ar fud na tíre agus ar fud Thiobraid Árann. I would like to pay my richest and fullest compliments to the volunteers, the board members, the staff, and the management teams at every credit union in County Tipperary, from Carrick-on -Suir, to Clonmel, to Cahir and Tipperary town and the suboffices in Bansha,...