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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister may be aware the Carrick-on-Suir St. Brigid's hospital committee is meeting the Joint Committee on Public Petitions today. During the Order of Business on 18 January, the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, gave a response to questions I raised in respect of the closure of St. Brigid’s hospital. I am asking that the record of the House is set straight because the Minister...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Where is the HIQA report?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Where is the HIQA report?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Balderdash.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Official Engagements (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 258. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list in tabular form of details of meetings between his Department and the National Women's Council of Ireland, which included reference to abortion/termination of pregnancy issues in their minutes between May 2018 to date. [6213/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Official Engagements (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 259. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list, in tabular form, of details of meetings between his Department and the Irish Family Planning Association which included reference to abortion or termination of pregnancy issues in their minutes between May 2018 to date. [6214/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 260. To ask the Minister for Health if he received advice from organisations on the appointment of the chairperson of the abortion review in January 2022; and to name such organisations. [6215/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 316. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason she announced on gov.ie that each men’s shed would receive a grant of €2,000, but is now stating that each men’s shed will receive a grant of up to €2,000; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6268/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 317. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason that the timeframe of 1 January to 31 December 2022 was placed as a criterion for qualification for the sustainability grant scheme for men’s sheds when the grant scheme was announced in November and sheds were only informed of the grant by the IMSA on 5 December via webinar; the reason that the timeframe was so...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 318. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development in situations in which some of the €800,000 grant funding has not been drawn down by individual men's sheds due to non-qualification according to the current criteria, if all moneys will be returned to her Department or if they will be held by the Irish Men’s Sheds Association; the amount of the €800,000 that...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 319. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide a list of all the men’s sheds that received funding under the men's sheds sustainability grant; the level of funding received by each; and the number of men’s sheds that were unable to make an application due to the strict criteria and short timeframe. [6271/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 320. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to confirm if the criteria for the men’s shed sustainability grant were laid down by her Department or by the IMSA; if the criteria or guidelines were the result of negotiation with the IMSA; if consultation occurred with the IMSA in advance of the grant announcement; if the IMSA met with her or departmental officials to...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 321. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development with regard to the men’s shed sustainability grant, as the purpose of the grant was to support shed sustainability, the reason there was no requirement to prove a need for the funding in the criteria (details supplied); the reason that some sheds with real sustainability issues have been prohibited from claiming the entire...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 322. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason she states that the Irish Men’s Sheds Association is the representative organisation for individual men’s sheds when, according to the organisation’s own memorandum and articles of association, it is not a representative organisation; the reason she states that sheds are members of the IMSA when the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 323. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason her Department has given funding to the IMSA to administer when it is not the representative body of men’s sheds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6275/23]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 324. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason the men’s sheds sustainability grant moneys were not administered by the LCDC as has been the case to date, when no change has occurred within the memorandum and articles of the IMSA to state that it is the men’s sheds’ representative body; if the IMSA is to be considered the official representative...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 325. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will meet, at her earliest opportunity, a delegation of representatives from a number of individual men’s sheds who have concerns in respect of the manner in which the men’s sheds sustainability grant has been administered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6277/23]

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I apologise on behalf of Deputy O'Donoghue, who is absent because his cousin died.

Committee on Public Petitions: Public Petition on St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir (Resumed): Health Service Executive (9 Feb 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their engagement. I thank Ms Anne Walsh especially for her work on the services in Clogheen. We have been through all this with Clogheen hospital. It is a fabulous institution with significant local involvement. It is the sister hospital to Carrick-on-Suir. We saw what transpired there. Great people before me and political people insisted that...