Results 241-260 of 20,830 for speaker:Mattie McGrath

Post European Council Meeting: Statements (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Bogaimid ar aghaidh leis an Ríaltas agus an Teachta Malcolm Byrne. I wish him well with his sore arm.

Triple Lock Mechanism and Irish Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Social Democrats for allowing me some time on this important motion. I wish the Minister of State well in his position. He knows my position on this. My position is that the triple lock is sacrosanct. Our neutrality is sacrosanct. I was concerned about two years ago when the Taoiseach had a roadshow with hand-picked people to try to soften up the public for a change to our...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 34. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason for the delay in publishing the route selection report for the N24 upgrades; when the report will be published and made available to affected communities; if there are plans to revisit the route selected as it does not plan to bypass Clonmel but proposes to use the current inner relief road, which currently experiences major...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Personal Injury Claims (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 43. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the concerns facing businesses (details supplied) regarding the proposal to increase the personal injury awards by 17%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14285/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Asset Management Agency (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 44. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is aware of a case regarding NAMA and land in Cork city (details supplied); if he will provide assurance that NAMA has not been outmanoeuvred in this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14356/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 54. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the success ratio of cases involving reasonable accommodation adjudicated on at the Workplace Relations Commission, under the Employment Equality Act 1998-2015, and under the Equal Status Acts 2000-2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14310/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason why a school in south Tipperary has not been sanctioned a second autism class; whether this school will be sanctioned for a class as promised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14265/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the blind pension is means-tested and counted as taxable income; the reason is it removed when visually impaired people earn over a certain amount; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14306/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 184. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth regarding the disabled persons’ representative organisations’ (DPROs) specific consultations on the National Disability Strategy, the reason the Government is not closely working with two DPROs (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14307/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 185. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the State is providing contracts and funding to service providers for human rights-based needs without close consultation with disabled persons’ representative organisations, as per Articles 4(3) and 29 (b(ii)) of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 186. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline, given that Ireland ranks last in terms of European disability employment, how the Government looks to address these concerns; if the Government will consult all disabled persons’ representative organisations (DPROs) in this respect; to outline the Government’s response to the failure...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 187. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when creating and consulting on new employment strategies for disabled people, the reason the Government is prioritising consulting from service providers (details supplied) over certain specialised disabled persons’ representative organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14311/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (25 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will direct the Teaching Council to introduce a primary teaching degree programme in autism, for the purpose or teaching in autism classes (details supplied); if, given the shortage of primary teachers with a special education qualification in Ireland, she will direct the Teaching Council to admit to the register teachers who have...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (25 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 529. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid out by the State through community welfare officers to facilitate car repairs or maintenance to foreign-registered vehicles owned by beneficiaries of temporary protection and international protection applicants; how long this scheme has been in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14146/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (25 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a scheme is in place through the community welfare office to pay for the maintenance and repairs of privately owned-vehicle belonging to beneficiaries of temporary protection or international protection applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14147/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (25 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 615. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide information relating to grants available to farmers for the construction of livestock underpasses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13667/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport (25 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 738. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no funding for hospital transport for patients based in south Tipperary (details supplied); if she will urgently review this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13621/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (20 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the immediate steps he will take to improve the vetting of IPAS applicants; the steps he will take to ensure that any asylum seekers found guilty of a crime will be deported; the steps he is taking to urgently restrict the number of economic migrants being housed by the state in IPAS accommodation; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (20 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 185. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the immediate measures he will take to increase prison capacity in the country; the efforts he will make to urgently review bail laws, to reduce the number of crimes being committed by persons out on bail; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11483/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Inquiries (20 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 363. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will establish a public inquiry on the Omagh bombing, as previously committed to. [8929/25]