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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (24 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 169. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if an OPW inspector will contact a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25933/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (24 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 220. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the thatch steering group that is being established within his Department; the persons that will be on the steering group; the remit of the group; if the group will address the difficulties obtaining insurance for thatched properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25946/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (24 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 693. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that he has selected a university from a non-European Union country has selected to carry out research into the experiences of Irish abortion providers as part of the three-year review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018. [26508/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (24 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 694. To ask the Minister for Health the number of taxi or courier services that were hired in 2020 and 2021 by the HSE to transport abortion pills from a general practitioner to a person who opted to have an abortion since the introduction of telemedicine abortion service in Q1 2020; and the costings for these transport and courier services as budgeted for in 2020 and 2021. [26509/22]

Garda Síochána (Compensation) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Gabhaim buíochas le Teachtaí Connolly agus Pringle for giving us their time slot. I certainly welcome this legislation and I hope its passage is not impeded in any way, shape or form. It is a ridiculous situation that gardaí are going into the line of duty and as much, if not more, is paid to legal firms as is paid in compensation to those who deserve it. I condemn out of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: For more than 20 years, Pat and Nuala Geoghegan from Askeaton, County Limerick, have been calling for a public inquiry into the blood samples that went missing during one of the biggest ever investigations into industrial pollution. The Taoiseach already knows about this saga because he met the Geoghegans when he was Minister for Health. He called for a review on 1 April 2003 into the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I raised it here six months ago.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Will the Taoiseach meet the family?

Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I call Deputy Richard Bruton, who is sharing time with Deputy Joe McHugh and the Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth.

Subsidies for Developers: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Sinn Féin has the next time slot. Deputies Ó Broin, Gould, Ó Laoghaire, Martin Browne, Martin Kenny and Munster are sharing time.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (18 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 136. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an Irish citizen who emigrated abroad but who has recently returned home due to bad health to be near their family is entitled to a social welfare payment; if the habitual residency clause as an Irish citizen is satisfied in cases in which they only have family connections living here; and if she will make a statement on...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad to be able to speak on this motion. We see the waiting lists across every walk of society but people are waiting 12 months for gynaecological services. Waiting lists have increase by 67% since March 2015. We see the furore over this site and the way it has exploded and mushroomed and there is not a mention of the children's hospital. Tá sé caillte. It is in a major...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Government’s Housing for All plan is inappropriately named. It estimates that 7,550 affordable houses will be built before 2026 using State-owned land. Not one single house will be built in Tipperary. We have an acute housing crisis in Tipperary, from Carrick-on-Suir right up to Moneygall. My office, like everyone else's, is inundated. The Rev. Fr. Michael Toomey was on the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: There was a man outside the gates last week from Bandon in west Cork singing "Everyone Should Have a Home". I salute him, but the homes are not there.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Not one house has been built.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I did.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach himself is not shy.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach did not answer my question. Will he be travelling to the World Health Organization next week?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The World Health Assembly is meeting from 22 to 28 May, which is next week. If it amends the regulations, all the powers of this Parliament and other parliaments in respect of when a pandemic is called or when there is a national crisis will be signed away. If this happens, one unelected person at the World Health Organization will be able to decide there is a pandemic in a country without...