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- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)
Mattie McGrath: Are you going to wake up?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)
Mattie McGrath: Change the record.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)
Mattie McGrath: It is not agreed.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)
Mattie McGrath: Not agreed.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)
Mattie McGrath: The Rural Independent Group is demanding an immediate debate on the crisis facing the pig industry today. If the Taoiseach cares to see them, members of the industry who are protesting outside the gates of Leinster House. They are not known for protesting but their family lives, incomes and their industry are on the line. The paltry €7 million offered by the Minister for...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)
Mattie McGrath: Before the Taoiseach responds, he made a joke of my request by saying he eats poached eggs.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)
Mattie McGrath: I do not know what he eats - that is his own business - but this is not a laughing matter. It is a serious situation facing an industry that could be wiped out if he does not act.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)
Mattie McGrath: This is mockery by the Taoiseach, talking about poached eggs. He will be well poached when they get at him.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)
Mattie McGrath: Or fried, even better.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)
Mattie McGrath: Make fun of it, yes. Make fun of it.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (29 Mar 2022)
Mattie McGrath: 400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an emergency works grant can be approved for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15876/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (29 Mar 2022)
Mattie McGrath: 648. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria under which frontline staff are being selected for the Covid bonus payment; the reason that certain cohorts of frontline healthcare workers have been excluded from the payments; if he will review the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15937/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (29 Mar 2022)
Mattie McGrath: 672. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting an assessment of needs in County Tipperary; the average length of time waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16051/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (29 Mar 2022)
Mattie McGrath: 673. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for speech and language therapy in County Tipperary; the average length of time waiting; the number of therapists available; the number of positions vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16052/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (29 Mar 2022)
Mattie McGrath: 674. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for occupational therapy in County Tipperary; the average length of time waiting; the number of therapists available; the number of positions vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16053/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (29 Mar 2022)
Mattie McGrath: 675. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children waiting for an assessment and therapies from CAMHS; the average length of time waiting; the number of therapists available; the number of positions vacant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16054/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (29 Mar 2022)
Mattie McGrath: 679. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to review the fair deal scheme to ensure that the scheme recognises the increasing cost pressures for the provision of nursing home care, particularly the rise in costs associated with inflation and the implementation of the Covid-19 Nursing Homes Expert Panel recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16072/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (29 Mar 2022)
Mattie McGrath: 680. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce equivalent pay for staff providing equivalent care in the nursing home sector considering the current disparity in costs between the private and public nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16073/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (29 Mar 2022)
Mattie McGrath: 861. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a full grant (details supplied) that was approved by a State body will be paid; when his Department will sanction this grant payment; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15942/22]
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Mar 2022)
Mattie McGrath: I ask the Minister to do something meaningful. He said the Government was doing a lot for the cost of oil. I am asking the Government to abolish the carbon tax on agricultural diesel for farm contractors, forestry contractors and farmers. Otherwise, we will not have a harvest and we will not have silage. The Minister's colleague beside him, Deputy Heydon, knows about this intimately. I...