Results 3,701-3,720 of 20,701 for speaker:Mattie McGrath

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...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: So you are not going to do anything for them.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: And others.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister is getting as bad as the Taoiseach.

Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I too thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. I do not know how many motions or debates we will have to have in order to get the Minister and the Government to have respect for the people who we are supposed represent. We should respect them as ordinary, hard-working, decent people. I say this because at the moment the Minister is driving them to misery and into perishing in...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad to speak on this issue. I do not like the agenda for all these meetings when I see that item two is security and defence. Our neutrality is certainly being steadily undermined. I see President Biden will also join this meeting on its first day. I thank local communities, daoine na hÉireann and those in every hamlet in Ireland who are putting their hands up again. Deputy...

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I raise intervention services and early intervention for children with additional needs such as speech and language therapy etc. Before Covid, many people in my constituency experienced delays of 13 or 14 months. That has now gone up to 37 months. That is three years. This is appalling. Children with additional needs are waiting for assessment in many cases and then waiting for services...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Blaming the Business Committee again.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Postmasters and postmistresses up and down the country have served this country well for decades, never more so than during the Covid pandemic in recent years. Now, they are being cast aside. We have had many reports, including the Grant Thornton report. Last night the Irish Postmasters Union, IPU, threatened strike action, which is very stiff action by it. It does not usually do this, as...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Tánaiste is misleading the House.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: They are not agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that a school (details supplied) should take to apply for additional accommodation following its designation of DEIS status; if a previously approved additional accommodation application can be combined with a new application for additional accommodation in order to progress a complete project in one application rather than...