Results 361-380 of 20,934 for speaker:Mattie McGrath

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]

Report of the Housing Commission: Statements (Resumed) (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I wish the Minister and Minister of State well. It is a mammoth task. We have to get real. The idea of the left here is that we cannot have private contractors or developers. If we do not have private developers involved, we will not build the houses, full stop. I would love to be back in the 1940s and 1950s when the county council had manpower and built the houses, but those days are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I am moving on. The Deputy is eating into her colleagues' time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Please, Deputy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I am now. I missed it at the start but I will do my best.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I have only taken the Chair-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I appreciate that. That is why I am trying my best. I just took the Chair.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I am doing my best to be fair.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Brostaigh, le do thoil.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of clarification, I want to inform Deputy McDonald that I am neither lad nor lacky. She gets her instructions from the army council in Belfast.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will instruct Bus Éireann through the post-primary school transport scheme to ensure that a new bus pick-up stop will be installed in Clogheen village for collection to schools in Mitchelstown, County Cork, as the recommendations of the school transport scheme are due to come into place from September 2025 (details supplied); and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 774. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the current use of a building (details supplied) in County Tipperary, given the immediate shortage of special school places in south Tipperary if the school could be used for the establishment of a new special school in south Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12955/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 1267. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in cases in which farmers are in a partnership if farm payments can be paid to all partners equally as opposed to one partner; the steps available to a farmer in a partnership where one partner received the payment but is not paying it out to the other partners in the partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Special Educational Needs (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 1454. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the current use of a building (details supplied) in County Tipperary, given the immediate shortage of special school places in south Tipperary if the school could be used for the establishment of a new special school in south Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12954/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Records (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 1478. To ask the Minister for Health the number of babies born with Down syndrome in Ireland, based on records of births in each of the years 2017 to 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10612/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Men's Sheds (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 1954. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will consider providing additional funding to an association (details supplied) following the loss of the IMSA sustainability grant for the period of May 2024 to April 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11433/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Men's Sheds (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 1955. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will consider providing additional funding to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11504/25]