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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...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown of the domiciliary care allowance applications and refusals by age over the past two years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14022/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 584. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if extra consideration is being given to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children with additional needs who are applying for the domiciliary care allowance; if children will be given extra consideration during assessment for domiciliary care allowance in circumstances in which they may previously have managed and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 585. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for the refusal of a domiciliary care allowance application by a child (details supplied); if she will review the application considering the impact of Covid-19 on the child and the need for additional care to help limit the impact; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14024/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 833. To ask the Minister for Health the way that the ongoing engagement between his Department and the HSE on telemedicine abortion is progressing; and the way the continuation of telemedicine home abortions is being considered given that the HSE has acknowledged that it has conducted no analysis into the operation or potential risks of the practice in Ireland and is reliant upon secondary...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 834. To ask the Minister for Health if the chair of the review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 has consulted with any stakeholders since the date of their appointment; and if so, the name of the stakeholders with whom they have consulted. [14032/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he is considering an increase in the capacity of the Defence Forces given the impact of the Russian invasion of a sovereign state Ukraine which is also a neutral State; and the expected financial costs of an increase in capacity. [13738/22]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Service Obligation (10 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 165. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount received by the Exchequer from the public service obligation levy on electricity consumers on an annual basis for the past ten years; the total amount received since the levy was initiated;the way this money been spent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13748/22]