Results 21-40 of 20,830 for speaker:Mattie McGrath

Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I wish the Minister well in his new role. It is time for it. I hope he will come to County Tipperary - I know he will - to see the different gaps we have. I welcome the new TFI Local Link. This is a town bus in Clonmel that has been an outstanding success and well used. The Waterford bus is now linking into Kilmanahan and Clonmel. We need it to come to Newcastle and on to Knocklofty,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason phase 2 apprentices in the engineering industry are only paid €202 a week when all other apprentices in other industries are paid at a much higher rate, and have received increases recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32879/25]

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Tá triúr cainteoirí againn agus tá ceithre nóiméad ag gach Teachta. As far as I can see, everything is an emergency. The housing situation has been handled so badly for so long that it is now a crazy situation. The Members from Independent Ireland - so called Saor Éire, the freedom fighters - talked a few weeks ago about 100% mortgages. Who can take...

Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I will speak again on behalf of the hard-pressed homeowners of this country, especially those in rural Ireland and in my constituency of Tipperary, from Tipperary town down to Cahir, Clonmel, Cashel and Carrick-on-Suir as well as the villages and rural houses. These people continue to be squeezed by this unjust and unnecessary local property tax. The Bill proposes to increase charges on the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Credit Register (17 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 274. To ask the Minister for Finance how someone who believes their name is unfairly on the Credit Register can have their name removed as they are unable to access any credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32099/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 397. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in south Tipperary has not been allocated a single SNA despite a number of children with needs in the school; if this decision will be reviewed on appeal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32004/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 762. To ask the Minister for Health if she will give an update on equal access to treatments for adults living with spinal muscular atrophy; when a review of fair criteria for age-based assessment is expected, so that all individuals with SMA are treated equally under the healthcare system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31878/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (12 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons a school (details supplied) in south Tipperary that had previously had a new special class sanctioned has had the class withdrawn without any engagement to overcome the issues; if she will urgently review this decision by the NCSE which has left a number of students without an appropriate class place; how this class could have been...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Projects (12 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the up-to-date position regarding a project (details supplied); the likely timeline for this project to proceed to the next stage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31627/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (12 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 359. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the school transport review; in a case in which a student that attends an all girls primary school and wants to continue her secondary education in an all girls secondary school but there is no all girls school in her closest town will she be granted a bus ticket to travel to her nearest single sex school; and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Fraud (11 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 184. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of social welfare payments that are collected once every seven or eight weeks in south Tipperary; if there is a large number of Ukrainians collecting their payments once every seven to eight weeks; the investigations carried out where a payment is collected infrequently, that is, once every number of weeks; his...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Usage (10 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: This question is being taken with Question No. 102 so I call Deputy Ahern.

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I will deal with the Aontú amendment. The question is that the amendment be made. All those in favour abair "Tá" and all those against say "Níl".

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: It is the Aontú-----

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Yes. It is Aontú's amendment to the Government's amendment.

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Tá an ceist rite. The question is carried.

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: A vote has been called by the Government. It will be taken during the voting block on Wednesday night.

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: The other amendment comes first.

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Please, Deputy.

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Please, Deputy.