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Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 2131. To ask the Minister for Health the vaccine that has been provided to student nurses; if it is still the position of his Department and the HSE to force student nurses to take a Covid-19 vaccine if they want to continue their studies given the change in guidelines in relation to a vaccine (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19927/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Palliative Care Services (21 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 2182. To ask the Minister for Health the private nursing homes in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary that have agreed to provide palliative care beds to the HSE if required following the closure of a nursing home (details supplied). [20048/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 2402. To ask the Minister for Health if a person who is in the 65 to 69 years of age cohort and is uncomfortable receiving a vaccine (details supplied) can opt out of this cohort and wait until an alternative vaccine comes available at a later date; if a person who chooses not to receive the vaccine will be prohibited from receiving another vaccine at any other stage; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance (21 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 2404. To ask the Minister for Health his views on whether the lifetime community rating for health insurance can be examined on a case by case basis given that in some cases the amount the customer is paying more to the State between the rating and the Government levy than the cost of the premium for the cover; if he will review the manner in which the lifetime community rating is calculated...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beekeeping Industry (21 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 2448. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures his Department is taking to protect the native Irish honey bee that is under significant health threats as a result of the high levels of bees being imported into the country; the efforts he is taking to prevent the native bee from being destroyed and to have it protected as a native and rare species to be preserved;...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (21 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 2482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 358 of 16 December 2020, if he will clarify and address matters in relation to the Court of Auditors Report dated 22 December 2006 referenced (details supplied). [18984/21]

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Key Priorities for the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media: Discussion (20 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the beirt Airí for coming in and giving us their time today. Like the Minister of State, I will be leaving early to attend the Business Committee meeting. I want to ask about GAA clubs, especially rural clubs, which have suffered, as have soccer and many other clubs. They were trying to put on activities and found themselves with 5 km runs, including virtual runs. My GAA...

Project Ireland 2040: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: We are taking this motion much earlier than we thought we would be and I understand that I am over time but this motion is sincere, as are we, and we are very definite. I pity the councils trying to put together these plans with the planning regulator dictating with a 58 page letter to the Ceann Comhairle’s own county council, together with the one he wrote to Wexford County Council,...

Project Ireland 2040: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: We need to get back to reality here and we are pressing this motion and are not accepting the Government amendment. Gabhaim buíochas.

Project Ireland 2040: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: It is not agreed to. Vótáil.

Project Ireland 2040: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos, gabhaim buíochas le cúpla duine, Brian Ó Domhnaill, our research and policy advisor, Mariead and Councillor Máirín McGrath in my office, for putting together the motion. I thank the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath, for staying as long as he could. He had another engagement and apologised before he...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am a Whip and I am getting whipped, obviously. I did check. I was downstairs, which was even worse. I rang and in fairness to the staff in the Chief Whip's office, I was told our group would not be reached in any shape, make or form. There was only 40 minutes. I came up when I saw the Minister speaking but the debate was finished when I arrived. It cannot be monitored. If people are...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of clarification, I do not get pingin amháin as Whip. The Ceann Comhairle knows that himself.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I do not get a shilling for it.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I do not. I never looked for it either. That is the fact of it. Doing my duty yesterday evening as a Whip, I checked with the Government Chief Whip's office who was on the list of speakers and I was told to forget about it because there was-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am not blaming the Ceann Comhairle. The office told me-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: It has the list of names.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: The list of names was available and we were not going to get an ear in. I came up yesterday evening. I did not protest when I came up and the opportunity was gone. I did run up and I did not say a word.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: They do not have the right to hog the debate.