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Written Answers — Department of Health: National Advisory Committee on Bioethics (28 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 107. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Advisory Committee on Bioethics will be instructed to perform an analysis of the challenges relating to conscientious objection within the healthcare service; the reason the council has not published an analysis since March 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14560/19]

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am not making personal comments; I am stating facts.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am talking to amendments Nos. 86 and 93, and have mentioned the Minister's erstwhile colleagues in the confidence and supply agreement. I have said before that it is all supply and no confidence. That was clear last night when only a small number could be mustered for the votes. People have concerns about this because they live beside the airport. I live a long way from it, although...

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: He had 29 votes. He would have got more in a county council meeting.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister is in a hole; he should stop digging.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I too support Deputy Daly's amendments Nos. 86 and 93. For the foregoing reasons, we have to have penalties for misdemeanours or breaches of guidelines. There is a plethora of question marks around this regulation and the competent authority and the independence of same. Competence is not only an issue in this area. In my county, the county council is the planning regulatory authority but...

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (27 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am sticking to it. I am talking about it and I am supporting amendments Nos. 86 and 93. I am questioning the competence of the authorities and the reluctance of the Minister to put meaningful penalties in place for the people who will be covered by this legislation. Is it that the great and powerful can escape all these penalties and the wrath of the Minister, Deputy Ross? When he was...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (27 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am sharing time with Deputy Danny Healy-Rae. I note that President Tusk has just appealed to the European Parliament to be open to a long extension, if the UK wishes to rethink its strategy. This is very welcome. It is a different mode of language from when England first decided it was leaving. We need that kind of conciliatory tone and reflection. We must not box the UK in if progress...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Where is he? Where can we find him?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Do not turn out the lights.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Throughout the country, many communities, schools, boards of management, parents' councils and teaching principals are trying to set up autism spectrum disorder, ASD, units for national schools. I have a situation in Fethard, County Tipperary, in the Holy Trinity national school where two years ago, they got agreement to set up two units and got the go-ahead from the Department of Education...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Is the Taoiseach sure?

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Planning (27 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 179. To ask the Minister for Health if the hospital campus development plan 2018 to 2023 referenced in correspondence (details supplied) will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14303/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (27 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 259. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of referrals made to Tusla across all abuse categories in each of the years 2011 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the procedures followed further to a referral to Tusla; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14301/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (27 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 267. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the introduction of a legal pathway for children under 16 years of age to obtain a gender recognition certificate; the number of applications for the certificate since the introduction of the provision; the number of applications refused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14298/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Ministerial Meetings (27 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 268. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the details of meetings she has had with representatives of an organisation (details supplied) following the collapse of its subsidiary company; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14299/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Telephone Call Charges (27 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 273. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the revenue generated to her Department through the operation of the 1890 lo-call phone line; the amount of such revenue to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14371/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Nitrates Action Programme Review (27 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to amend the regulations regarding slurry spreading to introduce greater flexibility as to when this practice is permitted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14300/19]

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Motion (26 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak briefly on the motion and I commend Deputy Bríd Smith for initiating it. Two weeks ago we had a Private Members' debate on a motion on the national children's hospital and the Minister of State was left in the House, on his own, late at night, to defend the Government. Is that what the Government is using him for? Where is the line Minister this evening? The...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Boundaries (26 Mar 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Has the Minister of State given any consideration to the staff of the county council, such as the outdoor staff and the engineering staff who have to try to manage this but who will not be able to manage it, as well as the loss of revenue to Clonmel due to the roles that will go from Cahir to Tipperary? He has given none.