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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (24 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Of course I would. I would be holding the Minister to account. I will not listen to waffle.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Natural Gas Imports (24 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I have to be on my best behaviour. I was trying to organise the business for next week.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (24 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current and projected costs for the roll-out of the national broadband plan; the status of the plan; the timeline for completion of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3141/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (24 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am asking the Minister for details on the current and projected costs for the roll-out of the national broadband plan and the status of the plan. When does he think rural business people, householders, schoolgoers and farmers will have some modicum of broadband service in order that they can transact their business? I ask the Minister to make a statement on his commitments in this matter.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (24 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister said he did not want to be repetitive, but there is nothing to repeat in what he has said. There is nothing in it. The motion we discussed earlier this week made it clear that the estimated total cost of the delivery of the national broadband plan is escalating. The lack of clarity regarding those costs is a real concern. The Minister's response is a source of further...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (24 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: This is a riddle. I am worried that this project will turn out like the children's hospital project. The Minister has said that the non-disclosure of tender prices is a normal part of the tender process. This process is not normal. It is abnormal because we have just one bidder. There is no political or commercial sensitivity here. The only problem I have here is that taxpayers are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (24 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 143. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to address the overspend on the national children’s hospital; if there will be a cost limit imposed in terms of the eventual contribution to the project from the Exchequer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3579/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (24 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 144. To ask the Minister for Health if the professional indemnity insurance providers of the quantity surveyors and design engineers associated with the national children’s hospital will be contributing toward recouping some of the escalating costs of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3582/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (24 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 193. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to hold members of the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board accountable for the significant cost increases associated with the national children’s hospital; the number of occasions he has met with the board since April 2017; if the escalating costs were discussed; his views on same; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Capital Programme (24 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 194. To ask the Minister for Health if the delivery and operation of the modular unit at South Tipperary General Hospital is being affected due to the escalating costs of the national children’s hospital project at St James's Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3581/19]

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am sharing time with Deputies Michael Collins and Michael Healy-Rae. I am happy to speak on this important Bill. It provides for powers to carry out investigations of landlords and to impose administrative sanctions. It also provides for offences in respect of non-compliance with restrictions on rent increases in rent pressure zones. It also seeks to increase the notice periods to be...

Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak to the Bill which I have consistently opposed as I have made clear to the various groups that support the right of Israel to defend itself against the blatant bias in organisations such as the United Nations which the Bill seeks to promote. I am aware that the Government’s position is that the matter is best dealt with at EU policy level, with all EU member states...

Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I will say the non-activity. I do not know what is going on, but we have no active government sitting and engaging. I am not blaming one side over the other; I am just indicating how fragile it is, as we know from the negotiations last week with the Tánaiste, the briefing on Brexit and what the Taoiseach said last night. It was dearly fought for and hard earned. Our former colleague,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am disappointed that Taoiseach has left as he has agreed to set up a task force for Tipperary town where 5,000 people took to the streets. They intend to do so again in February. It is meant to be an interdepartmental task force. It needs to embrace and collaborate fully with the various groups in the town. Will the Tánaiste ensure the Ministers for Transport, Tourism and Sport and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: No helipad.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Not a single extra place.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: No maternity services.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations (23 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the development of a new Garda station for Clonmel, County Tipperary; the cost expended on this project to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3151/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (23 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 163. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a copy of the final project brief for the new national children’s hospital and the definitive business case for the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3347/19]