Results 7,841-7,860 of 20,872 for speaker:Mattie McGrath

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]

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

Mattie McGrath: 164. To ask the Minister for Health if organisations (details supplied) were the construction cost advisers on the national children’s hospital project; the amount paid to each for services rendered to date; if they are still being retained as cost advisers; if so, when the contract is due to expire; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3348/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (23 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 254. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of new regulations regarding those that have properties (details supplied) in County Tipperary; when registration can take place with the local authority; if regulations are nearing or are completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3192/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral and Referendum Reform: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (23 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the witnesses for their presentation and their work. During the talks for the programme for Government, we in the Rural Independent Group lobbied for this and we are glad that there is movement. The present situation is archaic. I know of old people who have voted in every election, and who value their vote, being knocked off the register and not realising it until they arrive at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral and Referendum Reform: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (23 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I did not address the Deputy and I am not interested in listening to him either. I addressed the Chair and put questions to our guests. If he wants his Trotskyite spiel, he can have it, but I am not going to listen to his diatribe.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral and Referendum Reform: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (23 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The Deputy might as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral and Referendum Reform: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (23 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am not aware of any issues in my constituency but there are obviously concerns in others. The local authority rent collectors had a handle on everything and they also kept an eye on houses. They have been gone for ten or 12 years now. I know the process finishes in November and the register is published on 14 February, unless we see a supplementary register because of an election. My...

National Broadband Plan: Motion [Private Members] (22 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I compliment the Ceann Comhairle, the Clerk of the Dáil, Peter Finnegan, and all who were involved with the wonderful occasion, ocáid speisialta a bhí ann, for the celebration of 100 years of Dáil Éireann. It saddens me tonight to stand here to say that we have no broadband in rural areas, and no sign of it due to the Minister's ineptitude and inexperience and the...