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Death of former Members: Expressions of Sympathy (12 Dec 2018)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independents and on my own behalf, I would like to express our sympathies on the deaths of two former parliamentarians of some renown. We offer our sympathies to their families and indeed to the Fine Gael Party, to Monica's daughter and her husband, Bob, and others. The former Senator and Deputy was described by her daughter, Sarah, as an open and optimistic person...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Palliative Care Services Provision (12 Dec 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 166. To ask the Minister for Health the status of palliative care services three year development framework 2017 to 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52267/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (12 Dec 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 167. To ask the Minister for Health the reason St. Brigid’s Hospital, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary is not included in the five year plan for refurbishment and upgrading; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52268/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Development Plan Expenditure (12 Dec 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 272. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the areas the €1.2 billion of culture, heritage and Irish language funding has been invested in to date (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52407/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (11 Dec 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 184. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the emergency working scheme application received from a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; if the application will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51665/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Legislation (11 Dec 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 234. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider reviewing and amending the Garda vetting process to change to a situation in which those who are Garda vetted will receive a Garda vetting certificate which can be produced for each organisation rather than requiring an applicant to seek Garda vetting a number of times in which they are involved with a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Negligence Claims (11 Dec 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 284. To ask the Minister for Health the assistance that can be offered to a person (details supplied) who is seeking compensation for medical negligence as a result of being fitted with a faulty hip implant in 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51545/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rural Transport Programme Funding (11 Dec 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 439. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if rural transport programme funding will be ring-fenced after 31 December 2018 to ensure that a full service (details supplied) can continue into the future; if additional routes will be added in rural County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51691/18]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Dec 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The Government is evicting people from houses.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Dec 2018)

Mattie McGrath: They are not in Tipperary anyway.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Dec 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Dec 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I attended a very pleasant function this morning at which the Ceann Comhairle honoured Brother Kevin Crowley, the Capuchin friar, for the work he does with the homeless. What is the Tánaiste or the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government doing for the families who have found that their mortgages were sold off by Permanent TSB to vulture funds in recent times? Two members of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (6 Dec 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has considered introducing a sliding distance scale in cases in which a person is under the distance for the non-adjacent SUSI grant and the family (details supplied) is in receipt of family income supplement by which the payment rate could be increased in accordance with the distance from the college; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures (6 Dec 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 218. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is satisfied with the level of independence of the independent assessors appointed to review post office closures (details supplied); his further views on whether it is appropriate that An Post communicates the outcome of appeals to independent assessors rather than the independent assessors responding to the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures (6 Dec 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 222. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether the decision by An Post to close up to 159 post offices is in line with policy; if he approved the decision by An Post to close large numbers of post offices; his further views on whether the decision respects the Dáil Éireann motion introduced by the Rural Independent Group on the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Closures (6 Dec 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 223. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures he has taken to fulfil his commitment on post offices and community banking as outlined in the programme for partnership Government (details supplied); the measures that have been taken to establish the feasibility of offering motor tax and other State services in post offices; if he has established a...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I will. Will there be scope for those greedy people to get their hands on this and make financial gains on such a sensitive and delicate matter? Why is the Minister objecting so much to the amendment? Why was it spun in the media by people who are against it that we were being savages? We were only speaking about surgical and late-term abortions. I will not repeat the other issues that...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I do not know how the Minister could be so offended by the terms of this amendment. It is sensitive in the extreme. We all know people who have had miscarriages, cot deaths and whatever. We know the sensitivity around them. We also see children born with life-limiting conditions who might live minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or even 12 years like one of the girls in Cavan. Let us face...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I move amendment No. 59:In page 16, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: “Dignified Disposal of Foetal Remains25.(1) The bodily remains of a foetus who has been the subject of a termination of pregnancy carried out by surgical means shall be disposed of only by way of:(a) burial in a burial ground for the purposes of section 44 of the Local Government (Sanitary Services)...