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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Unemployment Levels (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister will be aware that one of the most accurate indicators of deprivation according to population statistics comes from the national census of population, as represented by the Pobal HP deprivation index. Variables used in the compilation of the HP index include those related to demographic growth, dependency ratios, education levels, single parenthood, overcrowding, social class,...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 24. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on his meetings with His Holiness, Pope Francis; and his views on church-state relations. [37361/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Invasive Plant Species (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 261. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans her Department has for the treatment of and eradication of Japanese knotweed throughout the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38929/18]

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad to be able to speak on the motion. I am not being personnel about the Minister but we are sick and tired of Ministers with responsibility for housing. The Minister is the sixth person in the position in the past eight or nine years. We have had announcement after announcement but nothing happens. The Minister was in Clonmel, County Tipperary, last Thursday where he turned the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (25 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance if the 9% VAT rate for tourism services will be retained; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38496/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (25 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual corporate tax take from the operators of stallion stud services for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38718/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (25 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 161. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 67 of 19 September 2018, the reason successful candidates on the 2016 regional panels would not be given priority over new successful candidates who may be put on regional panels following the 2018 clerical officer campaign; the reason these regional panels would not be fully exhausted prior to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (25 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 179. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if one release day per week will be allocated to all teaching principals to help alleviate their workload; if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties for principal teachers in terms of the extra demands and workloads put on them over the past decade; if national clusters of panels will be created that will cover such release time to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (25 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 342. To ask the Minister for Health if the provision of autism assistance dogs for persons that may require them will be supported (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38729/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (25 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 425. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding his Department received directly from the Exchequer to substitute for funding previously obtained from the local government fund receipts relating to motor tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38788/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Data (25 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 478. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of eligible workers for community employment schemes who have been signed up to Turas Nua; the percentage of eligible workers for community employment schemes this represents; the efforts being made to address the crisis of recruiting persons for community employment schemes throughout the country; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Review (25 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 481. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a review has been carried on the pilot scheme which allowed those aged 62 years of age and over to remain on a community employment scheme until their retirement age; if this pilot scheme will now be extended to remove the restrictions on the numbers both nationally and within each scheme; her views on whether this...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Administration (25 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 482. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to amalgamate Tús and community employment programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38454/18]

Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill 2018: Second Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Are they not?

Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill 2018: Second Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Gabh mo leithscéal. From where is the Minister of State getting that information? He is getting it from the insurance companies. Can he not take away the coppers from his eyes to see that he is being robbed from the inside by the banks and the beef barons? They might not be robbing with guns, but there are always some inside the big cartels. Insurance companies are robbing us blind....

Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill 2018: Second Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: That is news to me. They are still being piled on. It is blatantly obvious to me that if the Minister of State had any interest in the job, he would not come up with 58 or 70 recommendations. Two, three or four are required to show respect and offer support, rather than have cosy cartels milking and bleeding people dry and rubbing butter into a fat sow and I will not say where. It is...

Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Bill 2018: Second Stage (20 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Ar dtús ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabnáil leis an Teachta Broughan for allowing Deputy Michael Collins and me to speak before him. I appreciate it. The Minister of State has been in the job a couple of years and he published the cost of insurance report, the consideration of which went on for a very long time. The report eventually came up with 50 or 60 recommendations....

Future of the Post Office Network: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “calls on the Government to” and substitute the following:— act urgently on its commitment as outlined in A Programme for a Partnership Government and on the direction of Dáil Éireann by way of the Rural Independent Group motion which was agreed to by the House on 16th November 2016 and which has to date been...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: With regard to the restoration of town councils, there is a huge disconnect between local government and national government. Only yesterday I received a response from the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, to a parliamentary question about the areas where a county manager or chief executive officer could change reserved functions to executive...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: You would send them all to hell or to Connacht.