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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (21 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on the cuts in funding to Irish language and culture organisations which have resulted in the restriction of activities and the promotion of the Irish language and culture. [27285/18]

Childcare Support Bill 2017: From the Seanad (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I know Pobal is the overall administrator. That is fine. It is like the grant applications at present. Naíonra Chaisleáin Nua and many others were unsuccessful in their grant applications and ended up phoning or contacting their elected representatives. Pobal is fine but it is not on the ground. Pobal is not managing the day-to-day running of the crèches and does not have...

Childcare Support Bill 2017: From the Seanad (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Can I get clarification?

Childcare Support Bill 2017: From the Seanad (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: This is all very nice when it is couched in language such as the Minister has just spoken. There is great room for anomalies, opacity, disengagement and avoidance. The Minister mentioned several times that an administrator may decide under section 13 of the Bill. As a parent of a large family, who has gone past childcare thankfully at this stage, and from the experience I have dealing with...

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: So here we are again. The Minister and the Government have laid before us the economic vision of blessed Paschal, the prudent. Sainthood should be bestowed on him. I believe he has gone to a table quiz tonight. He was not even interested in hearing our contributions.

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: A table quiz is more important. He sent the Minister of State in, and I mean no disrespect to him. He is a neighbour, colleague and friend-----

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: -----but cá bhfuil St. Paschal?

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Is he at a budget meeting in the Shelbourne Hotel, or at a journalists' quiz? Is that the budget meeting?

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The very first line of this statement states that "economic recovery is now firmly established for the future". Yet this stands in direct contradiction to the paper produced by his Department with respect to the exposures related to Brexit. The findings of the Department of Finance’s economic research paper, Brexit: Analysis of Import Exposures in an EU Context, include how Ireland...

United States Immigration Policy: Motion (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

United States Immigration Policy: Motion (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The forceful separation of children from their families distresses us all. Having one's children removed in what is quite often already a traumatic situation is every parent's nightmare. What I find deeply objectionable is the nauseating political opportunism and virtue signalling that this motion represents. Let us not kid ourselves. If the policy was still being pursued by President...

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I feel sorry for the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, who was shoved in here to take this. Harris was here but he fled when someone wanted to come in to talk because he cannot face the heat in the kitchen. Last year I had confirmation of patients in Tipperary who were routinely waiting for 51 months for an appointment with a consultant urologist at University Hospital...

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Only two have been.

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I wish to ask the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government about the differential rent scheme in County Tipperary, a matter I have already discussed with him. The county council has written to over 1,000 tenants telling them that they are facing huge increases in rent of 50%, 60% and 70% and threatening to charge thlem the maximum rent unless they engage. Does it need a statutory...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Unfortunately I do not think the Taoiseach gets it. We can quote all these numbers and statistics but right in front of his face is the pressure that is on principals and the mental health problems that are there at such a young age are frightening all of us or at least anyone that wants to listen and acknowledge it. I feel the Taoiseach does not appreciate the scale of the crisis facing...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Of course there was.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: We do not have them.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: In a report in today's Irish Independent, the journalist, Katherine Donnelly, provides a detailed and disturbing analysis of a new study by Dr. Rosaleen McElvaney of the school of nursing and human sciences at Dublin City University. The analysis was funded by St. Patrick's mental health services. Dr. McElvaney found that primary schools are engaging with children, some as young as four...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Where is the Taoiseach living? Is he living at home?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Gender Equality (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 99. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of the work of his Department's sub-committee of the management board on gender equality, equality and diversity established in 2016; the details of the events it has organised or participated in to celebrate and support equality and diversity domestically and through his Department's mission network overseas; and if he will...