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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Commencement of Legislation (12 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 987. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by his Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25170/18]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Commencement of Legislation (12 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 1030. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by his Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25173/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Commencement of Legislation (12 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 1094. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by his Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25186/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Commencement of Legislation (12 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 1150. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by her Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be commenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25172/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Strategies (12 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 1151. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of measures introduced to increase the national birth rate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25200/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Commencement of Legislation (12 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 1194. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by his Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25184/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Birth Certificates (12 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 1201. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is possible for a birth certificate to record two persons of the same sex or gender as the parents of a child produced using donor assisted human reproduction techniques in circumstances in which the gamete donation is from a third party; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25187/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Commencement of Legislation (12 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 1251. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by her Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be commenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25177/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (12 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 1320. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by his Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25181/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commencement of Legislation (12 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 1345. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the sections and parts of all legislation brought forward by her Department in each of the past four years that have yet to be commenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25174/18]

Fatal Road Traffic Collision in County Monaghan in 2011: Statements (31 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am privileged to have the honour of contributing on this matter. I thank and welcome Lucia, her husband and her daughters to the House. She has been here many times. I salute the tenacity and endurance shown by her and her family in trying to get justice, not only for her son, Shane, but also for many other victims of heinous crimes. People describe the incident in 2011 as an...

Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Under the programme for Government, I want to raise supports for special needs education. The Minister for Education and Skills came to Clonmel two weeks ago and announced about 600 new special needs assistants, SNAs. On the same day, the teaching and SNA staff in St. Mary's CBS in Irishtown, Clonmel, were told that they were being cut drastically. That school caters for boys from first to...

Leaders' Questions (31 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (31 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the poor broadband service and deteriorating mobile coverage in County Tipperary; and the measures he will take to improve same. [24178/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (31 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The broadband service is non-existent in many areas, as the Minister knows, and the mobile coverage on all networks has become a complete joke. In my county, people could have good conversations ten years ago but now they cannot make or continue any conversation due to the calls dropping out. It is appalling.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (31 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I know the Minister appreciates how fundamentally important this matter is, not only to households but to the economic rejuvenation of rural regions and the very survival of small rural businesses. I note that, at the beginning of the month, the Minister gave an interview to the Irish Independentin which he was asked whether we should have a universal service obligation for broadband. In...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (31 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: There were announcements followed by announcements but we then had the loss of a competing company. I have asked before that the Minister would buy back Eir because there is no one to deliver this on the ground and we have an antiquated system. We cannot do business either on the road or at home.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (31 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I acknowledge and share the Minister's frustration. My own iPhone has no data and I cannot make or hold calls whereas I could do that ten years ago. A con is being perpetrated on the public. We are paying fees and taxpayers' money is going into this. Fees are being waived while the masts are going up but there is no service. It is like liquorice allsorts, where you pick out the nicest...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Broadband Service Provision (31 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Why is it going backwards?

Referendum of 25 May: Statements (Resumed) (31 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: That is not true.