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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff Data (26 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 601. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if personnel in his Department have been removed from their position, have been transferred to another role or had their employment terminated in the past four years due to breaches of departmental standards or professional misconduct or incompetence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27954/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Staff Data (26 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 619. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if personnel in her Department have been removed from their position, have been transferred to another role or had their employment terminated in the past four years due to breaches of departmental standards or professional misconduct or incompetence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27947/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I will be short.

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Yes. I have a constituent, Ms Anna Dunne of Churchtown, Carrick-On-Suir, County Waterford, whose son, Nicholas, who is 20 years old, needs a residential place because he is severely autistic. The safety of Ms Dunne and her family is at risk. We have met the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, but got nowhere. While Ms Dunne's son has been assessed by two different institutions and...

Address by Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission (21 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I want to welcome you, Mr. Juncker, and your delegation to our Parliament. We want to work with Mr. Juncker and our European partners to advance the hard-won peace, economic stability and future of our State. We recognise that the challenges are many and diverse, each requiring sustained and complex negotiations. We hope that EU will display a more...

Seanad: Address by Mr. Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission (21 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I want to welcome you, Mr. Juncker, and your delegation to our Parliament. We want to work with Mr. Juncker and our European partners to advance the hard-won peace, economic stability and future of our State. We recognise that the challenges are many and diverse, each requiring sustained and complex negotiations. We hope that EU will display a more...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (21 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Deputy for his generosity. I also thank the Chairman for the invitation to attend this meeting. I am delighted to address our friends from the Allied Irish Banks, Mr. Kinsella, Mr. Byrne and Mr. O’Keeffe. I have a question for Mr. Kinsella and I want to discuss the noise comment too. In terms of the banking sector, I agree that there is a lot of noise but the bank...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Matters Relating to the Banking Sector: Allied Irish Banks (21 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I appreciate that. I ask Mr. O'Keeffe to shake hands with the couple, greet them and arrange to engage with them because they have been dangled on a string. The situation is not all their fault because the bank has also made errors. I call for sensitivity and engagement. Every time a meeting has taken place they have met someone different, which is hurtful. These people live in their...

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...