Results 8,961-8,980 of 20,873 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (13 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak briefly on the motion this evening. As the Minister is aware, the Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 was enacted following the Omagh bombing in August 1998. It amended earlier offences against the State legislation and contains provisions on the rules of evidence regarding the offence of membership of an unlawful organisation. As the report on the...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: We are all well aware about what has happened with the Sammon Group and Carillion Group in the UK, and the devastation this has caused to schools in places such as Kells, Bray and Wexford. Behind that story, there are families. One such family company is that of Bobby O'Farrell & Sons, established in Thurles in 1989, and dozens of other small companies, often family-owned, which...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Is the Construction Contracts Act effective? Is it enacted? Why are these people being left high and dry?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Will the legislation be revisited?
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Where is the party?
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: That is sad.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: What about the homeless?
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It is the Leo show.
- Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: He is getting excited.
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Policy (13 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 33. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the measures she is taking to address concerns raised by the Health Information and Quality Authority which found significant levels of non-compliance in foster care standards; if such concerns extend to County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25321/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (13 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 43. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated deficit in social workers working in or assigned to County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25320/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (13 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 108. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who have availed of the treatment abroad scheme in each of the past four years; the costs of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25741/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Treatment Abroad Scheme (13 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 109. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons that have availed of the treatment abroad scheme for the purposes of sexual reassignment surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25742/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Animal Reproduction (13 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 110. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has investigated or given policy consideration to the potential for exploitation associated with the provision of surrogacy services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25743/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (13 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 174. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number and locations of specialist domestic violence refuges; the location and number of specialist sexual violence services; her views on whether there is a deficit of services in these areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25744/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Funding (13 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 175. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding provided to centres (details supplied) in each of the past four years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25745/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Funding (13 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 176. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the funding provided to a centre (details supplied) in each of the past four years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25746/18]
- Death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I cannot say I am happy to speak on this motion this evening because it involves the setting up of a statutory inquiry into the death of a young man who should be alive today. I welcome Lucia O'Farrell, her husband, Jim, and Shane's sisters to the House again. I compliment Lucia on her painstaking and forensic work. As the now Acting Cathaoirleach, an Teachta Connolly, said a few minutes...
- Death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: It took six years.
- Death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Is it a sacred cow?