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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: One Day More (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: An expert stated here that the eighth amendment was damaging the mental health of every person in this State - man, woman and child.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Termination in Cases of Foetal Abnormality: One Day More (Resumed) (22 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I asked about the little boy, who must be a big boy now.

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: A statutory instrument signed into law by the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, about a month ago affects tractors which can do 40 km/h or more. The Minister has since announced that he is withdrawing it but I understand that a statutory procedure has to come before the House for the House to decide to undo or remove the statutory instrument. There is only 30 days for...

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: There is less than a week.

Leaders’ Questions (22 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: There was not.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (22 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 128. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding provided to an organisation (details supplied) for the past six years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49586/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Data (22 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 168. To ask the Minister for Health the number of perinatal psychologists employed by the HSE; the number of consultant obstetrician-gynaecologist positions that are vacant; the locations of such vacancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49584/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (22 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided by his Department to an organisation (details supplied) for the past six years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49585/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (22 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 228. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if 495 social workers have left the Child and Family Agency, Tusla since 2014; the counties in which these social workers were formally assigned; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49583/17]

Rural Crime: Motion (21 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I compliment Deputy O'Callaghan and his Fianna Fáil colleagues for putting down the motion on this issue. It is a huge issue and we are playing catch-up all the time after all the cuts over the recent years. Morale in An Garda Síochána - I am speaking for Tipperary - is on the floor because it does not have the necessary resources. It is the same for every officer who...

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Will the Tánaiste tell the House how many times she met Sergeant McCabe and if he spoke to her about the serious efforts he believed were being undertaken by the then-Commissioner of An Garda Síochána to discredit him?

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: There was only one meeting. Counsel for An Garda Síochána were raising serious matters, false allegations, against Sergeant McCabe at the time in an effort to discredit him, and his motivations for revealing serious misconduct within An Garda Síochána. Everyone was aware of this at the time from media reports and his own statements and also from meeting Sergeant McCabe...

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The many of us who met Sergeant McCabe were aware that counsel for An Garda Síochána were raising serious matters of false allegations against Sergeant McCabe, which are in the public domain, in an effort to discredit his position in An Garda Síochána.

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: This infamous email was sent on the afternoon of 15 May 2015. That was the very day that the O'Higgins commission adjourned for half an hour in order that the barrister for the Garda Commissioner could get instructions as to whether he was to continue this aggressive line of attacking Sergeant McCabe. Was the Tánaiste told about this and did she object to the strategy taken by the...

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am not suggesting that.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Parliamentary Questions Costs (21 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 105. To ask the Taoiseach the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions. [49131/17]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Parliamentary Questions Costs (21 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 120. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49117/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Parliamentary Questions Costs (21 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 159. To ask the Minister for Finance the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49124/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Parliamentary Questions Costs (21 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 178. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the average costs associated with processing and answering written and oral parliamentary questions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49129/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (21 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of works at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48907/17]