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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Eligibility (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 245. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will amend the medical criteria as laid out in regulation 3 statutory instrument No. 353 of the Disabled Drivers and Disabled Passengers (Tax Concessions) Regulations 1994 to include those with neurological or degenerative disorders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46846/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Treaties (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 463. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will address a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46515/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 547. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of judges appointed to the Court of Appeal; his views on whether this is sufficient; the status of the case backlog in the Court of Appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46845/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 669. To ask the Minister for Health if all fire safety regulations have been adhered to with respect to the national children's hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45897/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 668. To ask the Minister for Health the status of legislation governing assisted human reproduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45896/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TAMS Administration (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 958. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to extend the TAMS scheme to include the funding of underpasses in cases in which persons have land banks on both sides of local, national and regional roads in view of the excessive costs of same, the safety of both motorists and farmers and the return of finances under the TAMS scheme to the Exchequer; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Reviews (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 1169. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the review of the Gender Recognition Act 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45895/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Reviews (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 1198. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department is conducting a review of the Gender Recognition Act 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45893/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Reviews (7 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 1199. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a legal pathway is being put in place for children under 16 years of age to obtain a gender-recognition certificate. [45894/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of social housing units that have been moved to build and completed in County Tipperary in each of the years 2012 to 2016. [45538/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I want to ask the Minister of State if he can tell us the number of social housing units that were planned, designed, commenced and completed in the years 2012 to 2016. It is a bit of a mystery. I would appreciate if the Minister of State could give me some information.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The genie is out of the bottle, I think, if there is no shortage of money. Did I hear the Minister of State right? How many houses did he say were built from 2011 to 2016?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Only 11, in the years 2011 to 2016. This gives the total-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State has been telling us about Rebuilding Ireland and many other projects. The former Minister, Deputy Kelly was too when he was in place. We are sick of announcements. This is the problem. How could we have a homelessness crisis improved if we are not building houses? The local authority built houses from the 1930s to the 1990s and right into the millennium. Nothing at...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am not carried away at all.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Data (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am mystified. There is only one way to sort this out, which is for the Minister of State, myself and any other Members of the Oireachtas who so wish should sit down with the county manager. We are being told one thing. The Minister of State is saying the county council is being flooded with money and is not building. He cannot blame the council for everything. The council is under...

National Planning Framework: Statements (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Agus rince.

National Planning Framework: Statements (Resumed) (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak on the national planning framework. For many years I have called for a significant re-evaluation of the status currently assigned to the town and environs of Clonmel under the then national spatial strategy. We were ignored. I want to salute the members of Tipperary County Council planning department who engineered a significant review of the 2002-2020 national spatial...

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The problem is that there is no legislation.

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is promised legislation; it is the programme for Government. It concerns the national children's hospital, its development and the sorry saga whereby the cost is now €1.25 billion. I am glad that the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs is here. The national children's hospital was deliberately designed to be-----