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Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Where?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Irish League of Credit Unions (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: My questions are very similar to those of Deputy Ó Broin and Senator Grace O'Sullivan. The delay is inexplicable and it seems to be the same across the board. As with everything in this little system of ours, it is just a matter of pushing paper backwards and forwards. I have been presented with more options from different groups and different organisations, and credit unions are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Psychological Assessments (5 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary will receive a NEPS educational assessment; the reason for the delay in receiving an assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31645/17]

Waste Disposal: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Nor do we.

Waste Disposal: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: In February 2016, I called on the then Minister with responsibility for the environment, Deputy Alan Kelly, who never showed his face in the Chamber tonight, to immediately suspend the introduction of increases in the cost of recycling household waste after he signalled at the time that he was set to approve a move that would have seen an additional per-kilo cost, which would have been passed...

Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: There are firm commitments in the programme for Government to increase job creation and the protection of workers' rights. I draw the Taoiseach's attention to an urgent and serious employment issue in Clonmel, County Tipperary, that is developing in a company called SNC-Lavalin. It is a multinational based in Montreal which has 50 office staff employed in Clonmel. When SNC-Lavalin took...

Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Not a hope.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is.

Order of Business (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I have on that issue. In fairness to the secretariat of the Business Committee, they rang around the Whips. For our part, we agreed to it and I assume they did the same with the other Whips.

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Do we not have that already?

Leaders' Questions (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach said that he would get rid of the HSE.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Housing Supply Alliance (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I apologise for being late. I welcome all of our guests here today. I am sorry to have missed their presentations but I have read them. I am a chairperson of a small housing body that has never been invited here or anywhere else. Deputy Casey mentioned the creation of housing bodies. I can assure him that many of the new housing bodies may be small but they have done a tremendous...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Initiatives (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 79. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her plans to address the high levels employment deprivation in County Tipperary, specifically in areas of the north of the county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31432/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund Eligibility (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 370. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can recoup expenses incurred for their child's dental treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31018/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 463. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the suitability of congregated settings for those with mental health challenges; the number of service users in such settings; the locations of such settings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31433/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation Targets (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 500. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his Department's objectives for the roll-out of solar farms in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30916/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Generation Targets (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 501. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his Department's targets regarding the provision of energy through solar power to the national grid; the number of applications to join the national grid from potential supplies of solar power in County Tipperary from solar farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30923/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Renewable Energy Projects (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 616. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the guidelines for the installation of solar farms on farmland which bounds residential areas and residential houses; if assessments or reports have been carried out as to possible health and wellbeing issues associated with solar farms close to residential areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Renewable Energy Projects (4 Jul 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 626. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has issued guidelines or directives to local authorities in relation to the rollout of solar farms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30916/17]

Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest: Statements (29 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I too am discussing the savage cuts implemented under FEMPI legislation. I find myself in the unusual position of agreeing with most, if not all, of the elements of the motion on FEMPI that has been put down by Solidarity-People Before Profit. That is unusual as Deputies Bríd Smith and Gino Kenny would agree. I agree with them that the justification for the introduction of the...