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Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils Commission) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage. (27 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Like the Minister, Deputy Ross, I campaigned vigorously in the formation of the programme for Government for the introduction of some form of judicial appointments commission or reform of the Judiciary. I have to declare an interest because I have been before the courts and did not find the experience very good. I have vigorously defended the proposals for reform of how members of the...

Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Order of Business (27 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Tuesday's business shall be No. 8, motion re framework agreement between EU and the Republic of the Philippines, referral to committee; No. 9, motion re Educational Research Centre; and No. 2, Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017 - Order for Second Stage and Second Stage. Private Members' business shall be Second Stage of No. 31, Local Government (Establishment of Town Councils...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Broadband Plan Implementation (27 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of his Department's work on the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27548/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Property (27 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a site following amalgamation to form a school (details supplied); the body which has responsibility for this building; the body which the community should contact to establish new uses for this building; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29622/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Funding (27 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 255. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of all financial contributions Ireland has made to the instrument for pre-accession assistance fund; if he will address concerns that Turkey has received almost €1 billion from the EU to support rule of law, civil society, fundamental rights, democracy and governance despite reports of over 50,000 arrests, 100,000...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disabilities Assessments (27 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 369. To ask the Minister for Health when an assessment of needs will be provided for a person (details supplied) in south County Tipperary; the actions he will take against the HSE for failing to meet its requirements under the Disability Act 2005 to provide an assessment of needs within three months of referral; if children waiting for an assessment of needs for more than three months can be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Election Management System (27 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 608. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will address concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding voter irregularities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29675/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Tánaiste visited Clonmel Garda station in her role as Minister for Justice and Equality over ten weeks ago and made a commitment, which we welcome, that there will be an announcement in a number of weeks. We greatly appreciated that. Could she ask the current Minister for Justice and Equality to clarify the situation? I welcome to new Minister and wish him well. The gardaí...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Show me the money.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is almost certain that the so-called modular patient unit designed and created by my colleague, which was supposed to be delivered last October at the latest, will not be in place this year, not to mind next year. How can any hospital be expected to cope under such conditions? We have years of acknowledgement of the capacity issues in the hospital but there has been almost zero impact in...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: That protocol is for an emergency, not a 19-month period. This is not acceptable. Cashel hospital is lying idle up the road and we have brought the Minister to see it. Yesterday, the Taoiseach quoted John F. Kennedy but I have another quote from him from 1962: "The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: There are no staff.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The myth has been peddled by the Government and the previous Government that the trolley crisis is getting better but we all know it is not. Deputy Barry mentioned The Who. I quoted lyrics from the band last week: "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss". Now meet the new Tánaiste and the new Minister for Health; they are the same as the old Tánaiste and the old Minister for...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (22 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: South Tipperary General Hospital is about to enter its 19th month of being forced to operate under the HSE's full capacity protocol. According to Paud O'Regan, a consultant who has been working at the hospital for a long time, the 79-bed medical department has been working at 150% capacity for a dangerously long period. Given that the new Taoiseach was Minister for Health, visited the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Dairy Sector (22 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 40. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the ongoing price volatility in the dairy sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27970/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fisheries Protection (22 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 41. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address concerns that the fisheries industry is in a state of crisis; the measures he is taking to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27971/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Coillte Teoranta (22 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 179. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address a matter (details supplied) regarding agricultural policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29272/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 212. To ask the Minister for Social Protection her plans to introduce an allowance for refuse collection for persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29310/17]