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- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I ask the Minister to review the scheme.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am not saying that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Our supervisor is doing a great job, but he is ringing social welfare offices and everybody else but cannot get them. There is a huge logjam. The spirit of what is supposed to be done by JobPath is fine, but it involves private companies. It is regressive. The forerunner of one of the companies had difficulties in England. My colleague, Deputy Danny Healy-Rae, wanted to ask this...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am not saying that.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I am not saying that. The Minister is being mischievous now.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 29. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if his attention has been drawn to the detrimental effect the Turas Nua scheme is having on participants, community employment schemes, Tús and other job placement schemes which have been the bedrock of communities over the years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26226/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I too wish the Minister well in his efforts and travails to become party leader. I hope he took the advice of the Taoiseach this morning. They were very wise words. As I understand it, once a person signs on with Turas Nua, he or she is prohibited from doing anything else for at least one year. This forces people to engage with Turas Nua or face a cut in their social welfare payments....
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister was not always listening.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister has had his moments.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Of course.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: JobPath Implementation (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I hope the Minister's engagement with schemes like mine and those of other Deputies will continue. He has said he will look at those aged over 55 years by the summer. I hope the new goodwill will still be shown, in whatever capacity the Minister is acting. There is a deeply frustrating inflexibility built into the system and we can only guess at whether it is by accident or design. If it...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: School Meals Programme (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Good man.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I too wish the Taoiseach well. While we had many robust engagements, I thank him for his courtesy and co-operation. I know that he is an iar-mhúinteoir and fluent in both Latin and Irish, but I was intrigued by the comment on the young Turks who will follow him. I wonder to which of the said young Ministers he was really applying that terminology which, thank God, he did not repeat in...
- Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: This is about IDA Ireland.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: In what year?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Would it not give the Taoiseach a job? There is no better man.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Where is Finian?
- Leaders' Questions (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Now lads, put that in your pipe and smoke it.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: School Meals Programme (31 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 67. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the funding provided to schools in County Tipperary for the school meals scheme; if he will expand the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24779/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (30 May 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 428. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to conduct a review of all those adversely affected by the Gardasil vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25462/17]