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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Regional Road Network (11 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 758. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will sanction funding to resurface the N24 regional road through Tipperary town, County Tipperary; when funding will be made available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18207/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Data (11 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 760. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a breakdown of road fatalities by category or cause for the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18263/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Voluntary Housing Sector (6 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Deputy should be afraid to utter the word "pipeline", with all that is going on at the committee because there might be ruptures in that pipeline. I am delighted that Tipperary is that far ahead. I want more progress. There is an adage that were Tipperary leads Ireland follows. It is nice to hear we are ahead, but we are not far enough ahead and we need to do more. The happiest job I...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Voluntary Housing Sector (6 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: We will not send it back. Do not worry.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Voluntary Housing Sector (6 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of voluntary housing organisations that have been provided with assistance from his Department in County Tipperary each year since 2012; the number of voluntary housing units that have been built in County Tipperary each year since 2012; the number of proposals from voluntary associations currently with...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Voluntary Housing Sector (6 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for allowing me back in. I was with the Minister, Deputy Leo Varadkar upstairs. I have an interest to declare in that I am the chairperson of Caislean Nua Voluntary Housing Association in Newcastle. I believe that the whole voluntary sector has been under-utilised by successive Governments. It was not back in the good times of the 2000s. It has a big...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Voluntary Housing Sector (6 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister of State.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Voluntary Housing Sector (6 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thought I had two.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Voluntary Housing Sector (6 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: That is fine. I will stick to it. I thank the Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney, for coming to Clonmel this week and making that announcement of funding to extra housing units there. I am disappointed that the county council did not notify all the Deputies of the Dáil. We will be there to meet the Minister and give him a hand and turn the sod, as will the local representatives. The...

Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The health (transport support) Bill is on the spring-summer legislative programme. The mobility scheme has been abandoned for eight or nine years and the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Finian McGrath, promised us last November that a new scheme was imminent. That was five months ago. When will the Bill be introduced, given a great deal of enabling work is needed?...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (6 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 12. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will address concerns that wind turbine farms are failing to adhere to minimum setback distances from dwelling houses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13882/17]

Brexit: Statements (Resumed) (5 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is from one McGrath to another, but I will never be as good at the bluster as my ministerial colleague. I am glad to be able to speak to the report carried out by the EU committee. With a Chairman like the one it has, we would expect to receive a good report. Among the ideas discussed in it is a requirement that Ireland seek to maintain strong connections through its permanent...

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to speak here tonight and to support this very important motion. I compliment Deputy Catherine Martin and the Green Party for introducing the motion. Tá fíor-fháilte roimh na daoine sa Gallery - daoine óga agus na parents. I am delighted to welcome them. I met them earlier in the AV room and elsewhere. It is wonderful to see little babies and to hear...

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Cúpla soicind, please. We must as a society and as a Government take time to examine all of these matters. We must continue to improve our maternity services, our provision of perinatal hospice care throughout the country, our supports for families who have children born with extra care needs and our supports for families who care for their children at home.

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Maith an fear.

Maternity Leave and Benefit: Motion [Private Members] (5 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: You are a survivor.

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach might get one himself when he retires.

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach is one of them himself.

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, promised us that some emergency accommodation would be put in place in South Tipperary General Hospital regarding the accident and emergency crisis there. He told us there was a mini-tender and that the Health (Amendment) Act-----