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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-----

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I wonder, a Cheann Comhairle. How come?

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am the only Deputy who mentioned the relevant legislation and the Ceann Comhairle decided to stop me. The rest of them were not stopped. They talked about Syria, wildcat strikes and everything else. The programme for Government contains a commitment under the Health (Amendment) Act to provide safe places of access for people who are sick. The accident and emergency unit in Clonmel is...

Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: At one time we had a Morris Minor and a Mini, but now it is a mini-tender and a mini-minor.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Cyberbullying Issues (5 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 105. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the details of the measures her Department is taking to combat online grooming, cyber blackmailing, cyberbullying and other forms of online abuse directed at children or carried out by children on other children; the details of data on the prevalence of reported cases of these activities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16942/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (5 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 278. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a matter (details supplied) regarding general practitioners; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16973/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (5 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 279. To ask the Minister for Health when GP access to diagnostics will be extended to a provider in south Tipperary (details supplied); the reason the evaluation of this service was only carried out for two weeks, which was insufficient to realise the real benefits of this service; when the evaluation of this service will be concluded; when the service will be provided to persons in County...

Order of Business (4 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Stop it.