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Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Order of Business (11 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of order, we agreed the Order of Business at the Business Committee this morning. I am getting tired of going to the Business Committee every week and having agreed the business at the Thursday meeting, seeing it changed the following week. We agreed the business at 11.15 a.m. today.

Leaders' Questions (11 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (11 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 142. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to fact that the waiting list for a primary medical certificate appeal is six to seven months; the efforts being taken to address this waiting list; if there is an option to seek review from the area medical office in cases where further medical evidence is available but was not considered by the area medical officer; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (11 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers employed in the voluntary secondary sector who are in receipt of a salary from his Department; the number of these that are subject to salary deductions to facilitate membership of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland and the Teachers Union of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17473/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (11 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers in the voluntary secondary sector who are in receipt of the payment for participation in the supervision and substitution scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17474/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Redeployment (11 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 171. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will apply the same criteria for the awarding of contracts of indefinite duration and access to the redeployment scheme to all teachers in the voluntary secondary sector irrespective as to whether they are members of the Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17475/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (11 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 503. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary will receive a hospital appointment; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin has returned referrals to South Tipperary General Hospital due to the fact that the waiting lists are too long; the steps he will take to address the rheumatology waiting lists in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance Prices (11 Apr 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 535. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts being made to alleviate the spiralling costs of health insurance; the supports available to those under 35 years of age who are of the view that they were pressurised by the Government to take out health insurance or be penalised due to the impact of the lifetime community rating; if he will review this policy; and if he will make a statement on...

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]