Results 11,581-11,600 of 20,725 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (28 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 814. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she is satisfied that the present CEO of Tusla is the most suitable candidate (details supplied) to lead the reform of the agency; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that as the head of child protection in Dundee, Scotland, this person was severely criticised by the UK Government inspectors which after examining 18 key...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: There is nothing moving. The Minister will be moving pretty hastily in a couple of months' time looking for votes from the council members. I have the figures. For years houses were built in their hundreds, or 150, in Tipperary. I have the statistics here. Nothing has been built in the past couple of years.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Please do. I cannot see them. I have asked the Minister to call in the county manager to explain what is going on. The National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, offered the Department houses. The council gave me the range of reasons it had to reject properties offered by NAMA, through the Government housing agency and its mediator. When I put the question to NAMA it insisted that it was...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Why?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: They have not been delivered. The council says it does not have the money. The Minister is advancing money all the time. How many new schemes has the Department approved since June of last year? The figures show that only three were built in the first three quarters of the year and none in the final quarter. There are several blockages and too much of a delay. People only want a...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is houses we want. A person cannot live in a statistic.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The county council is saying it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister should call in the county manager.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: When? When?
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister should call in the managers.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is completely blocked.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: What is the problem? The Minister has to get them to spend it.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the fact that local authority housing output from the first quarter to the third quarter of 2016 for County Tipperary amounted to three new builds; the measures his Department will take to increase this number in partnership with the local authority in County Tipperary; if his Department will allow...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: According to figures supplied to me, in County Tipperary, from the first to the third quarter of 2016, the county council only constructed three new builds. This is an utter shame and a shambles. The Government has failed in this regard. Between the Departments, the Minister of State, including his role in the previous Government, and the local authorities, there has been utter failure....
- Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I was there when the programme for Government was negotiated. The Minister of State with responsibility for disabilities is in the Chamber. When will the mobility allowance and the transport grant be reintroduced? We have commitments in the programme and statements in the House to the effect that it is imminent. Families are suffering all around the country. The Minister of State, Deputy...
- Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: No helipad.
- Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is going up by €300 million.
- Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Outrageous.
- Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: You are so used to telling it.
- Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2017)
Mattie McGrath: You did not actually.