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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (7 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a decision has been made on the criteria for allocation of DEIS status; if the new assessment framework has been developed; the proposals for the new identification process for applying DEIS status; the specific centrally held data that will be used during the assessment; the timeframe for the roll-out of the new DEIS programme; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Circulars (7 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason Circular 0058/2003 stipulates that the home school community liaison co-ordinator can only be in their positions for five years; the reason they cannot reapply for the position immediately rather than having to wait four years; if this stipulation adds further costs to his Department as a result of having to retrain suitable...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals Status (7 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 139. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a social protection appeal that was submitted to the appeals office in June 2016; if he will ensure that a decision is made on this appeal without delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38926/16]

Electoral (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Apologies for being out of breath. I support the Bill and compliment An Teachta Ó Cuív. This is only about fair play. We hear much about equal rights, human rights and everything else, so why should island populations be discriminated against? They are entitled to have their say just like everyone else. We encourage them to do so. It is important that they have it at the same...

Medical Practitioners (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (6 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I defer to Dr. Harty and his experience. I have some limited experience of dealing with GPs and of watching very harrowing cases where we have seen the HSE and its legal advisers drag families through the courts for years, sometimes decades, and have then admitted liability on the steps of a court. Huge awards have been paid and trauma and stress have been inflicted on families in situations...

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: There is a commitment in the programme for Government to improve services in the health service, including South Tipperary General Hospital. The latest reply I have from the HSE is totally unclear. It tells me it had a closing date for tender submissions of 16 November and that these were being evaluated by a multidisciplinary evaluation team. It said it was anticipated that the process...

Order of Business (6 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Will he put plain English on it, please?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (6 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the amalgamation of national schools in Cahir, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38487/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (6 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of all applications for DEIS status for schools in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38488/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: National Spatial Strategy (6 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 199. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the status of the national spatial strategy with specific reference to Clonmel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38581/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Services Expenditure (6 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 200. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the amounts paid by his Department in grants and supports for those operating private or group water schemes for each of the years 2011 to date in 2016, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38582/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Services Programme (6 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 239. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to set down the number of first-time applications submitted seeking funding from the community services programme in County Tipperary in the past 12 months; if there are plans to increase the number of community services programme funded projects; if so, when; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38693/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (6 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 386. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the provision of medical cards for persons in receipt of the domiciliary care allowance; when they will receive their medical cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38827/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (6 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 318. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 180 of 23 November 2016, the cost in legal fees after the HSE acquired the freehold interest in a portion of the site at St. James's at a cost of €110,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38441/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 364. To ask the Minister for Health the number of times the full capacity protocol in South Tipperary General Hospital was implemented in each of the years 2011 to 2015 and 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38718/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (6 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 385. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 574 of 29 November 2016, his views on whether it is satisfactory that a child in County Tipperary should be told that the waiting time for an ENT appointment is over four years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38821/16]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Radon Control Strategy (6 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 422. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the supports available for residents of counties deemed high priority by the EPA with respect to reducing radon gas emissions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38407/16]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children in Care (6 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 489. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 714 and 715 of 15 November 2016, if the numbers provided for children under one year of age taken into care represent individual new cases for each year provided; the reason Tusla does not employ a metric that collates the number of newborn children taken into care directly or soon after birth; if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Legislation (1 Dec 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 205. To ask the Minister for Health to indicate the consideration his Department has given to a ruling of the High Court in July 2016, which found that "unborn" means an unborn child with rights extending beyond the right to life under Article 40.3.3 of the Constitution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38114/16]

Secure Rents and Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (30 Nov 2016)

Mattie McGrath: We need a dose of reality. All builders and all landlords are not bad people.