Results 101-120 of 20,681 for speaker:Mattie McGrath

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 185. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason the State is providing contracts and funding to service providers for human rights-based needs without close consultation with disabled persons’ representative organisations, as per Articles 4(3) and 29 (b(ii)) of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 186. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline, given that Ireland ranks last in terms of European disability employment, how the Government looks to address these concerns; if the Government will consult all disabled persons’ representative organisations (DPROs) in this respect; to outline the Government’s response to the failure...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (26 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 187. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when creating and consulting on new employment strategies for disabled people, the reason the Government is prioritising consulting from service providers (details supplied) over certain specialised disabled persons’ representative organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14311/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (25 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will direct the Teaching Council to introduce a primary teaching degree programme in autism, for the purpose or teaching in autism classes (details supplied); if, given the shortage of primary teachers with a special education qualification in Ireland, she will direct the Teaching Council to admit to the register teachers who have...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (25 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 529. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount paid out by the State through community welfare officers to facilitate car repairs or maintenance to foreign-registered vehicles owned by beneficiaries of temporary protection and international protection applicants; how long this scheme has been in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14146/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (25 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 530. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a scheme is in place through the community welfare office to pay for the maintenance and repairs of privately owned-vehicle belonging to beneficiaries of temporary protection or international protection applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14147/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (25 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 615. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide information relating to grants available to farmers for the construction of livestock underpasses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13667/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport (25 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 738. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no funding for hospital transport for patients based in south Tipperary (details supplied); if she will urgently review this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13621/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (20 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the immediate steps he will take to improve the vetting of IPAS applicants; the steps he will take to ensure that any asylum seekers found guilty of a crime will be deported; the steps he is taking to urgently restrict the number of economic migrants being housed by the state in IPAS accommodation; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (20 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 185. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the immediate measures he will take to increase prison capacity in the country; the efforts he will make to urgently review bail laws, to reduce the number of crimes being committed by persons out on bail; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11483/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Inquiries (20 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 363. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will establish a public inquiry on the Omagh bombing, as previously committed to. [8929/25]

Report of the Housing Commission: Statements (Resumed) (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I wish the Minister and Minister of State well. It is a mammoth task. We have to get real. The idea of the left here is that we cannot have private contractors or developers. If we do not have private developers involved, we will not build the houses, full stop. I would love to be back in the 1940s and 1950s when the county council had manpower and built the houses, but those days are...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I am moving on. The Deputy is eating into her colleagues' time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Please, Deputy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I am now. I missed it at the start but I will do my best.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I have only taken the Chair-----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I appreciate that. That is why I am trying my best. I just took the Chair.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I am doing my best to be fair.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Brostaigh, le do thoil.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of clarification, I want to inform Deputy McDonald that I am neither lad nor lacky. She gets her instructions from the army council in Belfast.