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Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Deputy Cassells is probably embarrassed about some of these measures.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: On the rejuvenation of rural Ireland, I spoke earlier about the many derelict sites in our towns. There are also derelict sites in our villages. Under a new initiative, the county councils can acquire derelict sites and sell them on. Whatever is done to remove these blights from our landscape must be supported. The post office is the hub of every village and community yet there is...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I will not take any lecture from Deputy Cassells. I know plenty about child care.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: The Deputy is making it worse than what it was. It does not seem like six years when you win it. You think you only missed it for a year or two. It is all about nurturing and kindling the passion, the vision and the enthusiasm. Shopkeepers and the self-employed are asked day in and out for spot prizes for all these fund-raisers. They are the people who need to be supported but it is a...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad to have another opportunity to reply to some measures included in the budget and thank everyone for his or her co-operation. Last night someone said the budget was like a light shower of snow over a farm, that there was no great amount in anyone's pocket or any one field. This is the best description I can use because there was a little for everyone, for which we must be thankful,...

Leaders' Questions (12 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: General Scheme of Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2016: Discussion (12 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I understand how difficult it is to break the logjam and to get houses delivered. There is also a need for the public to have a transparent system. In Tipperary it is very difficult to get a preplanning meeting. The system has tightened and tightened and tightened and the role of the public representative has been completely diminished. It is not that they wanted to interfere but they...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (11 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (11 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to get a few moments to speak on the motion. I said earlier that I would be supporting it because it is one facet of our attempts to deal with the chronic issue of smoking and the legacy effects it has on households and on both heavy and passive smokers. It saddens me that, notwithstanding increases over the several budgets while I have been a Member of the House, smoking has...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: He is not gone yet.

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: This is a reasonable budget which contains many welcome measures. However, as we know, the devil is in the detail. I am sure that as we examine the Estimates in the coming days, we will learn a lot more about the real impact of budget 2017 on citizens. As I said, there are many welcome measures contained in the budget, but I am concerned that the Government has not gone far enough to...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Budget Statement 2017 (11 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission Remit (11 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 26. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to extend the powers of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29332/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (11 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 67. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce a vehicle registration tax, VRT, relief on vehicles purchased by community and voluntary groups in budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29247/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (11 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce a home carer's credit in budget 2017 to support parents who stay at home to care for their children, thereby giving greater parental choice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29257/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Programme for Government Initiatives (11 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 247. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the steps he has taken to introduce a working family payment as promised in the programme for Government to ensure that social welfare schemes supporting low-income families do not discriminate against the self-employed and farming families; when he expects such a payment will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29265/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Administration (11 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 254. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a person (details supplied) employed as a supervisor on a community employment scheme will be offered redundancy should their scheme be amalgamated with another scheme; the reason they would not be eligible for redundancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29340/16]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Community Development Initiatives (11 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 328. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when a co-ordinating unit to work with communities to develop co-operative structures to keep vital local services in place and to retain and develop vibrant local enterprises will be established as promised in the programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29250/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (11 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 349. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting home help or a home care package in County Tipperary; the time they are waiting; if further funding will be approved for the home care package scheme to try to meet demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29229/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (11 Oct 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 350. To ask the Minister for Health the funding for respite services in County Tipperary, both adult and children services over the past five years; the number of persons awaiting services in the county; if he will ensure funding for respite services in south Tipperary is increased in budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29230/16]