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Road Traffic Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (27 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Topical Issue Debate: Motor Insurance Regulation (27 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Will he be able to get insurance?

Topical Issue Debate: Motor Insurance Regulation (27 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: The Ministers may laugh, but they know this because they are hearing it in their constituency clinics every week. There has been ample anecdotal evidence from every town and village in the past five years about premium increases. They have defied any logic and any reasonable expectations, and operate outside market conditions. The political reaction by the Government to the issue has...

Topical Issue Debate: Motor Insurance Regulation (27 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I cannot use here the language I want to use to describe what is going on. There is victimisation of young people, older people and also road hauliers. A number of road hauliers are now insuring abroad and registering abroad. There is a huge flow of jobs from Ireland where we have a recovering economy. This cartel of insurance companies is trying to racketeer and make even more profits on...

Topical Issue Debate: Motor Insurance Regulation (27 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I always had my mojo; I never lost it.

Topical Issue Debate: Motor Insurance Regulation (27 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Someone over there would want to get their mojo.

Topical Issue Debate: Motor Insurance Regulation (27 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State referred to working groups and consultation groups, but this has been going on for more than 18 months. I know that during the interregnum when the Government was being formed, it went off and took everyone for a fast ride around the country and the insurance companies. I read the figures and I will read them again. Last year Allianz, Europe's biggest insurer,...

Topical Issue Debate: Local Authority Funding (27 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Cad é an Ghaeilge ar "mojo"?

Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (27 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: It is still his heyday.

Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (27 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: It comes through Tipperary too.

Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes Funding (27 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Tiobraid Árainn abú.

Topical Issue Debate: Motor Insurance Regulation (27 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for accepting this Topical Issue, a vitally important one that affects every village, hamlet and home not only in Tipperary but in Ireland today. I question why it has taken the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission so long to initiate action on what has been an outstanding, urgent and clear case of market manipulation within the car and vehicle insurance...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Remuneration (27 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 100. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of Garda overtime in counties Tipperary, Offaly, Laois, Kilkenny, Waterford, Cork, Limerick, Clare and Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26714/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (27 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 117. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of instances in which section 78 of the International Protection Act that gives additional powers to the Garda Síochána to enforce deportation orders where persons subject to deportation orders have failed to comply with their legal obligation to remove themselves from the State has been enforced; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (27 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 147. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the anomaly under section 86 of the Capital Acquisitions Tax Consolidation Act 2003 which seems to unintentionally penalise parents of disabled children whereby the exemption only applies when the donee is living in the property supporting an elderly or inform disponer and it does not take into account the situation...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (27 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 167. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are proposals or plans by a bank (details supplied) to engage in the sale of its loan book to so called vulture funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26713/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (27 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person (details supplied) does not have a special needs assistant as required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26655/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (27 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 661. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the SOS autism hub development in Cashel, County Tipperary; if the funding promised by the HSE for this development has been allocated to SOS; when this development will be finalised; the autism-specific services available to those with an autism diagnosis in south Tipperary in the interim; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme (27 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 808. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the current review of the disadvantaged areas payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26894/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders Data (16 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 12. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportations carried out for each of the past three years; the reasons for same; her plans to amend existing legislation in this area given the heightened terrorist threat within the European Union; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24371/16]