Results 12,301-12,320 of 20,894 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Public Sector Pay: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2016)
Mattie McGrath: Bhí mé ann an oíche sin.
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)
Mattie McGrath: Supply is getting scarce.
- Order of Business (8 Nov 2016)
Mattie McGrath: Supply is limited.
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Social Workers Recruitment (8 Nov 2016)
Mattie McGrath: 33. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the status of the deficit in social workers assigned to County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33434/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Policy (8 Nov 2016)
Mattie McGrath: 49. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to address concerns around the 40-year age gap provision in respect of foster carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33433/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Resources (8 Nov 2016)
Mattie McGrath: 90. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures that are being taken to address so-called white collar crime; if she is satisfied that An Garda Síochána possesses sufficient expert personnel to combat this type of crime in terms of forensic accountancy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33457/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (8 Nov 2016)
Mattie McGrath: 92. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will address concerns regarding the Courts Bill 2016, in particular, the perception that this Bill will further undermine the right of distressed mortgage holders or land owners to seek protection through the courts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33473/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Constitutional Amendments (8 Nov 2016)
Mattie McGrath: 336. To ask the Minister for Health if an analysis has been carried out by his Department in anticipation of the removal of the eighth amendment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33462/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (8 Nov 2016)
Mattie McGrath: 337. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans to utilise facilities at Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33463/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (8 Nov 2016)
Mattie McGrath: 511. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on whether the State should not adopt or support a preferential view with respect to the care of children in their early years, specifically on whether the State should not preference subsidising access to child care facilities while failing to support parents who choose to care for their children at home; and if she will make...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (8 Nov 2016)
Mattie McGrath: 512. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the detail of any funding received from an organisation (details supplied) for projects under the remit of her Department for the past three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33453/16]
- Questions on Proposed Legislation (3 Nov 2016)
Mattie McGrath: It is a pity the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, is imithe. I want to ask about the motorised transport scheme. It is a wonderful scheme. I have a child in Tipperary, Alex, whose mother badly needs to replace her car, given that there is up to 400,000 km on it. She needs the car to bring him places. He cannot go on the school bus. He needs a specialist nurse. He is severely...
- Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Ticket Touting (3 Nov 2016)
Mattie McGrath: 195. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if she will investigate issues related to ticket touting (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33060/16]
- Calais Migrant Camp: Statements (2 Nov 2016)
Mattie McGrath: I wish to share time with Deputies Aindrias Moynihan and Eugene Murphy. It is easy for us all to be critical and say we must have compassion and see what is going on worldwide but it is more complex when we see all the people we have taken in over the years and they are all still incarcerated in homes because the system was unable to deal with them. I signed the motion and believe we...
- Calais Migrant Camp: Statements (2 Nov 2016)
Mattie McGrath: I did not interrupt the experts-----
- Calais Migrant Camp: Statements (2 Nov 2016)
Mattie McGrath: It is not hypocrisy. I did not interrupt the experts who know everything about everything.
- Calais Migrant Camp: Statements (2 Nov 2016)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. They are being manipulated and being indoctrinated as well by ISIS and we have to consider that as well.
- Calais Migrant Camp: Statements (2 Nov 2016)
Mattie McGrath: Are we going to rub our hands here in ten years' time and find that we have our own problems in this country? Some people like to bury their heads in the sand, say everything is rosy, and we have heaps of money for everything and we can do everything in their ideology.
- Calais Migrant Camp: Statements (2 Nov 2016)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. We have to be careful that we do not sleepwalk into something. They are indoctrinated from as young as five or six. I am all for taking children younger than that certainly and after that we have to be very prudent and careful as to who we take. Let us not open the gates to all kinds of issues. I have considered this carefully. I have visited Rome for...
- Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Nov 2016)
Mattie McGrath: I welcome this Bill which seeks to give effect to European Parliament and European Council directives aimed at combating the sexual abuse and exploitation of children and child pornography. Its wide-ranging provisions include new criminal offences to protect children against grooming. I believe that is important given online use and the use of smart phones as well as the total change in...