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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Electronic Tagging (5 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 602. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the detail of the proposed necessity for farmers to provide electronic tagging of cattle in order to access certain agricultural schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19552/16]

Questions on Proposed Legislation (30 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the Minister and his officials and thank them for this detailed briefing. I am concerned about the overspend and meeting targets. Local authorities - the ones I deal with anyway - have not delivered on the housing numbers we expected for several years. Since the Celtic tiger, there has been a reliance on the private sector for housing provision. The local authorities have not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I too am disappointed that the committee is losing scrutiny of the environment. Certainly something is going wrong with the situation on landfill if we can export our waste more cheaply than we can put it in landfill, although I am aware that we lack capacity in landfill. Also, on water metering, different opinions were given in the past, but how long do we estimate the batteries in the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister will probably say it is not in the Estimates but on wastewater there is a huge anomaly where residents had a quasi-public sewer at the backs of their houses. The majority of them were built and installed by local authorities. In the memorandum of understanding on the hand-over from local authorities to Uisce Éireann, that seems to have been deleted or neglected or was not...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 34 - Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Having been a member of a local authority - I still work with local authority members - I am aware that there is no expertise or advice available other than that of the local authority management. If one does not accept the legal advice of the local authority, one has to get one's own. How can there be proper discourse or debate if there is not independent legal and or professional advice...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Graduate Support Schemes (30 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 120. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to address concerns related to the local authority graduate programme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19003/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Funding (30 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 219. To ask the Minister for Health the registered charities the Health Service Executive supports and the funding it has allocated to them in each of the years 2015 and 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19001/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (30 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 220. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he proposes to put in place to offset the challenges which Irish health care patients who had planned to travel to the United Kingdom under the European Union cross-border directive will now face, given the recent European Union referendum there; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19002/16]

Leaders' Questions (29 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Public Services Card (29 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 132. To ask the Minister for Social Protection why it is necessary to provide an up-to-date Irish passport with an application under the public services card scheme; why an out-of-date passport, where available, is not acceptable as proof of citizenship, particularly where a welfare recipient has no further need for a passport; if he will meet the cost of acquiring a new passport solely for...

Equal Status (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to be able to speak on this Bill. I compliment the Minister and wish him all the best in his new portfolio. I look forward to him engaging not only in this but also in many other areas with local communities. I salute the boards of management, the parents' councils and the entire school community in my constituency. That is all I can speak for. Throughout the years I...

Order of Business (28 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Today’s business shall be motions on the terms of reference of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, the Chair and membership of the Committee of Public Accounts, the Chair of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, and draft Standing Orders, including the terms of reference of the Irish language committee. Government...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (28 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the catchment area a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary falls into to attend an autism spectrum disorder unit in a secondary school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18004/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Payments (28 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 289. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the same or similar reductions would apply in a given situation (details supplied); the changes in social protection payment rates that would apply across the range of payments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18392/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (28 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 369. To ask the Minister for Health the average number of hours applied for and the average number he has granted in County Tipperary under the home help scheme, by week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17967/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Orthodontic Services Waiting Lists (28 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 379. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons currently awaiting orthodontic treatment with the Health Service Executive in south and north Tipperary; the waiting times for such persons to receive this treatment; the funding allocated for orthodontic treatment and the number of patients per orthodontist in south and north Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (28 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 420. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults being funded by the Health Service Executive in 2015 to receive specialist care in facilities outside the State; if he will provide details in respect of each of those adults on the type of care being provided (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18246/16]

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the recall of the Dáil to discuss this very serious situation. The result has brought to the fore the deeply divided nature of British society. I fully accept the outcome and Britain's right to decide, as well as the fact that it will not be forced to have another vote. The majority of those who voted to leave were from working class backgrounds and regions that were...

Animal Protection (in relation to hares) Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Jun 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Regulated coursing is and has been managed under the auspices of the Irish Coursing Club, ICC, which was established in 1916. It is the central authority for more than 80 local coursing clubs. These clubs hold coursing meetings annually, typically over a two-day period. Coursing is supervised by the National Parks and Wildlife Service, under the Department of Arts, Heritage and the...