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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]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prisoner Releases (16 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 13. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons who are eligible for early release from prison in 2016; if she is satisfied that existing prison capacity is sufficient; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24372/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Terrorism (16 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 51. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the measures in place to monitor, detect and prevent the public dissemination of extreme Islamist ideologies (details supplied); her proposals to change the existing law around deportation of persons engaged in such practices; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24831/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences (16 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 59. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 228 to provide a complete breakdown of the way and to whom the receipts generated from the road safety camera contract are distributed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24854/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts (16 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 60. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware that member companies of a consortium (details supplied) have allegedly been involved in serious financial fraud; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24855/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts (16 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 61. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide a full list of the members of a consortium (details supplied) which is currently contracted to operate the Garda Safety Camera Contract; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24856/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 225. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will amend the excise and licensing regime for cider, including removing the upper excise band for cider sales and distribution; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24691/16]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme (16 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 574. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government If he will revise the recently introduced local authority tenant purchase scheme to allow persons in receipt of social protection payments who have the ability to purchase their local authority house, to be included in the scheme; if he will introduce a mechanism that would calculate a person's or families ability...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance (16 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 691. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 349 of 12 July 2016, the reason certain compensation awards are exempted when others are not; the criteria used when deciding which compensation awards would be exempt; his plans to amend legislation to include other awards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24641/16]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Applications (16 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 692. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason he declined an application by a person (details supplied) under the disability allowance scheme; the reason moneys that were awarded to provide for the future care for the person following damages were assessed against the person when certain award damages are exempt; if such moneys should be considered as weekly means considering that...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (16 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 826. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the detail of representations he has made on behalf of practitioners (details supplied) to the Government of the People's Republic of China; if he is aware of claims that the Chinese Government is orchestrating live organ harvesting on members; the Government's position in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24327/16]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (16 Sep 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 826. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade