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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 439. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a child (details supplied) in south Tipperary will have a full cognitive assessment funded privately due to long delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8951/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (27 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 441. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm the payment rates per resident per night to each property owner accommodating international protection applicants; how the rate is calculated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9053/24]

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: No, it is not in the Bill but it is with regard to mismanagement. I appreciate that. It is total mismanagement and two fingers on both hands to every taxpayer out there. The job that was created for him in Trinity went horribly wrong, and rightly so, when the academics objected, and rightly so. Why would a man with no expertise in this area be brought in? Now they found a home for him in...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: These are the facts. The facts are there and the court cases that all those people had to go through. Cian O'Carroll is-----

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: He was the CMO.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: He was the CMO.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: If we think of the smears and people who died.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: You are actually hearing about the Bill.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: You can all you like but the facts are the facts

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: And I welcome them.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Déanfaidh mé mo dhícheall but I am just saying I am not dissociating myself from anything I said. This is what is happening and what is going on in front of our eyes. Yes, the extension to the medical card is very welcome, as are the changes to the 1995 Act's provisions, but we will have questions and no answers and around the house and mind the dresser. All these things are...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The CMO.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The Chief Medical Officer.

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Níl aon Healy-Rae anseo so tógfaidh mé an t-am go léir, or I will do my best to anyway. Tá siad i gContae Chiarraí. I am delighted to speak on this Bill. The rent a room scheme, which the Bill tries to enable or help, is a very imaginative scheme. It has been a success but there are unintended consequences to every scheme and provision we make. The scheme...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I wish to raise the urgent need for reform of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, CAMHS. Serious concerns about CAMHS have been repeatedly raised here by me and many other Deputies over the last number of years. A review of CAMHS was conducted by the Mental Health Commission and the Maskey report on CAMHS in Kerry was published recently but we have seen no action to improve the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The Tánaiste is afraid to answer my question. If they are trying to rename Páirc Uí Chaoimh, they should call it Páirc Micheál Martin because he is so good at kicking the ball around and off the pitch, but will not play the ball on the pitch and deal with the questions he is asked. The Minister, Deputy Catherine Martin, made an assessment that the Irish...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Good job you were not in goal.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Scoring own goals.