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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Charities Regulation (5 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 112. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality why Part 4 of the Charities Act 2009, which gives the Charities Regulatory Authority statutory powers of investigation with respect to charitable organisations, has not commenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19737/16]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (5 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 117. To ask the Minister for Finance why a person who has made an e-workers allowance claim for working from home has been requested to submit utility bills and so on in order to process the claim; the relevant legislation that specifically states that utility bills and so on must be provided to process the claim; how some claims have been processed without providing this information; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Waiting Times (5 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 288. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the current waiting time for processing carer's allowance appeals in the social protection appeals office; the assistance available to persons who are providing full time care without any social protection payment during this time; the efforts he will make to reduce the waiting times in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Data (5 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 321. To ask the Minister for Social Protection to provide the waiting times experienced by those applying for domiciliary care allowance in 2015 and in 2016 to date; the number of applicants for the allowance over the past three years by county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19814/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Capital Programme (5 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 441. To ask the Minister for Health the proposals he is considering to include modular accommodation patient hotel for South Tipperary General Hospital as part of a revised capital plan for the hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19095/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (5 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 442. To ask the Minister for Health to address concerns that have arisen regarding the Gardasil vaccine (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19096/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hedge Cutting Season (5 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 589. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has issued information to local authorities regarding hedge cutting regulations and exemptions for road safety reasons to ensure consistency in the application of procedures across all local authorities as promised in the programme for Government; if not, when he will issue such information; the information that will be...

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

Mattie McGrath: 600. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware of the challenges facing the farming community with respect to accessing finance, particularly the variations in interest rates; the assistance his Department is providing to reduce these challenges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19550/16]

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

Mattie McGrath: 601. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the cost to the agriculture sector of the existing tariffs on fertilisers; if any attempts are being made to reduce these tariffs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19551/16]

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...