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- Order of Business (23 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: Under the Health (General Practitioners Service) Bill 2014 regarding doctors and the free GP care for children under six, only three GPs in South Tipperary have signed up to this scheme. Does the Taoiseach have a plan B to deal with this situation?
- Order of Business (23 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: In Tipperary primary health care they are good people and want to look after their patients but they are being forced, coerced and bullied and the Minister for Health took to tweeting 20 of them at the weekend to cop on. Is this good language for a Minister?
- Order of Business (23 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: That does not matter. I have another item about the tweeting system.
- Order of Business (23 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality, Deputy Ó Ríordáin, today sent a terribly insulting tweet to people who happen to be pro-life.
- Order of Business (23 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach will have to deal with them because the Order of Business will soon be done by tweet and Government business will be done by tweet. It is outrageous.
- Order of Business (23 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: Will the Taoiseach rein in his Ministers?
- Order of Business (23 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: Is it going to be Government by tweet?
- Order of Business (23 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: Government by twits would be more like it.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs Eligibility (23 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: 256. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason eating distress therapies for persons with eating disorders are not covered under the medical expenses MED 1 tax relief scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24962/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (23 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: 472. To ask the Minister for Health the supports available for adults with eating disorders who are undergoing eating distress therapies; the reasons such therapies are not covered by health insurance policies or under the tax credit relief system for medical expenses; the way a patient with a long-term eating disorder requiring such therapies is expected to pay for such therapies, which cost...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (23 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: 532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way a child (details supplied) in County Tipperary, who has been classified as having a severe to profound learning disability, can be refused access to the July education school-based programme, because the child is not classified as being on the autism disorder spectrum; the reason other severe and profound learning disabilities are not...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Register of Electors (23 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: 605. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 1025 of 9 June 2015, his views on whether he answered the question asked; the course of action he recommends should be taken where persons whose names were not on the register of electors were provided a vote on the day of the election and referendum; if he will confirm that a local...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Tourism Project Funding (23 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: 656. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will he support a grant application for funding toward a Rock of Cashel Promotions outdoor concert event (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25117/15]
- Order of Business (18 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: Midnight.
- Order of Business (18 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: Tomorrow, they are turning the sod for a building that is already built in Carrick-on-Suir.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: The Government got a wake-up call.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: Put on the wellies.
- Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: Put on the wellies.
- Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: 6. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that are being taken to improve travel and transport facilities for persons with a disability; his assessment of the Government's commitments to the travel needs of persons with a disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23242/15]
- Other Questions: Services for People with Disabilities (17 Jun 2015)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister confirmed to me last October that despite commitments of 100% wheelchair accessibility for the Bus Éireann public service obligation, or PSO, coach fleet by 2015, the proportion will reach a mere 60% by the end of 2015 from a current level of 56%. At that rate of going, it will take up to ten years to meet the commitment.