Results 121-140 of 20,830 for speaker:Mattie McGrath

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Contracts (7 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline his Departments investigation into the ability of SAR helicopter crew to carry out cardiac resuscitation in flight, given the lack of headroom and space in the new helicopter platform; if he will publish the analysis that was undertaken with respect to this issue when choosing AW189 for SAR service; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Contracts (7 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 78. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update as to whether the other competitor tenderers who were unsuccessful in search and rescue tender award had provided for fixed wing aircraft with capability to transfer stretchered casualties to UK hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22295/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Contracts (7 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 79. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the present King Air fixed wing aircraft, based at Shannon, are to be re-specified in order to conduct UK stretcher transfer; if this is not possible, the negotiations that are ongoing the provider (details supplied) to achieve this service level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22296/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Contracts (7 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 80. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to publish any advice given to his Department by the Attorney General regarding aspects of the National Search and Rescue contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22297/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (7 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 223. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the supports his Department can provide to a body (details supplied) to ensure the return of motorcycle racing in Ireland, having been unable to hold any events in the past number of years due to issues obtaining insurance; if the Department will support this association to allow it to run the seven road races planned in the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Community Welfare Services (7 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 325. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the supports in place for Community Service Supervisor to replace essential equipment required to carry out their role and work within the community service sector; how community service supervisors are funded to replace essential equipment for their role; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22393/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (7 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 335. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 104 of 29 April 2025, to clarify the identity of the wider commercial group involved in the IPAS contract in question (details supplied) in order to ensure full transparency as to the beneficiaries of a contract worth €20 million of taxpayer money; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (7 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 471. To ask the Minister for Health if funding supports are available for families to access private mental health assessments where the public waiting lists are too long; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22268/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Policies (1 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 33. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he is taking to minimise the damage of potential US tariffs. [16672/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts (1 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 293. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procurement processes are in place to ensure that Government contracts are not entered into with regard to properties that are not compliant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22004/25]

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I wish the Minister of State well in his new position. I welcome some of the proposed changes in the NPF review. Ultimately, the document must restore power to councils to form their own plans and address the overriding powers of Uisce Éireann, the Office of the Planning Regulator and Transport Infrastructure Ireland in dictating the development of rural constituencies. When I was a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: The driving test situation is appalling. There are 81,000 people on a waiting list. Many of them are in my county of Tipperary. There is only one tester in the town of Clonmel, which is a large town with a huge hinterland. This is causing enormous strain for families who now have to accompany drivers with L plates. Those drivers cannot get apprenticeships. I know many young people who...

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister of State for engaging with all of us in Tipperary. I thank him also for meeting a parent recently, Tina Barrett. Her son recently got a place in St. Michael's and I thank the Minister of State for his involvement there, albeit in Tipperary town. There are two excellent special schools in Tipperary, Scoil Aonghusa and Scoil Chormaic, but they are at capacity. They had...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, have tabled a Topical Issue matter about Dundrum House Hotel in County Tipperary. I am appalled that the Minister who is responsible for this, Deputy Foley, left this Chamber 20 minutes ago. She fled, but she cannot hide from the people. It is disgusting to treat elected representatives like this. If she was not here, I would say something, but she was here all evening in this...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I am extremely disappointed with the reply the Minister of State read out. I want the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the Minister for Justice and the Minister, Deputy Foley, to halt, pause and withdraw this contract because of the company that is involved. The Minister of State gave me gobbledegook there. It is not legal to pay €20 million to a company that has not filed taxes and...

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, want to speak on this motion. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing it forward. Again, it is a saga concerning the HSE. As the Minister stated, she is constrained in what she can say and must wait for the report. We have so many reports and so many investigations, but they are all inside investigations. It is wrong for anybody, but a child especially, to have an invasive procedure...

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Anois ar ais go dtí an Ríaltas, glaoim ar an Teachta Brian Brennan.

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Thanks for sharing your real story. It is so sad. From the Independents, an Teachta Carol Nolan and Deputy Gillian Toole are sharing time.

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, am pleased to be able to speak on this matter. I wish both Ministers well in their roles. I sincerely thank Deputy Brennan for putting away his notes and talking from the heart, and my colleagues here for doing so as well. We have to have heart. Have we no heart to see what has been happening since the HSE was set up? In my honest opinion, it was set up by Mary Harney - maybe...

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat.