Results 121-140 of 20,681 for speaker:Mattie McGrath

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 642. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will instruct Bus Éireann through the post-primary school transport scheme to ensure that a new bus pick-up stop will be installed in Clogheen village for collection to schools in Mitchelstown, County Cork, as the recommendations of the school transport scheme are due to come into place from September 2025 (details supplied); and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 774. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the current use of a building (details supplied) in County Tipperary, given the immediate shortage of special school places in south Tipperary if the school could be used for the establishment of a new special school in south Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12955/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Industry (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 1267. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in cases in which farmers are in a partnership if farm payments can be paid to all partners equally as opposed to one partner; the steps available to a farmer in a partnership where one partner received the payment but is not paying it out to the other partners in the partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Special Educational Needs (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 1454. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the current use of a building (details supplied) in County Tipperary, given the immediate shortage of special school places in south Tipperary if the school could be used for the establishment of a new special school in south Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12954/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Records (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 1478. To ask the Minister for Health the number of babies born with Down syndrome in Ireland, based on records of births in each of the years 2017 to 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10612/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Men's Sheds (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 1954. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will consider providing additional funding to an association (details supplied) following the loss of the IMSA sustainability grant for the period of May 2024 to April 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11433/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Men's Sheds (19 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 1955. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will consider providing additional funding to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11504/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Urban Development (6 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted an Aire Stáit is here. Clonmel, a once bustling, proud and thriving town - Cluain Meala, the vale of honey - has been left to deteriorate in recent years. Last year, it had the highest vacancy rate in Tipperary at 18.6%. This has deteriorated further in recent weeks and months. The entire area of Market Place is boarded up and there are numerous prime retail units on...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Urban Development (6 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Chuala mé an Cathaoirleach Gníomhach, an Teachta James O'Connor, cúpla lá ó shin. I heard the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach talking about Youghal town centre. All the towns are struggling, but Clonmel has been under siege. The then CEO, Joe McGrath from Nenagh, took over when the county was amalgamated. All the directorships of roads, planning and finance went to...

International Women's Day: Statements (Resumed) (6 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this topic. I think of my late mother, Mary, who reared nine of us, six boys and three girls. She was a powerful woman who instilled all of the values that I carry with me today. Indeed, I think of people like Carrie Acheson, iar-Teachta Dála, who was here for a short time in the 1980s. She was a powerful woman and a visionary. I think...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (6 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 73. To ask the Minister for Health to review the current situation within the National Ambulance Service where emergency response vehicles have been removed from off-duty paramedics as such vehicles are perceived to be a benefit-in-kind and the impact this decision will have on response times to an emergency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9144/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (6 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I ask the Minister for Health to review the current situation within the National Ambulance Service where emergency response vehicles have been removed from the off-duty paramedics. Such vehicles are now perceived to be a benefit-in-kind, which is a strange situation that will have a huge impact on response times. As they are bad enough at the moment, I ask the Minister to make a statement...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (6 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: The National Ambulance Service is badly broken and the Government must intervene here to try to ameliorate this situation. It has been doing a wonderful job. The paramedics are not, as the Minister said, driving an ambulance or patient-carrying vehicle - we know that - but they are normally the first people to arrive to an accident or incident. In many cases now, when they are driving...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (6 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I would accept this if it was about some other group of employees but these are dedicated, vital, fast responders. I salute the first responder groups - there is one in my own community - that do excellent work here. They do the work of the HSE and in some cases, they are supported by these particular paramedics who have these cars. They train with them and support them every which way....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (6 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 17. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the immediate steps he plans to take to address the crisis within the tourism and hospitality industry (details supplied); the immediate steps he will take to relieve pressure in the interim; the steps he will take to address the ongoing Government policy to use hotels and tourist accommodation for IPAS applicants bringing...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (6 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 156. To ask the Minister for Health the efforts being made to replace the ophthalmologist in Clonmel following the retirement of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9145/25]

Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (5 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, will quote Pádraig Pearse. As he said, a nation without its language is not a nation at all. Dhein mé mo dhícheall i gcónaí chun cúpla focal a úsáid. Ní raibh aon Bhéarla ag mo sheanmháthair. Bhí breac-Ghaeltacht sa Chaisleán Nua, mo bhaile, until 1957. Thosaíomar ranganna Gaeilge agus bunaíodh Gaelscoil...

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I will be as brief as I can. This is a huge issue. I welcome the statements but the numbers are being manicured and we are just not getting them. We want to keep Templemore because it is a wonderful centre. In south Tipperary, Carrick-on-Suir has three gardaí and two sergeants, but it used to have 14 gardaí. The Clonmel Garda district covers Carrick-on-Suir, Mullinahone,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (5 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 21. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the contract agreed between the State and a company (details supplied) in relation to the operation and maintenance of the Fermoy and Rathcormac bypass, and the associated toll plazas at Condonstown, Watergrasshill and Ballyoran Fermoy, is due to expire; if there is a buy out or release clause for the State in that contract before...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (5 Mar 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 148. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps being taken to reduce the waiting times for autism assessments in South Tipperary which are currently taking over two years; if those waiting for over six months can obtain an assessment privately and be reimbursed by the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9883/25]