Results 14,541-14,560 of 20,735 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Meters (19 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 169. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 164 of 12 November 2014 if he will respond to the specific nature of the question put to him which involved the removal of water meters and not meter boxes (details supplied); if he will specify the costs involved in this removal operation; if his attention has been drawn to the...
- Order of Business (18 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Has it been agreed to?
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety Measures (18 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to offer a grant scheme to farmers seeking to create an underpass for the safe passage of cattle and livestock across secondary roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43738/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Firearms Licences (18 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 311. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the efforts her Department has made to amend legislation governing firearm ownership particularly around revoking all existing .22 and 9 mm firearms licences; if there are proposals by her Department or An Garda Síochána to delete Annex F of the Garda Commissioner’s guidelines; and if she will make a statement on the matter....
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Rights Referendum (18 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 331. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will provide a list of items of expenditure for the €3 million in the Vote of his Department relating to the cost of holding the constitutional referendum on children’s rights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36816/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Sector Funding (18 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 496. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding the funding position for the Irish Deaf Society whose bridge funding is about to terminate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43868/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety (13 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 93. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine in view of his campaign for greater farm safety, if he will review the decision of his Department to provide grants for mobile cattle crush machinery in view of the inherent health and safety risks associated with such machinery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43695/14]
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Bed blockers.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: It is the same with the bed blockers.
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Where will Deputy Coonan run?
- Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, knows the facts.
- Other Questions: Beef Industry (12 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Explain it.
- Other Questions: Beef Industry (12 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister does not recognise the elephant in the room. I know he cannot directly interfere but even though I was part of a previous Government, I know that successive Governments failed spectacularly to deal with the cartels in the beef industry and this Government is no different. The Minister talks about the Competition Authority and said that it wrote to him twice. It did because it...
- Other Questions: Beef Industry (12 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Deal with the cartels.
- Other Questions: Beef Industry (12 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: It does exist.
- Other Questions: Beef Industry (12 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Regularly - I happen to be involved in the industry.
- Other Questions: Beef Industry (12 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: That is not what they are telling me. I am very concerned because the Minister said the Competition Authority wrote to him. It raided the IFA offices some years ago when it was seen in a blaze of glory taking on the factories and checking out what was going on there. I am checking the prices the Government is publishing. The Competition Authority has failed spectacularly in other areas....
- Other Questions: Beef Industry (12 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 6. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures his Department is willing to take to safeguard the income of beef farmers in the event that the current negotiations with the meat processing industry break down without agreement on a sustainable and fair price for beef produce; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42988/14]
- Other Questions: Beef Industry (12 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister heard me raising this issue with the Taoiseach when he was present. I am very concerned about how farmers are being treated by the cartels, as Deputy Martin Ferris noted, and by what the Minister just said about dealing with the issues on which we can make some progress. That is to throw in the towel before he even starts. I ask the Minister to outline what he will do to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Fish Farming (12 Nov 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Not yet.