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- Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
Mattie McGrath: In the context of the road traffic Bill, sulky racing on country roads is a huge problem.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Horses are being ill-treated and people are being put in danger.
- Order of Business (5 Feb 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I ask Deputy Kehoe to come back and look after his own people in Enniscorthy and tell them to stop ringing me.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Go home and forget the studies.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)
Mattie McGrath: That was always the case.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Who said that? Was it the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Shatter?
- Leaders' Questions (5 Feb 2014)
Mattie McGrath: Did the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Bruton, say that?
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments (5 Feb 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 43. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will undertake a review of the Judicial Appointments Advisory Board so as to further ensure its complete independence from political interference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5254/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (5 Feb 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 45. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce the Scrap and Precious Metals Bill 2013 as a matter of public urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5253/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Procedures (5 Feb 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 141. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide for the inclusion of deaf persons as members of Coroners Courts juries; if such an exclusion to date has made Ireland de facto in breach of the European disability law specifically in terms of social inclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5756/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Coroners Service (5 Feb 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 142. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will undertake a review of the Coroner's Act 1962 specifically those aspects of the Act which allow members of An Garda Síochána to conduct the empanelling process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5757/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Civil Legal Aid Issues (5 Feb 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 143. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will review his decision to implement statutory instrument SI 346 of 2013, Civil Legal Aid Regulations 2013, particularly his decision to increase the minimum financial contribution for legal advice and his increase in the minimum financial contribution for legal aid representation from €50 to €130; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water and Sewerage Schemes Provision (4 Feb 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 106. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the exact status of the Fethard Burncourt water treatment scheme; if he will provide a commitment that work will begin on the project as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4928/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Government Reform (4 Feb 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 107. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason that,even though the report of the working group on active citizenship is imminent, the working group did not carry out any consultation with the community sector, those involved with community work or community groups; the reason his Department also bypassed the structures established by the State itself,...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commercial Rates Issues (4 Feb 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 447. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the proposal contained in the Local Government Bill 2013 to apply a 50% rates burden on all vacant property throughout the State rather than just in urban areas such as those managed by the City Councils of Cork, Dublin and Limerick, as is currently the case, will have a...
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Irish Water Staff (4 Feb 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 469. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of staff from South Tipperary County Council, Clonmel Borough Council, North Tipperary County Council and other town councils in Tipperary that have been seconded or transferred to Irish Water to date in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5379/14]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Northern Ireland Issues (4 Feb 2014)
Mattie McGrath: 533. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when he will issue a reply to the victims of the Omagh bomb and in particular to the issues raised by the report submitted to Government by the Omagh victims' support group in July 2012; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53731/13]
- Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jan 2014)
Mattie McGrath: I am also pleased to have some time to speak on the Industrial Development (Forfás Dissolution) Bill 2013. The legislation was mooted some time ago and the Government promised, as did the last one, that it would cut back on the number of quangos but it has not succeeded greatly in doing so, no more than the last Government. I have nothing against Forfás. We needed those...