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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (18 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way decisions are being made to establish the nearest school for a student under the terms of the post primary school transport scheme when schools are the same distance apart or where there is less than 1 km in distance of a difference; if it is true that google maps is the programme used to establish the distance; the timeframe spent...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Civil Registration Legislation (18 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 191. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the authority under which the Registrar General acted to set aside the powers vested by legislation in the Supreme Court of the Land to appoint a Commissioner for Oaths to take any Affidavit, Affirmation, Statutory or other Declaration, Acknowledgment, Examination and Attestation, for the purposes of any Court in this Jurisdiction or for the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Qualified Child Increase Payments (18 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 242. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 445 of 11 June 2013, what is the position where the child is normally resident with each parent for an equal amount of time, that is, where a child spends Sunday to Saturday, week on/week off with each parent; the way the child can be considered to be normally resident with one parent over the other in this...

Leaders' Questions: Order of Business (13 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: My question is about the Central Bank (consolidation) (No. 2) Bill 2011. I have in my hand a coroner's report following an inquest into a businessman's untimely death. The National Asset Management Agency, NAMA, is pursuing families and driving them to despair and even death in some cases. It is State terrorism. These are not my words but the words of the county coroner in Tipperary.

Leaders' Questions: Order of Business (13 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: The Central Bank (consolidation) (No. 2) Bill 2011. There must be some support for families, business people and ordinary working people who are being driven to pure misery.

Leaders' Questions: Order of Business (13 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: When will it be introduced?

Order of Business (12 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: We had a discussion earlier on Leaders' Questions on the protection of life during pregnancy Bill. What is the timescale for its passage, which the Taoiseach said would involve the Bill going back to the committee, through the House? With regard to the Social Welfare and Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill, the Minister made an announcement last week that had a devastating effect in...

Order of Business (12 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I will ask them as well but this is a pressing issue. The Minister had a presentation while we were here but hopefully the anomalies will be straightened out.

Order of Business (12 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: When will it be published?

Order of Business (12 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: It will be guillotined again. That is the normal way.

Order of Business (12 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I am not being flippant.

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (12 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Technical Group and Independent Deputies, I offer a fior fáilte den clann Morley. I express our sympathy on the passing last October of former Deputy P. J. Morley. I welcome his wife, Mary; daughter, Cathy; sons, Patrick, Enda and Brian; grandchildren and friends. I also welcome two former colleagues, Mr. John Carty and Mr. Seán Calleary. I also see one of his...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: What the Bill asks us to do, as legislators, is to set aside entirely the medical knowledge we have and to legislate instead in defiance of science, and explicitly to contradict the best medical practice in the absence of legal justification for legislation. I hope the Taoiseach read the transcripts. I know he had not time to attend the hearings as he has been all over Europe and elsewhere,...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I put it to the Taoiseach that, for all his warm assurances, we can have absolutely no confidence that the State will act in the best interests of the unborn child-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: -----especially when the State has a litany of historical failures already existing regarding the lives of unborn children.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: From start to finish, this so-called debate has been a sham and a charade. Finally, we saw the Minister for Health last night on "Prime Time"-----

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I am finished. We saw him last night. My question is this. Will the Taoiseach listen to the people? Will he give a free vote? Will he not go to the country, ask the people for their opinion and allow the ultimate democracy?

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: It is a form of words.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Guidelines.

Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Why not give them the chance again? Third time lucky.