Results 16,601-16,620 of 20,768 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: They need action, not telephone lines.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Where is the ship?
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Where is the ship?
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Deputy Coveney is not the captain.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: All except, and in spite of, the Government.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister promised a ship at committee a month ago.
- Leaders' Questions (15 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Yesterday the annual national farm survey was released by Teagasc. It shows that farming continues to be highly reliant on direct support payments. The single farm payment continues to be the most important component of direct payments. It comprises 58% of farm income on average, and over 80% of income on cattle farms. These are astonishing figures. Shockingly, it also shows that 26,104...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Administration (14 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: 176. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being experienced by householders who have not received their local property tax return form and who do not have internet access; if he will extend the deadline for paper returns to the 27 May to ensure that all householders making an effort to pay and who do not have access to the internet are not put...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Emergency Works Scheme Applications (14 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: 285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to an application for emergency works funding in respect of roof repairs for a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; if funding will be granted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22827/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Asthma Programme (14 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: 641. To ask the Minister for Health when the first phase of the national asthma programme will be implemented; the initial actions that will be taken in order to implement the programme and the deadlines for these actions [22518/13]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: National Asthma Programme (14 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: 642. To ask the Minister for Health the reason implementation of the national asthma programme was not prioritised in the 2013 Health Service Executive Services Plan with more than one person a week dying from asthma and 470,000 people here living with this respiratory disease that is particularly prevalent in children, with one in five Irish children suffering from the disease; and if he...
- Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I have a lot more to say and thank the Acting Chairman for his forbearance. County managers are saying this, that and the other with regard to the property tax and local authority tenants. I have always believed that if we have a property tax, everybody who has a home should pay something. I do not know what way the local authorities are going to deal with this. People have purchased...
- Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: We have a police force and an Army to assist it. We do not need the third force militias who have been going around the country dealing with farmers, repossessions and everything else in recent years with a free will. We cannot have this going on.
- Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on the Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013. I welcome the fact that the saner and more sanguine Minister in the Department, the Minister of State, is always rolled out to deal with the tricky issues, rather than the senior Minister, or Big Phil, as I call him. Deputy Fergus O'Dowd is often here to do this and I look forward to working with him on...
- Order of Business (9 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: On the geothermal energy development Bill, can the Tánaiste ask and assist the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Rabbitte, to appoint a mediator in respect of a situation that has developed in south Tipperary relating to STEP insulation and the homes of vulnerable people?
- Order of Business (9 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: They might appoint a mediator to mediate between SEAI and Muintir na Tíre in south Tipperary to keep that organisation afloat.
- Order of Business (9 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Unlike Deputy Daly, I have good time for the Tánaiste.
- Order of Business (9 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: It is a serious issue.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport Provision (9 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: 225. To ask the Minister for Health the assistance available towards the cost of transport to and from hospital appointments and where the patient is not in a position to pay for a taxi; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22023/13]
- Fodder Crisis: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 May 2013)
Mattie McGrath: Not any more.