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School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Some might say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing year after year and expecting a better result. This is a shambles. First, the Minister, Deputy Foley is not here. I cannot understand. I used to be in the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party at one time. You would bring these issues up inside in the parliamentary party, you would get respect and would get them changed....

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Incompetence in the extreme is going on in Bus Éireann. In my short time, I will pick one area which is the over-70s, and ageist discrimination. I have been raising it in this House for four years with different taoisigh and tánaistí; Tweedledum and Tweedledee. They told me they were sorting it out. I was sitting here last week and I called up to Deputy Chambers, who was...

School Transport 2023-2024: Statements (3 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Dolly mixture.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Climate Action Plan (3 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [42249/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Home support services are dire at present. Elderly and vulnerable people who are sick are being told they have been approved for home support hours but it is not possible to get staff to fill these positions. When is the HSE going to wake up, smell the coffee and decide it must have better conditions and supports for these very valuable workers as part of an effort to retain these workers...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I too want to raise the issue of workers in section 39, section 56 and section 10 organisations. The last thing they want to do is engage in industrial action. They are at the coalface of looking after our most vulnerable, in organisations such as the Irish Wheelchair Association, RehabCare and children's disabilities services, which are being shamefully neglected by the Government. We...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Funding (3 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 246. To ask the Minister for Finance the funding provided by the State to an organisation (details supplied), per year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42404/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (3 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on plans to roll out of the ICT grant to schools (primary and secondary) for the current school year under the digital strategy for schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42515/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (3 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 368. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a change can be made to planning regulations for houses that were developed as holiday homes, that they can be bought now for full-time residential homes where the septic tank meets or can be adapted to meet regulations, given the ongoing housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42514/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (3 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 528. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of psychologists available to children in south Tipperary within the CDNT/ primary care services; the number of vacancies; if, where a child is unable to access a psychologist within the CDNT services, they can be transferred to primary care; the number of psychologists recruited to each service over...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (3 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 529. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline the full extent of the staff available to CDNT teams 4 and 5 in south Tipperary; the contact details for both teams; the names and roles of all staff and therapists attached to the teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42322/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (3 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 592. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applicants for home support who have been approved but placed on a waiting list in each county in community healthcare organisation or CHO 5; the numbers in each CHO area; the average waiting times for those approved and waiting for services; the steps being taken to urgently provide home supports to those waiting; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (3 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 593. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to extend the fair deal scheme to include the cost of home care and home supports being provided privately due to the lack of home supports being provided to those who require full-time care and attention in the home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42269/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (3 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 601. To ask the Minister for Health for a progress report on the spending of the €110,000 which was allocated in budget 2023 for the development of a diabetes register (details supplied); if he will request the HSE to immediately begin recruiting for this new post; if he can confirm if unused funding from budget 2023 will carry over to 2024, while providing a timeline as to when the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (3 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 602. To ask the Minister for Health for a progress report on the spending of the funding which was allocated in budget 2023 for the development of a national paediatric diabetes audit in conjunction with NOCA, following the publication of a detailed feasibility study (details supplied); if he will request the HSE to immediately begin recruiting for these new posts; if he can confirm if unused...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (3 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 633. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be scheduled for their urgent neuro-surgical operation at Beaumont Hospital. [42430/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: A new study released last week found that sewage discharge released into rivers is far worse-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Sewage discharge is far worse than what is coming off the land from agriculture. The University of Oxford revealed that sewage discharge into rivers has a greater impact on water quality and the animals and plant life in the rivers than effluent from farmers, despite the bashing of farmers all the time. The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, is not honest on this and it must be...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Be honest.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: What about the EPA?