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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (8 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I appreciate it is not the Minister of State's reply - he is reading it out - but it is not about quotas, deadlines and systems like that. It is about ordinary children with needs. It is not fair on the schools that expected to open these schools to now have to wait to see if the decision will be reversed. By the Minister of State's account, I do not think it will be. We are approaching...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (8 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the opportunity to raise this very serious issue. A number of ASD units were approved for three secondary schools in south Tipperary. Three principals and their staff, boards of management and parents of children with special needs were waiting for places and expected them to come on stream. In fact, the SENOs asked them to generate space and accommodation...

Parental Choice in Education: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: In accordance with Standing Order 85(2), the division is deferred until the weekly division time next week.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (8 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 39 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Michael Cahill - To discuss the disparity faced by school secretaries in terms of leave entitlements and pension rights. Deputies Rose Conway-Walsh, Pádraig Mac Lochlainn, Pearse Doherty, Donna McGettigan - To discuss the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (8 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Before we start, I would like to express on my own behalf and that of the House good wishes to our new Pope elected this evening while we were doing the session. I wish him well. Our hearts and prayers are with him. I thank everyone who supported the cardinals for their diligent work. It was a speedy process. Go n-éirí go geal leis an bPápa nua.

Parental Choice in Education: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Tá nóiméad go leith ag an Teachta.

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, compliment Sinn Féin on bringing forward this very timely and important motion. Mol an óige agus tiocfaidh sí. It is a bad state of affairs if we do not look after our young people and nurture them properly. Ar an gcéad dul síos, I salute na máithreacha go léir, the mothers who care for children in their homes, as well as the extended family -...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Policies (1 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 33. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he is taking to minimise the damage of potential US tariffs. [16672/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts (1 May 2025)

Mattie McGrath: 293. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the procurement processes are in place to ensure that Government contracts are not entered into with regard to properties that are not compliant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22004/25]

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I wish the Minister of State well in his new position. I welcome some of the proposed changes in the NPF review. Ultimately, the document must restore power to councils to form their own plans and address the overriding powers of Uisce Éireann, the Office of the Planning Regulator and Transport Infrastructure Ireland in dictating the development of rural constituencies. When I was a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: The driving test situation is appalling. There are 81,000 people on a waiting list. Many of them are in my county of Tipperary. There is only one tester in the town of Clonmel, which is a large town with a huge hinterland. This is causing enormous strain for families who now have to accompany drivers with L plates. Those drivers cannot get apprenticeships. I know many young people who...

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister of State for engaging with all of us in Tipperary. I thank him also for meeting a parent recently, Tina Barrett. Her son recently got a place in St. Michael's and I thank the Minister of State for his involvement there, albeit in Tipperary town. There are two excellent special schools in Tipperary, Scoil Aonghusa and Scoil Chormaic, but they are at capacity. They had...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, have tabled a Topical Issue matter about Dundrum House Hotel in County Tipperary. I am appalled that the Minister who is responsible for this, Deputy Foley, left this Chamber 20 minutes ago. She fled, but she cannot hide from the people. It is disgusting to treat elected representatives like this. If she was not here, I would say something, but she was here all evening in this...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I am extremely disappointed with the reply the Minister of State read out. I want the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the Minister for Justice and the Minister, Deputy Foley, to halt, pause and withdraw this contract because of the company that is involved. The Minister of State gave me gobbledegook there. It is not legal to pay €20 million to a company that has not filed taxes and...

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, want to speak on this motion. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing it forward. Again, it is a saga concerning the HSE. As the Minister stated, she is constrained in what she can say and must wait for the report. We have so many reports and so many investigations, but they are all inside investigations. It is wrong for anybody, but a child especially, to have an invasive procedure...

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Anois ar ais go dtí an Ríaltas, glaoim ar an Teachta Brian Brennan.

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Thanks for sharing your real story. It is so sad. From the Independents, an Teachta Carol Nolan and Deputy Gillian Toole are sharing time.

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, am pleased to be able to speak on this matter. I wish both Ministers well in their roles. I sincerely thank Deputy Brennan for putting away his notes and talking from the heart, and my colleagues here for doing so as well. We have to have heart. Have we no heart to see what has been happening since the HSE was set up? In my honest opinion, it was set up by Mary Harney - maybe...

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat.

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Please, Deputy.