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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (28 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of applicants that have applied to his Department under the farm film plastic recovery scheme since 1997, under the applicable regulatory framework in Ireland; the process involved in advertising the scheme; the process used to approve the body to legally operate a farm plastics recovery scheme; the reason...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Business Supports (23 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...and everyone worked hard on it, but it disqualifies people who rent a business premises. The owner pays the rates and therefore the businesspeople operating their businesses from there cannot apply to the scheme. It needs to be tweaked badly. Will the Minister please elaborate?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Business Supports (23 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: .... Leaving it to the leftover fund before sharing or devising some scheme is not good enough. The scheme is more than a year old. I welcome the extension to 29 May and encourage all businesses to apply or to try to in any case. However, we must sort out this anomaly. We cannot leave it to the chance that money will be left over and we might tweak it then. It has to be tweaked. As the...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...they cannot hire staff. Childcare facilities are now routinely turning away families and the waiting lists are getting bigger and bigger. Vacant positions are advertised for months without anyone applying for them. The sustainability of the sector is at risk as childcare professionals, who are highly trained, are not being paid a rate that reflects their education and skills. Childcare...

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...We are going to pass it all in one. We have a Tánaiste ringing over to Brussels. We will not even look for money now. The European resilience fund is there to deal with the migrant situation, we have not even applied for it. We did up to 2021 but since then we have not. The Tánaiste, Taoiseach and others want to go up and say we are the good boys of Europe, we will do...

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...I was told by the Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, we would have to wait until the budget. This is happening now. On the one hand the Government is, mar dhea, giving business supports and then tomorrow is the closing date for applying for them. Yet, the Government is going this. Nobody else is doing it, it is the Government that is doing this. There is this scheme and that scheme but...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (21 Mar 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ..., so he is well aware of the issue. I mentioned the man from Galbally, but in the Tipperary man's case, he had fallen on tough times and was separated. The standard that Tipperary County Council wishes to apply in respect of local need is ridiculous and too high. The Minister of State and his officials need to consider this matter because-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (21 Mar 2024)

Mattie McGrath: .... The specified development classes will not require planning permission for the period that the regulations are in place and will not be subject to the various restrictions that would normally apply to classes of exempted development. In welcoming the publication at that time, the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, stated that his Department had committed to working with the Department of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Mar 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...are huge concerns in my constituency about the lack of ASD school places. Parents contact me daily expressing huge concerns about the lack of a school place for their child in September. Some are applying to up to ten schools to see if they can get a place. Many are not getting one. Some intend to leave their five-year-old children in preschool for the year so that they will be in some...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...waiting because of the lack of autism spectrum disorder, ASD, places. Parents express enormous concern on a daily basis about the lack of school places for the children in September. Those parents are applying to up to ten schools and many of them are now saying they will try to hold back their five-year-old children in preschool in order to get a place in a school the following year....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (20 Mar 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...opening of the park; the amount that has been spent on the development and maintenance of Fermoy IDA business and technology park since it has been opened; the number of businesses that have applied to operate in the business and technology park since its official opening; the reason for rejecting applications by businesses to locate in the park; if businesses have been refused permission...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Septic Tanks (15 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...craws. There is spin by Government in relation to many issues. There are big announcements but you do not even have to go into the fine print to see there are huge swathes of the country where you cannot apply for this funding. They have not been inspected by the council. Will the Minister of State give an answer on how many inspections have taken place in each county in the years...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Septic Tanks (15 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...is far off the mark. The money announced for the grant scheme is welcome but you cannot get it. The lady who rang me was told by the council it was sorry but she was not in the area the grant applies to. There are vast swathes of the country like that. It is lovely to announce the big scheme. It looks and sounds grand and is a good PR spin but if people ring up about a problem with...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...and disinformation. He should get a gold medal for disseminating disinformation, untruths and downright lies. We are not talking about anyone coming in through normal migration and people who applied through the system, which we all welcome. We are talking about people who have broken the law coming through Dublin Airport. That is only Dublin Airport; it does not include the ports....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (30 Jan 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason it has taken more than 22 weeks to approve an application for an incremental increase for an SNA who applied for an increase based on past experience in August 2023 (details supplied); when this person will receive their incremental increase; the reason delays are experienced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3917/24]

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...bringing those things up during discussions over accession when the opportunity is available to speak with Georgian officials or ministers? A number of people who are coming into this country have applied for international protection in many other European countries and have been refused. They are coming here through the North and down here by car, bus and everything else. I think...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (15 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the next review or opportunity for schools will be to apply for DEIS status given that the data used in the 2022 review was based on the 2016 Census and that new data is now available to use from the 2022 Census; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50142/23]

Driving Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: ...xed;omhach, Deputy Verona Murphy, is a businessperson. Many of us here on this side are businesspeople too. We would not survive a week or month in business if we treated people like this. The procedure now is that people must apply for a test and apply to be invited to do a test. It is another layer of bureaucracy that has just been put in there. I salute county council staff from...

Funding for Persons with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: This month, my office received a response from the HSE in respect of a young child in my constituency, the parents of whom applied for an assessment to be carried out for disability services. The application for assessment was made in 2017 when the child was in senior infants. In September 2023, the mother of this child contacted me after her child had finished primary school and she could...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: They apply to junior doctors.