Questions asked 14 total

• Justice 7 questions

  • 2021-10-12 Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Justice the number of text alert groups registered with An Garda Síochána by county in each of the years 2018 to 2020, in tabular form. [49099/21]
  • 2021-10-12 Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Justice the number of text alert groups that applied for funding in 2020, by county. [49100/21]
  • 2021-10-12 Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Justice the number of text alert groups that have been paid the text alert rebate for 2020 to date by county; and the reason funding issued for the text alert rebate in 2020 has only been paid recently. [49101/21]
  • 2021-10-12 Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Justice the efforts made by an organisation (details supplied) to notify all eligible groups of the text alert rebate scheme. [49102/21]
  • 2021-10-12 Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Justice the reason for the discrepancy between the number of registered text alert groups and the number applying for the text alert rebate. [49103/21]
  • 2021-10-12 Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Justice the amount of funding provided for the text alert rebate in 2020 by her Department; the amount paid to each group; the amount paid to an organisation (details supplied) to administer the rebate; and the amount recouped from successful rebate applicants by the organisation by way of affiliation fees to the organisation. [49104/21]
  • 2021-10-12 Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Justice if An Garda Síochána evaluated any other models of alerting or seeking the assistance of the public by way of the Garda communications systems or developing a Garda managed application to send out alerts (details supplied). [49105/21]
• Health 3 questions

  • 2021-10-12 Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health if he will support the call by an organisation (details supplied) for an additional eight neurology nurses for University Hospital Limerick. [49125/21]
  • 2021-10-12 Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health the full cost of the renaming of South Tipperary General Hospital to Tipperary University Hospital; the breakdown of all costs associated with the name change; if a list of all other hospital rebranding carried out by the HSE within the past three years and the costs associated with same will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49314/21]
  • 2021-10-13 Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Health the reason the Covid certificate of recovery is only valid for 180 days from 11 days after a positive PCR result when the HSE is treating the period of immunity following Covid-19 as existing for nine months and informing those that have recovered that they do not need to restrict their movements and so on if they are a close contact for a period of nine months after having Covid-19; the reason the certificate of recovery is only valid for six months when the period of immunity is a period of nine months; if he will extend the certificates of recovery in line with the HSE official position on immunity, a period of nine months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49984/21]
• Taoiseach 2 questions

  • 2021-10-12 Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Taoiseach the full complement of secretarial services available to the Office of the Attorney General; and the full breakdown of the costs associated with these services. [49906/21]
  • 2021-10-12 Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Taoiseach if secretarial staff members or support services provided to the Attorney General are being used to provide services to a private entity. [49907/21]
• Social 1 question

  • 2021-10-12 Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Social Protection when the phone service of her Department for queries for Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas will resume which was moved to email only during Covid 19; if phone services will be resumed without delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49923/21]
• Further and Higher Education 1 question

  • 2021-10-13 Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the efforts he is making to provide dedicated student accommodation in the recently established university towns of Clonmel and Thurles, County Tipperary. [50015/21]