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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: There is a huge crisis at Tipperary University Hospital, TUH, which was previously know as South Tipperary General Hospital and St. Joseph's Hospital. The embargo that is in place is preventing recruitment. According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, safe working and other practices are being eroded. We need these posts. It is not a matter of funding. Those posts exist...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: This is for 70 posts.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is 70 posts.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: My earphones are not working.

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

Mattie McGrath: 53. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will reconsider the qualifying criteria of the ICOB grant to allow tenants qualify as it is tenants who are struggling with the increased cost of business; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23168/24]

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

Mattie McGrath: I thank Deputy Verona Murphy for allowing me to go first as I have a Business Committee meeting. I congratulate the Minister and Minister of State on their new roles. I appeal to the Minister to re-examine the ICOB supports. It is a good scheme. Council officials and everyone worked hard on it, but it disqualifies people who rent a business premises. The owner pays the rates and...

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

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister for his reply and the officials in Tipperary County Council and the Department who are dealing with the scheme. The Minister gave the reasons he cannot. He wants to spend the money and get it into the pockets of businesspeople who are struggling to keep the doors open. However, there is a considerable cohort that have an arrangement to pay rates as part of their rent....

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

Mattie McGrath: I do not know if the Minister does value them. He says that, but the scheme has to be tweaked because there is a big cohort of people in this situation. The Minister said it takes time from an announcement made in the budget. The budget speech is hardly over before his colleagues go around the country saying this or that scheme has been announced before any legislation is in place to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Once again, I return to the issue of disability services and school places in south Tipperary. Last week, I handed a number of letters to the Tánaiste from very concerned families who cannot get school places for their children with autism. This continues, with many children still without a school place. This week, I was in receipt of a letter highlighting the urgent action...

Dentistry Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I support the motion and recognise it is very well presented and timely. It is well overdue. It is an excellent motion and it reflects the real situation affecting so many hundreds of thousands of people. The fact that dental services are not available to them is truly shocking. It is not the first motion of its kind and it will probably not be the last. The motion calls for legislation...

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: -----but as far as its legions are concerned, they are well heeled and well paid members of the Judiciary, associate with them and everything else and they know all the avenues, stopping people providing their own homes.

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is time that we debunked all of these well-heeled organisations and provided people who want to, and can, build their own houses the wherewithal to do so and not have all of this inside in a big heap and mess and we have nothing only brus.

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Acting Chair for her forbearance in allowing us back in. We were late for our slot for one reason or another. I do not know what happened, since I was watching the debate, but sin scéal eile. I will follow on from what Deputy Healy-Rae said about Sinn Féin and objections. Sinn Féin espouses what Deputy Ó Broin says and always listens to what he says about...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, am happy to contribute to the debate. I thank the officials in Tipperary County Council, formerly South Tipperary County Council, and a wonderful, outstanding council official, Mr. Sean Lonergan, who is retiring after decades of service to the council and the people of County Tipperary. He is an outstanding public servant with great ideas, vision and passion. Unfortunately, he did...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The level of open drug taking, antisocial behaviour and drug dealing on the main streets of our towns is worrying. It shows that law and order is losing the battle against drugs in many cases. I raised this matter with the Tánaiste during Leaders' Questions last week, specifically in the context of Clonmel town. He acknowledged we need a renewed focus. Open drug dealing in broad...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: After the election.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I wish to raise with the Taoiseach and the Chief Whip the lack of business being transacted this week. Where has the debate on the EU migration pact gone? Everyone knows that the European elections and local elections are due to take place. The pact was due back from committee in the first week of May and was supposed to have been disposed of by the House by 9 May, as we were told. It has...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 25. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and public services will meet next. [20238/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (21 May 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 127. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made on an application for a foreign birth registration (details supplied); the reason for the delay in processing the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22609/24]