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Written Answers — Department of Finance: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (29 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 189. To ask the Minister for Finance if not-for-profit, community organisations that are not registered charities are liable for tax, or if there are any exemptions for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31726/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care (29 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 413. To ask the Minister for Health the availability of funding for the construction of adult day services within the community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31727/23]

Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Instruction to Committee (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I was wandering around here over the last couple of weeks wondering when this was going to start. I am here almost 16 years, not half as long as the Acting Chair, Deputy Ring, obviously, and every year this happens. Legislation is just turfed in and we are expected to speak to it, deal with it and table amendments to it. It is terrible practice. I thought this year it was not going to...

Environmental Protection Agency Water Quality Report 2022: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the debate on this because the debate to date has been unequal, unfair and, indeed, targeted at rural dwellers, including farmers. They want to play their part. There have been very minor incidents and it is right that these be investigated. The causes of pollution are many. A large proportion of the blame is attributable to many decades of Government policy failure. Farmers...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad to be able to speak on this topic. I wonder how the Minister of State faces these pre- and post-European Council meetings. I wonder why he is not embarrassed by the way our citizens are being crucified. Take the issue of energy prices. Prices are 26% higher than in the EU. How can the Minister of State hold his head up and how can Ireland take its rightful place among the...

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

Mattie McGrath: The people in Tipperary and the medical fraternity are very concerned about a reconfiguration that is proposed. It is proposed that South Tipperary General Hospital will be removed from the South/South-west Hospital Group, which has been a very successful partnership, and be aligned with a much larger hospital such as St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, the National Maternity...

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: No.

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I do, because we are not settled-----

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Yes. You can run, Minister, but you cannot hide. Your hiding days are over because you have abandoned the people of rural Ireland. There is the subterfuge and deceit the Minister and the Government goes on with, the blackguarding it does of farmers and the ineptitude of the Department. You are in bed with Mr. Goodman and the big beef barons. You are in bed with the big supermarkets and...

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Excuse me, Acting Chair, but they are obvious to a blind man.

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: You did not stop anybody else who mentioned names and all.

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: "In bed" is a metaphor. We have not got a bed here. If we had, the Government would be asleep in it all day and would not get up to see the farmers. The farmers get up early in the morning and get up late at night to tend to their animals when they are young, sick or being attacked by marauding gangs of foxes and deer. We cannot have a cull of the deer population which is running riot...

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Laugh away. You have something if you have the last laugh.

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I have a point of clarification. We hate to break this charade. The Minister will not deal with the motion and will not accept it, so it is not agreed.

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: It is not agreed.

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: It is not agreed.

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I am telling you this is a charade. We are not voting against it. I am just expressing my disgust at this practice of the Government agreeing to motions it does not agree with. We are not accepting it today.

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Is mór an trua an rud seo ar maidin. I wonder if we in the right Parliament or in the right place or if the Ministers have read the motion. I see they did not oppose it but the Minister of State waited until the last two minutes of his reply to address the questions.

Culling the National Herd: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Our motion called, once and for all, on the Government to declare it will not pursue a compulsory or voluntary cull of the national herd, with no introduction of caps on Irish dairy cows or beef numbers. Furthermore, it calls for a review of the process of calculating methane emissions, considering the cycle effect, and calls on the Government to provide funding to farmers for implementing...