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International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I compliment the Acting Chair, the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and all the ladies who are Members of the House and elsewhere with whom I am friendly. I wish my wife Margaret and my five daughters, six granddaughters, three wonderful sisters, daughters-in-law and sisters in law all the very best on this very important day. I also wish the best to my office team. I could not manage without them....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The waiting time for driving tests in Clonmel, County Tipperary, is approximately 29 weeks. In Tipperary town, the waiting time is 13 weeks. Candidates who have failed a driving test automatically receive an email invitation to book another driving test once they have waited the required amount of time, or must resit the theory test, which can mean a wait of a further eight to ten weeks....

Protection of Cash as Legal Tender: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: What about the European Commission?

Protection of Cash as Legal Tender: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State talked about the second half of 2023 and maybe we will get something in 2024. We cannot wait that long, because everything is being harvested up, including people's cash reserves, their patience and their resilience. Above all, this is about our support for the people we are elected to represent. We are not elected to drive them off the edge of a cliff. This...

Protection of Cash as Legal Tender: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: -----when it will be introduced to pre-legislative scrutiny and when we will debate it in this Chamber.

Protection of Cash as Legal Tender: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: It cannot be on the never-never, with talk of doing it in 2023 or maybe 2024.

Protection of Cash as Legal Tender: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Government will be out of power then and it will be over to someone else to mind all the cash. I commend this motion. It is a pity the Government has not got the guts to oppose it and would rather have it gathering dust on some shelf. That cannot happen.

Protection of Cash as Legal Tender: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Gabhaim buíochas leis an iar-Sheanadóir Brian Ó Domhnaill agus Mairéad san oifig as an ábhar seo a chur chun cinn. I thank Brian Ó Domhnaill, Mairéad, all my colleagues and supporters, David and everybody else for putting this motion together. I would have preferred if the Minister of State had stuck to the motion rather than using her time to-----

Protection of Cash as Legal Tender: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, through the Chair - tríd an gCathaoir.

Protection of Cash as Legal Tender: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: There are a lot of tangible issues relating to the motion, and we do not have a lot of time. Rather than choosing to attack another party in order to score political points, there is plenty of work to do on this. I also welcome Peter O’Donoghue from Kilworth in Cork, who is in the Visitors Gallery today and who has done huge work. He has actually stood up and been counted in venues...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (8 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 98. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reasons for the delay in cases accessing arbitration; the number of cases waiting for arbitration; the average waiting time; what steps are his Department taking to ensure that these cases are expedited; what steps are his Department taking to ensure that future cases will not have to wait so long; and if he will make a statement...

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, support the motion tabled. The people I represent and those I meet outside my constituency are perplexed by what is going on. They see the price gouging and they see their bills. They saw how the Government imposed a carbon tax on top of what it already had in place at a time when there were high energy costs. What is going on? The Government had to dragged kicking and...

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: He can stay there beside the flag.

Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Seo í seachtain na Gaeilge. Déanfaimid ár ndícheall chun an Ghaeilge a chur chun cinn. This is a Government-Rialtas of the three-card trick, as I call it: Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and the Green Party. We are now talking about emergency energy generation. Here we are, about 18 months since we in our group said this was a crisis, a crisis was upon us and was going to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Taoiseach as ucht an cheist seo a fhreagairt. I welcome the measures the Taoiseach announced today regarding housing, especially those relating to empowering local authorities to buy more houses. In the context of this ceist agus an fhreagra, we just cannot keep pace. I thank an Aire Stáit, an Teachta Joe O'Brien, who met me recently and went through some...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Immigration will next meet. [9799/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (7 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the economic policy unit of his Department. [9798/23]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Priorities (7 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. It is nice to get an insight into his Department and the number of senior officials who give him advice and help formulate policy, but I have some issues around the economic decisions of our country that have impacted on us so badly since the bank guarantee and the bailout. I have issues with the way we deal politically with the banks and the hands-off...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The programme last night was a huge exposé of how people can call themselves psychologists and practice in the private sector. Barry O'Kelly could interview mothers of children with special needs because they are not bound by the in camerarule unlike mothers whose children are taken into State care by Tusla who are victims of these charlatans operating in the family law courts. We saw...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: We in the Rural Independent Group have a problem with the allocation of six hours this week for debate on Second Stage and Remaining Stages of the Environmental Protection Agency (Emergency Electricity Generation) (Amendment) Bill 2023. There will also be a guillotine at the end of debate. It beggars belief that this kind of emergency legislation has to be rushed. Only a little over six...