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Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I do not bear any ill will against the Minister or indeed Mr. Stone, who I believe did a lot of good work in Dublin inner city. The only problem I see is that he was ahead of his time. He was a visionary. He was for Fianna Fáil until the Minister met him in 2011, then he changed tack before Fine Gael ever decided to go into coalition with Deputy Micheál Martin. Perhaps the most...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Corman Miloko announced on Friday that they were closing the company. This was formerly owned by south Tipperary farmers, Avonmore and Glanbia. It is now a consortium involving a Belgian group and Tirlán, an Irish company, and 31 jobs remain at the plant. They are excellent jobs and it has been an excellent workforce over the half century I have known it. I ask the Taoiseach ask...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: We in the Rural Independents are very concerned when we see advertisements from Go Vegan World on Dublin Bus and Galway city buses. This is a rural country, after all. The misleading advertisements are damaging to what has been good farming practice and husbandry over decades, and to our food chain, food supply and thousands of jobs. Who allowed for these? We are told it lies with Dublin...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I had no answer.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach should ask the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Public Procurement Contracts (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 254. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of each publicly funded Government contract awarded to a company (details supplied); the exact value and location of each contract, including the tendering procedures involved, the number of other companies and entities tendering for the same contracts since June 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3299/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 278. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of each publicly funded Government contract awarded to a company (details supplied); the exact value and location of each contract, including the tendering procedures involved, the number of other companies and entities tendering for the same contracts since June 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Procurement Contracts (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of each publicly funded Government contract awarded to a company (details supplied); the exact value and location of each contract, including the tendering procedures involved, the number of other companies and entities tendering for the same contracts since June 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The light I have to cast on this is that we have 6,000 fewer beds than we had in the 1980s but we have had countless numbers of extra recruitment campaigns. The Minister announces all the jobs and recruitment campaigns every day. Where are they? They are not on the front line. They are not nurses or doctors.

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: They are inside in offices and they are pen pushers. When we had the matrons running the hospitals, they were impeccably clean and sterile environments and they ran them from the front door to the back door, and consultants listened to them. Now we have ward managers, floor managers, bed managers, linen managers, hygiene managers, food managers, and discharge managers. We have managers for...

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: They are not making much of a difference. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, read out to me nothing short of a diatribe on Carrick-on-Suir hospital. She should be ashamed to close it in her backyard and tell me this and that are going on. The Minister has a fine big empty monstrosity of a white elephant for a primary care centre while that is going on. He should not be trying to cover...

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I ask the Minister to come clean on this. He said on Sunday, and I heard him myself, that this was all done under darkness. I have photographs supplied to me showing that it was broad daylight, thankfully, with six men well clad in jackets. All they are missing is a "Paschal Donohoe No. 1" label on them. They did not have that in the photographs, so obviously they were hiding something....

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: This plan is a typical con job by this Government, particularly by its Green Party component, and the people who support it. We had the COP shenanigans and the cost of all the aeroplanes that flew out there. They try to use fear. I definitely did not want the book referred to but I got it in the post as well. I did not ask for it, I did not read it and I will not read it because I know...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The HIQA report on St. Brigid's Hospital in Carrick-on-Suir was very good. The Government decided to use it as a Covid step-down facility during the early months of the pandemic. It is in the back yard of the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, who is present. The Save St. Brigid's Hospital committee is coming to Dublin tomorrow to present to the Committee on Public Petitions. It is the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: That is not true.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: What about the statements on Davos?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Secret societies.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Davos.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Agreed.