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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I have written to the Business Committee about an issue I raised last week on behalf of the Rural Independent Group. We need a calm and reasoned debate on the influx of immigration into our country. I am not talking about refugees fleeing war. I am talking about the staggering figures that are there from places like Algeria. Fewer than 100 people from that country applied in 2021 and a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Dec 2022)

Mattie McGrath: It needs to be held very soon and to be respectful, as I said, not with people shouting anybody else down. Everybody is entitled to have their say in this Chamber, thanks to the Ceann Comhairle and the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (6 Dec 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 211. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will increase the funding allocation for Tipperary County Council housing adaptation grants to allow the council to proceed with the upgrading of double-glazing windows and doors that are in poor condition under the HOP scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60233/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (6 Dec 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 540. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under the age of 18 years with an intellectual, physical or sensory disability, currently referred and waiting to be seen by the HSE who are yet to receive an initial contact; and the length of time that they have been waiting for the initial contact according to each CHO, in tabular form [60246/22]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (6 Dec 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 728. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when notice will be given to applicants in categories 2 and 3 under the community centres investment fund as to their outcome; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60234/22]

Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Tá fíorfháilte roimh Uachtarán an Choimisiúin go dtí Teach Laighean inniu. I welcome the President of the Commission and thank her for her address. Indeed, I thank Dr. von der Leyen for her acknowledgement of the benefits that Europe had to Ireland and, more importantly, the benefits that we brought and gave, and delivered to the European project. On 6...

Seanad: Comhshuí de Dháil Éireann agus de Sheanad Éireann - Joint Sitting of the Houses of the Oireachtas - Address by H.E. Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (1 Dec 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Tá fíorfháilte roimh Uachtarán an Choimisiúin go dtí Teach Laighean inniu. I welcome the President of the Commission and thank her for her address. Indeed, I thank Dr. von der Leyen for her acknowledgement of the benefits that Europe had to Ireland and, more importantly, the benefits that we brought and gave, and delivered to the European project. On 6 December...

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Motion (30 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, support this motion and the industry. I have no truck with or trust in any of the unscrupulous breeders out there, who make up a tiny minority. I acknowledge the prowess we have in the horse racing and greyhound industries in Tipperary. As was said, the horse racing industry directly supports 10,000 jobs in the country and indirectly supports a great many more. The naysayers here,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The HSE was set up by you.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: No paperwork.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The HSE has confirmed to me that there have been no new residential services for people with disabilities developed in south Tipperary since 2017. That means it has been five years since any additional capacity was added to the residential services children with disabilities can be referred to. In the same response, the HSE confirmed that 13 families have requested residential services for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Yesterday, I called for a debate to be held in this House on the impact of inward immigration. The Minister with responsibility for immigration, Deputy Roderic O'Gorman, responded to say that we are currently providing accommodation to 64,000 people, many of whom are from Ukraine. He went on to list the 17,000 people who have come to our shores are fleeing from wars elsewhere. He listed in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: As I said, it is vital that we have a debate on this. The public is asking for it and wants it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: There seems to be a "no mention" policy in force in the House and elsewhere.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Any nation that fails to plan, plans to fail and we cannot possibly plan for the needs of our citizens with no limits or no controls on inward immigration. We therefore need a serious examination here. The Taoiseach spuriously waited until the end of his three minutes to mention the 17,000 people who did not come from Ukraine and the many who have not come from war-affected countries. ...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: If the children can get in there.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: A blank cheque.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: It is a blank cheque.

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad to speak on this motion. Setting up a citizens' assembly seems to be the fashionable thing to do for every issue. I do not believe in that. There is plenty of evidence available regarding drug use and abuse in our country. It is shocking and we all know it. Deputy Michael Collins mentioned O'Connell Street in Dublin, but I can go to towns and villages in my constituency and the...