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- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)
Mattie McGrath: When?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2022)
Mattie McGrath: They do not have them now either.
- Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)
Mattie McGrath: I have ten minutes, please. In fairness, I have ten minutes and I would like to use them. The Minister of State, Deputy Byrne, used his full ten minutes, so I am entitled, as it is our motion, le do thoil. The Minister prevaricated and presided over one disaster after the next. As I said, it just not feasible or anything else. The Minister shamed the oil companies and oil investors...
- Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)
Mattie McGrath: Every customer.
- Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)
Mattie McGrath: I thank iar-Seanadóir Brian Ó Domhnaill, my daughter Mairéad and iar-Seanadóir John Hanafin for their help in putting the motion together. I make no apologies for the motion we have brought forward today. We will take no criticism from the Minister of State or the absent Minister who was here at the start. Why is it that he has fled like snow off a ditch when questions...
- Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)
Mattie McGrath: The Government is not funding mental health services but it is putting huge pressures on people's mental health. They just cannot cope with the ever-growing cost increases. The Government says we cannot interfere here, we cannot interfere there. The people own 95% of the ESB. I salute the ESB outdoor staff and indoor staff whom I deal with during outages. They are very effective and very...
- Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)
Mattie McGrath: We are not the rural alliance.
- Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)
Mattie McGrath: He would not be saying-----
- Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)
Mattie McGrath: Those prayers will be answered.
- Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)
Mattie McGrath: How long is it going to take?
- Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)
Mattie McGrath: That is First Communion money.
- National Retrofit Plan: Motion [Private Members] (20 Sep 2022)
Mattie McGrath: I support the motion tabled by Sinn Féin. It is if the Government is saying, “Do as I say and not as I do.”. “Lead by example” is an old adage that stood well in this country. However, Deputy Tóibín gave the appalling example of State buildings to show that the Government and public bodies do not give a whim about saving energy and retrofitting,...
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I thought there was a Sinn Féin speaker before me. I am delighted to be able to speak on this subject.
- Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2022)
Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to be able to speak on this legislation. This Bill seeks to bring some decorum or measure of change and adjustment to what is needed. This whole area needs massive change. We can have all the regulations and Bills like this and all the grandiose titles and amendments, memorandums and everything else, but people want services. The Minister of State knows that. A Teachta...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2022)
Mattie McGrath: I ask the Taoiseach again today about discrimination against bus drivers aged over 70. I salute every man and woman in Bus Éireann and private companies who bring our children and grandchildren to school and home safely. There is chaos at the moment in regard to tickets. Many companies have two or three drivers who are approaching 70 and they will no longer be able to carry children...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2022)
Mattie McGrath: Which target is that?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Mattie McGrath: He will not answer.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Mattie McGrath: A big tax take.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Sep 2022)
Mattie McGrath: We are completely overtaxed.