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Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Killing our people.

Security of Electricity Supply: Motion [Private Members] (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I compliment the Regional Group for bringing forward this motion. I was a bit surprised to see the Government has not opposed it. What is going on here? Parts of this motion, which I agree 100% with, is all for things the Minister, Deputy Ryan, is totally opposed to. He is just accepting the motion and he will have it raced and passed through here and do nothing about it. This is the...

An Bord Pleanála: Statements (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: This debate is timely. It is interesting that yesterday, we had the debate on the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, IBRC, report and today on this report on An Bord Pleanála. The public has lost faith in An Bord Pleanála. Villages, communities and ordinary people have no faith in An Bord Pleanála. This has been going on for a long time, where people were making objections....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I rise to plead with the Government to do something meaningful to help family carers. I am wearing their badge. It is a small token of what I can do. In successive budgets they have not received the recognition they deserve, especially when it comes to getting payments such as fuel allowance. There are strict criteria. Carers play an important role in keeping people in their homes where...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Not so.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I accept certainly that there were efforts made and some support given but if the Tánaiste calls this a dynamic response from the Government, you can call me Davy or some other name from Mars or some place. It is shocking. Why is the Government so staunchly opposed to bringing in oil from Barryroe and to gas exploration off our coasts? Will the Tánaiste accept the fact that the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Is the Tánaiste's memory gone? He blocked the licences.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, you are. You voted it down recently.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Of course they have

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: And tuppence on green diesel.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Ask the people; they will tell you.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: God help us.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: We are just under two weeks away from the budget and we are in the middle of the worst environment of spiralling inflation and interest rates, which is piling huge, savage pressures on every man, woman and child in this country and every business sector also. Despite these challenges, we have a Government that is on the ropes and completely out of ideas. It is now clear that the Government...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I believe the Minister will find that all of the rural Deputies will support that call. Next is Question No. 88 in the name of Deputy Ó Cathasaigh ó Chontae Phort Láirge.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Question No. 87 was the name of Deputy Cathal Crowe is being taken by Deputy Éamon Ó Cuív.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 81. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the category 2 applications from Tipperary County Council under the rural regeneration and development fund. [45401/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I wish to inquire about rural regeneration and development funding for towns in Tipperary, namely, Carrick-on-Suir, Cathair Dúin Iascaigh - Cahir - and Roscrea. We have had funding from the urban regeneration and development fund for many of our towns but these are rural towns. Since they lost many services they need this funding from the regeneration schemes and I want an update on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister for her reply. I thank her also for visiting Tipperary. She visited Carrick-on-Suir, Clonmel, Tipperary town and went on to some towns in the north of the county. Towns like Nenagh have got major funding and we do not begrudge them that but Carrick-on-Suir has been devastated by lack of industry for decades. Cahir has good employment. It is a beautiful town and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Schemes (15 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister. She is welcome any time in Tiobraid Árann. I acknowledge we have been successful in funding in the major urban centres of Nenagh and Clonmel but this scheme is tailor-made to try to bring vitality back to rural towns. The Minister will not be disparaging the fact we got the fourth-highest funding allocation in the country. As she knows, "Where Tipperary leads,...

Measures to Assist with Household Bills: Motion [Private Members] (14 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: There is no power to run it.