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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (14 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 114. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans to ensure security of energy supply to vulnerable patients including those on oxygen and dialysis given the warnings regarding power outages and shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44952/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (14 Sep 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 620. To ask the Minister for Health the immediate steps that he will take to ensure that the departure of a large number of private nursing homes from the market due to the severe underfunding of the industry will not occur; the reason that there is such a large discrepancy in the levels of funding between private and public nursing homes given that the level of care provided is the same; the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I too as leader of the Rural Independent Group want to thank gach éinne atá ag obair anseo. I thank the Ceann Comhairle and all the staff, including the ushers, gardaí and Bills Office, who worked late into the night trying to accommodate all the legislation that the Government rushed through. Deputy McNamara said it was 100 Bills at about one minute each. It is no way to...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Schemes (14 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 469. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is an appeals mechanism for the emergency works scheme; and if so, if she will provide the details of same. [38819/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Schemes (14 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when applications for the summer works scheme will open. [38820/22]

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: There was a slippage, yes. A landslide.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: That is not moving a mountain. You do not move mountains.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: No, he said a mountain fell down but a mountain could not fall down.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: A small bit of a slip. Anyway, I am just saying we get carried away in our language too. Come and see the mountains-----

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Yes. I mean the mountain fell-----

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The mountain fell down but thank God it did not fall on top of anyone as there would have been an even greater calamity. I am aware that matter is the subject of a court case as well. The approach to this Bill is totally anathema to good governance and good legislation. It smacks of pure disrespect for the Opposition and everybody else. It will be wide open for legal challenges. I...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I will raise a point about this situation we find ourselves in this evening. Maybe the Minister of State will explain to us. Last Thursday, when we were dealing with the Bill, the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, was here. I do not think he has any role in it, or maybe he has. I did not get to check his portfolio, but I thought it was education. We should all be in education...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State should be in a pantomime.

Electoral Reform Bill: From the Seanad (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: There have been numerous Bills before the House in the past two weeks. Someone did an analysis and critique of them in the context of legislation passed by the House earlier in the term and what is before it now. We knew all along that the House would finish up in the second or third week of July. The way this is being done is rushed and distasteful. We are not doing our duty, quite...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State did not answer the question about the warships.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: In an earlier contribution, I asked about the warships that were at the quay in Cork. As a neutral country, why do we not assert on all occasions the fact we are a neutral country? We should be proud of it. The Taoiseach told me it was not mentioned at the World Economic Forum, good, bad or indifferent. On another point, if there are strict and robust sanctions, how is it that we can...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I too am glad to speak on this. I am quite alarmed about a number of things. At Taoiseach's questions I asked about the recent visits to conferences and whether neutrality was ever mentioned. The Taoiseach practically ignored me, but then I asked him a second time he said no, neutrality was never mentioned. Our neutrality is being undermined daily and sidelined, with warships coming into...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Get the wellies on and go and meet them.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: There is much concern about the level of policing in our cities, towns and villages or the lack thereof. People feel intimidated by gangs of young people taking drugs and engaging in antisocial behaviour of all kinds. Indeed, in many cases people are afraid to walk down the main streets of their towns and villages. This is a pity. The lack of gardaí is staggering. We never had such...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: A lot of rubbish.