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- Europe Day: Statements (10 May 2022)
Mattie McGrath: I remember helping as a buachaill óg - I was 13 at the time - the enthusiastic Fianna Fáil team that was pushing to join the EU. We did join it. We got benefits from it, let us face it, but they have dried up. Now we have regulations and sifting and Ministers going over to Europe to ask, "How do you want us to jump today?". We are the best boys in Europe; that is the fact of it....
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)
Mattie McGrath: I raised the matter of the pig industry with the Taoiseach several weeks ago. The Irish Farmers Association and other farming organisations as well as individual pig farmers are protesting at four processing plants today. When is the Government going to do something meaningful to rescue our pig industry? We only have a certain number of pig farmers now and, as I said previously, the...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)
Mattie McGrath: He has not.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)
Mattie McGrath: On transport.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)
Mattie McGrath: Last week, yes, but not-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)
Mattie McGrath: Yes.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)
Mattie McGrath: He has not.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)
Mattie McGrath: You would not think it listening to him.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)
Mattie McGrath: No, he is not.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)
Mattie McGrath: Not agreed.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)
Mattie McGrath: What about Seán Lemass?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)
Mattie McGrath: In view of what the Taoiseach said in regard to transport, and the fact that not all the private transport companies can avail of the lovely, sweet 20% reduction - now 50% reduction in some cases - for transport services in cities and between cities, what about the people of rural Ireland? Are they going to have to walk? The Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, is failing to come to...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 May 2022)
Mattie McGrath: Live, horse, and get grass.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Proposed Legislation (10 May 2022)
Mattie McGrath: 745. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a copy of briefings, advice given and received at the meeting held with the Joint Health Committee in March 2022 to discuss the challenges identified by his Department in relation to proposals to introduce criminal buffer zones surrounding abortion-providing facilities. [22846/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (10 May 2022)
Mattie McGrath: 746. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount to be paid to the chair of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 review as remuneration. [22847/22]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 May 2022)
Mattie McGrath: Sure he can load it.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 May 2022)
Mattie McGrath: Nationally, 20,437 people are waiting for ophthalmology appointments, with 9,500 patients having been waiting for one year. Some people have been waiting up to four years. It is clear that there is no proper co-ordinated regional approach to funding or staffing. The Mater hospital under the guidance of Professor David Keegan in collaboration with CHO 9 started a waiting list initiative...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)
Mattie McGrath: There is a state of disconnect in respect of the current income limits to qualify for social housing. The Tipperary County Council cap is €25,000 for a single person and €27,500 for an average family comprising two adults and two children. These figures have not been reviewed since 2011. Given the significant increase in rent, and the massive rate of inflation and increase in...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)
Mattie McGrath: Some of the NGOs come up with acronyms. Housing for All is a totally inappropriate name. In the face of significant increases in rent across County Tipperary and, as I said, a considerable increase in the cost of living, the income limits are wholly inappropriate. I call on the Minister to act as a matter of urgency. We keep talking about aspirations and good intentions, but they will not...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (5 May 2022)
Mattie McGrath: 53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will increase the current income limits to qualify for social housing immediately given the ongoing rising inflation and difficulties being experienced in meeting the rising costs of rent within the current income limits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21949/22]