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Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (23 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2024 could have several impacts on the ordinary people. It is the ordinary people we must try to protect here. I have to declare I have been in and out of hospital a lot lately, both public and private. I am lucky to have the private. As Deputy Berry says, the inflationary costs and the increases in health insurance are just astronomical. Depending...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is two years on.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The former Minister, Michael McGrath, now Commissioner-designate, was asked in the House in 2019 in relation to Mr. John Fraher in Clonmel. His tax number was used when he was not trading in this country. This deals with NAMA. We all know about Project Eagle. This is project préachán, where lands in Clonmel were disposed of under section 183 by Tipperary County Council, which...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Pen pushers.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Where are they? In offices?

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: More than 1 million people are now on waiting lists for various medical treatments and consultations, a stark increase from the situation when the current Government took office. The public health service is grappling with a severe shortage of staff, which is directly affecting the ability of healthcare professionals to provide safe and effective care. The understaffing issue is not just a...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Sinn Féin brought forward this motion. To be honest, and this has been the discussion of late, the people out in the country are confused because Sinn Féin has been backing this Government on literally everything it has done. I refer to the crony initiatives that were done. While its Deputies get up every two weeks and shout about housing, they have never built a house. I do not...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos, I declare an interest because I was reared on a family farm with cattle, dogs and sheepdogs. The Ceann Comhairle knows this. I still have sheepdogs. My son is farming the mountain sheep. It would be impossible without sheepdogs. I would like to put a question to Deputy Bríd Smith. Although she is not here now, I am sure it will be carried back to...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: You would never manage in the racing industry.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: You would never manage at a race meeting.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Tipperary ETB has been instructed to offload any buildings it is not using for education and further education purposes from the Department of Education to hit climate change goals. As such, Butler Charteris Hall in Cahir has been put up for sale despite it being used as a preschool for several years under a licence agreement with the ETB. This is farcical. Why does the Department of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is point-scoring.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is only point-scoring.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is only point-scoring.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: A latter-day emperor.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: He is an emperor.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: That is not an answer.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Where will the Taoiseach's credibility be now that he says he will have an election before year end? He told us all the time it would be at the end of term, which is next February or March. Now we will have a trapeze act with the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, pulling the curtain down on this House. One of them might pull it faster than the other. When...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Bring it on anois.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Trick or treating, I would say you were.