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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Farm Costs (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The same as the forestry.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Farm Costs (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing us to raise this Topical Issue matter. It is a hugely important issue. This is going to affect every man, woman and child in the State. The Minister of State might ask how that is. Farmers cannot buy fertiliser. Thankfully, credit unions are stepping in to give loans because the banks are not lending and the Government is standing idly by. We...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Farm Costs (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: We did not even get a copy of the Minister of State's reply. This is balderdash and total bunkum. It is also Green Party policy. Talking about growing clover and mixing things is an insult to farmers. The chairman of the agriculture committee is sitting behind the Minister of State. He knows this. The Green Party is codding Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. It is shocking. It is...

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, support the motion. The fact is that ordinary people cannot afford to heat their houses, live in them and put children in childcare or in school. They are to the pin of their collars. I asked last week if the Government wants to starve them out and for them to die in the ditches. It is shocking. The red carpet was rolled out for the banks with the bailout. Now the red carpet is...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to lay before each House of the Oireachtas an annual report on the progress of the document entitled “Project Ireland 2040” that was published by the Government on 18 January 2019, of which the constituent components are the National Planning...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Children with additional needs in south Tipperary are in crisis. Parents have had 13 rejections from schools and, if they can get their children into a unit, are travelling up to an hour to get there. There are currently no units in the towns of Carrick-on-Suir, Clonmel or Cahir, although a new school is under way in Cahir and there will be a unit in that. We are delighted that a new...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: No.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: My own school is waiting-----

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 164. To ask the Minister for Health if staff employed on the HSE MyOptions hotline have been trained to provide advice and information for expectant mothers on relevant social welfare entitlements and supports. [1951/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: State Bodies (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 329. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the person or body responsible for the maintenance and storage of files from the former Council of Education, Recruitment and Training which amalgamated with Bord Fáilte to become Fáilte Ireland; the way that a person who completed a training course with the Council for Education, Recruitment and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 696. To ask the Minister for Health if a meeting was held with persons (details supplied) in 2003 that led to the decision to halt a review into missing samples from a family in Askeaton, County Limerick; and if pressure was brought by the persons to stop the review going ahead. [7657/22]

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Why can we not exclude people who have enormous incomes? Surely there must be some way to do that? We used to use the peann luaidhe, but now we have computers. When PUP was introduced, I pleaded with the Minister concerned to address that. Anybody who is an employer knows that PRSI is now paid weekly. All of that information is on a computer. People could have been given what they were...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, am surprised, although I am not sure why, that ten of the 11 amendments have been ruled out of order. We are trying to reinvigorate our tourism industry. There are many good holiday home operators. While we will always have some cowboys, the vast majority of them are good. I am talking about a fear uasal i nDún Garbhán. People need to get out into the sun and the water,...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Can I clarify if there will be a second round for Deputy Michael Healy-Rae?

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Similar to what my colleague has said, we are dancing around here on the head of a needle with all these grandiose schemes, such as the one introduced yesterday. This retrofitting scheme has been eagerly awaited and much wanted. People want to engage with it. It will, however, cost them €500 to get an assessment, and they will get back €250 whenever. I am talking about...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: -----shopping trolleys were filled up to the water level with goods in that Dunnes Stores outlet. The whole lot came to €16 or €18. It was shocking. There were loss leader products, and all these types of things. The companies are getting the money back in other ways, but they are selling all these things by way of champion products and below cost selling. It is shocking....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and representatives of Bord Bia met the pig producers of Ireland last week. Put simply, the price of meal has gone up by 30 cent and the price of bacon is down by 40 cent. That equates to losses of roughly €38 per sow. There is a perfect storm here as these businesses cannot get work permits. Countries like France, Poland, Denmark...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: It supports 8,000 jobs.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.