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Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: -----and there has been significant cover-up in the past 30 years. It is cover-up after cover-up. Now, we get here and this is the biggest cover-up of all. I am asking the Minister - I know he will not do it, but I hope someday, someone will - to establish an inquiry that will get answers and honesty and restore the integrity and respect people had for our public services.

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Excuse me. I am talking through the Chair. I am wondering what is going on. The people are sick and weary of it. This is not the first time. I could speak about the Aughinish Alumina plant and the Geoghegan family in Limerick. They had issues with Dr. Holohan and the now Taoiseach, Deputy Micheál Martin. There was no public inquiry into what happened. What about the cervical smear...

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I too support amendment No. 1. I again appeal to the Minister, but I know it will fall on deaf ears. Guillotining a Bill of this nature is disgraceful. How can the Minister do that, given his pronouncements while in opposition and at leaders' meetings that Deputies Boyd Barrett and Naughten and others also attended and in light of his questioning of the advice, what was happening and the...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for bearing with me. Bhí mé ag dul chuig an leithreas nuair a ghlaoigh tú mé. I know the Minister of State has done a lot of work on this legislation. Many people have worked on these matters over the past decade, especially Ms Maura Canning. I cannot say enough of her. She has done Trojan work on behalf of farm families in the Irish...

Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: It is becoming normal.

Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: That is patronising. It has been the policy in here for 18 months.

Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: No. Vótáil.

Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: This legislation has had no pre-legislative scrutiny, proper committee debate or anything else. We had two minutes each to speak. Thankfully, we now have four minutes each to discuss such a huge piece of legislation which will have overwhelming effects. It completely tramples on the Constitution. The Minister, Deputy Donnelly, when he was in Opposition railed against guillotines and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: The Irish Farmers Association, Farm Contractors Ireland and many farming families are outside protesting today because they are not allowed to cut timber. The price of timber for contractors and people building houses has gone through the roof. Will the Taoiseach please ensure that the Minister of State, Senator Hackett, takes her hands off the steering wheel and allows the farmers who...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: She is responsible.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: You cannot see the wood for the trees.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: They are not coming out.

Lifting of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: It is very wrong of media outlets to put that into the story to try to damage my credibility. Above all-----

Lifting of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I appreciate that but the record should be corrected by the Taoiseach in this House as well, when he used that awful term.

Lifting of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: It is not in my body to speak that word and I would not and did not. I will be writing to you, a Cheann Comhairle, to ask the Taoiseach to withdraw that also.

Lifting of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I thank everybody who contributed. Thank you for your time, a Cheann Comhairle.

Lifting of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I thank everybody who was involved in dealing with the front-line services and the volunteers, the GAA clubs, the businesses, the Garda Síochána and everybody else who worked very hard and put their shoulder to the wheel. I also thank the tens of thousands of people who signed up to Be on Call for Ireland, but they were not respected. Only a handful of them were called up. Those...

Lifting of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: She is spreading the blame.

Mandatory Hotel Quarantine Extension: Motion (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: This was meant to be a debate of one hour and 45 minutes. It is now down to 45 minutes. As usual, everything is rushed, fumbled and illogical. There is confusion. It is unreal. The Government should be named "the Government of Utter and Total Confusion". On mandatory hotel quarantine, I am not going to be a hypocrite. I called for it at the very start when we were locking down our...