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Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The Government is failing to deal with the real issues. I am not going to say that I do not welcome the once-off payments and double payments but it is nothing short of an election gimmick. The real problem is the cost of energy and the gouging by the energy companies. We have the highest gas, oil and electricity prices in Europe. Why is that? This is what needs to be tackled instead of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I return to the ongoing situation at the Dundrum House Hotel in Tipperary. The Department, under emergency legislation, housed 270 or 280 men, women and children from Ukraine and the community integrated and welcomed them. Now it has been decided to make it an IPAS centre, and many in the community, many others and I warned the Department of integration, the community engagement team and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: This should not be going on.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: What about the patients?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. I travel to Monaghan a lot too, as the Minister knows, in case she picks me up on something.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Family Carers Ireland acknowledges budget 2025 brings some welcome measures to alleviate the pressure carers feel every day, such as increasing the respite grant to €2,000 per annum and increasing the disregard to €1,250, which allows more carers to get it. The Minister knows well and I am not saying she does not know, but why did she not do what she said she would do or what...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: She sure is.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is not a hospital anymore.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is unacceptable that carers have to wait until next July, six months after everybody else, to get their increases. We can all be patronising and talk about what they do but they need the money now, not next July or August. Fully abolishing the carer's allowance means test is recommended by research from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. That is crucial. Once-off payments...

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Is that what they are? We do not know anything about them. Is that it, so? Is there to be a secret society? The Green Party is always on about the developers having too much power. Consider the power An Taisce has as a prescribed organisation that has to be notified of every planning application. Of course, where there are listed buildings and protected structures, An Taisce is entitled...

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Shame on you. It is not shame on me. That is what the Deputies are doing through a reckless policy, overseen by their Minister in Cabinet now leading the Green Party. What is being done to rural communities in Dundrum, Roscrea, Clonmel and all over the country is shocking. The Green Party protects the members of An Taisce at all costs today because they are Green Party supporters. My...

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is a sacred cow. All we ever strive to do – it is in the Bible and the gospel – is do good. If you cannot do good, do not do anything bad. People here say we are trying to do damage or attack. The Deputy mentioned the word "attack" ten times or more in his three-minute speech but we are attacking nobody. We are trying to preserve a decent standard of living for people in...

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I have to laugh at the last speaker, Deputy Matthews, because it was so nonsensical and farcical. I will put a question to him and his family members. How many objections have they submitted in Bray and Wicklow?

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: You stopped the air show.

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: You stopped the air show going ahead in a lovely seaside resort.

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: One person at a time. Deputy Matthews might tell us something else.

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024-----

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I asked a question. I did not make an allegation. It is well known in Bray what you are up to.

Planning and Development (An Taisce) Bill 2024: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I will speak to the Bill. I thank Brian Ó Domhnaill, our research and policy assistant, and Mairead in our office for their work on this Bill in an effort to help the people of rural Ireland, who the last Deputy dismissed as if we do not know anything about anyone, as if we are Neanderthals or gombeens. Our country is in such a state with the Green Party’s influence over this...