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

Mattie McGrath: Sorry. I will not be non-factual. He had to be here. That tells you what way Ireland is when we talk about housing, the crisis and everything else. I am very surprised with Deputy Connolly conflating our Bill. It is accidental it has come the same day as the Government has decided to guillotine the planning Bill. We had nothing whatsoever to do with it. We and rural Ireland have...

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

Mattie McGrath: It is such a sacred cow now that we cannot even ask to amend it. The Rural Independent Group previously wrote to An Taisce seeking a meeting. It dictated the terms of the meeting. It wanted to chair the meeting and control us. It is unaccountable and not answerable to anyone. Some of the members of An Taisce are then moved on to An Bord Pleanála. As has been said already, are...

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

Mattie McGrath: -----and everything else in business. The people will have the final say in that regard, and congratulations to anyone who comes back. The damage the Green Party did between 2007 to 2011 is still being rigged in rural Ireland. Is uafásach an rud é an damáiste a rinne An Páirtí Glas sa thréimhse sin. It did serious damage and did not allow the planning...

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

Mattie McGrath: The Deputy is doing a very good job of it.

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

Mattie McGrath: We do not want it to.

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

Mattie McGrath: It is true.

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

Mattie McGrath: On a point of order-----

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

Mattie McGrath: On a point of clarification, I appreciate these co-ordinated attacks but we are entitled to put down our motion.

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

Mattie McGrath: I know some Members opposite are probably members of An Taisce and might declare if they are, but we are going to have our debate as best we can, within the confines of the rules.

Spending of Public Funds by the Government: Motion [Private Members] (8 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I would describe wasteful spending of public money as sinful spending of public money. There is no way to accept it but it has become accepted and has become the norm. The contract for the national children's hospital was wildly inadequate. It was like a piece of string for BAM and now we are going to do the same with the national maternity hospital. The bike shed and the security cabin...

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (8 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State is a new Aire Stáit and I wish him well but something needs to be done. This is papering over the cracks. It is more of the same. I am not pointing at the gentlemen and ladies here - the officials - but the game is lost. The game with regard to housing is badly lost. Maybe the Minister of State is used to losing so he should not shake his head. I did not want...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: We are all acutely aware of the shortage of GPs in Ireland and especially in rural Ireland, but the shortage of dentists and the few remaining in the medical card scheme is very frightening and scary. In some places, people have to travel three counties to get a dentist under the scheme. Remuneration has not been reorganised or reviewed in four decades. I salute dentists like Daniel...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Of course we in the Rural Independents agree with the request for time to debate offences against children and the whole issue in this regard, but there are many issues that we want to discuss here that the Government will not discuss. The Chief Whip could have had an incorporeal meeting of the Business Committee before sabotaging our business here today. She did not even move the Order of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: What about Tusla?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: We have a new Taoiseach.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: You are playing politics now.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: You only want to play politics.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is obvious.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: She is amending the business of the day.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Thank you.