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Personal Insolvency (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I rise to support Deputy Fitzpatrick's amendment, which is very sensible and, as he said, would not result in an impediment or a cost on the taxpayer. This legislation is welcome. The people of Ireland are paying back and their grandchildren will pay back the banks for the savagely expensive bailout they got. The banks are not being fair. There is not a lot of refuge or solace in the...

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I congratulate the Minister of State on this. We have had many battles over St. Brigid's hospital, Carrick-on-Suir. We have been waiting for equality and fairness for farming families and self-employed people. My colleagues in the Rural Independent Group and I will table amendments because there are still anomalies regarding farmers not being treated fairly. Regardless of how long it took...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am very concerned by the leaks from the Cabinet yesterday regarding the extension of the emergency powers for another six months. I honestly believe that the Taoiseach and his Government have become an existential threat to our democracy. That the Government is trying to push this in here to control people, deny them their rights and freedoms and literally destroy their will to live is...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I call it as it is.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: It is clear to be seen.

Water and Wastewater Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I also thank the Regional Group for bringing forward this very important motion. It is time we got our act together on this, as we need to with housing. I have been involved with this a long time and have seen schemes like Skeheenarinky, where it took 50 years for delivery. It was so slow the county sent a report to the relevant Department and it had to wait six months for a reply. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (19 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 122. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown of funding under the multi-annual funding programme to proceed with the taking-in-charge of estates to every country in each of the past five years; the funding that has been provided to Tipperary County Council for the taking-in-charge of estates over the past five years; the number of bids from each country...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: We can talk in here until the cows come home about affordable housing but Government policy, especially since the Green Party went into government and got its way on so many issues, means that affordable housing is a pipe dream. Every action the Government is taking is adding huge costs, including the cost of insulation and timber, because we cannot cut forests, and the costs of all the...

Ballymurphy Inquest: Statements (18 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to have some time to speak on this matter this evening. Following the inquest into the 1971 Ballymurphy massacre, it is now being established beyond doubt that the victims that day, Fr. Hugh Mullan, Francis Quinn, Joan Connolly, Daniel Teggart, Noel Phillips, Joseph Murphy, Edward Doherty, Joseph Corr, John Laverty and John James McKerr, were innocent. Things went on in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I rise to ask about the situation regarding a new Garda station in Clonmel for our hard-working gardaí under Superintendent Willie Leahy. This issue was first raised in the House by the late Deputy Seán Treacy more than 50 years ago and, indeed, the late Councillor Ambrose, who was laid to rest last week was often on about it. We are waiting and waiting. The station is in a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I too am objecting to the House sitting tonight until 12.30 a.m. When we are trying to talk about a staff-friendly environment, those hours are crazy. We need to be staffed earlier or do something else. I am objecting to the business on the basis that the theory test situation is absolutely laughable. I have raised this here with the Taoiseach, Tánaiste and Minister for Transport....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I want a debate on it. I want the Minister for Transport to come in here, get the Road Safety Authority to cop on and allow the theory test to be restarted.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Irish Water (18 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 358. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount Irish Water has received in State funding per annum since its foundation in 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26403/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: The CEO of the HSE, the Minister for Health and many other Ministers have said they want the current restrictions on partners visiting maternity hospitals lifted. I wrote to my hospital in south Tipperary, which is an excellent hospital with excellent maternity and neonatal wards. All my children and my eight grandchildren were born there. The letter I received from the hospital stated...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (13 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to purchase a military jet aircraft for the Defence Forces to assist troops returning from overseas duties and also assist with duties at home. [25173/21]

Planning and Development, Heritage and Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister will have seen that we submitted several amendments, most of which we withdraw. However, we are not withdrawing this amendment. I am surprised that the Minister of State would not accept it, considering we withdrew many other amendments. The Minister of State might consider some of those other amendments as frivolous but this amendment is vital. The designation of land...

Planning and Development, Heritage and Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I understand.

Planning and Development, Heritage and Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Gabh mo leithscéal, is the Leas-Cheann Comhairle taking the amendment that was just discussed?

Planning and Development, Heritage and Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Even for that amendment?

Planning and Development, Heritage and Broadcasting (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (12 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Vótáil.