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Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out Programme: Statements (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I demand of the Chair that we receive answers to our questions in writing. I never got answers when I asked questions here. I have asked the Minister five times here about the roll-out of the vaccine for the flu. Only 1.4 million of the 2 million available could be accounted for. I want an answer in writing. The UK has 20 million vaccinated, including 600,000 vaccinated in Northern...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: There is huge inequity in the scheme of funding to support artists, especially single artists, arts centres, dance schools and other groups like that. This scheme is under the remit of the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media, Deputy Catherine Martin. The application process is the same as under the old system we had prior to the pandemic. It needs to be adapted...

An Ghaeilge agus An Ghaeltacht: Ráitis (3 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Déanfaidh mé mo dhícheall an chuid Ghaeilge bhriste atá agam a úsáid. Bhí mo sheanathair i gcónaí i gCaisleán Nua agus ní raibh aon Bhéarla aige. Fuair sé bás sna 1950idí. Bhí breac-Ghaeltacht sa Chaisleán Nua ag an am sin. Ba mhaith liom comhghairdeas a ghabháil leis na daoine a dhéanann...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: The bank bailout has to date cost taxpayers €60 billion including interest. The Government has dissolved the bank levy, of which the banks have paid only €1.2 billion. What is happening with Bank of Ireland? Three branches in County Tipperary, in Cahir, Cashel and Templemore, are closing. All over the country, banks are exiting rural Ireland. EBS are leaving Tipperary town...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I ask the Taoiseach to provide time to discuss what is going on in banking, including the complete abandonment of rural Ireland and many areas of urban Ireland, not to mention what went on with Davy stockbrokers. There is simply no appetite in this or the previous Government to for legislation around banking to address what banks are doing and the...

Housing Shared Equity Loan Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (3 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad to speak on this motion. Before taking office, the Minister spent four or five years alongside me on the housing committee in the last Dáil. We talked so much that we could have built castles out of talk. There are logjams and blockages in the system and, as previous speakers referred to, a lack of infrastructure. Any scheme that will help with those problems is welcome,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (3 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 419. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether it is justifiable for students in a college (details supplied) who must attend an immersive Gaeltacht course in compliance with the Teaching Council requirements to be charged €650 per fortnight for a course that is a fully online experience, the cost of which pre Covid-19 pandemic was €750 per fortnight and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (3 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 543. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider increasing the materials grant provided to community employment schemes (details supplied). [11439/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (3 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 940. To ask the Minister for Health the date the breast screening programme will resume. [11870/21]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, I am sorry but this is factual.

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am not dog-whistling. I am telling the truth that people are relaying to me. They are highly frustrated that they cannot go to services of any denomination and they see that other people can do what they like. That is the basic nutshell of it. The Government has not dealt with that and will not deal with it. This legislation cannot deal with it either because it is not foolproof or...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (25 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I too rise to support the Labour Party amendment and the associated amendments in this grouping. We in the Rural Independent Group have tabled a number of amendments and I thank Brian Ó Domhnaill in our office for assisting us in producing them. They are quite detailed and also quite rushed because we did not have a lot of time. There is not enough time allocated to discuss this Bill....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister for meeting with the Tipperary groups last Friday night. It was a meaningful meeting with Jobs4Tipp, March4Tipp, Councillor Anne Marie Ryan and indeed the Tipperary Town Chamber of Commerce. They really appreciated it. I hope the Minister continues the collaboration in an effort to get the trucks out of the town with a ring road. We have had bad weather in the last...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to be able to speak on the Bill. It is something that should have been done back in April 2020. On behalf of the Rural Independents I attended the briefings with the then Taoiseach and Dr. Holohan and others. I sympathise with Dr. Holohan on his recent bereavement. Every time we met, I asked why we were not closing the borders. The response I got is that we could not because...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (25 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 53. To ask the Minister for Finance the current amount invested in the National Treasury Management Agency prize bonds; and the percentage of this amount that was invested in each of the years from 1957 to date. [10849/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (25 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 54. To ask the Minister for Finance the breakdown of the €4,715,350 prize money paid out in 2020 on behalf of the National Treasury Management Agency to winning prize bonds purchased between 1957 and 2011, inclusive in monetary and percentage format in each of the years in question. [10850/21]

New Decade, New Approach Agreement: Statements (24 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to speak on this today. I salute the architects of the Good Friday Agreement and the peace that we now enjoy. I look forward to the New Decade, New Approach agreement. I happened to be in the residence of the British ambassador in Washington two years ago, on the day before St. Patrick's Day. The most senior civil servant in Northern Ireland at the time, whose name eludes...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Community employment, CE, and community involvement schemes are a vital part of our community. The caring sector, Tidy Towns associations, sports clubs, schools and so on are having major difficulty in terms of their sponsors and sub-sponsors due to Covid-19. They cannot fundraise and are ending up with deficits. They have to pay insurance costs, bank charges, IT costs, payroll and all the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I spoke on this earlier and I alluded to the fact that it is very strange that the Government is not extending the life of the commission, yet it accepted the motion. This is playing politics at a very cynical level. It might look good for the Government and get it off the hook with its backbenchers, but it sends a distressing message to the victims, their families and their advocates. We...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Feb 2021)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I must object to rushing this legislation. Rushed legislation is normally bad legislation. We do not have enough time to debate it. I am unsure as to how many Deputies will be present to vote. The Taoiseach has stopped briefing Opposition leaders, including me. Contrary to what he told the House last week, we have not had a briefing since...