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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Driver Test (6 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and Jill Gray in his office for facilitating this Topical Issue debate. We have been raising this matter with the Tánaiste, the Taoiseach and everyone else. The dogs in the street are aghast about it. Why is there such inertia in the Road Safety Authority, RSA, and the Department of Transport in dealing with this issue? A lady in my constituency has had...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (6 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I would like written answers from the Minister. Why are the HSE and the Department of Health not collating figures on the numbers of people with delayed diagnoses of cancer or misdiagnoses? There are 38,000 people waiting for colonoscopies alone and many of their diagnoses have been delayed. Student nurses were forced to take the AstraZeneca vaccine. The Taoiseach told the Dáil...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: One cannot cut the trees. One cannot get the licences.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: In 50 years' time.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: You are not doing it. It is not in the Bill.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: In Tipperary as well.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to be able to speak today on Second Stage of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021. I am glad the Minister is here. Táim an-chairdiúil leis an bhfear sin.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am not. I look forward to a robust debate with the Minister. We understand each other and have no hard feelings, and the same goes for all the members of the Rural Independent Group. Deputy O'Donoghue asked me to ask the Minister when, like "Living with Lucy", the Minister will visit Limerick with him. This is perhaps the most far-reaching piece of legislation to come before the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: The situation with pass-through charges or, indeed, standing charges continuing to be charged to business customers by energy suppliers right throughout the pandemic is simply disgraceful. Some hospitality customers in my constituency have been charged up to €26,000 in pass-through charges alone by the energy suppliers. This is shocking money. They appreciate the support they got...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: It is simply not good enough. It is 13 or 14 months going on now and it has to be dealt with.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I accept that, but this is different.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (6 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 31. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Transport Infrastructure Ireland will allow a review of planning permissions on a case by case basis rather than continuing with a six-kilometre sterilisation of lands adjoining the N24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23456/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (6 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of approvals and rejections of applications of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme by each local authority including the reasoning for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23305/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 161. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the medical and scientific evidence available to him to justify the reason a hotel restaurant is safer than that of a regular restaurant or gastropub when hotel restaurants are allowed to reopen on 2 June 2021 but other restaurants will not reopen in July; the medical and scientific reasoning for same; and if he will make a statement on...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: And some Independents.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: As we talk about the reopening of our hospitality sector, I would like to ask the Taoiseach what he has against the small or even the big family-run pub business. The illogical description of a pub as a "wet pub" was horrible. Fáilte Ireland said it did not come up with it. I do not know who did but it has been banished. Are we now going to further discriminate against publicans...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach has.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach has.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach has gone off on a tangent here.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach is the one who is using language that is inappropriate.