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Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Applications (8 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 306. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the online passports processing service will be operational again given the backlog of applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41466/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 337. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts her Department and the NCSE are making to address the lack of ASD units in primary schools in south County Tipperary; her plans to develop new ASD units in primary schools in south County Tipperary; and the details of same. [41506/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Mobility Allowance (8 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 534. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to develop a new or alternative scheme to the mobility grant scheme which was suspended in 2013. [41249/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Young Farmers Scheme (8 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 814. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason the definition of "young farmer" in Ireland includes an upper limit of 35 years of age whereas the EU policy objective is 40 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41426/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Improvement Scheme (8 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 870. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will report on the reopening of the local improvement scheme for 2021; the level of funding available for Tipperary County Council for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41327/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Abortion Services Provision (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing us this important Topical Issue debate. It is a shame that the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, is not here. I met the Ministers of State, Deputies Butler and Rabbitte, wandering around downstairs. None of them would come in to answer it. This is shocking. What we want is a ban on late-term abortions, mandated care for any baby born after an...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Abortion Services Provision (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing this very important issue to be raised and I apologise on behalf of the Deputies who are not present . Some, including Deputy Fitzpatrick, pulled out to give us more time. The reactions of doctors who carry out late-term abortions in Ireland make for grim reading. One doctor described the carrying out of foeticide as "stabbing the baby in the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: He is riding two horses.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Pay them, then.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The double talk is amazing.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Is called "hypocrisy".

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Ní bheidh mé ach nóiméad amháin.

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I will only take a minute or half a one. The lecture here from the Minister about being a party from the centre tells me that he is reading too many cartoons. He does not know what the centre is. His party is so far right it cannot see its left. With any proposal we have put forward here we have been treated with disdain and lecture and sometimes with pretty hostile and demonising...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, but I will allow time to my colleagues.

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I move amendment No. 72: In page 47, to delete lines 32 to 40, to delete pages 48 to 50, and in page 51, to delete lines 1 to 30. We are moving this amendment because, in the period of the ten-year strategy, we will not have an opportunity to discuss these again. These are not our figures, but international figures. Somewhere between €3,000 and €9,000 will be paid by each...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: This amendment is accepted with acclaim. I asked about farm inspections. I am not anti-inspections, but we cannot have inspectors upsetting people.

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I am not talking about the Plains of Kildare, which the Ceann Comhairle and other Deputies are familiar with, but about the slopes of the Knockmealdown Mountains, the Comeragh Mountains, Slievenamon and other places where mountain and hill sheep can be found.

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I too want to support this amendment wholeheartedly. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Heydon, and compliment him on his appointment and on this initiative, which he understands because he is a farmer. I am glad the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, embraced it and made efforts in terms of faster tax rebates and relief because the number of incidents and accidents on farms that result in loss...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of order, in fairness to the Deputies in Leinster House at committee meetings we are not calling a vote but that is the only reason we are not doing so and we want to register our strongest possible objections to this.

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I move amendment No. 62: In page 33, to delete lines 29 to 38, to delete page 34, and in page 35, to delete lines 1 to 17. This amendment addresses a huge issue and is consistent with our policy on the matter within the Rural Independent Group. We are not blindly saying that there is no climate change issue, but we are saying that the carbon tax proposal in the Bill is unacceptable. It...