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- Provision of Accommodation and Ancillary Services to Applicants for International Protection: Statements (13 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Gabh mo leithscéal. I have figures that state it is 18 years. We learn something new every day.
- Provision of Accommodation and Ancillary Services to Applicants for International Protection: Statements (13 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I am not out of date at all. Can I continue please?
- Provision of Accommodation and Ancillary Services to Applicants for International Protection: Statements (13 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Among the issues raised most frequently are the duration of stay in direct provision, the impact of this on family life and children, issues around oversight and monitoring and the question of a right to work, which thankfully has been changed recently. In 2015, the Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions stated that the system is not fit for purpose and recommended that it...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: As the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht is in the Chamber, I want to raise the serious issue of wild deer causing accidents on our roads in County Tipperary and west Waterford. From a health and safety point of view, somebody is going to be killed. The deer are causing accidents and destroying cars every day, as well as causing accidents between cars on the motorway and on...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Everything is a laughing matter for them. They will get the last laugh when they go to the people.
- Inquiry into the death of Shane O’Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (12 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta O'Callaghan. I thank Deputy O'Callaghan for bringing forward the motion. I wholeheartedly welcome Shane's mother and father and his four sisters. This motion is a testimony yet again to the loving and determined perseverance of Shane's mother, father and sisters, who I salute. It is a scandal of the highest order that such efforts have to be made...
- Social Welfare (No. 2) Bill 2019: Second Stage (12 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak to this important Bill, which has been designed to give legislative effect to a range of social welfare measures announced in the budget. I thank the Minister for doing her level best to help to deal with a protracted problem in County Tipperary. The Bill provides for several technical changes to the Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act 2005 to ensure the application of...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Not in rural Ireland.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: According to the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, the number of people without hospital beds - on trolleys, chairs, window ledges or whatever else they can sit on - so far this year has reached 100,457. I am sure the Taoiseach does not dispute these figures. Some 6,040 of these unfortunate people have been waiting for days at South Tipperary General Hospital, which covers south...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I would like the Taoiseach to respond instead of playing pass the parcel.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Is the Taoiseach oblivious to the fact-----
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: -----that more than 100,000 people have been on trolleys so far this year?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: There was a question.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Is the Taoiseach oblivious to what is going on in our accident and emergency departments and hospitals?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: You must be.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Are you deaf, so?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: We have no one to staff it.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: This is grandstanding.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: What is the point in having the Business Committee?