Results 681-700 of 20,996 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I am sure the Minister has heard the song, "It's a Long Way to Tipperary". Tipperary town has been forgotten by successive Governments. We were promised and had great hopes for an outer relief road or bypass. The N24, which is to be the M24, is trudging along ever so slowly, and God knows when we will see the funding for it or see it developed. Tipperary town is choked with trucks,...
- VAT Rate for Hospitality Sector: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Gabhaim buíochas and I compliment the Independent Group for bringing forward this motion. I was delighted to meet Richard Gleeson, the vintners' representative, and Michael Foley, of Foley's Bar in Cashel. They run two fabulous establishments, one in Clonmel and one in Cashel as do the other publicans and the other people who were there yesterday. Some 600 such establishments have...
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Bhí mé anseo nuair a bhí an tAire ag labhairt and she said - with a pinch of salt - that she wanted to have the Bill passed for Hallowe'en. I asked was she going trick-or-treating and she said she was getting too old for it but she is going off like the tooth fairy with all of her grants. I know she is giving many of them to Monaghan and they will appreciate them but there...
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of clarification, is there something happening other than Hallowe'en at Hallowe'en? We want the Bill finished by Hallowe'en.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Is the Minister going trick or treating?
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Or the election. Which?
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Trick or treat. The Minister is going trick or treating now. She will be trick or treating around Monaghan.
- Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: You are never too old.
- Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: As I said last week in the Dáil when these statements was called for, they represent brinkmanship and showmanship from the Government trying to get one over on Sinn Féin. It was as naked and blatant as that. When there are children in State care, children who have gone missing and children who have been failed by Tusla and by the Government, the Government should be ashamed of...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I wish to raise the case of Lorraine, a 55-year-old Cashel woman who requires a patient transfer service by ambulance from her home in Cashel to UHL tomorrow at 11 a.m. for an infusion to prevent a further relapse in her multiple sclerosis. Her mother Kathleen is 82 years of age. This is a very sad situation. The trip did not happen last week because the voluntary ambulance service driver...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: The election is on.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: There are thousands of restaurant owners and small business people outside the Dáil, including pub owners, hotel owners and representatives of the catering industry. This is a vital industry to rural Ireland and it is a slap in the teeth for them that the Government totally turned its back on them and it did not reduce the VAT rate to 9% in the recent budget. I am appealing now, on...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: A Tipperary teacher who has taught SPHE over a period of 16 years says she is one of several teachers who have resigned or are considering resigning from their roles because they are completely appalled, sickened and deeply concerned at the new SPHE curriculum, which they say has the potential to be very harmful to young school students. I am not against sex education in secondary schools...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Yes. To be given to students.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: It is quite serious.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: Not agreed.
- Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: On a point of order-----
- Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: The Government is failing to deal with the real issues. I am not going to say that I do not welcome the once-off payments and double payments but it is nothing short of an election gimmick. The real problem is the cost of energy and the gouging by the energy companies. We have the highest gas, oil and electricity prices in Europe. Why is that? This is what needs to be tackled instead of...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: I return to the ongoing situation at the Dundrum House Hotel in Tipperary. The Department, under emergency legislation, housed 270 or 280 men, women and children from Ukraine and the community integrated and welcomed them. Now it has been decided to make it an IPAS centre, and many in the community, many others and I warned the Department of integration, the community engagement team and...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)
Mattie McGrath: This should not be going on.