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Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: There is nothing wrong with them at all. I said the British could not govern us because the county was too long and unwieldy. There is nothing at all wrong with them but, as I said, it is not workable because the county is too big. The officials and the councillors are travelling up and down at enormous expense and there are no savings. That is what is going on. The local authority is...

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis an Teachta Boyd Barrett and his group for allowing me this time. From the outset, I opposed the abolition of town and borough councils and condemned it as a power grab by an arrogant and self-serving central Government. It was led by the captain of the ship, the Minister of State's former colleague, a former...

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: "Phil the Enforcer", as I described him, and that is what he was. He left ruin after him. The Government, with the Labour Party a part of it, supported him. Deputy Howlin was a Minister at the time. I described him as being like the high priest because he would not listen to anyone. Deputy Howlin had a close family member who was a senior member of the Association of Municipal Authorities...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The promised legislation is on Rebuilding Ireland. The latest Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, report has raised further alarm bells about the impact of the housing crisis. The report highlights that there appears to be no end in sight to the pressure on rent prices. In particular, this pressure affects low-income families in the private rental sector. Apart from the human...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The question is on the ESRI's report that the rent for low-income families, along with all families, is increasing. The Rebuilding Ireland policy is failing, and we are losing our competitiveness because we cannot attract people back here to live and work.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Does the Taoiseach understand passion?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Unemployment Levels (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Well, the Minister did a good job of it.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Unemployment Levels (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister is looking at Tipperary through rose-tinted glasses. The real issue is in the Minister's last answer where she referred to the south-east region of Carlow, Kilkenny and Tipperary. In an earlier answer, she said we were in the mid-west region. That is the problem with Tipperary town. It is on the border of the mid-west and the south east. We are falling between all stools....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Unemployment Levels (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister should come back down and look at it.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Unemployment Levels (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I asked about Tipperary town.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Unemployment Levels (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The question was specific.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Unemployment Levels (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: It must be the water the Minister is on instead of the glasses.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Unemployment Levels (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 58. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures she is taking to address the high levels of employment deprivation in County Tipperary, specifically Tipperary Town and its environs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39065/18]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Unemployment Levels (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister will be aware that one of the most accurate indicators of deprivation according to population statistics comes from the national census of population, as represented by the Pobal HP deprivation index. Variables used in the compilation of the HP index include those related to demographic growth, dependency ratios, education levels, single parenthood, overcrowding, social class,...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 24. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on his meetings with His Holiness, Pope Francis; and his views on church-state relations. [37361/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Invasive Plant Species (26 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 261. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans her Department has for the treatment of and eradication of Japanese knotweed throughout the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38929/18]

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad to be able to speak on the motion. I am not being personnel about the Minister but we are sick and tired of Ministers with responsibility for housing. The Minister is the sixth person in the position in the past eight or nine years. We have had announcement after announcement but nothing happens. The Minister was in Clonmel, County Tipperary, last Thursday where he turned the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (25 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 146. To ask the Minister for Finance if the 9% VAT rate for tourism services will be retained; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38496/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Corporation Tax (25 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual corporate tax take from the operators of stallion stud services for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38718/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (25 Sep 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 161. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 67 of 19 September 2018, the reason successful candidates on the 2016 regional panels would not be given priority over new successful candidates who may be put on regional panels following the 2018 clerical officer campaign; the reason these regional panels would not be fully exhausted prior to...