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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: When?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Health Care Issues - Crisis Pregnancy Management: Ms Janice Donlon, HSE (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Will that be in private or in public?

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The European Court of Auditors published a special report on rural development programming yesterday and it found that the process is very complex and vague and that not enough emphasis is being placed on achieving results. Is that not damning proof that there is no rural proofing of any legislation that has been passed? There has been great spin about rural development, massive reports...

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I know it does.

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: That is not true. It is worse now.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (15 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Deputy Kelly will take some minding.

Multi-Party Actions Bill 2017: Second Stage (14 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, welcome the introduction of this Bill and I compliment its authors. It is beyond time we had a measure such as this one that would make access to the courts possible for large numbers of people. Deputy Harty referred to people affected by the tracker mortgage scandal. The predatory nature of the banks, with them literally robbing and stealing from families, has gone on unimpeded....

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (14 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 71. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of the funding provided by her Department to organisations promoting the use of the Irish language; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47613/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Hurricane Ophelia occurred a number of weeks ago and a lot of damage was done to nurseries in south Tipperary and east Cork.

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Of course, it is. Apples are exported all over the world. The nurseries affected have contracts to fill. The Minister of State, Deputy Andrew Doyle, indicated that he would visit the ones affected but then refused to do so. I have also raised the matter with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Michael Creed, but nothing has been done for the nurseries affected

Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I will submit one also. The nurseries affected employ significant numbers of people. This has been the second knock for them within a couple of years. They need some support and empathy, at least, if nothing else.

Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: They were exposed by Deputy Michael Collins.

Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Thousands of them.

Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Tánaiste knows it is an utter failure.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I have also put my name to this amendment. Deputy Fitzmaurice tried on budget night to have the measure postponed until the end of the year, and I supported him. Many people have been caught by this for various reasons. Some blame auctioneers or solicitors, or in some cases the banks where they could not secure the finance in time, and those people should be given a window to conclude the...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I do not know whether the Chairman would say I am an experienced politician but I do not think I am a fool, thanks be to God. The Minister of State, however, must think that some of us are. He said amendment No. 64 would cost €162 million, and amendment No. 65 would cost €105 million. That comes to €267 million, I think. I agree with Deputy Burton and others. We saw...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Chairman is upsetting me in my stride.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I apologise for my late return. I was almost finished when we broke. I thank the Chairman for clarifying what happens on an hourly, daily, nightly and weekly basis. I have received telephone calls throughout the night about such matters. If the Minister does not know that this is true, I do not know where he is living and it is a case of hear no evil, speak no evil and see no evil....