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Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I do not know what it is, uphill or downhill. They are running up the hill every week on the radio, saying, "We are going to call an election", and they go back down the same side again. If they keep running up all the time, they will fall down on everything.

Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is not a filibuster. They are the laughing matter, not me.

Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is not the wrong speech. I never have speeches. The speech I wanted to make tonight is on an issue that they fought to make time for today, and on which we had a Business Committee meeting-----

Trade and Foreign Direct Investment: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is making a farce of the Dáil and the Business Committee, nothing short of that. They complained they did not have enough time. They have too much time because they have become time wasters in the extreme. I will address the motion. Seán Lemass was mentioned and rightly so. We have benefited from the EU and from foreign direct investment. I am very proud Clonmel has...

Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 was enacted in the wake of the murder of 29 people by the real IRA in Omagh on 15 August that year. As the former Minister for Justice and Equality said, it was a necessary response to the atrocity and the loss of 29 innocent lives, including a pregnant woman. I have spoken in the past about this with the Minister in his previous role in...

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The recent death of Thomas Power was the direct result of the lack of a full-time cath lab. It was wholly preventable. It is the triumph of bureaucracy over honesty and freedom for patients. The Taoiseach has family connections in Dungarvan. I met them here last week and wish them well. I represent south Tipperary and it is where we are going to go if anything happens. If the cath lab...

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I agree with Deputy Howlin but I believe we must go ahead with the Minister for Justice and Equality's request that the matter be taken this evening, as we always have done in the past.

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach is confused.

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am well aware of it. I was with Fianna Fáil long enough. I know the way it operates.

Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I agree that we should have a debate this evening, if possible, and a vote on the matter. It might have suited Deputy Micheál Martin better to have discussed these matters before the formation of the Government, rather than talking about denying us and other Members speaking time. He seems to have become preoccupied with it and took his eye off the ball. However, he is not in a...

Appointment of Members of Government and Ministers of State (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: He is not in the post office anyway.

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Action Plan for Rural Development (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 66. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the status of the implementation of the action plan for rural development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27547/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 217. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners were notified of a feed price increase by a processor in the poultry sector prior to that processor proceeding with the increase; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26836/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary can be provided with extra special needs hours to meet the needs of their students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26615/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Accommodation (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 716. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the development of a new Garda barracks in Clonmel, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26724/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 1195. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the benchmarked post tender construction costs of the new children's hospital against comparable construction costs for major acute hospitals internationally; the name of the major acute hospitals that were used for the purposes of such comparisons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27245/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 1196. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the business case made with respect to the new national children's hospital project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27246/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Reviews (20 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 1445. To ask the Minister for Health the number of terminations per year carried out under the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28489/17]

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Members are not allowed to talk-----

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (14 Jun 2017)

Mattie McGrath: We all know who it was.