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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: A new study released last week found that sewage discharge released into rivers is far worse-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Sewage discharge is far worse than what is coming off the land from agriculture. The University of Oxford revealed that sewage discharge into rivers has a greater impact on water quality and the animals and plant life in the rivers than effluent from farmers, despite the bashing of farmers all the time. The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, is not honest on this and it must be...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Be honest.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: What about the EPA?

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I thank you for your forbearance.

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I propose the adjournment.

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, but if there is no water there will be no gas.

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: If you are fracking gas, you need to have water to keep things cool. It is all part of the construct that was set up and the separation of duties. I will go back to the gas but I am just saying that we have three reservoirs. There is one in Carrick-on-Suir on the Lingaun river, another in the Ardfinnan regional water scheme and a third in the Galtee region water scheme. They are massive...

Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I appreciate the Ceann Comhairle allowing me to contribute this time because my colleagues needed the other time. They had a lot to say on this issue, being from rural Ireland, as we all are in the Rural Independent Group. I am the same. I do not have any personal animosity towards the Minister of State, or the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, whose grandmother - a sheanmháthair - agus a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The pig industry is facing a huge recruitment crisis. Recent research shows that almost 50% of pig farmers will exit the market if they cannot get workers. Some 48% of those same farmers have vacancies but they are not allowed to recruit outside the State. They cannot fill the vacancies at home and they are not allowed to recruit from outside the State. It is a desperate crisis for them....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I rise today to ask the Taoiseach on my behalf and that of my colleagues in the Rural Independent Group to please intervene in the situation pertaining to An Garda Síochána, the Garda Representative Association, GRA, and the Garda Commissioner. As we know, there was an unprecedented vote, with 99% of GRA members voting no confidence in the Garda Commissioner. There was a great...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I am not accusing him.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Unfortunately, I am just stating a fact. When these talks were going on last weekend, where was the Commissioner? He was at the rugby match in France. We think he has no interest in his members. I plead with him to give resources to gardaí in Tipperary, so they can defend themselves and the public. Goodness knows, the community in Clonmel want to thank the Government and everybody...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I note the Ceann Comhairle's concerns but 99% of the Garda members do not have confidence in the Commissioner. Its members are contacting every Member, including, I am sure, those on the Government side. It is a crazy situation where the Government is going to give a blank cheque to this Commissioner. As I said, intense efforts were made by the GRA and senior people in the Department of...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, support the motion today, and not because I am fan of the hard left or People Before Profit-Solidarity. The Government has led itself into a disastrous situation. It has gone down a cul-de-sac and will not build public houses. It will not allow people to build houses on their own land in the country. It was not this Government but a previous Fine Gael Government that closed down...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Care Services (26 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: There is nothing wrong with the Déise either.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (26 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Useless.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (26 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: In ten years' time.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (26 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos, gabhaim buíochas leis an gCeann Comhairle, leis an Rialtas agus le gach éinne eile as an gcabhair a thug siad do dhaoine Chluain Meala cúpla seachtain ó shin when we had a very tragic time in Clonmel. I thank the whole community, the Clonmel school community, An Garda Síochána, all the agencies and all the people in the community...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (26 Sep 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I should have thanked the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this Topical Issue tonight. Uisce Éireann is not hands-on. It does not understand the pipe network or the reservoirs. It has a plan to stop taking water from the water treatment plant in Poulavanogue. It has laid a pipe 3 km up the road to pump water back up there. What it is doing is bizarre. It does not want to know and it...