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Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I compliment the Independent Group on putting down this very timely and important motion.

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Labour Party, excuse me. Gabh mo leithscéal. It could not be more timely, facing into the winter with the long nights, the loneliness and the isolation, especially for people with disabilities. When I see what goes on in the HSE, I saw a headline this morning that it has hired 800 managers and administration people this year already despite the ban. That is where the problem is....

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (8 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 36. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will make funding available to businesses in County Tipperary that have been damaged by flooding following recent storms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48919/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (8 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 48. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to outline the provisional timelines of announcements for the sports capital and sports capital equipment programme 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48920/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Weather Events (8 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 72. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will make funding available to homes in County Tipperary that have been damaged by flooding following recent storms; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48919/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Asylum Seekers (7 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: We welcome that. We will not get back into the tweets and will leave them for another day, but I will get back into realpolitik. The Minister says his Department will not take away housing or shelters, but this is what is happening in Cashel. Officials from the Minister's Department told me they want accommodation and their duty is to get it from wherever, whoever and whatever, so we need...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Asylum Seekers (7 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: What is the number?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Asylum Seekers (7 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: It is.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Asylum Seekers (7 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 34. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline, in light of recent statements by members of Government in relation to the pressures currently being faced in terms of the level of people seeking refuge and asylum in this country, the plans his Department has to urgently address these high levels; to address the concerns in relation to the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Asylum Seekers (7 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I tabled this question last Thursday before the events transpired in Cashel. I want to ask the Minister about the current pressures on the numbers of asylum seekers entering this country. Recent statements were made by An Taoiseach and, indeed, by the Tánaiste in the last ten days, but more importantly the Taoiseach when he was in Korea. He spoke about the pressures we have here and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Asylum Seekers (7 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Joe O'Brien, for their engagement with us on Cashel over the weekend and particularly with me last night. We have done our fair share, of course we have. The Taoiseach is making these soundings as is the Tánaiste, but we all know we just cannot cope. Why did the Government feel it necessary to send out a tweet in numerous...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Cheann Comhairle. We could stand here and talk about housing, as we are doing every second week. I was a member of the housing committee for five years - the most frustrating five years I ever spent. We can talk and talk and talk. We just have lost the ability to build. I am a member and vice-chairman - I was chairman - of a voluntary housing association....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The N24 Cahir to Waterford project has been further delayed. We were supposed to get news of the preferred route by quarter 2 of 2023 but that has now been put back to quarter 1 or 2 of 2024. This is unacceptable, especially in light of all of the road deaths and the information Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, has given to the Minister for Transport about the number of deaths and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The people of Cashel in County Tipperary were bewildered last Thursday evening, as were all of us public representatives, when we got a note from the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman's Department - the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth - about a homeless hostel, which is a major plank of Tipperary County Council's effort to house homeless people. People were told...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: They are using these people as economic cash cows to get money from people. This situation must be dealt with. We must call a halt to it. I want a full debate, including questions and answers because this has to stop. We cannot keep doing it in other communities. Cashel is a wonderful community.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The people there are great but this is not fair to them.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)

Mattie McGrath: They are not agreed.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, has issued another report today. Its last report blamed farmers for polluting our waterways. Farmers have implemented huge mitigation measures and are continuing to do so but need time to show results. I have been raising the issue of sewerage plants in every part of the country. This EPA report does not mention one plant in County Tipperary. In...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: It is the EPA. It is not doing its job as regards the public authorities, Uisce Éireann, looking after treatment plants.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: It has not been to any place in Tipperary. Tá an map anseo agam.