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Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I will not. I allowed too many questions from her and her colleagues during the previous Dáil. What we now have from the Minister of State is crocodile tears and a statement that she was not aware the cuts were being introduced.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Deputy Lynch is a Minister of State.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: That is fine. However, I am putting it on the record. The Minister of State can agree or not. I have the floor. I do not interrupt the Minister of State.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: A Leas-Cheann Comhairle, I have the floor. Are you chairing the proceedings or not?

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Then do so. I have the floor.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: There are no lies. Excuse me, there are no lies. The Minister of State knows all about lies. There are no lies in what I am saying. The Minister of State was a member of the committee. She should be ashamed of herself. She comes from a Cork constituency and demanded so much.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: No, I was interrupted. The heat is too much for the Minister of State, Deputy Lynch. The former Minister of State, Deputy Róisín Shortall, at least had the courage of her convictions and pulled out. The Minister for Health wants to let elderly people die on the roads and, as I stated previously in Clonmel, to humiliate them.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister has a big house in Offaly and is part owner of a private nursing home in Carrick-on-Suir. The Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, is seeking the closure of the public nursing home in Tipperary. The Minister is also involved in a private development in Dublin. He is too busy to look after ordinary people.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: He is not interested in rural or ordinary people.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister promised so much. He came in here and promised the troika would be burned and attacked but what have we got? What we have is a humiliation of-----

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: No, the Government should be ashamed of itself. Its members are poachers turned gamekeepers, and they should be ashamed of themselves.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I have no notion of withdrawing them.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: They are the facts. The Minister is involved in a private nursing home in Carrick-on-Suir. HIQA is proposing closure of the public home.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister has a mansion in County Offaly and other private interests.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: No. I want to finish my contribution first.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: No. I would like another half a minute. I was interrupted.

Home Help and Home Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I was continuously interrupted. They cannot take the situation.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Prices (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce a pay as you go system of taxation to assist road hauliers who are struggling to meet large taxation on their vehicles due to current market conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44631/12]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Payments (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a overpayment of PRSI contributions by a company (details supplied) in South Tipperary will be refunded; the reason for the delay in issuing such a refund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44662/12]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (16 Oct 2012)

Mattie McGrath: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a disadvantaged area payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44751/12]