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Topical Issue Debate: Rural Transport Services Provision (4 Dec 2013)

Mattie McGrath: The process in respect of this matter should be transparent and open. The Minister of State should consider the proposals Ring a Link has submitted. On Sunday last, Ring a Link celebrated carrying 500,000 passengers since its inception. It caters for some 80,000 passengers each year - on a six-days-per-week basis - and 50% of these are individuals who avail of services in south Tipperary....

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Transport Services Provision (4 Dec 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I know where the Minister of State lives. I have not yet had a cup of tea in his house but I believe my brother has done so. I am very friendly with the Minister of State's mother. This is not personal. The Minister of State is seeking to cut the number of groups from 36 to 18. We have a three-county structure in place and if this were followed across the board, there would only be...

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Transport Services Provision (4 Dec 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I apologise if the Minister of State was not invited.

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Transport Services Provision (4 Dec 2013)

Mattie McGrath: That is not true.

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Transport Services Provision (4 Dec 2013)

Mattie McGrath: We have a model in place.

Topical Issue Debate: Rural Transport Services Provision (4 Dec 2013)

Mattie McGrath: It will set us back six years.

Electricity Infrastructure: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (4 Dec 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted that the Fianna Fáil Party tabled this motion. I am exhilarated to see the Minister in the House to listen and reply to the debate. I tabled a parliamentary question two weeks ago and I thought I was back in the era of Mary Harney, with the idea that the Minister has no responsibility for EirGrid. He evaded responsibility. I am delighted he is sitting up and listening...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Services Provision (4 Dec 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 114. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding Burncourt regional water supply; when will works be completed; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many customers in this area are on a boil water notice for around four years; his views on whether this is a satisfactory level of service for customers; the reason for the delay in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome our visitors, some of whom have been before us previously. They are very busy people who are trying to do a day's work and make sense of this issue. I welcome Mr. Slye who has apologised for not providing the material for us in advance. He has apologised a number of times for the way EirGrid has got the consultation process wrong. Will it not go back to basics? I have been a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I watched it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Mr. Slye did.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)

Mattie McGrath: That is what the ESB has been doing for years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Mr. Slye cannot say he got it wrong - terribly wrong. I have said this 20 times, ten times, seven times at committee meetings. What is wrong with W R O N G? The man who never made a mistake never made anything. This is why he continues in fooling the people. Mr. Slye must admit he got it wrong. That is the reason we need total independent analysis now. This year many of us were at the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Straight talk, please.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)

Mattie McGrath: But he just said the word-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Electricity Transmission Network: Discussion with EirGrid (4 Dec 2013)

Mattie McGrath: I want five seconds. Technology has evolved how many times since that evaluation was done. I imagine the difference in cost would now be much less than a factor of three. By the time EirGrid goes to break ground, the cost of the two options will nearly be on a par. I think Mr. Slye has admitted that himself. He will not say the word "wrong", but that is what is wrong with the thing....

Order of Business (10 Dec 2013)

Mattie McGrath: In respect of the shambles surrounding the new National Driver Licence Service centres where people cannot get licences for work and holidays and the road transport Bill, when will the Taoiseach review this procedure because we do not want to see another SUSI or HSE?

Order of Business (10 Dec 2013)

Mattie McGrath: In respect of the Protection of Employees (Temporary Agency Work) Act 2012, I am sure the Taoiseach is aware of the situation in the hostel in Tipperary and the FÁS workers there. When might the report of the FÁS and Pobal investigations be published?

Order of Business (10 Dec 2013)

Mattie McGrath: Well I have asked that the Taoiseach respond.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (10 Dec 2013)

Mattie McGrath: 160. To ask the Minister for Finance further to the VAT rates section of the Revenue Commissioner's website which contains a subpage with respect to the supply and fit of cow mats, if he will provide details of when this subpage was published; the contents of this initial subpage; the changes that have been made to this subpage since it was initially published; the person who requested each...