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Questions on Proposed Legislation (6 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: The Legal Services Regulation Act 2015 has been enacted for a full 12 months, yet there is still no sign of the regulatory authority being set up. People are being charged enormous fees and significant issues arise in that regard. When will the regulatory authority which underpins the Act be set up?

Private Members' Business - Broadband Service Provision: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I am sharing time with two other Members who are on their way. I will take eight minutes.

Private Members' Business - Broadband Service Provision: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I move:“That Dáil Éireann: notes the importance of ensuring that every premises, school and business in Ireland should have access to high speed broadband; acknowledges that the National Broadband Plan (NBP) aims to address this conclusively; notes the importance of ensuring that no home, school or business is left behind in the implementation and delivery of the NBP; and...

Private Members' Business - Broadband Service Provision: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Private Members' Business - Broadband Service Provision: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister went through too fast.

Private Members' Business - Broadband Service Provision: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Nóiméad beag.

Private Members' Business - Broadband Service Provision: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Private Members' Business - Broadband Service Provision: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: The ewe is missing and the lambs are lost. They have no mother.

Private Members' Business - Broadband Service Provision: Motion [Private Members] (6 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Deputy Durkan should be the Ceann Comhairle, not the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.

Ibrahim Halawa: Motion (7 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I will speak for this motion on behalf of the Rural Alliance and I thank the Business Committee for presenting the motion. I also thank the Government for listening, because it has gone past time for us to take action. I thank the Minister, his officials, and the embassy staff and diplomats for all their hard work since the incarceration of Ibrahim Halawa almost 1,000 days ago. While some...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Mortgage Arrears Proposals (7 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 72. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to support proposals to issue a moratorium on house repossessions; her plans to establish a special court to deal with the issue of mortgage arrears and mortgage debt; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20248/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Deployment (7 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 73. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of full-time gardaí in the Garda Síochána's Tipperary division; the number due to retire in 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20249/16]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Expenditure (7 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: 173. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a breakdown of the savings made in each relevant sector of the Irish economy since the introduction of the Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Acts 2009, 2013 and 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20235/16]

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: He has gone to Europe now.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to be able to speak to the amendment. It is interesting that the former Minister, Deputy Alan Kelly, has left the Chamber. He and the previous Minister and now EU Commissioner, Phil Hogan, left us in a mess in setting up Irish Water, which I oppose fundamentally. However, I have huge difficulties with the amendment. We had a referendum on the Seanad and this seems to deny the...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: Those people did not mind paying for it and were glad to get it. I salute the pioneers of the group schemes who went out and championed their own water, sought funding and paid to bring water services to their houses. They were very glad of it. There is a big debate about what the European Commission has said and that the Exchequer funds having to pay for it, which is what Deputy Alan...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: I went to the water protest and was hunted by members of certain parties and I thank Deputy Adams for dealing with the treatment I received along with other councillors. It was the preserve of certain people who want to be anti everything and pro nothing.

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: They do not understand what it costs to treat water so that it is safe to drink and deliver it to households, but they want to make plenty of noise about it and cause mayhem. What happened to Deputy Joan Burton in west Dublin and the chicanery that went on with it was nothing but bullying and intimidation which I was also subjected to when I attended a march myself with colleagues from the...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: -----in spite of being asked by dozens of older people, who have been paying for water all their lives, to attend. We have a charade here. I was in discussions on the programme for Government for a number of days and never mentioned water charges once. There were many other issues that we debated that were far more serious. We wanted to form a Government to ensure that people had one,...

Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (12 Jul 2016)

Mattie McGrath: We have a great deal to think about. I believe in paying one's fair share. I do not believe Irish Water should have been set up. It led to the creation of a monster. It was unnecessary because of the local authorities, God be good to them, and the private pioneers who found sources, developed water schemes and are still running them. They have to pay. Where is the fairness? We talk...