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Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Stop.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is the same all over the country.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Scandalous.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Stepaside is okay.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Serious questions have to be asked about the effectiveness of oversight concerning both the assistance and benefit schemes operated by the Department of Social Protection. I received a reply which stated that between 2011 and 2016, €420 million was recovered by the Department due to overpayments. It also stated that cases of social welfare fraud totalling €53 million were...

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: That is not the question I put.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: No.

Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Some €53 million. It is a lot more than €20 million.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: We are happy to give it to the Minister of State.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thank Deputy Mary Butler for tabling this matter, contacting all of us and organising it. I was glad to sign it. We do not know where we are. We need 24-7 cardiac and emergency care. The Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, agrees and is fighting very hard for it. I know how hard he has fought at Cabinet and with the Minister as well as during the talks on the programme for Government....

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: That is especially so with the difficulties the Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, has had, which are known in the public domain, and the pressure he has been put under at Cabinet. I thank the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross, for being here to support his colleague in the Independent Alliance. The Minister for Health's honeymoon is well over now. He got an...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It must be very important.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: So is the south east.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: This is a very serious issue and we should not be fighting over it. The Minister of State, Deputy Halligan, should be careful for what he wishes. Christmas has gone and the turkeys have come home to roost, but he never knows what is coming. The Higgins and Herity reports are HSE spin. I am not castigating the people who produced the reports but what is important are the questions they...

Tillage Farming: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is rubbish.

Tillage Farming: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Deputy Daly should support them.

Tillage Farming: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Deputy Daly should listen to the farmers.

Tillage Farming: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Well said, Willie.

Tillage Farming: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I also welcome the very dignified protest that took place outside Government Buildings and Agriculture House. I welcome the IFA president, Joe Healy, and the IFA national grain chairman, Liam Dunne, along with na daoine óga, na buachailí óga a bhí amuigh agus na mná freisin. The Minister should know this because he is a farmer, as is the Minister of State, Deputy...

Tillage Farming: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I will confine myself to the issue of farming. It is the Deputies who know about farming who should confine themselves to the issue and who should look after farmers. The three Government Deputies present in the House were elected by people from rural areas but they will not support them. They went around, knocking on doors to get votes and support but when it was their turn to support the...