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Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (8 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am not upset. I just want to find out who is responsible.

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (8 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Why is he not here so?

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (8 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State is not responsible, however.

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (8 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: We can come back but the post offices cannot come back.

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (8 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I know we are a week into the Lent but what the Minister of State is doing, blaming the Minister, Deputy Denis Naughten, is the greatest Pontius Pilate act I have ever witnessed. I had to deal with all the Departments involved and they dealt with our recent motion on this. We got the report from An Post. What does it do this week? It puts up the price of a stamp by 35% when sales of...

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (8 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: They will not be there.

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (8 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State is washing his hands of it now.

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (8 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State is washing his hands of it. He should use some soap.

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Closures (8 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Why does the Minister of State not wash his hands of it altogether on the way out?

National Educational Psychological Service: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I compliment Deputy Thomas Byrne on tabling this important motion. The NEPS is drastically understaffed, with 95,543 primary and post-primary pupils across almost 400 schools without access to an assigned NEPS psychologist. This is shocking. There also is a serious shortage of special autism spectrum disorder, ASD, classes, at post-primary level. In Clonmel, Tipperary, there are two...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I too am pleased the Bill has been introduced. My colleagues and I made this a very high priority, as did Fianna Fáil in the discussions for Government. It could not come too soon. It is well overdue. I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. During the previous Dáil, the Technical Group, of which the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, and I were members, tabled a...

Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I assure you I have not spoken on this matter before.

Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I know you would not. You have declared that. However, as you said you did not know, I could have pulled a fast one. I am not as keen as you think to have a microphone in front of me full-time. While I will support the Bill and I can see where the Minister of State is coming from, I am not fully in favour of it. I believe the concept is fine. I know it is a pilot project. I know...

Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: We have no problem with that.

Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, it is.

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (8 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 100. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all moneys provided by the State toward the development of a national paediatric hospital since 2006, including all costs associated with development such as design, planning, land acquisition, consultation, media and public relations, board payments, bonuses and so on; if approvals have been sought for an increase in the original estimate...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Capital Expenditure Programme (8 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 224. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all priority capital projects that have had their funding reduced in the 2017 HSE capital plan; the amount of the reductions that have occurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12307/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (8 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 225. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all revised allocations for the National Maternity Hospital project in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12308/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (8 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 226. To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocated for the construction of the new national forensic mental health service hospital in Portrane and all revised allocations that have occurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12309/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (8 Mar 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 227. To ask the Minister for Health if the capital spending allocated for the National Rehabilitation Hospital was reduced by €8 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12310/17]