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Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Closures (4 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am not saying that he can solve the problem but I would ask him to meet her, as he has already committed to doing.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Closures (4 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It needs to inform the families too.

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Closures (4 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: What does the word "temporary" mean in the HSE's vocabulary?

Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (4 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thank Deputy Aylward for allowing me to speak on this matter. A group of Members from Kilkenny and I have already met the Minister on this and I know he is committed to visiting the road in question. It is a treacherous and exceptionally dangerous stretch of road because of the spacing between the junctions. The road barrier is a steel rope and would be lethal if one hit it. There have...

Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (4 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: They have been over the past ten years.

Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (4 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: What about the parish priest?

Topical Issue Debate: Road Safety (4 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: What about the rector?

Rural Equality Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to speak on this important Bill. I compliment Deputy Martin Kenny on the work and research he has done in order to put down the legislation. I welcome the Minister to the House. Deputy Michael Collins will be aware that in the long negotiations concluded this time 12 months ago, the Rural Independent Group insisted on a Minister for rural affairs. I do not want in any...

Rural Equality Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I know. I am not saying a word to the Minister. She has the task and she is doing her best. I am saying that rural affairs deserved a full ministry. In rejecting Deputy Martin Kenny's Bill, the Minister is the one who introduced topics to the discussion, including with regard to public bodies engaging in box-ticking exercises. She also stated that rural Ireland does not stop at the farm...

Rural Equality Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: They are not going well. The mushrooms are not going well. I go up there an odd time so I know what is going on. I am surprised. Is the Minister too far away from it now? She has been removed with her State car and she does not understand what is going on. Rural people will work for themselves. They are not looking for handouts, they are looking for fair play and equity. The...

Rural Equality Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: People who appeal cases will get away with it now. We are passing retrospective laws here-----

Rural Equality Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: -----to make legal what was done. That is a disgrace. It is an insult to ordinary rural people who are trying to clean their rivers and allow the waterways to be free to get flooding away from houses and roads.

Rural Equality Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: What did the Parliament do last night? It passed a law to make the fines and the punishment legal. People were brought to court, charged and found guilty and their names were in newspapers wrongly-----

Rural Equality Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: -----because there was no legislation to do it. We are introducing retrospective legislation. That is what we are doing to people in rural Ireland. It is lip-service and to hell or to Connacht. The ordinary people are only minions and they do not matter. I was surprised by the Minister of State. I did not think I would ever be in the House passing legislation to make people guilty of...

Rural Equality Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The courts had no authority under any legislation to charge people. They were brought to court and now we are making legislation to make it right. One cannot make a wrong right, and one cannot make rural Ireland right unless the Government gets serious about it and tears out the officials and gets them down and dirty, and down behind the shopkeepers and to the post offices so they...

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Dungarvan, of course, has been mentioned by Deputy Cullinane. In Cashel, last week, we all got the same news that wards were closing down - valuable respite beds and recuperation beds. It is putting huge pressure on Waterford, as was mentioned earlier today, and South Tipperary General Hospital. It is not a new development that we cannot recruit nurses. I am a businessman and if I said...

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: No competition at all.

Order of Business (9 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Dúirt bean liom go ndúirt bean léi.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 5. To ask the Taoiseach the number of times the Cabinet Committee on Regional and Rural Affairs has met since the formation of the current Government. [21839/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: We will have to go to visit because it was said that it was daylight when they left the house after parties. I heard the programme too. Good Irish cultural music and heritage is important. I asked how many times the Cabinet committee on regional and rural affairs has met since the formation of the Government. I am disappointed to hear the Taoiseach say that it has met four times last...