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

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach publishes everything.

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

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach should put it into practice.

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

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach should put it into practice.

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

Mattie McGrath: They want action.

Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Deputy Michael Healy-Rae is first.

Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, welcome the motion tonight from a Labour Party that has made a Damascene-like turnaround. It must be the first anniversary of being out of Government - it was just 12 months last week - that has caused this Damascene-like turnaround. We could not talk to the former Minister, Deputy Howlin, who was like the high priest, when he was the Minister for fiscal responsibility. However, I...

Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Then the Labour Party got into bed with Fine Gael. What did it do? Persecute the ordinary people and put them into penury and here we are now thinking of selling off the bank. If this bank is sold, the money must go into infrastructure for rural and urban areas of Ireland and the ordinary people. What about the people in the courts in Clonmel, Nenagh and all over the country today who...

Proposed Sale of AIB Shares: Motion [Private Members] (9 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: They were at the Business Committee last week.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (9 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 410. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the proposed reduction in ward capacity at St Patrick's Hospital, Cashel, and the Sacred Heart community hospital, Dungarvan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21682/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Home Accommodation Provision (9 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 411. To ask the Minister for Health the level of funding his Department has provided for capital investment in public nursing homes since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21683/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: My colleague, Deputy Michael Healy-Rae, raised the issue of the savage attack on that wonderful family in Tipperary. I wish to ask about the bail legislation and the proposals on tagging. These criminals - roving rogues and scurrilous scumbags - have to be tagged. I have seen an experiment done in England where there was tagging of badgers. It is amazing what can be done when there is...

Questions on Promised Legislation (10 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Why are they not tagged?

Dublin Transport: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, am happy to speak on this motion tonight. I note that the motion recognises that transport and travel needs within the greater Dublin area are unsustainable - we heard that a long time ago - and that "congestion is increasing, transport emissions are growing, economic competitiveness is suffering and quality of life for commuters and inhabitants is declining". I had to look at...

Dublin Transport: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: He did. He came to Kerry as well. It was very important that a lot of the officials were down with the Minister and understand. We need a spur road now to come from the N24 at Cahir, off the M8 motorway, right up to Limerick and we cannot have it all on the western corridor. We need investment. We have a proud population that can work. We have people with all kinds of skill sets who...

Dublin Transport: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is all about Dublin.

Dublin Transport: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: All about Dublin, every way we turn, not only in here but in the system. It has gobbled it up now. It has cannibalised itself. It is Dublin, Dublin, Dublin, Dublin, and who are we from outside in the country to complain? We hit the Naas junction for the-----

Dublin Transport: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Was not Deputy Troy's party in government?

Dublin Transport: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I did not interrupt Deputy Troy. The Deputy is entitled to put down his motion. I have no problem with that. That is his right. I am not supporting it. I am surprised at a man from the back end of Mullingar to be giving everything to Dublin.

Dublin Transport: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Of course I will. I understand that. I am meeting Donie Cassidy in the bar while I have my supper. I must get this man back on track because he is getting a bit out of hand going off after Dublin and abandoning rural Ireland. We need jobs in rural Ireland. We need development in rural Ireland. We need infrastructure in rural Ireland. We are not begging for anything. We are entitled to...

Dublin Transport: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2017)

Mattie McGrath: You will not be able to find it if you keep going the way you are.