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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Irish League of Credit Unions (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)
Mattie McGrath: My questions are very similar to those of Deputy Ó Broin and Senator Grace O'Sullivan. The delay is inexplicable and it seems to be the same across the board. As with everything in this little system of ours, it is just a matter of pushing paper backwards and forwards. I have been presented with more options from different groups and different organisations, and credit unions are...
- Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Yes. We are all equal in our group.
- Quarterly Report on Housing: Statements (6 Jul 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The quarterly report speaks of increasing housing supply and 23 major urban housing development sites with capacity to deliver 30,000 new homes in the medium term in the greater Dublin area, Cork, Limerick and Galway being identified by the Department, in close collaboration with local authorities, in terms of the Department's new housing delivery objectives. Ar an gcéad dul...
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is a watchdog.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Deputy Smith should have come out and voted.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Deputies have to call a vote.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Leaders' Questions (6 Jul 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Good man.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I understand that. I obey that rule. I am here all the time.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The programme for Government specifically commits to supporting the agriculture industry. Farmers have been in Agriculture House since yesterday evening because they have not been paid the compensation they were meant to be paid following a debate in this House and a commitment made to pay them from a distressed fund. They should be at home now-----
- Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Jul 2017)
Mattie McGrath: -----preparing for their own missed harvest, as it were. The Minister would not meet them. There will be a sit-in for the whole weekend. I ask the Minister if he, the Taoiseach or the Tánaiste will direct the Minister, Deputy Creed, to meet these farmers.
- Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)
Mattie McGrath: The Business Committee discussed it and agreed it.
- Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is agreed.
- Order of Business (11 Jul 2017)
Mattie McGrath: They have stopped building.
- Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (11 Jul 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos, I thank the Ceann Comhairle and his good deputy, now sitting on this side of the House, for allowing us to raise this important Topical Issue. However, I wish to record that I am disgusted that the Minister for Health is not here. I met him in the corridor behind the Ceann Comhairle's seat only 15 minutes ago, so he is in the House. This is not the first...
- Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (11 Jul 2017)
Mattie McGrath: He is out in the corridor. He is afraid to come here.
- Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (11 Jul 2017)
Mattie McGrath: It is typical to read out a reply prepared by the mandarins. The Minister for Health is not listening and rural Ireland, as is normal, will be hardest hit by the retirement level among GPs. The figures are available. I do not know where the Minister of State got his figures for the usual spin. There are two GP associations to be dealt with. The Minister, Deputy Harris, and the HSE must...
- Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (11 Jul 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I have not been invited yet.
- Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (11 Jul 2017)
Mattie McGrath: He should come into the House and face us.
- Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (11 Jul 2017)
Mattie McGrath: That is not true.