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Other Questions: Animal Welfare (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I do not accept the Minister's answer good nor bad. Farmers as we all know are excellent at animal husbandry and they are caring, and they are penalised severely with traceability and everything else. We have seen sulkies driven by horses that tumble upside down on the road and the horses are left there for dead and dying. It happened in Cashel this year, it happened at Horse and Jockey...

Other Questions: Animal Welfare (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I know it is, but we need to wake up here and see we must have fair play for everybody who treats an animal and everybody who mistreats an animal.

Other Questions: Animal Welfare (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: That is not true.

Other Questions: Animal Welfare (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I know differently.

Other Questions: Animal Welfare (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, that is what I am talking about.

Other Questions: Animal Welfare (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: They are and they have.

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, am happy to speak to the Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017. The new Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Deputy Regina Doherty, introduced the Bill on Second Stage before the recess in July. I wish her well in her new role. Section 4 has generated significant controversy. It provides that, "From the beginning of 2018, a quarterly...

Animal Welfare: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I also was born and reared on a farm. We had every type of animal one might think of, including cows, pigs, sheep, dogs and hens. Reference has been made tonight to good animal husbandry in 99.9% of farms. Someone referred to mental health issues, and it is possible that on an odd occasion there is cruelty because of different pressures. I have great respect for Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan,...

Animal Welfare: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: They are all Fine Gael dogs. They cannot bark. They are muzzled.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 112. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress that has been made in implementing the recommendations of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach report on the rising costs of car insurance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41522/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Human Trafficking (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 229. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the detail of his Department's engagement with a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41480/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Products Regulatory Authority (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 431. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of counterfeit medication that has been confiscated annually since 2011; the types of counterfeit medication involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41850/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (3 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 432. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the introduction of legislation dealing with assisted human reproduction; the areas which will be covered under such legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41851/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: They can vote if they come back.

Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Commitments to improve child welfare services are outlined on page 75 of the programme for Government. This morning the organisation One in Four stated it was extremely worried that dangerous offenders might be continuing to abuse children, even though they had been brought to the attention of Tusla. When I raised this matter with the Taoiseach recently, I told him that Tusla had received a...

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (4 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad the Minister is here to hear this. We in the Rural Independent Group brought in a Bill here last September. It was agreed by the Government. My secretary spent time negotiating with the Minister's office, for which I thank him, and the Taoiseach's office and the Department of the Minister for Rural and Community Development, Deputy Michael Ring - God help us - to agree on wording...

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (4 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I must declare that my sister runs a post office. Her staff member, Helen, had a stroke and I wish her well in her recovery. I hope the Minister's aunt is not watching the debate or she will have a stroke. It is a good job that he has made his First Holy Communion and Confirmation because he would receive no envelope. She would instead give him a red card. It is up to the Independent...

Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, compliment Deputy Cowen on bringing forward this Bill. He has shown through his freedom of information requests to each local authority that there were over 2,600 vacant units in the country in council ownership. That they were in council ownership is very important to note. The information provided to the Deputy also shows that, in 2014 and 2015, there was a reduction of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I thank our guests for attending here today to give their perspective on the issue. My first question is for Ms Logan. I have read the new position paper released today, Human Rights and Equality Considerations in the Development of a New Legislative and Regulatory Framework on Abortion. I respectfully put it to Ms Logan that it is very noticeable that there is not a single mention in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Constitutional Issues Arising from the Citizens Assembly Recommendations (4 Oct 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Fine.