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- Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Close enough.
- Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: There is nothing wrong with that.
- Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Show us the money. Tabhair dúinn an airgead.
- Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: There are not many of the Minister of State's colleagues here anyway.
- Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Ar an chéad dul síos, déanaim comhbhrón le clanna na daoine a fuair bás inné. They were Ms Clare O'Neill, whose home was not too far away from me in Aglish, Contae Port Láirge, Mr. Fintan Goss in County Louth and Mr. Michael Pyke. I know the Pyke family and express my sympathy to all the families. The Pyke family is hard-working and decent, and Michael's...
- Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: That is wishful thinking.
- Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I said it last week on "Prime Time" on RTÉ, which was pitting Dundrum in Tipperary - a fine rural village - against Dundrum in Dublin with respect to property tax. 10 o’clock It was said that we should table motions to keep the property tax that is paid in Tipperary in Tipperary and keep the equalisation fund. The statistics demonstrate that over 50% of Ireland's GDP, which...
- Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Of course Galway is awake. They won the all-Ireland. They are alive and awake and are not going to accept this any more because it has gone on for far too long. All governments have paid lip service, but the permanent government are here, with their hands on the handlebars, and it would take a jackhammer to get them off. They do not want to give anything to rural Ireland. Let the...
- Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: When are the jobs coming to rural Ireland? I spoke to people from the IDA in Washington in America last St. Patrick's Day. I was told that they were not even coming as far as Kildare, Naas, or Meath. I will check the stats.
- Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: One can have all the stats and all the reports. The national planning framework is a bad business. I do not accept the national planning framework people. Who are they? It is all jobs for the boys - retired county managers and retired senior officials. There are very few ordinary people, like shopkeepers or small business people from Tipperary, Kerry, Cork or any other place. No, they...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Data (17 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 39. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of referrals made to Tusla across all abuse categories in each of the years 2011 to 2016; the procedures that are followed following a referral to Tusla; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43445/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Referendum Data (17 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 154. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the costs of all referenda held since 2001; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43579/17]
- Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Smoked salmon.
- Pre-European Council: Statements (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this matter. I note from the invitation letter of President Donald Tusk that members will be updated on where the EU stands in terms of a political discussion on the external aspects of migration, with a specific focus on the financial measures necessary to stem the flow of illegal migrants from Africa. That is vital but we are late to the table and...
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: In July the Joint Committee on Social Protection published a review of the contributory State pension. Some of the main recommendations made by the committee include the fact that the joint committee is of the view that the current averaging system is inequitable and a new type of contribution system should be devised. The joint committee noted that the Minister is considering the...
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: Miserable woman I call her for the way she treated people. The joint committee considered that the 2012 changes, specifically-----
- Correcting Pension Inequities: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: All right but I think I am parliamentary enough at this stage. The joint committee recognises that pension recipients deserve to have a feeling of stability and security about their incomes, and urges the introduction of some form of indexation of pension rates. Family carers, women who stayed at home to mind sick children, sick husbands or their in-laws are the hardest hit. It is a mean...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Nitrates Action Programme Implementation (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: 208. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding changes to the slurry spreading closed season deadline; if there is now provision for increased flexibility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44096/17]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: I do not mind waiting until our guests have finished but I want to comment in public session.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Business of Joint Committee (18 Oct 2017)
Mattie McGrath: All right.