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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Stamp Duty (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: In Dublin.

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Confidence and supply.

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I will not lower myself to that standard, not on this particular day anyway. I also congratulate the new Tánaiste and wish him well. Like Deputy Martin, he passes through Tipperary when he goes to Dublin. I also congratulate the newly appointed Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Heather Humphreys. It is a very important brief because of Brexit, which is having a...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I too am very concerned about this, having listened to the Minister of State's contribution and read his speech. It is proposed that we join up to these two projects just on a whim, as it were. This motion was slipped into the business today nicely when people are very busy with everything else. What would have happened if an election had been called? Would the Government have put down...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Gabh mo leithscéal. I did not interrupt the Deputy. It has happened before with respect to soldiers when the Deputy opened her mouth where she should not have, and she knows where that got her.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am in possession.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: The Deputy knows well what I am talking about.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Can I continue?

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am not casting any aspersions. I am just saying that things were said before about soldiers.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I do not need any lecture from Deputy Chambers.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I just said that the Deputy was casting aspersions on other Members who were not supporting this motion, and if she did not mention us, I am also a member of the Rural Independent Group. We are not supporting and will not be supporting this motion and neither will we be taking any lectures. I added a caveat that the Deputy got into trouble before for saying things about soldiers, when it...

Legal Proceedings against Members of Dáil Éireann: Motion (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted that the Business Committee has taken this course of action as we have no choice but to defend the legal proceedings, although I vindicate the right of former Deputy Joe Costello or any citizen to take a case. The Government needed to be prodded and former Deputy Joe Costello prodded it well. The matter has been placed on the Order Paper for next week and will be discussed...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. Clearly, there is a huge crisis for the health insurance market and it is deepening by the day, if not by the hour. I first started thinking about health insurance when I got married in 1984. I started my family and established a business. When health insurance products first come onto the market, I welcome them with open arms. I do not...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: Is it? Well it is happening all the time in the hospital in Clonmel and in other hospitals. A patient might then be on a trolley for two or three nights and be charged the price of a bloody top-class hotel room when they do not even have a bed. This practice is widespread - certainly in Tipperary. I would not say that unless it was the case. What is happening is wrong. I heard a...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is regulated but my point is that the regulator - as is the case with most regulators - is useless. We have seen it in the insurance industry and in the context of energy prices. Look at the concrete industry. It is a cabal of the highest order and the regulator is doing nothing. All the smaller people are being forced out of business and gobbled up. We have regulators and legislation...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: This is the topic. A man died. He was a young man with five kids.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: It is a human life. He was a young, healthy man-----

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: -----with four children. His partner was expecting another child at the time. I was aware of the tragic death.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: I am talking about health standards. What is the point in paying insurance if one is treated like that in hospital? Does the Acting Chairman not get it? Is it not connected? Let us be fair. If one pays health insurance, one expects it to be foolproof. I am not saying it happens every day but one person dying is one too many. It is appalling that the man in question was sent home...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Contracts (30 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: 135. To ask the Minister for Health the changes he is considering regrading the reversal of FEMPI based cuts to general practitioner funding. [51410/17]