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Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Data (16 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 1061. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home care packages being provided, by county, in tabular form; if he is satisfied that the current provision of home care packages is sufficient; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1609/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (16 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 1078. To ask the Minister for Health the status of construction of the patient modular unit at South Tipperary General Hospital; when it will commence operation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1752/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (16 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 1223. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the funding provided to local authorities for horse wardens, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1603/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Recreation Promotion (16 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 1530. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will address a matter regarding an agricultural show (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54910/17]

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: An issue we talk about all the time and about which the Taoiseach said he was shocked is the trolley crisis and delays in emergency departments. We have been trying to extend the community hospital in Clogheen in Tipperary for six or seven years. It is a fabulous facility and excellent care is provided there. A number of local organisations, Friends of St. Theresa's and Boston Scientific,...

Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am tired of asking about this.

Section 39 Agency Staff Reimbursements: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I too compliment Deputy Calleary for putting down the motion. The nice flowery language from the Ministers of State, Deputies Finian McGrath and Jim Daly, will not help the people in the Gallery and those who protested outside. In my book, fair play is fine play. Everyone had to take the cuts, except the preserved few, including senior civil servants. They were also exonerated from having...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to speak on the Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017. Any fatality on the roads is one too many. I send my profound sympathies to those families who have lost loved ones. I say that from the bottom of my heart. I have met families whose family members were either killed or injured on the roads due to drink driving. Members raise issues here which are of significant concern to...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The Road Safety Authority does much good work but it is all too powerful and has too much of a say. I had an issue with the regulations around the laden weight of a three-axle vehicle which the Minister addressed with the stroke of a pen. Countless Ministers have refused to sign this statutory instrument for 13 years. The current Minister signed it - perhaps not knowing about the...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I did not laugh at Deputy Jonathan O'Brien.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The Deputy's mother is from Tipperary and he is laughing at Tipperary.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Can I have the protection of the Chair?

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I give credit where credit is due, and always would but these issues are sadly lacking and the Road Safety Authority is not doing what it should be doing, nor are many other quangos. If they were, the insurance cartels would be broken. We have regulators for insurance too. What is going on with young people is an abomination. They are being destroyed and their fathers and mothers are...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Fine. I give credit where credit is due, to any party, including Deputy Ó Broin on the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government, and others on different issues. I ask the Minister to address the matter of drug-driving tests. On the issue of drug-driving, I got a text message from a member of An Garda Síochána based in a station in a big town in rural Ireland...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I got a picture message of a box about the size of the Chair's desk with a "Do Not Touch" sticker on it. It was drug testing equipment but it could not be touched because none of the gardaí had been trained to use it. What is the Minister doing about drug-driving? I do not condone it. When he replies, I want the Minister to tell me what is being done about drug-driving. How many...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am only 30 seconds over. I lost time to two interruptions. I am the final speaker before the Minister replies and I would like some leeway.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The new report on that incident has not been finalised by the Garda. Their lives were taken in a serious incident which was not properly investigated. The Garda Síochána has no way of getting out to the bay. I fully support the Garda and I ask the Minister to please support the force and the traffic corps, in particular.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Jan 2018)

Mattie McGrath: They should be given the powers and the tools because when they are doing a checkpoint, if there is a robbery or something else happens nearby, they are despatched to it. The vans sit there on their merry way and they will probably get the gardaí on their way to catch the robbers if they go past a few kilometres over the speed limit.