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Topical Issue Debate: Garda Station Refurbishment (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I really must raise this issue again. First, I pay tribute to a very sad victim who fell into the river, or was located in the river, in Carrick-on-Suir under the district of Clonmel superintendent Willie Leahy and his sergeant and staff in Carrick-on-Suir. I pay tribute to the public, the Civil Defence and everyone else involved. Carrick-on-Suir River Rescue carried out a huge search for...

Topical Issue Debate: Garda Station Refurbishment (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister for extending sympathy on behalf of the Government to the family of Elisha Gault and saluting all of the emergency people, volunteers and co-ordinators under Superintendent Willie Leahy and Kevin Langton, a good Laois-Offaly man, who is the principal of the secondary school she attended, Comeragh College in Carrick-on-Suir. We know where I am coming from. I am...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Employment Schemes Eligibility (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad to be able to speak to this motion this evening, which I am not supporting. I will be supporting Deputy Clare Daly's amendment to the motion. I have concerns about the vaccine as it has been rolled out in recent years. I have met countless families with daughters who have had adverse reactions to the vaccine. They cannot prove it but it is a big coincidence. There are nearly...

Service by the Defence Forces with the United Nations in 2016: Motion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak on this motion. I welcome the annual report on the Defence Forces activity with the United Nations. My home town of Clonmel has a long and noble tradition of having Defence Forces members on active duty overseas. It was a tradition we were all sad to see end with the closure of Kickham Barracks some years ago by the Government. That barracks was a prime location in...

Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, am delighted to speak on Second Stage of the Bill. I am a big supporter of foreign direct investment and IDA Ireland which has been out there since the very start. Mr. Padraic White was one of the first IDA Ireland men with whom I remember working. I commend the work IDA Ireland does in attracting business and especially jobs to Ireland, specifically County Tipperary. We are proud...

Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Gabh mo leithscéal?

Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am telling the Minister of State what the head of IDA Ireland told me. Dúirt bean liom go ndúirt bean léi. Dúirt fear é seo liom. He told me that himself and he is the head man out there, or so he told me, but perhaps he was telling me porkies. The Minister of State knows it too. It is all about Dublin.

Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I stand corrected. I will write to the Minister of State who might answer me.

Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I respect from where the Minister of State is coming.

Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I missed the Minister of State's comment, but perhaps it is just as well. To get back to the substantive issue dealt with in the Bill and CPOs, I remember Schering-Plough. It was a long time ago. I was a buachaill óg in school in An Chathair. Schering-Plough was to locate in Cahir, but the next thing was there were objections and it never came. I do not know whether it located in...

Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am coming to them. One cannot see the horses among the weeds with the buachalans being so high in the summer. Of course, there is a law to get rid of noxious weeds, but we cannot secure engagement and now the NRA has changed its name. It is like Judas Iscariot betraying his master. It has changed its name to Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, and one cannot talk to it. The Minister...

Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, I am focusing on them. I am talking about IDA Ireland lands. This land was subject to a CPO for the construction of a road which we hope will get investment back into my county, that of the Minister of State, Deputy Robert Troy and others.

Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I know. I am not saying the Minister of State's county does not one, but so do we. I am just saying beidh aonach amárach i gContae an Chláir. There will be also a mart and an after-mart. This wonderful community project is located in Cork and serves all of Munster and Leinster. It wants to have a base somewhere in east Cork or south Tipperary, but it cannot secure engagement...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services Data (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 110. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish citizens that consulates abroad have assisted following imprisonment in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14257/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 184. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the position of her Department regarding the Mercosur beef trade deal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14256/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TAMS Eligibility (28 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 234. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if financial assistance is available from his Department, farming organisations or European funding for farmers who require underpasses to access their land which may be crossed by regional roads in cases in which local authorities will not allow entrances onto the road; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14343/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The programme for Government contains commitments to young people, especially our students. The cost of student accommodation in Dublin has got completely out of hand. At DCU’s Shanowen Hall, which is only minutes from the main campus, it is currently €7,000 for nine months. It is going up, however, by 24% to €9,000 a year. They will only be in it for nine months,...

Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: He cannot even provide houses. He is hardly going to look after students.

Vehicle Registration Data (Automated Searching and Exchange) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Mar 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak on this Bill. As the Explanatory Memorandum makes clear its purpose is to give effect to certain measures of the European Council, decisions generally referred to as the Prüm decisions, after the town in Germany where the basis for the decisions was originally agreed, and to provide for related matters. I have never been in Germany never mind in Prüm. Maybe...