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Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle asked me. He is goading me now.

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The amendments are there. Will I read out the amendment? It is not necessary. They are there to be debated. Whenever we reconvene on this Bill, I hope we will debate the amendments with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle or the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. As I said, the proposal in the Bill would soon fall into the same category of unworkable and unenforceable. It is very sad. As for the...

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I was prompted to think he may have been asleep. I did not believe he was sleeping. Can the Minister say why we did that? There was a scandal with toll bridges-----

Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: We should be.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (2 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 124. To ask the Minister for Health the operational costs of his Department in each of the years 2011 to 2017, excluding the HSE budget; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19169/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I refer to the Rebuilding Ireland programme. I am glad that the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government is in the House. The Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme is not working. My colleagues in the Rural Independents group and many other Deputies know of cases of people who had no problem in receiving refusals from the banks, either by telephone or email, but when they apply to...

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am referring to people on modest incomes who have some savings and want to house themselves. They are not expecting the Government to provide them with housing. They are honest, hard working and on modest incomes, but there is utter confusion between the county councils and the Department. Someone needs to provide clarity and the county councils need to be on the same page as the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: It is popular, but it is not working.

Questions on Promised Legislation (3 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: They are not getting access to it.

Markets in Financial Instruments Bill 2018: Second Stage (3 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am tempted to reply to that.

Markets in Financial Instruments Bill 2018: Second Stage (3 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I have known Deputy Broughan for a long time and I would never try to stifle him in a debate on serious issues. We did not set out to upset anyone but only to represent our constituents. I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I do not see many here to speak on it and do not know what difference it would have made if we had debated it last night. This Bill is complex, like so...

Markets in Financial Instruments Bill 2018: Second Stage (3 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: There will be no come-back. If we are not careful, we will be locked out from representing people, unfortunate individuals, whether they are self-employed or ordinary decent families who are trying to make a living. We are going down a very dangerous road in this legislation and other legislation yet to be introduced. I do not know if an analysis is ever carried out of the impact of some...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (8 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I extend sympathies on behalf of the Rural Independent Group on the sad passing of former Deputy, Monica Barnes, to her husband, Bob, and her daughters, Sarah and Joanne. She had a vibrant political career. I do not know what age Deputy McDonald is but I must be a bit older as I remember many robust debates on radio, television and at a number Ard-Fheiseanna when I belonged to a different...

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, and Dr. Michael Harty who did most of the work on the motion, I thank the Ceann Comhairle for the clarification. We were never asked at any stage would we be open to having an amendment or any discussion or debate. Our motion was submitted before this crisis arose and that is why it is the way it is. I am glad of the clarification and I hope it is...

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I want to ask the Taoiseach about the deal An Post is supposed to be offering to postmistresses and postmasters of post offices to buy them out of their business, thereby denying the people of many small villages and towns in rural Ireland a post office. We are told that as part of this deal, An Post seeks to gag the people who have signed the contract. They cannot talk about cuts to rural...

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: But it is closing them down.

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Buy him out.

Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Why will the Government not give post offices responsibility for driving licences?

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (8 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Thank you, a Cheann Comhairle, for allowing us to raise this important issue. I am disappointed that neither the Minister for Health nor the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly, who has responsibility for mental health, is present. However, it would make no difference if they were. County Tipperary does not have one psychiatric long-term or any other type of bed. We have a crisis house...

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (8 May 2018)

Mattie McGrath: It is a pity the Minister of State, some of his officials or the people who wrote his reply were not at the meeting. The Minister of State talked about pathways. There are no pathways. These people have nowhere to go. We had to hear all the hopelessness and helplessness of the parents and siblings who spoke at the meeting, although we knew it anyway. There are no beds. There is no space...