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Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to be back here this evening. I thank the officials and the Chair for allowing me to come back in. We have come to the Minister, Deputy Ross, numerous times on this Bill. Ar an gcéad dul síos, ba mhaith liom a rá, the reason we are back here is that the Bill was recommitted and the reason for that is the approach of the Minister. The Attorney General...

Dublin Fire Brigade: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak on the motion this evening which I support. I compliment my Fianna Fáil colleagues on tabling the motion. I got very worried when I read in the motion that there are concerns that the Health Service Executive is seeking to remove the delivery of Dublin's ambulance service from Dublin Fire Brigade and instead to merge the service with the National Ambulance Service....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Assisted Suicide (19 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 268. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has reviewed or plans to review the prohibition of euthanasia, assisted dying and physician assisted suicide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26849/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Advanced Healthcare Directives (19 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 373. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the findings of the working group established to assist in the development of the code of practice on advanced healthcare directives; the membership of the working group; the number of times it has met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26603/18]

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: In a report in today's Irish Independent, the journalist, Katherine Donnelly, provides a detailed and disturbing analysis of a new study by Dr. Rosaleen McElvaney of the school of nursing and human sciences at Dublin City University. The analysis was funded by St. Patrick's mental health services. Dr. McElvaney found that primary schools are engaging with children, some as young as four...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Where is the Taoiseach living? Is he living at home?

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Unfortunately I do not think the Taoiseach gets it. We can quote all these numbers and statistics but right in front of his face is the pressure that is on principals and the mental health problems that are there at such a young age are frightening all of us or at least anyone that wants to listen and acknowledge it. I feel the Taoiseach does not appreciate the scale of the crisis facing...

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Of course there was.

Leaders' Questions (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: We do not have them.

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I wish to ask the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government about the differential rent scheme in County Tipperary, a matter I have already discussed with him. The county council has written to over 1,000 tenants telling them that they are facing huge increases in rent of 50%, 60% and 70% and threatening to charge thlem the maximum rent unless they engage. Does it need a statutory...

Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Only two have been.

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I feel sorry for the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, who was shoved in here to take this. Harris was here but he fled when someone wanted to come in to talk because he cannot face the heat in the kitchen. Last year I had confirmation of patients in Tipperary who were routinely waiting for 51 months for an appointment with a consultant urologist at University Hospital...

United States Immigration Policy: Motion (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

United States Immigration Policy: Motion (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The forceful separation of children from their families distresses us all. Having one's children removed in what is quite often already a traumatic situation is every parent's nightmare. What I find deeply objectionable is the nauseating political opportunism and virtue signalling that this motion represents. Let us not kid ourselves. If the policy was still being pursued by President...

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: So here we are again. The Minister and the Government have laid before us the economic vision of blessed Paschal, the prudent. Sainthood should be bestowed on him. I believe he has gone to a table quiz tonight. He was not even interested in hearing our contributions.

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: A table quiz is more important. He sent the Minister of State in, and I mean no disrespect to him. He is a neighbour, colleague and friend-----

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: -----but cá bhfuil St. Paschal?

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Is he at a budget meeting in the Shelbourne Hotel, or at a journalists' quiz? Is that the budget meeting?

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The very first line of this statement states that "economic recovery is now firmly established for the future". Yet this stands in direct contradiction to the paper produced by his Department with respect to the exposures related to Brexit. The findings of the Department of Finance’s economic research paper, Brexit: Analysis of Import Exposures in an EU Context, include how Ireland...

Childcare Support Bill 2017: From the Seanad (20 Jun 2018)

Mattie McGrath: This is all very nice when it is couched in language such as the Minister has just spoken. There is great room for anomalies, opacity, disengagement and avoidance. The Minister mentioned several times that an administrator may decide under section 13 of the Bill. As a parent of a large family, who has gone past childcare thankfully at this stage, and from the experience I have dealing with...