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Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Failure.

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Of course, it has.

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: He is.

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I too am delighted to speak to this Bill. I have nothing personal against the Minister of State, Deputy D'Arcy, but I would prefer to see a senior Minister in the Chamber, which would be the case if the Government was serious. I do not believe the Government is serious in any shape, make or form about dealing with the housing crisis. I raised on Leaders' Questions this morning the fact...

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am not finished. Focal scoir, más é do thoil é.

Home Building Finance Ireland Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I will conclude. The Minister of State should go back to the basics and get away from the Ponzi schemes. The Government, and other parties, got in bed with the developers and look what happened. We should support the small builder and allow the people who want to build houses themselves in rural Ireland build them. We will see then where we go from here.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I do. I will be brief. My apologies for not being present for the start of the debate. The Bill is necessary if we are to tidy up the agencies and ensure they are aware of issues. There are too many agencies, they are not working in unison and they are not cognisant of what is happening elsewhere. For example, the amendment reads: " ... the National Transport Authority in accordance with...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: It can.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I too have major concerns about some amendments in this grouping. Spatial plans, area plans, county development plans and town plans are very important. I served on Tipperary County Council and had many engagements on such plans, as did many community groups. Some of the plans were very successful. Many of the community groups were genuine contributors rather than serial objectors. They...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: In terms of what the Minister of State is saying, I alluded earlier to the different powers of Ministers and regulators. We have so many regulators for everything now, we can hardly count them and their staff or civil servants, as the Minister of State said. Most of them are not doing their job. If we take the regulator, the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission and the whole lot...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: From the Seanad (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Let me finish. That is a serious issue. We have too many of these intermediary officers and yet nobody is accountable. When the councillors made the plan, it was one of the only functions they had. They made the plan eventually and often got stick over it. Some may have lost their seats over it but they made it in good faith. It was the accepted plan. When people come to see me in my...

Business of Dáil (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: As a member of the Business Committee, I think it is very strange also. We are normally consulted.

Business of Dáil (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am a member of the Business Committee where we have had cordial working relations. If there are changes to be made, phone calls are usually made or consultations will take place. This is being done at a late hour. I do not object to more time as we need lots more time on the Bill. However, the manner in which it is being done is unfair and shoddy. It smacks of dictatorship by the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 334. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his Department collates data on the number of dangerous dogs that have been euthanised or killed in the past four years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29788/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (5 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the review of the local authority tenant purchase scheme; when it will be completed; his views on whether changes in the way in which the scheme is administered will ensure those that have the ability to pay, regardless of income, can purchase their home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29726/18]

Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The spin machine.

Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: Tuesday’s business shall be No. a16, motion re Standing Orders 61, 62 and 64; No. 16, motion re report of Joint Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport under Standing Order 114 on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and the Council on streamlining measures for advancing the realisation of the trans-European transport network – COM (2018) 277; No. 31,...

Order of Business (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: In the context of judicial reform, under the programme for Government, the poor box is being used with great ingenuity by many justices throughout the country. I understand that the Minister is going to disband this service. To name one charity, the Jack and Jill Children's Foundation receives approximately €50,000 per annum from the poor box in respect of the valuable work it does....

Order of Business (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: It is the hurdy gurdy bus of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross.

Order of Business (Resumed) (10 Jul 2018)

Mattie McGrath: It is the hurdy gurdy.