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Revised Estimates for Public Services 2020 (23 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State has time.

Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos ba mhaith liom mo chomhghairdeas a ghabháil leis na hAirí, an Teachta Donnelly agus leis an Aire Stáit, an Teachta Butler. I wish them well and offer to work with them on behalf of our group because, my goodness, there is some work to be done in the HSE. I praise the staff who have always worked hard, especially with Covid. This will have a...

Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister for his clarification but I am very surprised and disappointed. We all accept we are in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic but I spoke earlier in the debate about money being wasted. People in nursing homes are telling me they cannot deal with the amount of personal protective equipment that is being dumped at their doors. I received a response to a parliamentary...

Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I thought the Minister said he would have to come before the House again. I appreciate he has already sought an extra €2 billion. I thought the Minister said he would have to return to the House to seek approval for the budget and that he would fight as part of the Government to find the money to deal with this cohort of people over 70. They have paid their service to the State,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Harbours and Piers (23 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Harbours and Piers (23 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister might call at Tipperary when he is passing through.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Harbours and Piers (23 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: We will organise something.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Football Association of Ireland (23 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I remind the Deputy that, under Standing Orders, he should not name people outside the House.

Teachtaireacht ón Seanad - Message from Seanad (23 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Seanad Éireann has passed the Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2020, without amendment.

Message from Business Committee (23 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The standing Business Committee has completed its consideration, under Standing Order 30, of the request by the Minister for Justice and Equality to waive the requirement for pre-legislative scrutiny, under Standing Order 173, of the general scheme and heads of the civil and criminal law (miscellaneous provisions) Bill 2020, and has agreed thereto. The standing Business Committee has...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Marine Casualty Investigations Board (23 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 97. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will establish a public enquiry into investigations carried out by the Marine Casualty Investigation Board following the European Court of Justice ruling recently that Ireland is not fulfilling its obligations under Article 8(1) of Directive 2009/18 governing the investigation of accidents in the maritime transport sector. [17262/20]

Decision of the General Court of the European Union in the Apple Case: Statements (24 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos, ba mhaith liom comhgairdeas a dhéanamh leat, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. I am delighted that she has been elected to her position. I will miss her contributions from the floor. I always valued them and tried to listen to them. I found them to be engaging, interesting, educated and very fair and balanced. I know she will have the very same qualities in...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (24 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Psychiatric and general student nurses have joined the front line and helped out. They paid their way through college by the time they began their placement, which might last eight or ten weeks and for which they get paid. Now they cannot get that because of the circumstances of Covid-19 and there is significant hardship, therefore, on families, especially those who do not get grants. ...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I will be sharing time with my colleagues, Deputy O'Donoghue and Deputy Michael Collins, if one of them arrives. I congratulate the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, and wish their well on their new roles, as well as their whole teams. Education is so important from the cradle to the grave. I know we are dealing with universities here but it is still important....

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos, ba mhaith liom comhghairdeas a ghabháil leis an Aire. I wish the Minister the very best. I know how hard he worked on the housing committee. He had some great ideas and I hope his officials will work with him and allow him to bring those ideas to fruition. I wish there was a Utopia. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae alluded to the view of the left that all...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Today, hundreds of bus and coach owners are in Dublin with their buses, at enormous expense to themselves, because they have been shut down and closed off. I completely support the remarks made by Deputies on the previous topic but people will not have buses or coaches to travel to matches if we do not support this very valuable industry. These buses carry all the tourists here and carry...

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta) 2020: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2020: First Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Is the Bill opposed?

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Ceart chun Tithíochta) 2020: An Chéad Chéim - Thirty-Ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Right to Housing) Bill 2020: First Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Since this is a Private Members' Bill, Second Stage must, under Standing Orders, be taken in Private Members' time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I ask Deputy Kelly to conclude.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The time has elapsed, Taoiseach.