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- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (28 Jul 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Time is up.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (28 Jul 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Tá an t-am caite.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Middle East (28 Jul 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Ceist Uimhir 25 is in the name of Deputy John Brady but Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú has been nominated to ask it.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputy will get another opportunity.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I ask speakers to stick to the time because we are running way over time.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Preparations (28 Jul 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Deputy Browne's fellow county man, Deputy Howlin, wishes to ask a brief question.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Preparations (28 Jul 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I cannot see the Deputy but it is nice to be up there, all the same.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Brexit Preparations (28 Jul 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the Deputy and ask the Minister to be brief because other Deputies are losing out on time.
- Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)
Mattie McGrath: We would miss the Deputy here.
- Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Yes, I am sharing with Deputies Carol Nolan, Michael Healy-Rae, Michael Collins and Danny Healy-Rae. The Bill is putting the pandemic unemployment payment on a statutory footing. It also states the recipient must be genuinely seeking employment. 8 o’clock In general circumstances I would agree with that but I have a problem with this requirement when I consider the music and...
- Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jul 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I too am disappointed with the Bill and with the whole situation around Covid-19. Party leaders and group leaders had briefings with the Department of Health and NPHET and when we asked questions, we were not getting answers. I raised in the Dáil that we had not a briefing with NPHET in the past two months. NPHET is meeting the Business Committee on Thursday morning, I hope, but there...
- Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jul 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I will not take it back. It was the Government, not the Minister personally. She has not supported artists here. When will she give them support? Is she going to let them beg, tell them to go look for work elsewhere and that they will get jobs elsewhere? How will they? Are we going to diminish and destroy our arts industry - our musicians, bands, dancing schools, art schools and...
- Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jul 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I accept that, and I am sorry if I went over time, but I am so annoyed that the Bill does not go anywhere to help those in the music and entertainment business, and the over 66s. It is a sad day for those people.
- Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jul 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Social Welfare (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (28 Jul 2020)
Mattie McGrath: No. People want to work.
- Future of School Education: Motion [Private Members] (28 Jul 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I wish the Minister, Deputy Foley, and the Ministers of State, Deputies Rabbitte and Madigan, the very best and look forward to working with them. It has been a traumatic and trying time in the education system. It has been a trying time from the cradle to the grave, really, but from the playschools, the naíonraí, the national schools, secondary schools and third level...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (28 Jul 2020)
Mattie McGrath: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 251 of 14 July 2020, the reason it has been necessary to resume driver test centres on a gradual basis; the reason all centres could not have been re-opened in view of the essential nature of the service; when driver tests and driver theory tests will resume in Clonmel, County Tipperary; and if he...
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (28 Jul 2020)
Mattie McGrath: 181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties being encountered by those with driver licences due to expire, to obtain an appointment to renew their licence due to the number of persons trying to obtain appointments as a result of the extension to their licences up to July 2020; the measures in place to ensure that persons that...
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: EU Budget Contribution (28 Jul 2020)
Mattie McGrath: 219. To ask the Minister for Finance the planned contribution by Ireland to the EU Budget over the next seven years; the justification for Ireland being the second highest contributor per capita to the EU Budget, second only to Luxembourg; the efforts that were made to seek a write down and reduction of the contribution in view of the write down received by Germany, Holland, Sweden and...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (28 Jul 2020)
Mattie McGrath: 1007. To ask the Minister for Health if an analysis has been carried out on the further cost of carrying out upgrade works on the former St. Michael's unit at South Tipperary General Hospital to bring it up to sufficient standard for the provision of acute psychiatric beds; the difference in standard required between standard acute beds and acute psychiatric beds; the estimated cost of...