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- Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020: Motion [Private Members] (9 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: The Government issues a fair bit of fake news itself.
- Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020: Motion [Private Members] (9 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Since the Government has been cobbled together, it has been a fake.
- Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020: Motion [Private Members] (9 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Get out the wellies.
- Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020: Motion [Private Members] (9 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: The wet one is in the Shannon.
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: 163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that have been refused school bus tickets in 2020; the number of appeals submitted against decisions to refuse school bus tickets; the number of appeals finalised; the number of successful appeals; the length of time it is taking to decide on appeals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22964/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she will take to overhaul the school transport scheme, which fails hundreds of students annually; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22965/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card (9 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: 201. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when full appointments will be available for those applying for the public services card; the reason for the continued delay in making appointments available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23001/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: 263. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the HSE will review and relax their admissions policy for maternity hospitals and wards to allow new fathers attend the postnatal ward to be with their partner and newborn child or children in view of the fact the policy was revoked at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22788/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (9 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: 264. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department and the HSE will review their policy for student nurses renumeration and show regard to frontline workers that worked at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic in view of the fact that many students returning to college in coming weeks are facing into a period of hospital placement for which they will receive no pay however are forced to give...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (9 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: 265. To ask the Minister for Health if a special provision will be made available for school principals to contact in relation to health-related queries and concerns in the school setting similar to that made available by the Department of Education for the reopening of schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22790/20]
- Report of the Committee of Standing Orders and Dáil Reform: Motion (10 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I too am opposed to the motion, on the same basis. I have asked consistently that we go back to Leinster House. We have the medical advice from NPHET but we have to accept the WHO's advice that a distance of 1 m is acceptable. Many of our hospitals operate with that distance. Our schools have been back for ten days. Many are using small prefabs, and many have 13 classrooms. Many...
- Services for People with Disabilities: Statements (10 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I too congratulate the Minister of State and wish her all the best in her very challenging and important role, which concerns disabilities of all kinds. We pay lip service to the disability sector and breach UN conventions regularly but we do not seem to care. Covid has had a shocking impact of the capacity of those with profound disabilities, from young children right up to the elderly,...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: We too in the Rural Independent Group have significant concerns. The lack of clarity is astounding. Today's announcement brought no further clarity. The regulations were changed last Thursday week when the Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020 was debated, voted on and passed by the House. The regulations were supposed to run out last Sunday night, but I do not know...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach is damn good at it himself.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Yes.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: That was to do with a different matter.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: That is not true.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: As the Ceann Comhairle knows, the Independent Group has consistently opposed sittings in the Convention Centre and has asked that we would come back here to Leinster House when it is safe to do so, with a view to examining the possibility of having 1 m social distancing. I have nothing against the Convention Centre and I compliment the staff here and in the Convention Centre for looking...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I remain confused, along with many other people across the country, by the new living with Covid-19 plan. I welcome the announcement that spectators are to be allowed to return to the games and matches that are part of our culture. Up to 50 patrons or spectators are allowed at indoor sporting events but dancing classes, rince scoile, and other artistic events are restricted to six people....
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I am not cherry picking.