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Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Business of Joint Committee (14 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I wish the Vice Chairman well in his role today. I welcome our guests and thank them for outlining the position as they see it. I want to try to understand. Unless one lives in a person's shoes, one cannot understand the sheer misery and sense of fear and hopelessness of our artists across the board and the impact that has on the lives of ordinary people who value all the artists, music,...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Business of Joint Committee (14 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Vice Chairman. I was asked to raise these issues. Those people are concerned. This committee is the place to tease out such issues to ensure that the funding percolates down to those people, the individual self-employed artists. The pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, must also be restored and maintained. These people are worried about what is going to happen.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Business of Joint Committee (14 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The money is making its way out but the problem is the vehicle for getting it out. Many of these people about whom I have been speaking, the artists, have only the van beside their house, or maybe in a garage. They cannot avail of rates reductions because they do not have a rateable building. They are mobile. There are people in many other sectors in similar situations - milkmen, lorry...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Business of Joint Committee (14 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: We need to look at the funding vehicle, transparency and how these people will be able to get supports because, if they are not given support, beidh siad imithe, they will be gone and forgotten and it will be the nation's loss.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Business of Joint Committee (14 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: These people provide great psychological support for people who are at home listening to radios or who go to shows.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 4. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment the specific measures he will provide to SMEs and the self-employed in the event of further restrictions to combat Covid-19. [30838/20]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: What specific measures will be taken to help the self-employed, both those under the age of 66 and those over it, if new restrictions are imposed? It looks like this will happen because there was an announcement last night without any debate or discussion with any of the party or group leaders. What supports will be put in place for hard-pressed people who have given their lives to...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the initiatives in the budget but they will not be enough for certain cohorts of people, particularly the self-employed. I accept that everybody is affected and we are all in favour of trying to avoid the risks to public health. As the Tánaiste noted on "Claire Byrne Live", however, we have to balance that with everything else, and we have not been doing so. The Minister of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State, again, is not getting the point. The over-66s have been excluded. They did not get even an additional €5 in their pensions. They got nothing. They got nothing in the PUP, which they were not eligible for. It must be increased to €350 for the other self-employed people who need it right now. Of course I appreciate that the wage subsidy scheme has been...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: What did old age pensioners get?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The Government has abandoned the elderly.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: People are afraid to go into hospital.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: What is the prize?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: On my own behalf and that of the Rural Independent Group, I pay fulsome tribute to the Captain of the Guard, Mr. Flaherty, on his retirement. I thank him for his sincere and genuine engagement with Members, staff and everybody else over the years. I have known him for the last 14 years. I wish him a happy and successful retirement. I have a constituent who, like many others, took his...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: That is gone now.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Today's schedule of business is packed and will run until almost 1 o'clock tomorrow morning. There are only going to be 45 minutes per segment to discuss the extension of the emergency powers, which is not enough. We will not have enough time to discuss the mother and baby home legislation either. What are we trying to do here? Are we trying to steamroll everything through? If we have to...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: It is a simple proposal. I agree with the Sinn Féin proposal. It is a pity to waste time voting here. Many Members want to get in.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: There are Questions on Promised Legislation. The Taoiseach does not listen to the Business Committee any week. Every week he does not listen to us.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Did I? No, I never-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: That is an insult to the Ceann Comhairle. He is an excellent chair of that committee at all times.