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Written Answers — Department of Health: Palliative Care Services (3 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 1231. To ask the Minister for Health the number of palliative care patients who required access to a palliative care bed in south County Tipperary since March 2020; the number of palliative care patients who were refused a bed in a palliative care facility in County Tipperary since March 2020 due to the of lack of beds; the number of patients who required convalescent care in south County...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Insurance (3 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 1245. To ask the Minister for Health if it is now policy for public hospitals to refuse admission and care to a patient that holds private health insurance until such time as the private health insurance details are presented to the hospital; if a medical card holder that also holds private health insurance is not entitled to be treated in the public system without presenting private health...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (3 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 1246. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the national children's hospital; when the development is expected to be finalised; the current anticipated final cost of the project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32768/20]

Flood Prevention Policies: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I am very sorry, Chairperson, if you cannot get the name right. We are the Rural Independent Group and we sponsored this motion.

Flood Prevention Policies: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Several Deputies today called us the Independent Group which Deputy Catherine Connolly is. Others called us the Regional Group. It is just blackguarding. We understand flooding. I am not saying other Members from rural areas do not. Surely, however, they can get our name right. We have not much hope of getting the flooding sorted out if they cannot get our name right. Who are we? We...

Flood Prevention Policies: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: You said Regional Independent Group.

Flood Prevention Policies: Motion [Private Members] (4 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: You said Regional Independent Group. I am not deaf. Or am I? There are other Members here too. It is not just you, Acting Chairman. Other Members have referred to us as everything. We were bad enough to be tied in with a cabal that Shane Ross had before the last election. We were mixed up with them. We have a clear identity. We are rural people and proud of it. We are representing...

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Fianna Fáil fully supported the previous Government.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Fianna Fáil fully supported the previous Government. The Taoiseach should accept its mistakes too.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Leaky Leo.

Leaders' Questions (4 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Deal with the leaks.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Approximately a month ago, I raised the issue of a Tipperary town task force with the Taoiseach. The people of Tipperary town and western Tipperary are very vibrant and fair-minded people. They want engagement. Groups such as Jobs4Tipp, March4Tipp and a new committee of the chamber of commerce want to engage but they do not want the streets dug up again until such time as an inner relief...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (4 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Will the Taoiseach engage with them?

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Act 2020: Motion (4 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to get the opportunity to speak on this motion on the extension of the sunset clause and enforcement powers. I believe the proposed extension is far too long. It will go for seven months right up to next June. At the very outset we all supported all the emergency powers. The Taoiseach was wrong to suggest that Deputy Michael Healy-Rae did not support any of the measures....

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Act 2020: Motion (4 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of clarification, the Minister said that the Garda Commissioner gave her a letter. Will that letter or a segment of it be provided to us so that we know it is not just hearsay? That Minister said twice that she is not putting words in his mouth. I also asked the Minister a question about the Garda Commissioner and the game licence being stopped.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Key Departmental Priorities and Effects of Covid-19: Minister for Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport, Gaeltacht and Media (4 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I too welcome both Ministers and wish them well with their briefs. We, in Tipperary, have a radio station, Tipp FM, that is second to none. We also have a community radio station, Tipp Mid West. Those stations are being squeezed to death and need support. They also require a favourable wage support system, which would help SMEs such as those radio stations that employ a lot of people,...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Key Departmental Priorities and Effects of Covid-19: Minister for Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport, Gaeltacht and Media (4 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I prefer to dance.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Key Departmental Priorities and Effects of Covid-19: Minister for Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport, Gaeltacht and Media (4 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The Senator must have had an awful session.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I have written to the Taoiseach and Deputy Michael Collins and I raised the issue of people not being allowed to attend mass. There is a limit of 25 for a wedding or a funeral and nobody can go to the church for mass. There is a penal provision in the new Act to prosecute priests. This is the month of November, traditionally a time of the year in the Catholic faith where people pray for...

Sittings and Business of Dáil: Motion (10 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I make the same point. I was at yesterday's meeting of the Business Committee. The time was changed without any consultation. There are people in this House who want the Business Committee destroyed and for it to be defunct. The motion proposing no confidence in the Tánaiste is a Sinn Féin motion, but the Government decided to table a countermotion. That is its right and there...