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Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I will only take a minute or half a one. The lecture here from the Minister about being a party from the centre tells me that he is reading too many cartoons. He does not know what the centre is. His party is so far right it cannot see its left. With any proposal we have put forward here we have been treated with disdain and lecture and sometimes with pretty hostile and demonising...

Finance Bill 2020: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, but I will allow time to my colleagues.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: He is riding two horses.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Pay them, then.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The double talk is amazing.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Is called "hypocrisy".

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Abortion Services Provision (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing this very important issue to be raised and I apologise on behalf of the Deputies who are not present . Some, including Deputy Fitzpatrick, pulled out to give us more time. The reactions of doctors who carry out late-term abortions in Ireland make for grim reading. One doctor described the carrying out of foeticide as "stabbing the baby in the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Abortion Services Provision (3 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing us this important Topical Issue debate. It is a shame that the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, is not here. I met the Ministers of State, Deputies Butler and Rabbitte, wandering around downstairs. None of them would come in to answer it. This is shocking. What we want is a ban on late-term abortions, mandated care for any baby born after an...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I agree. I also want to register my concerns for the readiness for the fishing industry and the serious losses that will impact it, as well as connectivity with Europe and the cross-border health directive. We need a debate on these. We are being held on a string with the EU cross-border health directive. Thousands have travelled to use health services but we understand the scheme will...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Perhaps a Friday sitting might be necessary. We have only two more sitting weeks before Christmas and we need to deal with this very urgent situation.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Next week then.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I note also that the Government has indemnified all these big pharmaceutical companies. I know of people in my constituency, as I am sure do other Members, if they are honest, who have been affected by vaccines. I know that many young children in constituencies were affected by the human papillomavirus, HPV, vaccine and they had to fight all the way through the courts to get compensation....

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (8 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Horse manure.

National Surplus (Reserve Fund for Exceptional Contingencies) Act 2019: Motion (8 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I too welcome this motion. Certainly, we cannot invest the €500 million at this time to be used in the rainy day fund. It is foggy tonight but it is raining every day. I think the Minister is in the fog and is hiding behind his mask because he has handled this economy appallingly with his Thatcherite policies by allowing the banks to run away and do what they like, like a runaway...

Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 86. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if his Department will permit local authorities to accept late applications for the restart grant and restart plus grant scheme for some who have missed out on same. [41330/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Community Involvement Scheme (8 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on the reopening of the community involvement scheme for 2021; the level of funding available for Tipperary County Council for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41327/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (8 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 141. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of tertiary roads in rural Ireland; the options made available by his Department for resurfacing same within local authorities specifically Tipperary County Council; if a policy exists to restrict resurfacing options for such roads specifically to community involvement scheme applications; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Improvement Schemes (8 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if requirement for local authorities to submit a three-year roadworks programme can be amended within the lifetime of the programme in order to include roads that have deteriorated significantly since the submission of the three year programme; if the local authority require Departmental authority and sign-off to change sections of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 163. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Covid restrictions support scheme will be increased for publicans who are not allowed to operate during the festive period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41322/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 164. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Covid restrictions support scheme will be increased for publicans who chose to remain closed during the festive period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41323/20]