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Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I am sticking to the Bill. I am sticking to the legislation. It is nearly an omnibus Bill. The Minister made a liquorice allsorts of it. He put in nice bits and bad bits and hoped that the nice bits would prevent us seeing the bad bits. He also brought it in very late, in the last days of the term before Christmas. That is shameful and wrong. The Minister would rail against that if he...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: What is seldom is wonderful.

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: It is a pity the Minister would not get some Christmas spirit.

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Where are all the Minister's colleagues?

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Every year, it is the same.

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister is goading.

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Again, I am disappointed that the Minister would simply refuse these amendments, just like that. As for the lecture on alienation, I wonder what his own party is doing so wrong that its language is not working when it comes to the polls. It has alienated quite a lot of people. Then we got the lecture about us holding public meetings. It is true that I often chaired public meetings-----

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I am speaking to the amendments, which the Minister has replied to and rejected. I am just saying that I attended and chaired many public meetings as a layperson before ever I was in politics. I am not suggesting that politicians would do that when they are in power. The Minister suggested that we would be trying to garner support or whatever. We did not go around north Dublin setting...

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I am replying to the Minister. He has replied to the points we made. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle herself mentioned alienation.

Planning and Development Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The amendment proposes to have public meetings and the Minister has set his face against it. He is talking about hybrids and whatever else. He should remember that I did not go to Germany and I did not go down to see J. P. McManus. We are lucky to have J.P. McManus. I am sticking to the amendment and the issues around it, which is about keeping the public engaged. Ní neart go cur le...

Investment Limited Partnerships (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (16 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: It is very late. If there are people at home who may be watching this debate at this hour of the night, I, too, am concerned about the priorities of this Government and successive Governments and the lack of legislation around banking. It is the Wild West out there as far as the banking sector goes. They banks can do what they like, and have done what they like and got away with it. Other...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Sittings (16 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 267. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the written and audio DAR record of court proceedings is given free of charge and without undue delay or a written legal reason for refusal be provided in accordance with Directive (EU) 2016/680 in cases in which a litigant applies to the court office. [43728/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (16 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 358. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the location in the EU Court of Auditors report of 22 December 2006 in which it states that the consolidation process of 150,000 ha as implemented by his Department was entirely in accordance with EU regulations and has been endorsed as such. [43729/20]

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Challenges facing Public Broadcasting and the broader Media Sector as a result of Covid-19: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to welcome the witnesses. I am interested in there being a level playing field, and there is anything but that now. The bias towards RTÉ should have been gone years ago, but it has not and it is still hanging on. I thank the witnesses from both channels. In respect to TG4, cad a dhéanfaimid feasta gan adhmad? Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. The station...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Challenges facing Public Broadcasting and the broader Media Sector as a result of Covid-19: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe. I sing the praises of the local and regional papers. They have been part and parcel of life for a century in some cases. We have the Clonmel Nationalistand Tipperary Star. I have issues with Iconic Newspapers, which I will not go into today. It is owned by Malcolm Denmark, who took over many things, and the way he treated the staff was...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I acknowledge the Ceann Comhairle's good wishes. On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I thank you, a Cheann Comhairle, the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, Peter Finnegan, Elaine Gunn, and the whole team here, everybody in the community, for what has been done during this difficult year and wish them well for Christmas. I also thank the Garda Síochána who are outside in all weathers...

Appropriation Bill 2020: Second and Subsequent Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: With the permission of the Minister and that of the House, we will allow Deputy Michael Collins in because he came into the Chamber as the Minister got to his feet. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Appropriation Bill 2020: Second and Subsequent Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Perhaps an Teachta Collins will get a hybrid wheelbarrow. Does the Minister want to make a brief reply or will we move on? Is there someone else wishing to contribute? Is it agreed to let Deputy O'Dowd in?

Appropriation Bill 2020: Second and Subsequent Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: To be fair, many people missed their slots. I am in Deputies' hands.

Appropriation Bill 2020: Second and Subsequent Stages (17 Dec 2020)

Mattie McGrath: We are still within the timeframe. I am in Deputies' hands.