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Children (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: The next slot is the Regional Group. Deputies Berry and Shanahan have 20 minutes.

Children (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I too am happy to speak on the Children (Amendment) Bill. We are almost fiche bliain ag fanacht ar an mBille seo. It is important for us to have a review of legislation and we discussed the point on reviews of legislation here some weeks ago when Deputy Pringle put some amendments down, I believe, to the Children (Amendment) Bill. Clearly, there were inadequacies, weaknesses and flaws, not...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 55. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will place a quantifiable monetary value on the direct social and economic costs of the ongoing lockdown strategy on the Irish economy; if he will outline its highly destructive impacts on unprecedented levels of unemployment and the collapse of the small business sector; and if he will ensure that taxpayers will not be forced to pay for same through...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Will the Minister provide a quantifiable monetary value of the huge economic and social costs this pandemic, the Government's attitude and lockdown have had for the people of Ireland?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I agreed that those assistance packages were put in place. I welcomed them. I disagree with the Minister that it is the fault of the pandemic, however. It is the Government's reaction to the pandemic and the way in which it has dealt with it. I want to outline the destructive impacts and unprecedented levels of unemployment, which the Minister has mentioned. I mention, for instance, the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I said that I acknowledge the supports. I am referring to the strategy. The Minister blamed the pandemic but it is the Government's reaction to it and the prolonged lockdown. The Government had no roadmap last night either. Entire swathes of our community and society were never even mentioned in the press conference last night or since. Look at the whole arts industry and what is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when driver theory test services will resume; the reason theory test offices cannot continue to operate at reduced capacity; the number of theory tests that have been cancelled with level 5 restrictions; the efforts that will be made to clear the backlog being created as a result of full cancellation of theory tests; when further...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 384. To ask the Minister for Finance the VRT payable on a vehicle (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17261/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 472. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if renovation grants are available to restore properties in rural areas. [16688/21]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Data (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 534. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when the Passport Office will resume full services; the efforts that will be made to reduce the backlog of applications waiting to be processed; the number of passports being processed weekly since 1 January 2021; the number of passports waiting to be processed; the reason the Passport Office cannot continue to operate to process passport...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 763. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason SOLAS has changed the policy for apprentice electricians who are now required to resit their course for a further period until the end of May or June 2021 having already sat their block for weeks online; the reason SOLAS is now requiring them to sit a further block having done this block online; the reason SOLAS has prevented them...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 969. To ask the Minister for Health the reason prescriptions are again required to be collected weekly, after being changed to monthly collections at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. [16689/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 1135. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the mental health crisis house in Clonmel, County Tipperary, which was due to go to tender in quarter 1 of 2021; when the tender process is expected to be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17333/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 1136. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons waiting for colonoscopies in all public hospitals; the length of time waiting in each hospital; if a record is being kept or will be kept of the number of bowel cancer and other serious illnesses picked up following the resumption of colonoscopies; if such figures will be released; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17334/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: In a reply to my parliamentary question this morning I was told that 36,820 people were waiting for a colonoscopy. There has been a 59% increase in tho number of people waiting for scopes since the start of the pandemic. These are shocking figures. The Tánaiste talks in reams about vaccines and everything else but this is a cancer growing inside people. Many people will die....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: They do not have the right to hog the debate.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am a Whip and I am getting whipped, obviously. I did check. I was downstairs, which was even worse. I rang and in fairness to the staff in the Chief Whip's office, I was told our group would not be reached in any shape, make or form. There was only 40 minutes. I came up when I saw the Minister speaking but the debate was finished when I arrived. It cannot be monitored. If people are...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of clarification, I do not get pingin amháin as Whip. The Ceann Comhairle knows that himself.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I do not get a shilling for it.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.