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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beekeeping Industry (21 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 2448. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the measures his Department is taking to protect the native Irish honey bee that is under significant health threats as a result of the high levels of bees being imported into the country; the efforts he is taking to prevent the native bee from being destroyed and to have it protected as a native and rare species to be preserved;...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Regulations (21 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 2482. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 358 of 16 December 2020, if he will clarify and address matters in relation to the Court of Auditors Report dated 22 December 2006 referenced (details supplied). [18984/21]

Direct Provision: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I too feel compelled to be very critical of the system of direct provision. It has been an abject failure. I have visited the centre in Carrick-on-Suir a number of times over the years and have seen the way families are incarcerated there. These are, in the main, traumatised people who have come from very harrowing and desperate situations. I visited refugee camps outside Lebanon some...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I return to the issue of a bypass for Tipperary town. Two sets of consultants are looking at the road from Limerick to Waterford. Tipperary town must be bypassed and we had plans before to do that. Why has a 6 km wide passage of land now been sterilised from Limerick to Tipperary town, and including towns such as Bansha, Cahir, Clonmel, Carrick-on-Suir, Piltown and on to Waterford? People...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I ask the Ceann Comhairle to ask the Minister to reply to me in writing. I have never got a reply in writing and I have raised the matter with the Minister and with the Government Chief Whip, Deputy Jack Chambers. It is an insult to the people who elect me in Tipperary. Why are the HSE and the Department of Health not collating figures of people who have a delayed diagnosis of cancer...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: It is. It was being used as a Covid centre and then it was unceremoniously closed down, so it is very much so.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Why will the Minister not put the answer in writing and refute it?

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am serious. I have never got an answer from the Minister.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I asked questions for answers. I do not get answers from the Minister.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I asked questions. I did not say things. I asked questions.

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (22 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am on the Business Committee. I understand quite clearly that we can choose to use our time for questions and written answers. That is part of the protocol. The Minister, Deputy Donnelly, is telling lies to the House as he did about the churches some months ago. We can ask questions and ask for written replies if there is not time. Is that right or wrong?

Covid Restrictions Support Scheme Regulations and Employment Wage Subsidy Scheme Regulations: Motions (22 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I too acknowledge the extension of these schemes until the end of June. I would like to see them extended but at least it is tús maith leath na hoibre. I thank the local authority officials and, indeed, the social welfare officials and the Minister's officials who have worked on these schemes for businesses which, through no fault of their own, found themselves in the situation of...

Ireland's participation in MARSUR III: Motion (22 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to have an opportunity to speak to this motion on the European Defence Agency. The Government is good at bringing these motions forward and having them passed in the House. Like other Deputies, I have the utmost respect for our Army and navy. We need to support, respect and pay their members. We are doing none of that other than paying lip service to it. We have seen...

Common Agricultural Policy Reform: Motion [Private Members] (22 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Common Agricultural Policy Reform: Motion [Private Members] (22 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I offer my sincere thanks to Deputy Pringle for his hard work in bringing forward this motion. It is very timely because this is a three-card trick as far as I am concerned. I am from the Golden Vale and proud of it. I will declare an interest. I happen to own land with lots of heather on it, which was reclaimed by my forefathers. They earned their living from it and fought for freedom...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents and Other Protections) (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I too thank Sinn Féin and support this Bill wholeheartedly. I must declare an interest as I have a dalta óg, a first year who has passed and flew through it. The money was taken from people of a Friday evening but what happened that very night or the morning after was really selfish and degrading. Many students and their families struggle to make this money and the costs are not...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I wish to speak on the same issue. I have been contacted by taxi drivers from Tipperary who planned to come to Dublin in their cars tomorrow. They have been wiped out by the "condemic". It might be an unusual step for us to raise this here but these are unusual times. Are we living in a totally totalitarian state whereby we cannot protest safely in cars? This is unbelievable. We saw...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I understood this was Thursday's business so I was waiting for that, but as the issue has been taken now, I will speak on it. I wrote to the Ceann Comhairle objecting to this motion being rammed through without debate. Now there is a miserly five minutes for each group. This motion is too important for that. It sends out all the wrong signals to people looking in at how we do business in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: It is my opinion.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I pray you spare me the lecture. I will not withdraw the remarks.