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Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (6 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I would like written answers from the Minister. Why are the HSE and the Department of Health not collating figures on the numbers of people with delayed diagnoses of cancer or misdiagnoses? There are 38,000 people waiting for colonoscopies alone and many of their diagnoses have been delayed. Student nurses were forced to take the AstraZeneca vaccine. The Taoiseach told the Dáil...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Driver Test (6 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle and Jill Gray in his office for facilitating this Topical Issue debate. We have been raising this matter with the Tánaiste, the Taoiseach and everyone else. The dogs in the street are aghast about it. Why is there such inertia in the Road Safety Authority, RSA, and the Department of Transport in dealing with this issue? A lady in my constituency has had...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Driver Test (6 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: That is a pathetic reply. It is no wonder the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, or the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, would not come into the House and read it out. Have the Government Ministers and the RSA board a brain among them? That board is arrogant and out of control. It cares nothing about young people, old people or anybody. It is outrageous that this is the answer we get. Why...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (6 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 31. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Transport Infrastructure Ireland will allow a review of planning permissions on a case by case basis rather than continuing with a six-kilometre sterilisation of lands adjoining the N24; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23456/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Home Loan Scheme (6 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 59. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of approvals and rejections of applications of the Rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme by each local authority including the reasoning for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23305/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 161. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the medical and scientific evidence available to him to justify the reason a hotel restaurant is safer than that of a regular restaurant or gastropub when hotel restaurants are allowed to reopen on 2 June 2021 but other restaurants will not reopen in July; the medical and scientific reasoning for same; and if he will make a statement on...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I want to ask the Taoiseach, as I did a number of weeks ago, about the role of An Taisce in planning. At that time, the Taoiseach suggested there were too many judicial reviews. An Taisce had taken a judicial review against the permission Glanbia had been granted by Kilkenny County Council and An Bord Pleanála, with additional licences from the Environmental Protection Agency. Now it...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I want a debate on this issue. An Taisce gets €2.5 million annually from various Government agencies and it is causing havoc in rural Ireland. Deputy Kelly asked a question about An Bord Pleanála. An Bord Pleanála sided with the application. It involves jobs and the livelihoods of young farmers are at stake. We cannot have a non-governmental organisation, an NGO, causing...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: We need a debate on it.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Turn off the tap of money.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Turn off the tap.

Europe Day: Statements (11 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am very disappointed with the Minister, mar níl sé anseo. I mean no disrespect to the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, but I used to listen to a radio programme many years ago that was known as "Dear Frankie". The Ceann Comhairle may remember it. It seems Frankie has been put forward to answer everything in here. It just goes to show that the Government has no respect for...

Europe Day: Statements (11 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I was not saying anything personal about the Minister of State.

Europe Day: Statements (11 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Residential Property Market: Motion [Private Members] (11 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. The Minister for Housing Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, Deputy John McGuinness, mé féin and Senator David Norris, with the help of Edmund Honohan, the highly respected Master of the High Court, brought forward the Affordable Housing and Fair Mortgage Bill in 2018. The skullduggery and blackguarding...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (11 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress of the steering group in reviewing the school transport scheme which excludes thousands of students from school transport each year. [24284/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Agriculture Schemes (11 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 996. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Article 46(2) of Regulation 1782/2003 means that the single farm payment entitlement cannot be separated from the land in cases in which the land is being leased (details supplied); and if not, the meaning of same. [24484/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Agriculture Schemes (11 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 997. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if Article 33 of Regulation (EC) 1782/2003 means that the single farm payment scheme is attached to the land in cases (details supplied); and if not the meaning of same. [24485/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I compliment and thank the Taoiseach for his observations yesterday on An Taisce with regard to the 100 high-end jobs and thousands of farm families. I am worried because the two Green Party Ministers of State came out and literally attacked the Taoiseach. I am worried about the comments made by the Minister, Deputy Ryan, at the launch of the OECD...

Private Security Services (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 May 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to speak on this legislation, although it is probably eight or ten years too late. When the banking crisis hit, we saw the vulture funds arrive and we saw the mushrooming of the legal eagles and everybody else, no disrespect to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. We saw what went on in the courts. I have been present at so many evictions and my colleagues, Deputies Nolan and Michael...