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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Overcrowding (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I will add my voice to this on behalf of the three rural Independents who are up the midlands, where we are. The problem is historic. The new 96-bed unit is supposed to be there. That sod was turned by the then Minister, Mary Harney, 20 bliain ó shin. The HSE is a failure. It has badly failed Limerick people and the people of north Tipperary. I salute Independent councillor...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Overcrowding (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The audacity of Mr. Watt and indeed the Minister for Health to go to Dubai to look at best practices during Covid speaks for itself and shows how out of touch they are. My good friend and the Minister of State's former colleague, the former Minister of State, Máire Hoctor, did her very best to keep Nenagh accident and emergency department open. She was hounded out of office by...

National Minimum Wage: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: We have to get real here. Deputy Damien English, a junior Minister, is present, but we have no interest in the working poor, the small farmer and the so-called "daoine beaga" - I do not mean in stature - or ordinary humble people of Ireland. "Let them eat cake" - if she was here now - is the attitude of the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste. Globalists is what they are, looking after big...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: There was a telephone in every house within a month.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: It took a year to get it fixed.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and representatives of Bord Bia met the pig producers of Ireland last week. Put simply, the price of meal has gone up by 30 cent and the price of bacon is down by 40 cent. That equates to losses of roughly €38 per sow. There is a perfect storm here as these businesses cannot get work permits. Countries like France, Poland, Denmark...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: It supports 8,000 jobs.

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Can I clarify if there will be a second round for Deputy Michael Healy-Rae?

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Similar to what my colleague has said, we are dancing around here on the head of a needle with all these grandiose schemes, such as the one introduced yesterday. This retrofitting scheme has been eagerly awaited and much wanted. People want to engage with it. It will, however, cost them €500 to get an assessment, and they will get back €250 whenever. I am talking about...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: -----shopping trolleys were filled up to the water level with goods in that Dunnes Stores outlet. The whole lot came to €16 or €18. It was shocking. There were loss leader products, and all these types of things. The companies are getting the money back in other ways, but they are selling all these things by way of champion products and below cost selling. It is shocking....

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, am surprised, although I am not sure why, that ten of the 11 amendments have been ruled out of order. We are trying to reinvigorate our tourism industry. There are many good holiday home operators. While we will always have some cowboys, the vast majority of them are good. I am talking about a fear uasal i nDún Garbhán. People need to get out into the sun and the water,...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Why can we not exclude people who have enormous incomes? Surely there must be some way to do that? We used to use the peann luaidhe, but now we have computers. When PUP was introduced, I pleaded with the Minister concerned to address that. Anybody who is an employer knows that PRSI is now paid weekly. All of that information is on a computer. People could have been given what they were...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Children with additional needs in south Tipperary are in crisis. Parents have had 13 rejections from schools and, if they can get their children into a unit, are travelling up to an hour to get there. There are currently no units in the towns of Carrick-on-Suir, Clonmel or Cahir, although a new school is under way in Cahir and there will be a unit in that. We are delighted that a new...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: No.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: My own school is waiting-----

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to lay before each House of the Oireachtas an annual report on the progress of the document entitled “Project Ireland 2040” that was published by the Government on 18 January 2019, of which the constituent components are the National Planning...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2022: First Stage (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Tackling the Cost of Living - Institutional Investors in the Residential Property Market: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, support the motion. The fact is that ordinary people cannot afford to heat their houses, live in them and put children in childcare or in school. They are to the pin of their collars. I asked last week if the Government wants to starve them out and for them to die in the ditches. It is shocking. The red carpet was rolled out for the banks with the bailout. Now the red carpet is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Farm Costs (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for allowing us to raise this Topical Issue matter. It is a hugely important issue. This is going to affect every man, woman and child in the State. The Minister of State might ask how that is. Farmers cannot buy fertiliser. Thankfully, credit unions are stepping in to give loans because the banks are not lending and the Government is standing idly by. We...