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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Postmasters and postmistresses up and down the country have served this country well for decades, never more so than during the Covid pandemic in recent years. Now, they are being cast aside. We have had many reports, including the Grant Thornton report. Last night the Irish Postmasters Union, IPU, threatened strike action, which is very stiff action by it. It does not usually do this, as...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Blaming the Business Committee again.

An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I raise intervention services and early intervention for children with additional needs such as speech and language therapy etc. Before Covid, many people in my constituency experienced delays of 13 or 14 months. That has now gone up to 37 months. That is three years. This is appalling. Children with additional needs are waiting for assessment in many cases and then waiting for services...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad to speak on this issue. I do not like the agenda for all these meetings when I see that item two is security and defence. Our neutrality is certainly being steadily undermined. I see President Biden will also join this meeting on its first day. I thank local communities, daoine na hÉireann and those in every hamlet in Ireland who are putting their hands up again. Deputy...

Rising Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I too thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. I do not know how many motions or debates we will have to have in order to get the Minister and the Government to have respect for the people who we are supposed represent. We should respect them as ordinary, hard-working, decent people. I say this because at the moment the Minister is driving them to misery and into perishing in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: And others.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister is getting as bad as the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I ask the Minister to do something meaningful. He said the Government was doing a lot for the cost of oil. I am asking the Government to abolish the carbon tax on agricultural diesel for farm contractors, forestry contractors and farmers. Otherwise, we will not have a harvest and we will not have silage. The Minister's colleague beside him, Deputy Heydon, knows about this intimately. I...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: So you are not going to do anything for them.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 567. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that a school (details supplied) should take to apply for additional accommodation following its designation of DEIS status; if a previously approved additional accommodation application can be combined with a new application for additional accommodation in order to progress a complete project in one application rather than...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown of the domiciliary care allowance applications and refusals by age over the past two years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14022/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 584. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if extra consideration is being given to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on children with additional needs who are applying for the domiciliary care allowance; if children will be given extra consideration during assessment for domiciliary care allowance in circumstances in which they may previously have managed and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 585. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale for the refusal of a domiciliary care allowance application by a child (details supplied); if she will review the application considering the impact of Covid-19 on the child and the need for additional care to help limit the impact; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14024/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 833. To ask the Minister for Health the way that the ongoing engagement between his Department and the HSE on telemedicine abortion is progressing; and the way the continuation of telemedicine home abortions is being considered given that the HSE has acknowledged that it has conducted no analysis into the operation or potential risks of the practice in Ireland and is reliant upon secondary...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (22 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 834. To ask the Minister for Health if the chair of the review of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018 has consulted with any stakeholders since the date of their appointment; and if so, the name of the stakeholders with whom they have consulted. [14032/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Rural Independent Group is demanding an immediate debate on the crisis facing the pig industry today. If the Taoiseach cares to see them, members of the industry who are protesting outside the gates of Leinster House. They are not known for protesting but their family lives, incomes and their industry are on the line. The paltry €7 million offered by the Minister for...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Before the Taoiseach responds, he made a joke of my request by saying he eats poached eggs.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I do not know what he eats - that is his own business - but this is not a laughing matter. It is a serious situation facing an industry that could be wiped out if he does not act.