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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Get the wellies on and go and meet them.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I too am glad to speak on this. I am quite alarmed about a number of things. At Taoiseach's questions I asked about the recent visits to conferences and whether neutrality was ever mentioned. The Taoiseach practically ignored me, but then I asked him a second time he said no, neutrality was never mentioned. Our neutrality is being undermined daily and sidelined, with warships coming into...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: In an earlier contribution, I asked about the warships that were at the quay in Cork. As a neutral country, why do we not assert on all occasions the fact we are a neutral country? We should be proud of it. The Taoiseach told me it was not mentioned at the World Economic Forum, good, bad or indifferent. On another point, if there are strict and robust sanctions, how is it that we can...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State did not answer the question about the warships.

Electoral Reform Bill: From the Seanad (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: There have been numerous Bills before the House in the past two weeks. Someone did an analysis and critique of them in the context of legislation passed by the House earlier in the term and what is before it now. We knew all along that the House would finish up in the second or third week of July. The way this is being done is rushed and distasteful. We are not doing our duty, quite...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State should be in a pantomime.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I will raise a point about this situation we find ourselves in this evening. Maybe the Minister of State will explain to us. Last Thursday, when we were dealing with the Bill, the Minister of State, Deputy Niall Collins, was here. I do not think he has any role in it, or maybe he has. I did not get to check his portfolio, but I thought it was education. We should all be in education...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: There was a slippage, yes. A landslide.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: That is not moving a mountain. You do not move mountains.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: No, he said a mountain fell down but a mountain could not fall down.

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: A small bit of a slip. Anyway, I am just saying we get carried away in our language too. Come and see the mountains-----

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Yes. I mean the mountain fell-----

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The mountain fell down but thank God it did not fall on top of anyone as there would have been an even greater calamity. I am aware that matter is the subject of a court case as well. The approach to this Bill is totally anathema to good governance and good legislation. It smacks of pure disrespect for the Opposition and everybody else. It will be wide open for legal challenges. I...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Primary Medical Certificates (12 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 319. To ask the Minister for Finance when an appeal (details supplied) will be heard by the disabled drivers medical board of appeal; the reason for the delay in having this appeal heard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37260/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (12 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 538. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will issue a school (details supplied) with a thorough report outlining the reason for the refusal by her Department to award DEIS status to the school; the data-sets used in the decision-making process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37133/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (12 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 539. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will issue a school (details supplied) with a thorough report outlining the reason for the refusal by her Department to award DEIS status to the school; the data sets used in the decision-making process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37134/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (12 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will make available a thorough report on the way that DEIS status is adjudicated and awarded to schools, which also references any data sets used in the decision-making process in order to assist schools in the application process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37135/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (12 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 544. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for additional accommodation by a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37274/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (12 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 838. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to provide the coaguchek meters and self-test strips free of charge to patients who require them to allow for self-testing of their international normalised ratio; the number of patients nationwide attending regular acute or general practitioner appointments for regular blood testing; the estimated cost to the State of providing regular monitoring...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (13 Jul 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 306. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the restrictions on bus drivers preventing those aged over 70 years will be lifted in view of the current shortage of drivers to allow those aged 70 years or over to continue to drive; if those over 70 years will be allowed to drive a Bus Éireann contracted bus if they undergo a medical assessment and are deemed medically fit to do so;...