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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Many Irish Water workers, and Tipperary County Council workers in the water services section, and Waterford City and County Council water workers - my parish is divided into both - have raised huge concerns and angst with me and with many other Deputies about what is going on and the transfer of their jobs and careers into Uisce Éireann or Ervia or whatever you want to call it now....

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to speak. In the short time available for me to speak on the Finance Bill, I am only going to be able to cover a fraction of the issues. I will certainly address the concrete levy because this is a farce. It is showing the white flag to the real perpetrators of that awful mica and pyrite crisis. Those perpetrators were the quarries. The Minister obviously has no appetite to...

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: A handkerchief.

Finance Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Government is robbing the poor to give to the rich.

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: We have two and a half minutes each. Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach Gníomhach agus tá an ceart aige i gcónaí. I compliment Sinn Féin on this motion. It is very important one because of people with disabilities and people who are unable to access transport. When we talk about equal access and opportunities, we must bear in mind that these people...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (25 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister cannot answer it either.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (25 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Leas Ceann-Comhairle for selecting this Topical Issue tonight. It is raining cats and dogs and we had huge rainfall Sunday night of last week in many parts of the country, including in south Tipperary. Thurles town was badly affected as were Cahir, Cashel and Tipperary town. It was unprecedented rainfall. I must mention the lack of maintenance of our roads with the cuts to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (25 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: It is late at night and we are all tired but this is balderdash. TII did the hydrological studies and everything else and it did not put in big enough culverts. We argued, as did farmers who knew the area and its topography, but it did not listen. Now we have a problem because it will not do maintenance. It cannot just develop a project. People cannot just build a house and forget to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: There is.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: In the middle of acute crises in housing and health, as well as the total mess the Government has made of the refugee situation, have the Taoiseach and the Cabinet nothing better to do than try to undermine and destroy publicans throughout the country? That is what the Government is doing with its proposals for late openings up to the morning in cities and big places, opening the pubs...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I know that. There is plenty of it already.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: And new licences.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: There are hundreds of them for sale.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: You cannot give away a pub.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I am not.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: It will destroy our country.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: You will be gone.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: You might not get any green tea.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (25 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will carry out an audit on the response times between Irish Water and local authorities; if his Department will carry out an audit on response times to the public representative line; if an audit will be carried out on the reasons for the long delays in obtaining updates from Irish Water; the reasons for...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (25 Oct 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on the number of outstanding representations between Irish Water and Tipperary County Council; the reasons for the inability of Irish Water to obtain updates from Tipperary County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52992/22]