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

Mattie McGrath: That is not my point. My point is that the date was gone-----

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

Mattie McGrath: It is a matter of Standing Orders.

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

Mattie McGrath: They are not agreed.

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

Mattie McGrath: The temporary business energy support scheme, TBESS, was announced with fanfare some months ago after the budget as being the saviour of many rural and urban businesses. It has now transpired that many businesses in rural areas if they do not use gas - we do not have gas in many towns never mind in rural areas - and if they use oil for instance as their main way of creating industry,...

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

Mattie McGrath: I wonder with the Green Party.

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

Mattie McGrath: A bill for oil is the same as one for gas.

Science Week: Statements (15 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I too am delighted to speak briefly on the statements on Science Week. I wish all of the daoine óga and daltaí go léir well in the colleges and schools on Science Week. My memories of science week were in St. Joseph's College in Cahir. The college was set up by two men, Mr. Tom McGrath and Mr. Vincent Russell, who cycled to Cahir, Cathair an Iascaigh, who bought a building...

Science Week: Statements (15 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: We can see that.

Retained Firefighters: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Respect is the most important thing. We talk about it in this House. Everywhere we go, we need to respect our colleagues and other people. Will we show respect to the firemen and firewomen in the Gallery and in every town and village in Tipperary and the rest of the country? They wait for a call to go out and put themselves in the line of danger to look after us. We are operating on a...

Energy Regulations: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: We put down this motion in good faith and I am delighted to see the support it has got. Ar an gcéad dul síos, ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil don iar-Sheanadóir Brian Ó Domhnaill agus do Mhairead san oifig for their research on this. It is quite a basic, simple, honest-to-God motion that ordinary people would recommend. I mean no disrespect to the...

Energy Regulations: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I know they would. I know what kind of hangers-on some of them are and they would arrive to the wedding alright. I mean no disrespect in that. This is a serious motion and we are serious about climate change but we want to bring the people with us. All stick and no carrot will not work.

Energy Regulations: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: All duck with the Government alright.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The first home scheme, under the Government's Housing For All programme sets the maximum property price ceiling for houses in Tipperary at €250,000, while neighbouring counties are set at €300,000 and the maximum purchase in some other areas goes as far as €450,000. The housing crisis exists in every county and the costs for building houses are similar. In Tipperary we...

Post-European Council: Statements (16 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I am also glad to be able to speak on this. As usual, the Taoiseach does not wait around for us to make our views known. The Minister of State, Deputy Byrne is here and I have no issue with that, but I repeat what I have said before: they are both completely gobsmacked by the EU. They are serving the global masters instead of serving the people who elected them. In the Minister of State's...

Post-European Council: Statements (16 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State might answer my question today, although he did not on the previous occasion I asked him in the House, about the number of warships that recently docked in the harbour of Cork. Was that with the imprimaturof the Government? The ships were from Canada and Great Britain, among other places. Why are they there and why are they being minded by a large number of...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Finance Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I support the previous speakers on this issue. We welcome the fact that an allowance is to be given. That will be a considerable help. However, we must ensure that money is not going into the pockets of landlords. We know there are many thousands of excellent landlords but the big company groups of landlords do not have empathy or understanding. We must have some kind of mechanism to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (16 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when individual transport to and from a school (details supplied) will be arranged for a child with special needs in County Tipperary who is currently unable to attend school due to having no school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56819/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (16 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 173. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with disabilities in south Tipperary who are receiving shared residential services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56799/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (16 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 174. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with disabilities in south Tipperary who are classed as being in need of shared residential services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56800/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (16 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 175. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new shared residential services that have been developed in the past five years in south Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56801/22]