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Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I ask the Minister to come clean on this. He said on Sunday, and I heard him myself, that this was all done under darkness. I have photographs supplied to me showing that it was broad daylight, thankfully, with six men well clad in jackets. All they are missing is a "Paschal Donohoe No. 1" label on them. They did not have that in the photographs, so obviously they were hiding something....

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The light I have to cast on this is that we have 6,000 fewer beds than we had in the 1980s but we have had countless numbers of extra recruitment campaigns. The Minister announces all the jobs and recruitment campaigns every day. Where are they? They are not on the front line. They are not nurses or doctors.

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: They are inside in offices and they are pen pushers. When we had the matrons running the hospitals, they were impeccably clean and sterile environments and they ran them from the front door to the back door, and consultants listened to them. Now we have ward managers, floor managers, bed managers, linen managers, hygiene managers, food managers, and discharge managers. We have managers for...

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: They are not making much of a difference. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, read out to me nothing short of a diatribe on Carrick-on-Suir hospital. She should be ashamed to close it in her backyard and tell me this and that are going on. The Minister has a fine big empty monstrosity of a white elephant for a primary care centre while that is going on. He should not be trying to cover...

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: We in the Rural Independents are very concerned when we see advertisements from Go Vegan World on Dublin Bus and Galway city buses. This is a rural country, after all. The misleading advertisements are damaging to what has been good farming practice and husbandry over decades, and to our food chain, food supply and thousands of jobs. Who allowed for these? We are told it lies with Dublin...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I had no answer.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach should ask the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Corman Miloko announced on Friday that they were closing the company. This was formerly owned by south Tipperary farmers, Avonmore and Glanbia. It is now a consortium involving a Belgian group and Tirlán, an Irish company, and 31 jobs remain at the plant. They are excellent jobs and it has been an excellent workforce over the half century I have known it. I ask the Taoiseach ask...

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I do not bear any ill will against the Minister or indeed Mr. Stone, who I believe did a lot of good work in Dublin inner city. The only problem I see is that he was ahead of his time. He was a visionary. He was for Fianna Fáil until the Minister met him in 2011, then he changed tack before Fine Gael ever decided to go into coalition with Deputy Micheál Martin. Perhaps the most...

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: That is not-----

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I do not know where it is, though.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Paschal cannot tell between day and night.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I thought the Minister sold them.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: How does the Minister know if he does not know how they were paid for?

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister said on radio and in the House that he had sold the tickets to Mr. Stone. Now, he cannot tell us whether that involved cash, cheque, bank card, credit card or a new currency like crypto. Surely the Minister can remember. Did he sell so many that he does not know?

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: It is a simple question. This matter should be clarified.

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: No one said anything about that.

Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Second Stage (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I too am glad to have the opportunity to speak on the Bill. All present recognise that organ and tissue donation is a service that saves lives, improves the quality of life and has cost benefits for the health service. All Members know people who have had the benefit of organ donations. Indeed, my late uncle donated his body to medical science. There are many people who are affected in...

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Farcical.