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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (25 Apr 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 302. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he plans to immediately review planning guidelines to permit planning permission for log cabins as a means to relieve pressure on housing demand; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18942/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (25 Apr 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 387. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if international protection applicants have their records checked for criminal convictions; if so, the databases they are checked against; the countries that take part in those databases; how long the process takes; the process if an international protection applicant is found to have a criminal conviction; if they are...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I call for a debate in the House on the madness that is going on with the importation of wood chippings from Brazil, peat from Latvia and anything else from any other part of the world that we feel like, rather than using our own peat and allowing farmers to cut down their own forestry to be used here. We need an urgent debate in this House. The...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: What about my issue?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Everybody knows what is going on.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I did not get an answer, to be fair. He said he does not know about the wood chippings. The children on the street know about the wood chippings and the peat-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: -----coming from Latvia to supply our power stations that used to use turf. That is not an answer and he is the Head of the Government.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: By now, the Taoiseach will know Ms Cara Darmody from Ardfinnan, County Tipperary. She is presenting in the audiovisual room as we speak. She has three simple requests. First, carers of children with special needs should not be charged for assessments and such assessments should be addressed under the national treatment plan. Second, the carer's allowance should not be means tested....

Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I call Deputy Canney. I understand he is sharing his time.

Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Deputy is sharing with Deputy Michael Healy-Rae. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I have to stop the Deputy because the time has expired, but we will continue the next day. I am sorry to have to give him the red ticket.

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I am a bit bewildered because this is a good motion and I want to support it. However, on 22 October 2022, Sinn Féin refused to support our motion to cut out carbon tax and we cannot have it every way here. The people at home are bewildered, as Deputy Tóibín said, and they are blackguarded, perished, angry, demoralised and many other words I cannot use. We have the highest...

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: He is gone to the bog.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Facilities (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I thank Deputy Martin Browne for letting me share time. We want answers about St. Patrick's Hospital in Cashel. We want reassurance and something definite in respect of this matter. St. Patrick's Hospital is a wonderful institution. My late mum did some time there. I cannot say enough about the staff and all the people there, including in the chapels and the church. I often attended...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Facilities (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State is the only one who has dropped the ball, whether it is ludo, draughts or poker. The stakes are high for the people in Cashel. As we heard from Deputy Browne, it is the HSE that is engaged in subterfuge and causing people to have a belief with the different answers it gives. Is there no joined-up thinking in the HSE? There is none whatsoever. We receive replies to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: There is the Munster final first.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Tánaiste comes from a teaching background. I stood last week with the adult education teachers and tutors in south Tipperary who are campaigning for parity of esteem with their teaching colleagues. Many of them have teaching qualifications. They do tremendous work with adult literacy and with adult education in bringing people back into education schemes. They go down as tutors...

Transport Support Schemes for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Regional Group for putting forward this important motion. Disabled citizens are being let down by the Government, which has shown a shocking lack of political will to prioritise their needs. It has been ten years since the discontinuation of the mobility allowance and the motorised transport grant for new applicants in 2013 and the Government has yet to provide a fair and...

Personal Explanation by Minister (4 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: May I raise a point of clarification?

Personal Explanation by Minister (4 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Please. A point of clarification.