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Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I suggest we walk out because this is farcical.

Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I am walking out of here.

Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I thank Deputy Michael McGrath for putting forward this motion. I welcome the people in the Visitors Gallery this evening, some of whom are suffering due to this State robbery. We cannot call it anything other than State robbery - the fact that 80,000 mortgage holders with Permanent TSB, a State owned bank, are being charged a rate of at least 2% more than are those with mortgages with AIB....

Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State should apologise to the people in the Visitors' Gallery.

Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: You forgot to come into the House, or did not care.

Banking Sector Regulation: Motion (Resumed) (14 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Where was the Minister of State at 7.30 p.m.?

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (14 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Question 54: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money that has been spent on refurbishment and extension works for small schools of four teachers and less in south Tipperary in the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14410/12]

Order of Business (21 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I would like to sympathise with the Minister for Justice and Equality following an intrusion into his home while he was abroad on official duty. This is happening up and down the country at an alarming rate and I had a Private Members' Bill on the issue some time ago. Does the Government have any promised legislation on this issue? Now that the chickens have come home to roost, it might...

Order of Business (21 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: They would not get much scrap metal, but they would get a lot of other things.

Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (21 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I too am delighted to be able to say a few brief words on the European fiscal compact treaty debate. I welcome the debate and I welcome what the Attorney General decided and the statements from an t-Uachtarán freisin. I do not believe we would have this debate only for what has happened, and it is totally anathema to the Government because it is caught, and why would it not be? Its members...

Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (21 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: -----Minister Phil - as they have made an appalling mess on rural water services, the septic tank issue and now the household charge. It is utter pandemonium. They should be ashamed of themselves or else they will have to dislodge him or lose him somewhere. They are in big trouble if they have Ministers like him coming out. Then there is the Minister, Deputy Burton, coming out with her...

Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (21 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I am not finished yet. Is my time gone?

Private Members' Business. European Stability Mechanism: Motion (21 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: I compliment the Sinn Féin motion. I plead with the Government to get real with the banks and with everybody else and to give the people room to breathe. They should be ashamed of themselves given the way they are dealing with this at the moment. If they do not understand what it is going on out there, they will get a rude awakening. This referendum has not a hope of being passed -...

Written Answers — Regulation of Charities: Regulation of Charities (21 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Question 488: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will detail the sections of the Charities Act 2009 that have commenced in advance of the establishment of the charity regulatory authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15345/12]

Written Answers — Regulation of Charities: Regulation of Charities (21 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Question 489: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if he will make public the outcome of his Department's comprehensive review of expenditure as it relates to the full implementation of the Charities Act 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15346/12]

Written Answers — Regulation of Charities: Regulation of Charities (21 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Question 490: To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to introduce a mandatory system of registration for charities operating here as a matter of urgency in the interests of increased transparency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15347/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Appeals: Social Welfare Appeals (22 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Question 132: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason arrears will not be paid to a carer's allowance applicant (details supplied) whose social welfare appeal has been allowed; the reason behind not paying arrears to the applicant; if she will reconsider this matter based on the long delays processing applications and appeals in both the carer's allowance section and the social...

Written Answers — Medical Cards: Medical Cards (22 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Question 206: To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will issue on an application for a medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15909/12]

Written Answers — Care of the Elderly: Care of the Elderly (22 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Question 223: To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that respite services are being withdrawn from patients in St. Benedict's Ward in Cashel, County Tipperary, due to inadequate staff resources; the way he plans to deal with these staff shortages to ensure that respite services are continued for patients who require such services to ensure that they do not have to become...

Written Answers — Services for People with Disabilities: Services for People with Disabilities (22 Mar 2012)

Mattie McGrath: Question 224: To ask the Minister for Health if he will give an assurance that adequate home care will be provided to a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary thus continuing the level of care they receive from the Jack and Jill Foundation and to allow that charity to step back from this case; if he will explain the reason there are regional discrepancies in the provision of care by...