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Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I forgot to ask a question I was requested to ask by Catherine Foley, who is on the committee to reopen St. Brigid's. She has written numerous times, with dozens of calls and emails, and there has never been a response. Why does the HSE treat the public with such disdain? I can read out her text message, versions of which she has sent dozens of times. I believe her 100%. We cannot get...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Mr. Ryan really turned himself inside out with his answer. He said issues of cross-contamination led to HIQA closing the hospital, yet the HSE was going to put in Covid patients. It beggars belief that he would give that kind of answer. If there were the potential for cross-contamination from patients with normal illnesses such as flu or whatever, surely to God we needed much more space...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Has Mr. Ryan ever been in St. Brigid's Hospital?

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Has he ever been in it?

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: That tells me the answer. Surely Mr. Ryan would have familiarised himself with the place if he was coming in here to answer questions here about it. That is the reason the hospital did not have enough space, and the same is true of Clogheen, where a fabulous job was done with an extension. That is how little interest Mr. Ryan has. I will not ask him any more questions because he has not...

Committee on Public Petitions: Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I have a question about the Minister having told one of my Dáil colleagues and Councillor Kieran Bourke that this institution would be reopened after Covid-19. Does that count for anything?

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: They are overwhelmed with it.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Live horse and you will get grass.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Do you have the GPs?

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Tell that to the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: You cannot get a felling licence.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: They cannot do it. They are not able.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos, I congratulate the Minister for Finance, Deputy McGrath, on his first budget. I am delighted that his wife and seven children were here to listen. However, it is a failed opportunity. It is a typical accountant’s budget that just moves the figures around and manages them. The Minister, Deputy Donohoe, said it was a great country in which to be a...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Gross.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Budget Statement 2024 (10 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Allocation of Time: Motion (10 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: No, it is not.

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Why was that?

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Mineral Oil Tax (10 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I support the Sinn Féin amendment. Many workers are feeling hard done by. From today, the average working family will be approximately €15 per week better off. When all these increases come into place, it means nothing to those workers. I acknowledge the risk of poverty to anyone on social welfare, particularly those on disability, pensioners and one-parent families and the...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Budget 2024 has spectacularly failed to provide relief to workers. Despite significant financial flexibility, the Government has neglected the concerns of working men and women throughout the country. The Government talks about this but it did not do anything meaningful with the USC. The cuts introduced offer limited relief to low income families while the decision to cut the universal...