Results 19,081-19,100 of 20,830 for speaker:Mattie McGrath
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Asylum Seekers (7 Nov 2023)
Mattie McGrath: I tabled this question last Thursday before the events transpired in Cashel. I want to ask the Minister about the current pressures on the numbers of asylum seekers entering this country. Recent statements were made by An Taoiseach and, indeed, by the Tánaiste in the last ten days, but more importantly the Taoiseach when he was in Korea. He spoke about the pressures we have here and...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Asylum Seekers (7 Nov 2023)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Joe O'Brien, for their engagement with us on Cashel over the weekend and particularly with me last night. We have done our fair share, of course we have. The Taoiseach is making these soundings as is the Tánaiste, but we all know we just cannot cope. Why did the Government feel it necessary to send out a tweet in numerous...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Asylum Seekers (7 Nov 2023)
Mattie McGrath: We welcome that. We will not get back into the tweets and will leave them for another day, but I will get back into realpolitik. The Minister says his Department will not take away housing or shelters, but this is what is happening in Cashel. Officials from the Minister's Department told me they want accommodation and their duty is to get it from wherever, whoever and whatever, so we need...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Asylum Seekers (7 Nov 2023)
Mattie McGrath: What is the number?
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Asylum Seekers (7 Nov 2023)
Mattie McGrath: It is.
- Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)
Mattie McGrath: I compliment the Independent Group on putting down this very timely and important motion.
- Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)
Mattie McGrath: The Labour Party, excuse me. Gabh mo leithscéal. It could not be more timely, facing into the winter with the long nights, the loneliness and the isolation, especially for people with disabilities. When I see what goes on in the HSE, I saw a headline this morning that it has hired 800 managers and administration people this year already despite the ban. That is where the problem is....
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State heard me here at pre-Council statements last week, and I begged and pleaded with him that we go to Europe, raise our voice and have our voice heard as a neutral country. We are a small country that has punched way above our size and our strength by being peaceful and neutral. Our neutrality has stood to us well. I mentioned our peacekeepers back in the Congo and I...
- Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (8 Nov 2023)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2023)
Mattie McGrath: I am deeply concerned about the fraudulent activities by vulture funds that include the Irish courts and, indeed, the Land Registry. Over the past few weeks, I shared crucial details with all Deputies, including the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, outlining misconduct in the banking system. This misconduct has significantly affected our economy, the lives of many homeowners,...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2023)
Mattie McGrath: I am very disappointed at the Minister's reply. Since I issued a statement two weeks ago, my office has been inundated by calls from families from all over the Twenty-Six Counties. The Minister and his colleagues all know about these. Why are they not dealing with them? It is shocking that we can transpose any kind of directive from Europe which relates to the environment or is...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)
Mattie McGrath: On the same topic, the issue of calendar farming in this country is a nonsense. We have had such a wet year this year and now 1 December is fast approaching and we have a cutoff for the final derogation, I am told, for burning of scrub and bushes. Farmers have to maintain their hedgerows. The roads will be closed in if this cannot be done any more. They also have to have sensible burning...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)
Mattie McGrath: That is not true.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)
Mattie McGrath: When the weather suits.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)
Mattie McGrath: That is disgraceful.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister has sold out the farmers. He is a shame to Donegal.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)
Mattie McGrath: There are cheerleaders behind the Minister.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)
Mattie McGrath: Pathetic.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2023)
Mattie McGrath: The answer is "No" then.
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (8 Nov 2023)
Mattie McGrath: 36. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will make funding available to businesses in County Tipperary that have been damaged by flooding following recent storms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48919/23]