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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It breaks the law.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Is it a crime or does it break the law to come in with no documentation?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: On the same issue, this Bill is 700 pages long. The number of amendments is enormous and we are to push it through with so little time. It affects every man, woman and child, urban and rural, in the country. People are taobh amuigh and talking inniu from the Gaeltacht area protesting at the way they are being mistreated by the planning regulations. A lot of people had hope for this new...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: No.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: We are currently seeing a significant decline in rural health services across Ireland. A recent survey by the Irish Independentshowed that more than 50% of GPs nationwide cannot accept new patients. The situation is worse in rural areas where two thirds of GPs are not taking on any new patients. Some patients have to wait up to three weeks for an appointment. In spite of our increased...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: There is something seriously wrong here. I am not blaming the doctors, but we need extra.

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the debate on the Bill but I do not welcome the reactionary nature of what the Government is doing. It is the hallmark of the Government now that it reacts to everything. Ar an gcéad dul síos, I sympathise with each and every family affected by road fatalities, none more so than those that occurred last summer in Clonmel, Tiobraid Árann, when four young people...

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is a Fianna Fáil Bill so.

Road Traffic Bill 2024: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is Fianna Fáil.

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Tá ceist agam don Aire agus don Aire Stáit. I have a question for the Minister and Minister of State: who are you loyal to?

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I hope you do, but you do not understand the people and the anger out there about this mess, which affects 13,000 people who were brought to court to be prosecuted for not paying the licence fee. The content on RTÉ has deteriorated rapidly in the last ten years. I have been saying this at committees and to the Ministers who were in this position before. I support all of the staff,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (13 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if grant funding is available to support an organisation (details supplied) in Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6335/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (13 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 371. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if grant funding is available to support an organisation (details supplied) in Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6337/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Service (13 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 404. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if grant funding is available to support an organisation (details supplied) in Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6336/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Adult education tutors have been campaigning for a public service contract with a common, sector-wide incremental payscale for many years. The campaign finally bore fruit when in May of last year the Department of further and higher education published a contract proposal. However, that proposal was full of ambiguity and was not acceptable to the tutors. As was said earlier, they will be...

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, am delighted to speak on this issue. It is long awaited. I salute those involved in the peace process, none less than former Minister, and a colleague of mine in Tipperary, Martin Mansergh, and, indeed, the late Fr. Alec Reid, John Hume and all the people who tried. We got the peace process and then we saw Stormont stop and start repeatedly, but anois ag dul ar aghaidh,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Septic Tanks (15 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 65. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will expand the scope of the septic tank grants from local authorities to cover larger geographical areas in order for more rural homeowners to avail of it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7351/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Septic Tanks (15 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Will the Minister of State extend the scope of scheme of sceptic tanks for local authorities? It was announced to great fanfare last September that the grant would be extended. Can the Minister of State expand on this and on the geographical areas where the scheme can be operated and the grant availed of?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Septic Tanks (15 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Therein lies the problem. The Department increased the grant from €5,000 to a maximum of €12,000 and they do not have to be registered but getting a grant is the issue. I had a lady last week on to my office. She was in a bad way with her septic tank, rang the county council and was told she was not in the right geographical area. That is ridiculous. I question the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Septic Tanks (15 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I do not accept the figures. Because they came from the EPA, they are gospel, but that agency produced a report recently about areas with no pollution and gave the whole county of Tipperary a clean bill of health, when there are 30 plants - I visited one in my village last week with about ten officials from Irish Water - spewing raw sewage. The figures are thwarted, anti-farmers and...