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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: They all have.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Hold your whisht.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Teachta Matthews agus an Teachta Ó Cathasaigh. I know how hard they and other committee members worked on Committee Stage of this Bill. I tried to assist a few different times, voting as a substitute and so on. They did a lot of hard work. It is very long legislation and, as the Minister will know, this stage in the Dáil is being quite rushed. ...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Tá an clog stoptha. Cad a tharla don chlog?

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is on strike. It got a shock when the election was up.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Stop the clocks. I succeed in a lot of things, but anyway.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Maybe the Minister is doing it. I will continue. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. Bhí mé ag féachaint ar an gclog so gabhaim buíochas léi. I was speaking of the whole issue of traffic calming and cycle lanes. I have it in Tipperary now. It has become ridiculous. We had a lovely road going from Cashel to Cathair Dúin Iascaigh. My goodness, €1.5...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I am just saying the RSA should be involved in these issues as well. A holistic approach is needed, not big, crude plans. Concrete aprons and high kerbs are being put in. If people hit them, they are in fierce trouble. They are crude. There is talk about aesthetics. Masses of concrete laid out as a ready-mix with a machine is no more aesthetically sensible or pleasing than anything....

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I will finish. Mar fhocal scoir, I am thankful we are an agricultural country, unless the Deputies in the Green Party want to quench the farming and we will all be reading I do not know what.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the TFI bus routes. We have a new bus in Clonmel in the past six to eight months. It has been a huge success. I remember when we had not a bus and before Covid it was a private service. A lot of people worked very hard. I compliment Michael Moroney in the council and his team. It is a major success. There is one problem, and perhaps Deputy Ó Cathasaigh would like to...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: We were not here.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: What? Only one day.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (11 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Is the Minister saying we are not?

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I compliment the members of the Regional Group on bringing forward this important motion. The EPA has released another report this morning. It is a disgraceful, discredited organisation because it will not look at municipal plants. The Minister of State knows this better than I do. I have put it to him previously. The EPA is discredited, comes out with fake news all the time, and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: An-chiúin ar fad.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: When are the Taoiseach and his Government going to do something with Uisce Éireann? From the very initial constitution of that entity and the transposition of the infrastructure, the organisation never took over the combined sewers underneath and behind houses. Today, I speak about Cashel Road in Tipperary town. I mention the late Councillor Christy Kinahan, who is being buried...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I support the amendment relating to the national planning framework. Any issues with it or reviews of it should be debated in this House. The Government obviously has to look at it and bring forward proposals but they should be open to scrutiny in this House. That is what we are here for. Amendment No. 181 adds to the list of bodies to be consulted the national representative...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I agree with Deputies Ó Broin and Danny Healy-Rae. The Minister does want to do this. He wants to take away the embarrassment from his own backbenchers and future Government backbenchers by supporting this kind of legislation. I will not be voting for this because it would be like turkeys voting for Christmas. With the Ceann Comhairle's permission, I will mention the case of Sean...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: We have a Bill of 750 or 800 pages we can hardly lift. Indeed, there is also a list of amendments, many of them tabled by the Minister. We are not operating in a silo here. I am speaking to amendments No. 195 and 196 in the group, in addition to other related ones. We are not operating in a silo. We have a housing crisis. We have a crisis with people emigrating. We have a shortage of...