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Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I will raise a point on data, data sharing and GDPR. This subject is quite interesting. The Ceann Comhairle was at another meeting earlier, at which we had a Minister of State bring in a breach of data.

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I will not go there, but how can we have confidence when a Minister of State - anyone can make a mistake - inadvertently quoted a colleague of mine, Deputy Michael Collins, of being something he is not? There was also a very close direct connection with the Minister of State's family to the information. It is quite serious. A letter has gone to the Ceann Comhairle.

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: No, but it is-----

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: There is another valid question, given that Deputy Collins is not an organic farmer. He was an organic farmer; past tense.

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: How can we have confidence in data sharing and data correction, when the Minister of State blurts out things like that? Her defence was that she had done it before. That is not a defence.

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Fadó fadó.

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister would want to go to Google more often.

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Report Stage (31 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Can I move it?

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Report Stage (31 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I move amendment No. 1: In page 7, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “(3) Part 3 comes into operation on such day as the Minister may appoint by order, but not prior to reciprocal arrangements being in place to facilitate the operation of such a register on an all-island basis.”.

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Report Stage (31 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Could we adjourn the debate?

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Report Stage (31 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I know that, but they are not here.

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (31 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: This is a difficult area. Many suppliers and providers are concerned about their futures. Above all, we need proper, safe medicines and prescriptions to be available for farmers and all people who own or work with animals. The Ceann Comhairle and I know that chemists gave us good cures, not only for ourselves but also for many farm animals. There should be some involvement and pharmacists...

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: It is a dolly mixture.

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: It is liquorice allsorts.

Nature Restoration Law and Irish Agriculture: Statements (31 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the guests to the Gallery, who are the custodians of the land. I will take no lecture from our Green Party colleague from Limerick, Deputy Leddin. Farmers do not want incentives. They want to be left alone to look after the land they have nurtured and cared for for decades and generations. They do not need whizz kids from the Green Party with mad ideas telling them what to do....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I ask the Minister to support the relief road or bypass for Tipperary town. Jobs4Tipp, March4Tipp, Chambers Ireland, Councillor Annemarie Ryan and everybody wants this bypass because it is not possible to live in the town with the congestion. The N24 project is being planned, but why will the Government not do what it did in Cashel some 25 years ago when there was the vision to construct a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Government closed it.

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I also opposed the removal of the eviction ban. We could see the devastation. Fianna Fáil used to have a proud record regarding home ownership but it has clearly abandoned that. There is dysfunction in the Department and county councils along with blackguarding. I will focus on people trying to build a house who are fortunate enough to have a site on family land or can get the site....

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I too would appreciate it if you would allow me to express my sympathies and those of my family to Vera Twomey on the death of Ava. They both fought such a battle for life. It just tells us how fickle life is and how some people get the short straw. It has been a constant battle. She had some battle to navigate the political system. It should not have to be like that for the sickest of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (30 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport where a category has been removed from a person’s licence, how they can have the category reinstated; the reason the NDLS only holds records back to 1990; where the records are held for licences issued pre-1990; if a person held a licence category in 1972, where a record of this licence is held; the way they can access same; the...