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Europe Day: Statements (9 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak today on Europe Day. I wish I were jumping for joy and celebrating, but unfortunately I am not. As a campaigner when I was a buachaill óg or fear óg back in 1973, I campaigned looking for a "Yes" vote and I supported it. We joined and we had many benefits. Indeed, part of the slogan for the 1972 referendum on membership was regarding a so-called key guarantee...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The situation regarding home helps and the provision of home help is appalling all over the country, but especially in south Tipperary and west Waterford. In this regard, I have been dealing with the case of a constituent of the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, namely a 92-year-old man from Tooraneena who had home help provided by a gentleman through Home Instead. That gentleman has now...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I request on behalf of my group a proper debate on the nitrates directive. We have seen in the headlines today who are the big polluters. The farmers are being blamed here. Bringing the nitrates directive rates down from 250 kg to 220 kg will have a devastating impact on medium-sized and large farmers, and not that large either in the cases of those who have 50 to 100 cows. They will have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (9 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 609. To ask the Minister for Health if the special leave with pay for healthcare workers who got Covid will be extended beyond June; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21391/23]

Personal Explanation by Minister (4 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: It is a simple question. Who is running this country?

Personal Explanation by Minister (4 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Is it the Minister or Revenue?

Personal Explanation by Minister (4 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: This is scandalous. We roll out a big announcement-----

Personal Explanation by Minister (4 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: -----and now we find there will be a 23% VAT rate for people who do not have an installer. It is shocking. It is more codology from the Green Party.

Personal Explanation by Minister (4 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I may be but they are well out of order too.

Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I am glad to speak on this Bill. Sa chéad dul síos, I congratulate Tipperary ETB on the fabulous centre it has in Archerstown in Thurles where students are trained in everything from bed repairs for hotel maintenance and the cleaning of rooms in hotels to operating massive bulldozers in construction and everything in between, from chef training to you name it. We need more of that...

Personal Explanation by Minister (4 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: May I raise a point of clarification?

Personal Explanation by Minister (4 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Please. A point of clarification.

Transport Support Schemes for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Regional Group for putting forward this important motion. Disabled citizens are being let down by the Government, which has shown a shocking lack of political will to prioritise their needs. It has been ten years since the discontinuation of the mobility allowance and the motorised transport grant for new applicants in 2013 and the Government has yet to provide a fair and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (4 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Tánaiste comes from a teaching background. I stood last week with the adult education teachers and tutors in south Tipperary who are campaigning for parity of esteem with their teaching colleagues. Many of them have teaching qualifications. They do tremendous work with adult literacy and with adult education in bringing people back into education schemes. They go down as tutors...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: There is the Munster final first.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Facilities (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State is the only one who has dropped the ball, whether it is ludo, draughts or poker. The stakes are high for the people in Cashel. As we heard from Deputy Browne, it is the HSE that is engaged in subterfuge and causing people to have a belief with the different answers it gives. Is there no joined-up thinking in the HSE? There is none whatsoever. We receive replies to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Facilities (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I thank Deputy Martin Browne for letting me share time. We want answers about St. Patrick's Hospital in Cashel. We want reassurance and something definite in respect of this matter. St. Patrick's Hospital is a wonderful institution. My late mum did some time there. I cannot say enough about the staff and all the people there, including in the chapels and the church. I often attended...

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: He is gone to the bog.

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I am a bit bewildered because this is a good motion and I want to support it. However, on 22 October 2022, Sinn Féin refused to support our motion to cut out carbon tax and we cannot have it every way here. The people at home are bewildered, as Deputy Tóibín said, and they are blackguarded, perished, angry, demoralised and many other words I cannot use. We have the highest...

Construction Safety Licensing Bill 2023: Second Stage (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I have to stop the Deputy because the time has expired, but we will continue the next day. I am sorry to have to give him the red ticket.