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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.

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

Mattie McGrath: I call Deputy Canney. I understand he is sharing his time.

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

Mattie McGrath: The Deputy is sharing with Deputy Michael Healy-Rae. Is that agreed? Agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: By now, the Taoiseach will know Ms Cara Darmody from Ardfinnan, County Tipperary. She is presenting in the audiovisual room as we speak. She has three simple requests. First, carers of children with special needs should not be charged for assessments and such assessments should be addressed under the national treatment plan. Second, the carer's allowance should not be means tested....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: What about my issue?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Everybody knows what is going on.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I did not get an answer, to be fair. He said he does not know about the wood chippings. The children on the street know about the wood chippings and the peat-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: -----coming from Latvia to supply our power stations that used to use turf. That is not an answer and he is the Head of the Government.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I call for a debate in the House on the madness that is going on with the importation of wood chippings from Brazil, peat from Latvia and anything else from any other part of the world that we feel like, rather than using our own peat and allowing farmers to cut down their own forestry to be used here. We need an urgent debate in this House. The...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 199. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will make available the available data the NPWS is using to inform decisions on the review of the Open Seasons Order and transparency as to who the stakeholders are NPWS is engaging with as part of this public consultation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20486/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Control of Firearms (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 288. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will ensure that both he and the Firearms Expert Committee immediately engage and consult with a group (details supplied) in a meaningful way and to appoint a representative from the group to the Firearms Expert Committee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20437/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Control of Firearms (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 293. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will give assurances that any proposals brought forward by the Firearms Expert Committee will be backed by publicly available data and that all impacted parties will have a voice in the final decisions being made, including the actual firearms owners and those who will be most impacted by increased restrictions; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Child and Family Agency (3 May 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 345. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth where a family is extremely dissatisfied with the manner in which they have been dealt with by Tusla, the avenue available to them to have a full review of their case, have a new social worker assigned to their case and raise concerns about the level of undue intrusion and requirements placed on the family; and...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I got a phone call today about the upcoming event in the Garden of Remembrance organised by the Department of the Taoiseach to commemorate all of those people and families who lost their lives in the tragic Civil War. It is very important that we do that and that we come together for the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. History evolves and moves on but, in ways, it never...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I too am delighted to be able to speak on this important Bill. I wish the Minister of State well with it and there is a huge job of work to be done. The Historical and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023 will replace the National Monuments Act 1930, and subsequent amending Acts. The Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage with responsibility for heritage...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Apr 2023)

Mattie McGrath: He allowed the Irish Republican Army to dwell in his orchard and sleep in the outhouses of Knocklofty House. He has gone to his eternal reward since and he was kidnapped in 1974 by a newer version of the republican movement but he was quickly released when the older people of my father's generation put pressure on, because he was a good man. He went to the House of Lords and spoke out...