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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: They have switched off.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (30 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 270. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Ukrainian nationals, who may have lost their own documentation, who have been granted Irish citizenship since the beginning of the Russian invasion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16026/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (30 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 277. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a Ukrainian national who has arrived in Ireland and has lost all ID documentation due to the Russian invasion can apply for and legitimately obtain Irish citizenship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16028/23]

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I support the motion which is a sensible motion brought forward by Páirtí an Lucht Oibre, not the nonsense we had earlier of a phony vote of no confidence in the Government that it knew it would not win. It is jockeying for position with Sinn Féin and the other party on the left, the Social Democrats. There were antics, disgruntlement and interruption. It was a shocking...

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I apologise for interrupting an Aire. Are copies of her speech available?

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Bogaimid ar aghaidh anois le Sinn Féin, agus an Teachta Rose Conway-Walsh, cúig nóiméad.

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Gabh mo leithscéal. My screen has gone ahead of me here.

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I call an Teachta Howlin, sharing deich nóiméad with an Teachta Sherlock.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I raise the issue of the new Garda station for Clonmel. This issue has been going on for more than 50 years. I have been raising it for 16 years since I was elected to the Dáil. We now have a site, planning and design for a splendid new Garda station, but for some strange reason - I believe there is a window of opportunity now - it has been bundled with another Garda station, which we...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: They need not be.

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The people who are looking in today, those who have not switched off from the theatre and semantics that are going on in this Chamber for the last number of months, see Tweedledum and Tweedledee, and the fake and phoney Opposition when it comes to housing and issues like this. They are all in the one boat when it comes to other issues of globalism. They are all happy. The men of 1916 must...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I think of men like Collins and Liam Lynch, who we will commemorate in ten days’ time, who gave the ultimate sacrifice that we would have freedom, we would arrive at our destiny, we would have homes for our people and decent standards of living and entitlement to a job, not flooding the place with people from all over the world and driving our people into penury. Here we are today...

Confidence in Government: Motion (29 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: They have switched off.

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: There are four hours of debate on this matter scheduled this week. We almost had another two-hour debate only Government statements were removed. If talk could build houses, we would have plenty of them. There are some who prioritise implementing a recovery plan for An Bord Pleanála with immediate effect. Severe backlogs in An Bord Pleanála are hampering the construction...

Annual Emission Allocation Units Purchase Agreement: Motion (28 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of order, it is a very sad trend that we are having this debate today. The point of order is that the Minister of State has just told us that the deal has been signed. Therefore, what are we doing?

Annual Emission Allocation Units Purchase Agreement: Motion (28 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: This is after the fact. This is putting the cart before the horse. We are only here to sign our names to this deal, to rubber stamp it. We might as well close down the Dáil and give our powers to the European masters altogether.

Annual Emission Allocation Units Purchase Agreement: Motion (28 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Are we here talking about closing the stable door when the horse is gone? Has this already been signed and are we merely rubber stamping it here? I also have huge issues about Ireland buying these credits from Slovakia, which is not meeting its own targets. It is farcical. I have huge issues with the whole roll-out. There are schemes and schemes across all-of-government. Housing is no...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: When Deputy Varadkar was last Taoiseach some four or five years ago, I raised with him the case of Clonmel man. John White is a Tipperary man who was in difficulties in Dubai because of his involvement in a company that he had no control over. He has not been allowed to leave the country at all and to return home, although I had thought that he was home. The Taoiseach said he knew the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: We cannot keep people.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Mar 2023)

Mattie McGrath: What are we going to do to get more gardaí to join the force and make it safe and secure so that gardaí within the force will stay the course? As the Taoiseach knows, 130 gardaí left the force last year and this year the same trend is continuing. It is no longer safe or a career people are happy in. We are not supporting them with proper supports such as body cams and so on....