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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 278. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the details of each publicly funded Government contract awarded to a company (details supplied); the exact value and location of each contract, including the tendering procedures involved, the number of other companies and entities tendering for the same contracts since June 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Procurement Contracts (24 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the details of each publicly funded Government contract awarded to a company (details supplied); the exact value and location of each contract, including the tendering procedures involved, the number of other companies and entities tendering for the same contracts since June 2017, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the...

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The light I have to cast on this is that we have 6,000 fewer beds than we had in the 1980s but we have had countless numbers of extra recruitment campaigns. The Minister announces all the jobs and recruitment campaigns every day. Where are they? They are not on the front line. They are not nurses or doctors.

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: They are inside in offices and they are pen pushers. When we had the matrons running the hospitals, they were impeccably clean and sterile environments and they ran them from the front door to the back door, and consultants listened to them. Now we have ward managers, floor managers, bed managers, linen managers, hygiene managers, food managers, and discharge managers. We have managers for...

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: They are not making much of a difference. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, read out to me nothing short of a diatribe on Carrick-on-Suir hospital. She should be ashamed to close it in her backyard and tell me this and that are going on. The Minister has a fine big empty monstrosity of a white elephant for a primary care centre while that is going on. He should not be trying to cover...

Statement by the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I ask the Minister to come clean on this. He said on Sunday, and I heard him myself, that this was all done under darkness. I have photographs supplied to me showing that it was broad daylight, thankfully, with six men well clad in jackets. All they are missing is a "Paschal Donohoe No. 1" label on them. They did not have that in the photographs, so obviously they were hiding something....

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: This plan is a typical con job by this Government, particularly by its Green Party component, and the people who support it. We had the COP shenanigans and the cost of all the aeroplanes that flew out there. They try to use fear. I definitely did not want the book referred to but I got it in the post as well. I did not ask for it, I did not read it and I will not read it because I know...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: The HIQA report on St. Brigid's Hospital in Carrick-on-Suir was very good. The Government decided to use it as a Covid step-down facility during the early months of the pandemic. It is in the back yard of the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, who is present. The Save St. Brigid's Hospital committee is coming to Dublin tomorrow to present to the Committee on Public Petitions. It is the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: That is not true.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: What about the statements on Davos?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Secret societies.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Davos.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I too am not satisfied with not having questions and answers regarding the Minister, Deputy Donohoe. We have statements before European Council meetings and post European Council meetings. When will we have pre-visit to Davos statements? The Taoiseach said he will only be there for a day and a half and that he would like to be there for a week. Frankly, I do not care how long he stays...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: I have no interest in going.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: Very funny. It is a great laugh.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driving testers who were let go by the RSA in 2022; the reason that a number of driving testers were let go given the long waiting lists for tests; the number of new driving testers employed in 2022; the number of testers employed by the RSA on 1 January 2022 and on 1 January 2023; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 246. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the up-to-date position on the N24 Cahir to Limerick Junction given that TII has advised councillors only the section near Tipperary town will be built due to lack of funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1440/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Jan 2023)

Mattie McGrath: 668. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a student (details supplied) will be allocated a school bus ticket. [63292/22]