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Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: We are told the purpose of the Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2022 is to make amendments to the Credit Guarantee Act 2012 to support the needs of business to access additional finance. According to the Government, the creation of a Ukraine credit guarantee scheme is in response to economic difficulties resulting from the aggression by Russia against Ukraine. My goodness what will we call...

Water Policy: Statements (9 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The small towns and villages growth programme Irish Water plans to develop is in a chaotic state in Tipperary. More than seven villages in the county are on the list waiting for investment, including my village of Newcastle, Golden and Cloughjordan at the very north of the county. The lack of progress on wastewater treatment plants is holding up development. It is also causing huge...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, is present. The Powerstown-Lisronagh community alert group from Tipperary are coming up to meet her today. It is fighting to save its community. There is a lack of Garda numbers. The local gardaí are doing their best. Save our Local Community in Tipperary came up to Dublin previously after a heinous robbery in Killenaule when a business...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: What about electronic tagging?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: What about tagging? The Minister did not answer the question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Did the Taoiseach pay carbon tax on the fuel?

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I compliment the Regional Group for tabling the motion. Many people are suffering from long Covid and they have a diagnosis after great cost to themselves and great energy spent, even though they have very little energy to try to get a diagnosis. It seems a blanket has been put over Covid and we cannot discuss it or debate it. One narrative has had to apply all of the time. People are...

Creeslough, County Donegal: Statements (8 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: There is no doubt that everybody is still trying to come to terms with what happened in Creeslough on that fateful evening. We have to salute each and every person in the vicinity of the shop, passers-by, neighbours, first responders, An Garda Síochána, ambulance crews, the fire brigade, council workers, hospital staff from the North and South and everybody else who tried to help....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I raise the urgent case of a 14-year-old child in Tipperary with severe additional needs and the absolute neglect he and his family are receiving at the hands of the HSE. Despite having severe needs, being an acute priority and requiring, at a minimum, weekly respite, the child has received just three hours of respite since last May and just one overnight stay. It is appalling. The...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: If there is any humanity at all, the situation should not be allowed to continue like this. It is appalling.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: We need a serious debate on this matter and, more important, we need action. We are continuously asking for this situation to be rectified and it gets worse by the day.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: It is not agreed.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: My colleague, Deputy Carol Nolan, outlined the chronic situation with the National Ambulance Service. On behalf of my group, I want to raise the need for an urgent debate and urgent action regarding the HSE and its inability to serve the people and carry out its job. Front-line staff are doing a sterling job but there are not enough of them and we are being told we will have to accept...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Licences (8 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 134. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the current status of the Barryroe oilfield application for drilling licence; if a decision has been issued; if not, the reason for the ongoing delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55260/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Crime Prevention (8 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 257. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of drug seizures which were seized on entry into Ireland in 2022; the location of such seizures; if he is concerned regarding the level of drugs entering the country; the efforts that are being taken to clamp down on drugs entering the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54366/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Broadcasting Sector (8 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 340. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the plans to abolish or reduce the broadcast levy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55126/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (8 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 344. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the Government carried out a review of the service level agreement between Irish Water and local authorities to provide a statutory mandate to Irish Water to repair and restore combined drains systems that were previously under the remit of local authorities, as agreed by Dáil Éireann by way of a Private...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (8 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 407. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an organisation, which is a voluntary organisation that uses a property exclusively for charitable purposes and otherwise than for private profit, must be a registered charity in order to be exempt from local authority rates; if its sole purpose of using the property exclusively for charitable purposes is sufficient to...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (8 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 460. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the numbers of Ukrainian refugees and numbers of persons seeking international protection that each European Union Member State has received to date in 2022; the numbers per capita; the reason that Ireland has received a much higher number per capita; the specific EU legislation which states that Ireland cannot cap numbers being received;...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 547. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional resources that will be provided to schools following the recent announcement that the NCSE would be nominating an 'appropriate person’ to carry out an assessment of educational needs on behalf of the HSE under the AON process; the appropriate qualifications required to carry out an assessment of educational needs on...