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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (1 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 715. To ask the Minister for Health if the age restriction will be removed for the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system for persons with diabetes; when he expects that the health technology assessment the HSE commissioned will be completed. [11228/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Mar 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 716. To ask the Minister for Health if the Government still plan to extend free general practitioner care to children under the age of eight, and if so, when this will be implemented. [11229/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Irish Dental Association is in crisis. Many dozens of dentists have left the scheme because the contract has not been updated for years. Families are struggling. In many counties they cannot get dentists under the scheme. They must travel to different counties, maybe 100 miles away, to get an appointment. Will the Government do something for the dentists who are there? I salute them...

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (23 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I have great respect for the Minister and know he is a decent man but this is a whitewash of the highest order. It is a half-baked and cobbled-together attempt by officials in the Department of Transport who have wanted to keep this situation under wraps ever since the Whiddy Island disaster. We have had many more, including one in Dungarvan when we lost two young men, young O'Brien and...

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (23 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I am making allegations that this legislation is toothless, fruitless and useless, and it does not-----

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (23 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Someone has to take responsibility. It is a smokescreen and a cover-up. I am elected to represent people, including the families of those two young men who lost their lives off Helvick Head. There was no proper investigation. Nobody in the Marine Casualty Investigation Board could go out to sea because they had no seagoing experience. It would only happen in Ireland and not in any other...

Merchant Shipping (Investigation of Marine Casualties) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (23 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: That is what it is. I appreciate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle's concerns but it is nothing short of a cover-up and half-baked legislation to keep it going on.

Security Situation in Europe: Statements (23 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I again welcome the Ukrainian ambassador, H.E. Larysa Gerasko, and her team and look forward, on behalf of our group, to a productive dialogue. I look forward to meeting her. Like everybody else, I am very concerned about what is going on. Many Ukrainian nationals, some of whom are now Irish citizens, are living and working in Tipperary and have families. They are involved in crafts and...

Visit of Ukrainian Delegation (23 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I ask Members to extend a warm welcome to the new Ukrainian ambassador, H.E. Larysa Gerasko, who is in the Distinguished Visitors Gallery. Céad míle fáilte. You are most welcome, Ms Gerasko.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: A perfect storm has blown up around the crisis in the price of oil. We are told diesel could go to €2.25 a litre and petrol to €2.40. Given the Russian situation, what alternatives are there if anything happens to that supply of Russian gas? How many days worth of oil are stored in this country? Will the Government reconsider the closure of the peat plants in the midlands,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: We need the two of them.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Live in the dark, is it?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: What is the supply?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: What stores of oil do we have?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: People and the cost of living-----

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I ask that the Minister address the motion.

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The salmon of knowledge.

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister is running down the clock.

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: A Cheann Comhairle, the Minister is eating into our time.

Supplementary Budget for Rural Communities and Farmers: Motion [Private Members] (23 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I thank my colleagues and the officials from our office - Brian Ó Domhnaill, iar-Sheanadóir John Hanafin and Mairéad McGrath for their work on this motion. We stand proud over this motion. It is what the people are telling us. We are in touch with the people. We are not going to listen to arrogance and petulance from a Minister who normally leaves the Chamber before we...