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Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: State Bodies (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 329. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the person or body responsible for the maintenance and storage of files from the former Council of Education, Recruitment and Training which amalgamated with Bord Fáilte to become Fáilte Ireland; the way that a person who completed a training course with the Council for Education, Recruitment and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (15 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: 696. To ask the Minister for Health if a meeting was held with persons (details supplied) in 2003 that led to the decision to halt a review into missing samples from a family in Askeaton, County Limerick; and if pressure was brought by the persons to stop the review going ahead. [7657/22]

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Why can we not exclude people who have enormous incomes? Surely there must be some way to do that? We used to use the peann luaidhe, but now we have computers. When PUP was introduced, I pleaded with the Minister concerned to address that. Anybody who is an employer knows that PRSI is now paid weekly. All of that information is on a computer. People could have been given what they were...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I, too, am surprised, although I am not sure why, that ten of the 11 amendments have been ruled out of order. We are trying to reinvigorate our tourism industry. There are many good holiday home operators. While we will always have some cowboys, the vast majority of them are good. I am talking about a fear uasal i nDún Garbhán. People need to get out into the sun and the water,...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Can I clarify if there will be a second round for Deputy Michael Healy-Rae?

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: Similar to what my colleague has said, we are dancing around here on the head of a needle with all these grandiose schemes, such as the one introduced yesterday. This retrofitting scheme has been eagerly awaited and much wanted. People want to engage with it. It will, however, cost them €500 to get an assessment, and they will get back €250 whenever. I am talking about...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: -----shopping trolleys were filled up to the water level with goods in that Dunnes Stores outlet. The whole lot came to €16 or €18. It was shocking. There were loss leader products, and all these types of things. The companies are getting the money back in other ways, but they are selling all these things by way of champion products and below cost selling. It is shocking....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine and representatives of Bord Bia met the pig producers of Ireland last week. Put simply, the price of meal has gone up by 30 cent and the price of bacon is down by 40 cent. That equates to losses of roughly €38 per sow. There is a perfect storm here as these businesses cannot get work permits. Countries like France, Poland, Denmark...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: It supports 8,000 jobs.

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

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

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

Mattie McGrath: There was a telephone in every house within a month.

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

Mattie McGrath: It took a year to get it fixed.

National Minimum Wage: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: We have to get real here. Deputy Damien English, a junior Minister, is present, but we have no interest in the working poor, the small farmer and the so-called "daoine beaga" - I do not mean in stature - or ordinary humble people of Ireland. "Let them eat cake" - if she was here now - is the attitude of the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste. Globalists is what they are, looking after big...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Overcrowding (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: The audacity of Mr. Watt and indeed the Minister for Health to go to Dubai to look at best practices during Covid speaks for itself and shows how out of touch they are. My good friend and the Minister of State's former colleague, the former Minister of State, Máire Hoctor, did her very best to keep Nenagh accident and emergency department open. She was hounded out of office by...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Overcrowding (9 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: I will add my voice to this on behalf of the three rural Independents who are up the midlands, where we are. The problem is historic. The new 96-bed unit is supposed to be there. That sod was turned by the then Minister, Mary Harney, 20 bliain ó shin. The HSE is a failure. It has badly failed Limerick people and the people of north Tipperary. I salute Independent councillor...

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

Mattie McGrath: I am glad the Minister for Transport, Deputy Eamon Ryan, is here. The NTA did not get one penny, aon phingin, to continue work on the N24 road from Cahir to Waterford and the N25 road to Dungarvan. All the politicians in the south east are at one on this issue. A meeting has been requested with the Minister to emphasise the importance of this project and the continuation of the different...

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

Mattie McGrath: You should join the Green Party.

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

Mattie McGrath: It is.

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

Mattie McGrath: Dance to the tune-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Feb 2022)

Mattie McGrath: It is basic support and not a cushion they want.