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- Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)
Mattie McGrath: He continues to mislead the House.
- Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)
Mattie McGrath: What the Minister is saying is factually incorrect.
- Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)
Mattie McGrath: I am able to take it.
- Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)
Mattie McGrath: I ask the Minister to have the record straight.
- Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)
Mattie McGrath: I am well able to take it, but I want the truth. The Minister does not know what the truth is.
- Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)
Mattie McGrath: We have not got the numbers.
- Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)
Mattie McGrath: I have a point of order. I would ask the Minister how we can scrutinise the regulations.
- Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)
Mattie McGrath: The Minister introduced the topic. He said that we could do so at any time when we cannot.
- Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)
Mattie McGrath: I will be as brief as I can. I wish to speak to amendment No. 24. Like the previous speakers, I feel the Minister seems to have set his face against accepting any idea, suggestion, engagement or interaction with the Opposition. I do not want to be repetitive. That is what is happening now. We have been locked out of everything for more than 13 months. That includes the other Opposition...
- Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)
Mattie McGrath: I will finish because there others and many more amendments to get to, including from ourselves. He told me that he would deal with the pandemic and we will do the science later. People are fed up with the science being done later. As I said today, they are war-weary. We cannot afford this. Consider the business people, or mental health, or the backlog of cancer and other issues that are...
- Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)
Mattie McGrath: We were here last Friday discussing this and I made my views very well known at that time. We have tabled a number of amendments. I thank Brian Ó Domhnaill in our office for doing the research on this but it is all a useless, futile effort. I said this last week and I will say it again. When the Minister was on an taobh seo den Teach he was opposed to these powers. He stood up...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Dec 2021)
Mattie McGrath: On the same issue, this is a shocking crisis all over the country. The Taoiseach said earlier that the Government's primary role is protecting people's health and caring for people. People are being abandoned. Money is being thrown at this, but we cannot get people to do the work. I salute the carers and the people providing home help, but they are running from Billy to Jack doing what...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Mattie McGrath: I thank the Taoiseach for the welcome but not the answer. I asked him specifically about the Covid certificates and whether he had evidence they have lessened the impact or reduced the cases. Clearly, they have not and he has no evidence. If he had, he would produce it. The Taoiseach referenced the debate here. There was no prelegislative scrutiny of any of the legislation that went...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Mattie McGrath: At committee.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Mattie McGrath: That is no excuse.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Mattie McGrath: No, it is not.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Mattie McGrath: They can.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2021)
Mattie McGrath: How is that the case?