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Social Welfare Bill 2024: Second Stage (15 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: You are never too old.

Child Protection: Statements (15 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: As I said last week in the Dáil when these statements was called for, they represent brinkmanship and showmanship from the Government trying to get one over on Sinn Féin. It was as naked and blatant as that. When there are children in State care, children who have gone missing and children who have been failed by Tusla and by the Government, the Government should be ashamed of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I wish to raise the case of Lorraine, a 55-year-old Cashel woman who requires a patient transfer service by ambulance from her home in Cashel to UHL tomorrow at 11 a.m. for an infusion to prevent a further relapse in her multiple sclerosis. Her mother Kathleen is 82 years of age. This is a very sad situation. The trip did not happen last week because the voluntary ambulance service driver...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The election is on.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: There are thousands of restaurant owners and small business people outside the Dáil, including pub owners, hotel owners and representatives of the catering industry. This is a vital industry to rural Ireland and it is a slap in the teeth for them that the Government totally turned its back on them and it did not reduce the VAT rate to 9% in the recent budget. I am appealing now, on...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: A Tipperary teacher who has taught SPHE over a period of 16 years says she is one of several teachers who have resigned or are considering resigning from their roles because they are completely appalled, sickened and deeply concerned at the new SPHE curriculum, which they say has the potential to be very harmful to young school students. I am not against sex education in secondary schools...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Yes. To be given to students.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is quite serious.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Not agreed.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: From the Seanad (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of order-----

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: The Government is failing to deal with the real issues. I am not going to say that I do not welcome the once-off payments and double payments but it is nothing short of an election gimmick. The real problem is the cost of energy and the gouging by the energy companies. We have the highest gas, oil and electricity prices in Europe. Why is that? This is what needs to be tackled instead of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I return to the ongoing situation at the Dundrum House Hotel in Tipperary. The Department, under emergency legislation, housed 270 or 280 men, women and children from Ukraine and the community integrated and welcomed them. Now it has been decided to make it an IPAS centre, and many in the community, many others and I warned the Department of integration, the community engagement team and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: This should not be going on.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: What about the patients?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Go raibh maith agat, a Cheann Comhairle. I travel to Monaghan a lot too, as the Minister knows, in case she picks me up on something.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Family Carers Ireland acknowledges budget 2025 brings some welcome measures to alleviate the pressure carers feel every day, such as increasing the respite grant to €2,000 per annum and increasing the disregard to €1,250, which allows more carers to get it. The Minister knows well and I am not saying she does not know, but why did she not do what she said she would do or what...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: She sure is.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Not true.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is not a hospital anymore.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is unacceptable that carers have to wait until next July, six months after everybody else, to get their increases. We can all be patronising and talk about what they do but they need the money now, not next July or August. Fully abolishing the carer's allowance means test is recommended by research from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. That is crucial. Once-off payments...