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Project Ireland 2040: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos, gabhaim buíochas le cúpla duine, Brian Ó Domhnaill, our research and policy advisor, Mariead and Councillor Máirín McGrath in my office, for putting together the motion. I thank the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath, for staying as long as he could. He had another engagement and apologised before he...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am a Whip and I am getting whipped, obviously. I did check. I was downstairs, which was even worse. I rang and in fairness to the staff in the Chief Whip's office, I was told our group would not be reached in any shape, make or form. There was only 40 minutes. I came up when I saw the Minister speaking but the debate was finished when I arrived. It cannot be monitored. If people are...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: On a point of clarification, I do not get pingin amháin as Whip. The Ceann Comhairle knows that himself.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I do not get a shilling for it.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I do not. I never looked for it either. That is the fact of it. Doing my duty yesterday evening as a Whip, I checked with the Government Chief Whip's office who was on the list of speakers and I was told to forget about it because there was-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I am not blaming the Ceann Comhairle. The office told me-----

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: It has the list of names.

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: The list of names was available and we were not going to get an ear in. I came up yesterday evening. I did not protest when I came up and the opportunity was gone. I did run up and I did not say a word.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: They do not have the right to hog the debate.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Apr 2021)

Mattie McGrath: In a reply to my parliamentary question this morning I was told that 36,820 people were waiting for a colonoscopy. There has been a 59% increase in tho number of people waiting for scopes since the start of the pandemic. These are shocking figures. The Tánaiste talks in reams about vaccines and everything else but this is a cancer growing inside people. Many people will die....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I agreed that those assistance packages were put in place. I welcomed them. I disagree with the Minister that it is the fault of the pandemic, however. It is the Government's reaction to the pandemic and the way in which it has dealt with it. I want to outline the destructive impacts and unprecedented levels of unemployment, which the Minister has mentioned. I mention, for instance, the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I said that I acknowledge the supports. I am referring to the strategy. The Minister blamed the pandemic but it is the Government's reaction to it and the prolonged lockdown. The Government had no roadmap last night either. Entire swathes of our community and society were never even mentioned in the press conference last night or since. Look at the whole arts industry and what is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: 55. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will place a quantifiable monetary value on the direct social and economic costs of the ongoing lockdown strategy on the Irish economy; if he will outline its highly destructive impacts on unprecedented levels of unemployment and the collapse of the small business sector; and if he will ensure that taxpayers will not be forced to pay for same through...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Will the Minister provide a quantifiable monetary value of the huge economic and social costs this pandemic, the Government's attitude and lockdown have had for the people of Ireland?

Children (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: I too am happy to speak on the Children (Amendment) Bill. We are almost fiche bliain ag fanacht ar an mBille seo. It is important for us to have a review of legislation and we discussed the point on reviews of legislation here some weeks ago when Deputy Pringle put some amendments down, I believe, to the Children (Amendment) Bill. Clearly, there were inadequacies, weaknesses and flaws, not...

Children (Amendment) Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: The next slot is the Regional Group. Deputies Berry and Shanahan have 20 minutes.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State has five minutes to wrap up the debate.

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Does the Minister of State wish to respond to those questions?

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Mar 2021)

Mattie McGrath: Deputy Brady had three minutes to ask his questions even though only two and a half minutes are allocated to each group. If there is time at the end, I will let him back in.