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Community Safety and Preventing Crime: Statements (18 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: We are not here to discuss the Judiciary.

Rural and Community Development: Statements (18 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Deputy Michael Healy-Rae was unable to make it so we have four speakers. I am delighted to be able to speak on this issue tonight. I welcome the Minister of State and wish him well. We need to go back to the communities and get boots on the ground. The dismantling of the LEADER programme was an abject failure and a deliberate attack by the Fine Gael Government of that time. The former...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The whole population is under severe pressure dealing with this Covid situation. Importantly, for the farming community, it is a lonely place and farmers find it hard to get labour if they get sick or whatever. Officials from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, however, are insisting on doing sheep welfare inspections. This is ridiculous. They should be supporting these...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: These sheep inspections can be done by drones. Support the farmers; do not terrorise them.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I did not say that.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: It is a serious issue. Why is the Taoiseach making light of it?

Working from Home (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I also support the Bill. It is fine and dandy, and admirable. However, like previous speakers have said, we cannot do it because we do not have the facilities. ComReg should be stood down because it is useless, toothless and fruitless. I met one of them recently. I was aghast. I pulled in on the way home to get some diesel. I saw this massive jeep with a 202 registration with fancy...

Working from Home (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: We have more fresh air than we have Eir.

Working from Home (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Someone has to say it and we are all saying it. My secretary often spends 50 minutes, an hour or more contacting Eir on behalf of unfortunate elderly people whose landlines are out for three or four months and they have no pendant alarm. It is a disgrace. That is the problem. I heard my secretary screaming down the phone, "Please do not switch me on to someone further." People are going...

Working from Home (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I better sit down.

Working from Home (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The reason we have the problem is that no one will deal with it.

Working from Home (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I do not mean rape in the sense-----

Working from Home (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I am talking about funding. I cannot use the word "pilfer" either, can I? I will sit down, so, and shut up. We have no service and it is a disgrace that people cannot get a basic service to work from home. They cannot even work in the towns where they cannot get broadband, never mind working from home. It is all nice and dandy to talk about it, and the people will go back to the country...

Scrambler Motorbikes and Quad Bikes: Motion [Private Members] (17 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I support this motion and compliment the movers of it. This is the second time recently we have debated this issue. I could not agree more with the previous speaker. Mol an óige agus tiocfaidh siad. We have to praise our young and they will come. There is a song, "Teach Your Children Well". I do not know who sang it but I love it as it has a nice tune and rhyme. We have to train...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (17 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to refund or make concessions for vehicles that are off the road due to ongoing Covid-19 restrictions and lockdowns. [36481/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Disabled Drivers and Passengers Scheme (17 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 275. To ask the Minister for Finance the date primary medical certificate assessments will resume following the Supreme Court decision almost five months ago (details supplied). [36803/20]

Regulation of Private Security Firms Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I compliment Deputies Martin Kenny and Ó Laoghaire for bringing forward this very badly needed legislation. I wish the Minister of State well in his new role as this may be the first time I have addressed him in this House. The Minister of State and I are aware of the case of the Hendrick family in Kilkenny, who are friends of the Minister of State and his father. They were treated in...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Deputy Michael Collins and I tabled a Topical Issue on the same matter but it fell on deaf ears, which is very sad. The Tánaiste is the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation and it is appropriate that I put this question to him. The members of the Irish Bookmakers Association have been denied access to the Covid restrictions support scheme, CRSS, which is very unfair as...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: They have stopped trading.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: It is all leaked anyway.