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Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: No, I have seven minutes and the rest will be shared. The budget is like the curate's egg, it is good in parts. It has many bad parts too. According to the latest figures, Irish people with mortgages of €300,000 will pay €80,000 more over the course of 30 years than their European counterparts. Why is that? This budget will cripple ordinary people. Na daoine aosta got...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Business of Joint Committee (14 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I wish the Vice Chairman well in his role today. I welcome our guests and thank them for outlining the position as they see it. I want to try to understand. Unless one lives in a person's shoes, one cannot understand the sheer misery and sense of fear and hopelessness of our artists across the board and the impact that has on the lives of ordinary people who value all the artists, music,...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Business of Joint Committee (14 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Vice Chairman. I was asked to raise these issues. Those people are concerned. This committee is the place to tease out such issues to ensure that the funding percolates down to those people, the individual self-employed artists. The pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, must also be restored and maintained. These people are worried about what is going to happen.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Business of Joint Committee (14 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The money is making its way out but the problem is the vehicle for getting it out. Many of these people about whom I have been speaking, the artists, have only the van beside their house, or maybe in a garage. They cannot avail of rates reductions because they do not have a rateable building. They are mobile. There are people in many other sectors in similar situations - milkmen, lorry...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Business of Joint Committee (14 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: We need to look at the funding vehicle, transparency and how these people will be able to get supports because, if they are not given support, beidh siad imithe, they will be gone and forgotten and it will be the nation's loss.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Business of Joint Committee (14 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: These people provide great psychological support for people who are at home listening to radios or who go to shows.

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value Added Tax (13 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: We are closing the stable door after the horse has bolted. I acknowledged the value of the original VAT cut when it was introduced by the then Ministers, Michael Noonan and Deputy Howlin, but when the rate was increased again it should only have been increased by 1% or 2% rather than going all the way back up to 13.5%. This resolution is giving a VAT reduction to businesses that are closed....

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise - Mineral Oil Tax (13 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: They cannot get a bus.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise - Mineral Oil Tax (13 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The Government is removing the bus service in Tipperary.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise - Mineral Oil Tax (13 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle understands rural life and her constituency. This is a three-card trick by the Greens, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael. They tell us this money will be ring-fenced for projects to deal with a just transition. Just transition, my eye. Tell that to the woman trying to heat her cottage in the country, whether in Tipperary or any place, tell it to the farmer trying to...

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise - Mineral Oil Tax (13 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Obviously it is a Green budget but it is abominable.

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Seisear.

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Budget Statement 2021 (13 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The budget is a missed opportunity in the main. While there are some nice bits and pieces to keep certain sectors happy for the moment, it is a missed opportunity in this time of severe crisis due to the pandemic to deal with wastage and how money announced for various sectors does not percolate down to the ordinary person on the street. The announcement of the new Covid restrictions...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (13 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an Irish Rail engineers' report on the upgrades made to the Ballybrophy to Limerick rail line to determine if it is possible to increase speeds on the line to improve the service and entice more users; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30220/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (13 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 73. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will work with Irish Rail to review the timetables on rural routes such as the Ballybrophy to Limerick and the Limerick Junction to Waterford lines and make minor changes to suit commuters and students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30221/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (13 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 74. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will appoint a regional manager to oversee operations on rural lines in particular the Ballybrophy to Limerick line and to work with local third level institutions and large workplaces (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30222/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (13 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 460. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of a mental health crisis house at a location (details supplied); the date on which this development will go to tender; the cost of this development; if funds have been allocated; the date on which the crisis house will open; the number of patients the facility will accommodate; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (13 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 461. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body that made the decision that a psychiatric unit (details supplied) would be redeveloped as a general hospital rather than reopening as a psychiatric facility; the reason for this decision; the reason reopening this facility as a mental health facility was not considered; if not, the reason therefor; his plans for the provision of acute...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (13 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 521. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients with mental health difficulties presenting to South Tipperary General Hospital in each year since the closure of St. Michael’s Hospital in 2012, including to date in 2020; the number of patients transferred to the department of psychiatry in Kilkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30117/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (13 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 522. To ask the Minister for Health the capacity at the department of psychiatry in Kilkenny; the number of beds available; the number of beds occupied by patients from County Tipperary; the number and percentage of patients from County Tipperary cared for in the department of psychiatry in each of the years 2012 to 2019, inclusive, and to date in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the...