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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Commission for the Economic Development of Rural Areas (22 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 905. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the overall or full costs associated with undertaking and publishing the CEDRA report. [25302/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Development Plan (22 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 906. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her views on whether the overarching control and decision-making measures pertaining to rural towns falls between Departments and agencies with a lack of a joined up approach including no central body taking charge of policy, strategy, funding and research of towns; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25303/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Development Plan (22 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 907. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the attempts made to develop a place-based approach to rural policies which would emphasise bottom up policies supported by top-down supports; and her plans to decentralise central services to a point of contact closer to the citizen. [25304/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Town and Village Renewal Scheme (22 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 908. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if successful applicants to the 2019 town and village renewal scheme can have their match funding requirement of 20% reduced to 10% in line with the 2020 scheme due to the difficulty that community groups are facing in fundraising during the Covid-19 pandemic and risk the entire project collapsing as a result; and if she will make a...

Expenditure Response to Covid-19 Crisis: Statements (Resumed) (17 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Anois bogfaimid ar aghaidh chuig an Independent Group. Glaoim ar an Teachta Connolly. Is she sharing time?

Expenditure Response to Covid-19 Crisis: Statements (Resumed) (17 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: That is wrong. I will rectify that.

Expenditure Response to Covid-19 Crisis: Statements (Resumed) (17 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I am sharing time with my two colleagues, who have two minutes each. The entertainment industry, which has a wide embrace, is extraordinarily important to our health and well-being. It is important not only to the entertainers and their families, who are dependent on them, but to us, the recipients, including many people who are bedbound, housebound, invalided or disabled. They love to be...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: It was acknowledged by the former Minister of State, Mr. Jim Daly, that we have a deficit of 20 mental health beds in south Tipperary. We do not have a single long-stay bed in the county of Tipperary. People in south Tipperary have to go to Kilkenny, where the beds are full, they are not wanted or there is no room. People from north Tipperary have to travel to Ennis. The former Minister...

Protecting Jobs and Supporting Business: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I too am concerned about the way the Minister is talking about supporting jobs and industry. The music and entertainment industry, the buses, taxis, hackneys, limousines, those aged over 66, the dance teachers and travel agents have all been left behind completely. This is doing nothing for them. The Government gave stimulus money to the banks, which will not loan the money out. Small...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Relief Schemes (16 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Deputy and the Minister of State. I was recently in Bantry with Deputy Michael Collins and saw the devastation that has been caused.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Crime Investigation (16 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Minister. I understand that with the agreement of the House, Deputy Murphy will allow a Sinn Féin colleague 30 seconds to comment.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I want to raise this issue. It has been hugely traumatic. There is no mention of this in the Government's five-point plan. Pregnant mothers going hospital is supposed to be a joyous occasions, involving the scans and everything else. All through their pregnancy, in the vast majority of cases, the partners or husbands have not been allowed in. We have heard of some harrowing cases...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: What about the new communications company?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Hear, hear.

Taxi Industry: Motion [Private Members] (16 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I compliment the proposer of the motion. I met the taxi drivers yesterday, who were on the streets in their thousands. They are dignified and decent people who just want to make a living, but they have been abandoned by this Government, like many other sectors, especially the people over 66. They have been totally thrown to the wolves. They have not got a shilling from anyone. Years...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: 29. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the uptake of the wage subsidy scheme; the number of refusals; the reasons for refusals; the number of successful appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24229/20]

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The Fine Gael Party has something against the Army. It destroyed a wonderful tradition in Clonmel, County Tipperary. For generations - for centuries - there was an Army barracks in Clonmel, but Fine Gael just wiped it away, as it did with many other things. I will fast-forward to Fine Gael's current treatment of the Defence Forces. I note that it will have received the reports on the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I remain confused, along with many other people across the country, by the new living with Covid-19 plan. I welcome the announcement that spectators are to be allowed to return to the games and matches that are part of our culture. Up to 50 patrons or spectators are allowed at indoor sporting events but dancing classes, rince scoile, and other artistic events are restricted to six people....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I am not cherry picking.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)

Mattie McGrath: As the Ceann Comhairle knows, the Independent Group has consistently opposed sittings in the Convention Centre and has asked that we would come back here to Leinster House when it is safe to do so, with a view to examining the possibility of having 1 m social distancing. I have nothing against the Convention Centre and I compliment the staff here and in the Convention Centre for looking...