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- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: We too in the Rural Independent Group have significant concerns. The lack of clarity is astounding. Today's announcement brought no further clarity. The regulations were changed last Thursday week when the Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020 was debated, voted on and passed by the House. The regulations were supposed to run out last Sunday night, but I do not know...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach is damn good at it himself.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Yes.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: That was to do with a different matter.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: That is not true.
- Written Answers — Department of Trade, Enterprise and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: 158. To ask the Minister for Trade, Enterprise and Employment if supports have been considered for the self-employed and small businesses that do not qualify for the restart grant or the enterprise support grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24011/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (15 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: 208. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applicants waiting for a driver test nationwide; the average waiting time for driver tests; the number of driver testers employed by the RSA; if additional testers will be employed to reduce waiting times; the efforts being made to reduce the waiting times in view of the large backlogs; and if he will make a statement on...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (15 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: 623. To ask the Minister for Health when the legislation to increase the income limit on medical cards will commence (details supplied). [23538/20]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (15 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: 668. To ask the Minister for Health if the reduction in the drugs payment scheme is going ahead in September 2020 as announced in budget 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23390/20]
- Services for People with Disabilities: Statements (10 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I too congratulate the Minister of State and wish her all the best in her very challenging and important role, which concerns disabilities of all kinds. We pay lip service to the disability sector and breach UN conventions regularly but we do not seem to care. Covid has had a shocking impact of the capacity of those with profound disabilities, from young children right up to the elderly,...
- Report of the Committee of Standing Orders and Dáil Reform: Motion (10 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I too am opposed to the motion, on the same basis. I have asked consistently that we go back to Leinster House. We have the medical advice from NPHET but we have to accept the WHO's advice that a distance of 1 m is acceptable. Many of our hospitals operate with that distance. Our schools have been back for ten days. Many are using small prefabs, and many have 13 classrooms. Many...
- Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020: Motion [Private Members] (9 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: The Government issues a fair bit of fake news itself.
- Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020: Motion [Private Members] (9 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Since the Government has been cobbled together, it has been a fake.
- Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020: Motion [Private Members] (9 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Get out the wellies.
- Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020: Motion [Private Members] (9 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: The wet one is in the Shannon.
- Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020: Motion [Private Members] (9 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: A lot of fake news.
- Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020: Motion [Private Members] (9 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Yes. I am almost finished. I am calling on those Members to pony up, not go out and tell their constituents one thing and then come in here and vote differently. I am calling on them to come in here and walk through the lobbies with us this evening. Let us revoke these measures and have a debate on new measures that will help-----
- Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020: Motion [Private Members] (9 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: -----consult the industry and find a new way to live with the virus that respects the very essence of who we are and what makes our country the country that it is.
- Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020: Motion [Private Members] (9 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: I move: “That Dáil Éireann resolves that the Health Act 1947 (Section 31A – Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020 (S.I. No. 326 of 2020) be and are hereby annulled.” An bhfuil an tAire réidh?
- Health Act 1947 (Section 31A - Temporary Restrictions) (Covid-19) (No. 4) Regulations 2020: Motion [Private Members] (9 Sep 2020)
Mattie McGrath: Ar an gcéad dul síos, I want to say that we in the Rural Independent Group have supported each and every measure we have been asked to take, as have the people throughout Ireland. They have put their shoulder to the wheel and accepted anything that was put to them in the hope of defeating and destroying the virus and of flattening the curve. We succeeded in that. As...