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Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: We did not say that.

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I am sorry, but I had to step out for another meeting. I have no issue with the Minister of State's good self and this has nothing to do with him, but it is a disgrace that the Minister is not present. This day last week, a Minister of State was sent in with ten minutes to go. Unfortunately, I was in the Chair and I had to suspend the House because the Minister of State had no briefing and...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (22 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Does the Minister of State wish to allow Deputy Haughey to speak briefly?

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (22 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: He has been a very diligent member of the Committee on European Union Affairs so I know he is interested.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (22 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: It is time for an tAire to wrap up.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (22 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I will call Deputy Brady if he is here - I cannot see him - and then Deputy Haughey. If he does not mind the Minister of State can then answer the questions from the three Deputies.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (22 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: With the permission of the House, we will take the questions together, and perhaps Deputy Haughey's also.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (22 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The Deputy beat me to the draw by going to the questions and answers session. If the Minister of State does not mind, he might take those. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae also has a question. I cannot see who else wishes to ask a question.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (22 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Of course. Will the Minister of State answer Deputy Harkin's questions first?

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (22 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Yes.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (22 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Yes. I will take four minutes and they will take two and a half minutes each. Last week, the Acting Chairman heard the officials, in the absence of the Minister for Finance, tell us that we had not yet applied to the EU for any funding despite being in the middle of a deep pandemic or whatever one wants to call it. That beggars belief when Germany is spending its money and other countries...

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (22 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I am sharing time with Deputies Nolan and O'Donoghue. Cá bhfuil an Taoiseach? Cad a dhéanfaimid feasta gan adhmad? On Questions on Promised Legislation, the Taoiseach wanted to know what planet I was on. He is not even here to listen to the debate. Another Deputy is correct that they always leave before we speak. The Minister of State, Deputy Thomas Byrne, is here. The...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The Taoiseach described the deal that we got at the weekend as a good one for Europe. Only four countries - Germany, France, the Netherlands and Sweden - are to contribute more than us. Germany will pay €1,606 per capita. Ireland will pay €3,201 per head. This is a rotten deal. After the miserable so-called bailout, which I called a clean-out at the time, this is another...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I know what planet I am on.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: It is about that.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: It is.

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (21 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I will be around. The Minister of State need not worry; I am always around. A gang of his crowd arrived one night in January in a kind of clandestine raid to Hanora's Cottage in the Nire Valley. I happened to turn up and knocked on the door, and the poor woman, Mrs. Mary Wall, nearly collapsed. When I arrived, there were five or six of us, and they enjoyed it and I enjoyed it. We were...

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (21 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: Deputy Nolan will speak first.

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (21 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: I welcome the appointment of the Minister of State, Deputy English. I am very concerned. Like many speakers tonight I support the thrust of the Bill and the need for it. With no disrespect to the departmental officials present, the Bill is drawn up by mandarins in the Department. This is a problem for me. Why do we not have business people in here who can be consulted and engaged with...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: The stimulus package is expected to be announced this week. We know the Taoiseach is tired having come back from Brussels. We need to look at the bigger picture in terms of stimulus measures. Every bed and breakfast, farm and country guest house, small hotel, big hotel and Airbnb that gets a booking through Booking.com, or any of the other numerous booking agencies, most of which are based...