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- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Could I carry on without the Lord's name being take in vain from some inadequate people behind me? There is cursing and swearing.
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: If they have to resort to taking the Lord's name in vain, what else is there?
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: It is unbelievable. I am trying to concentrate. I have a script.
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Apologise for-----
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I would like to continue without being interrupted.
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: The Deputy was using the Lord's name in vain within earshot of me. To date this year, 100,000 patients have gone without hospital beds and have had to wait on trolleys in emergency departments. To the end of October last year, the numbers were the worst in the world. They have increased this year. I am out of time, but I appeal to the Minister, Cabinet and Taoiseach to do something...
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I and my colleagues have been out to see it.
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: We know what is happening. I ask the Minister to check his conscience. A 102 year old recently spent three days on a trolley in University Hospital Waterford. Does the Minister have any moral compass or fibre? Does he think about the people who are waiting and being neglected and abused? I ask him to think of the staff.
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Like the previous speaker, I compliment Fianna Fáil on tabling the motion. I thank the Minister for visiting places in Clonmel, such as the hospital and the doctor's surgery at Mary Street Medical Centre, which has fabulous diagnostic equipment. He worked hard to secure a contract to allow the medical centre to provide diagnoses privately. It was the shortest contract in the history...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I want to raise an issue the Minister of State at the Departments of Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy D'Arcy, will know all about in his portfolio, namely, the cost of and unavailability of insurance to businesses, farmers and community and voluntary organisations. It is having a massive impact on our society. There are social farms as Deputy Michael Healy-Rae spoke about,...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I did.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: The Government has good advocates for that itself.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: If one lives in a glass house one should not throw stones.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I do. We are waiting for ten years for it.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: He might call to the Vatican.
- Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I appreciate that we have foreign direct investment and that we need it. My county has been privileged to have Merck Sharp & Dohme, MSD, for 40 years, Boston Scientific and many more. We hear about the cost of job creation and the costs for small businesses trying to get incentives. They cannot get any of them, but there are huge incentives for these companies to come here. Let me...
- Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (19 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I would also like to know what the estimated cost of the tax credit will be once it is possible to avail of it in 2020. As Deputy Michael McGrath and others did, I salute the personnel of the Naval Service and what they do. We have had great difficulties in retaining them. They have excellent training and I acknowledge the work they carried out in the Middle East and in the Mediterranean....
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Schools Amalgamation (19 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I am glad the Minister cleared that up. I knew the parish community, parish council, parish priest and the bishop had signed off on it. I believe them. Of course I do. One does not get many free sites these days, and the Minister has been given a great gift from the clergy in the parish. He should be grateful for that. I was told several times previously that tenders were at the stage...
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Schools Amalgamation (19 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: It was the next best thing.
- Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Schools Amalgamation (19 Nov 2019)
Mattie McGrath: It was gifted.