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- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Stop conflating the issue.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Look after the farmers.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: It is not happening.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: There are none so blind as those who cannot see. The Taoiseach is not listening.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: We are not getting them.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I want to highlight the serious and alarming low levels of Garda availability across County Tipperary. There are supposed to be 380 gardaí to cover the county. Unfortunately, 45 of them are out on long-term sick leave. I wish them well as many them have injuries from the line of duty. I also raise this issue in the context of the proposed divisional reorganisation, a move that will...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I will give the Taoiseach the roster I was given. It has the facts and is from a member of the Garda Síochána who is afraid for his community and the people he wants to police. I am astonished with the Garda Commissioner, Drew Harris, because he has not engaged with the GRA or anybody else. The GRA stated the Government’s policing reform plan looks like it has been...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Expenditure (16 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: 277. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address concerns that Dublin City Council was involved in the payment of moneys relating to criminal activities at a social housing development in Dublin city; when his or a Minister of State's attention was drawn to this issue; the measures taken in response to ensure that such practices are not being carried out...
- Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak to the motion and compliment its authors. I had better declare that I am an employer and can speak from that perspective also. As I said, I am happy to speak to the motion and salute Sinn Féin for bringing it forward. Some of the statistics mentioned in the motion are truly disturbing. There is no other way to describe them and I compliment Sinn Féin on...
- Living Wage: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: When I met the head of IDA Ireland in New York, he told me that himself. IDA Ireland cannot get them to move down the country; they want everything to be in Dublin. That is what the Government is driving. The motion proposes a living wage of €12.30. Considerable complexity remains in dealing with the issue. It is not simple and the last thing we want to do is to make the...
- Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I am pleased to be able to speak on the Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill. I acknowledge the excellent briefing prepared by Ms Emily Heery and the Oireachtas Library and Research Service. The Bill seeks to maintain the provision of certain health benefits, including the European health insurance card, EHIC, to eligible residents of Northern Ireland and to make...
- Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: No, never. Once bitten, twice shy. I was in the party all of my life since 2011.
- Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: As I understand it, reimbursement of the necessary medical expenses to eligible residents of Northern Ireland is an exceptional provision which is being proposed by the Government in the spirit of the Good Friday Agreement. I welcome that. I never mention the agreement without mentioning a former Deputy, Minister of State and Senator, Professor Martin Mansergh, as well as Father Alec Reid,...
- Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I will not send the Minister to The Hague.
- Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I am just saying that if it were wartime, they would be charged with war crimes. There is no war, thank God.
- Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: What?
- Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I am not charging him. I do not have the power to charge him, but if I had the power, I would.
- Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I am making the point that in a war situation the Government or the Administration would be charged, because sleep deprivation is part and parcel of every struggle and war that ever went on. All kinds of things are done to keep people awake. People are lying beside vending machines in hospitals and traffic is passing by. People are all over the place and there is no room to pass by. The...
- Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Where will the Minister put them?
- Health and Childcare Support (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Oct 2019)
Mattie McGrath: The queues in hospitals are out the doors.