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Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: It is not different. A licence was granted without any planning. One must go through all procedures. I am just trying to illustrate my point that this should not be put in the role of Garda superintendents. It should be a proper due process of planning permission that should be advertised and go through the normal channels where the public can make submissions etc. As the Bills Digest...

Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak on the Gaming and Lotteries (Amendment) Bill 2019. I absolutely accept that we urgently need to address the expanding problem of gambling addiction, and specifically online gambling addiction, that is such a plague for so many families in our country. People can gamble day and night, at work, in their bedrooms and kitchens and anywhere they wish. In the past, people had...

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: It is with a heavy heart that I stand here to comment on this. I compliment Dr. Scally on doing this work and coming forward with this supplementary report and the scoping inquiry into the CervicalCheck screening programme which was just a fiasco. We now know that the latest Scally report identified that the number of laboratories involved in CervicalCheck was greater than originally...

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I did not mean it. I am very sorry.

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am happy to have the opportunity to speak on this motion. I accept the need to support our maternity services and the staff who perform heroic work against all the odds. South Tipperary General Hospital, known to most people as St. Joseph's in Clonmel, is the hospital where all of my children were born. Six of my grandchildren were also recently safely delivered there. The staff of the...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: He has already given testament to the committee.

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: At a meeting of the Joint Committee on Health on Wednesday, 19 September 2018, the doctor explicitly told Deputy Stephen Donnelly that the lack of MRI scanning services could lead to the termination of a child who may not have had a fatal condition. I reiterate that he said the lack of services "could lead" to the termination of a child who may not actually have had a fatal condition. His...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Yes, thankfully. I am speaking about the top five who we are told are whizz-kids and continually appear on television to tell us how good we are doing. They continue to spend on projects they should have given up two years ago. The people know that what they are saying is not true. The spin doctors who are all from Dublin do not appear to know anything about what goes on past the Red Cow...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am always easy on Dublin. If Dublin left rural Ireland alone, we would leave it alone. We are happy to visit, work and be educated in Dublin but not at a cost to rural Ireland. Every person in Ireland who puts petrol-----

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: This is all about the pre-European Council statements. The Government will not fool people in Europe in the same way as it is trying to fool people here. People in Europe are a bit smarter. They have been around for a while and they have copped on to us a long time ago. Every person in Ireland who puts petrol in their car or lights their cooker is in some measure already paying through...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Where is it?

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am happy to speak on this issue. There is no doubt that, for us at least, the major concern in the European context continues to be Brexit and the planned exit date for the UK of 31 October. Who the Prime Minister will be at this point is unknown, but it looks likely that Boris Johnson will be the victor of the ongoing Tory Party leadership contest, although we have no hand, act or part...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: On the climate action strategy published with great fanfare this week, the Freight Transport Association of Ireland is calling for the Government to recognise the vital role the freight and logistics sector plays in achieving the targets set out in the climate action plan. Commercial trucks and vans accounted for 21% of all transport emissions and 9.2% of Ireland's total CO2 emissions in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (19 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 173. To ask the Minister for Health the number of eye and cataract procedures carried out at the cataract centre UL Hospital at Nenagh since November 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25668/19]

National Minimum Wage (Protection of Employee Tips) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am also delighted to speak to this Bill, about which I have mixed feelings. I totally agree that a tip is meant for the staff, the waiters, kitchen staff or whoever. Deputy Healy-Rae spoke about being given a tip when he was younger. I also often cut hay but we would not have as many stones in Tipperary as they have in Kerry, so I could get in closer to the ditches with the mowing bar...

Proposed Service by Defence Forces with United Nations in Mali: Motion (18 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I am sharing time with Deputy Michael Healy-Rae. As Ruadhán Mac Cormaic wrote in The Irish Times on Saturday, the Government has quietly announced plans to send about a dozen members of the Army ranger wing to Mali to join a counter-terrorism operation, which Mac Cormaic states is highly unusual. This mission is widely regarded as the most dangerous United Nations mission in the world....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: That is outrageous.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The communities of Cahir in Tipperary-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. Cahir Boys' national school and Our Lady of Mercy Convent girls' school have been waiting nearly 30 years to amalgamate. The amalgamation is supported by everyone, including the boards of management, parents councils and the communities. Thankfully, a site has been obtained from the Sisters of Mercy for a new building. The conditions in the existing school...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: It was promised.