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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (25 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: 691. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the recipients of the funding allocated under the network support fund announced in November 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26681/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: Why did they not keep him?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (20 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: The programme for Government gives a commitment to strengthening Garda numbers to tackle crime. We have a huge issue at present in the Clonmel Garda district, which includes Carrick-on-Suir. The Tánaiste is probably aware there is a huge issue with mental health issues and associated drug crime. It is an epidemic and is leading to many suicides. The community there is calling for...

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

Mattie McGrath: I am merely making the correlation around where licences-----

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

Mattie McGrath: It was a fact-----

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

Mattie McGrath: -----and it happened. I am just saying-----

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

Mattie McGrath: There is still no planning permission. The licence was revoked two days ago, thankfully. I am just making the point that pressures can be inadvertently - I am not saying it was done deliberately - at planning-----

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...