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- Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)
Mattie McGrath: It is not parliamentary language to say I am done. I am not.
- Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I am-----
- Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I am just making a point. I am making a mockery of the party beside me.
- Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I too am pleased to have the opportunity to speak on the very important matter of agrifood market priorities post Brexit. As other Members stated, there has been so much talk about Brexit that we have nearly talked ourselves out of existence. There is a definite imponderable. we do not know what will happen. Brexit is causing untold damage and uncertainty within the agricultural sector. ...
- Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Or less, yes.
- Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I said that. Very few small business have a turnover of up to €50 million.
- Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I know that. I accept that.
- Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I accept that, but they will not have that number of employees or anything like it.
- Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I know that it states "or less". I hope the Minister will be able to answer the questions I intend to ask him. I have asked him those questions before but he did not answer them and he will not answer them tonight either. He will be singing dumb. May I be allowed to carry on without the smirks and jeers from the two farmers on the other side of the House?
- Agrifood Market Priorities post Brexit: Statements (3 Apr 2019)
Mattie McGrath: The one farmer. I apologise to the Minister of State. I should be blaming the Minister who is invisible when there is a crisis in agriculture, the Minister who cannot be found to tell us what is going on. We know from Teagasc that the agrifood sector in Ireland in 2016 generated 7% of gross value added, a sum of €13.9 billion, 9.8% of Ireland's merchandise exports, and provided...
- Educational Supports for Children Experiencing Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (3 Apr 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I am glad to speak on this motion on educational supports for children experiencing homelessness. I compliment Deputy Thomas Byrne and his colleagues on bringing it forward. We speak about the chaos in the United Kingdom Parliament as a national embarrassment to its politics, but the issue of child homelessness is equally a national embarrassment for this Parliament and the Government in...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Apr 2019)
Mattie McGrath: The programme for Government gives explicit recognition to the right of employees, especially State employees, to freedom of expression. Yesterday, I met ambulance drivers striking in Tipperary. They want to change union. They want to leave SIPTU and join the Psychiatric Nurses Association.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Apr 2019)
Mattie McGrath: It is promised legislation. Why, in this day and age, is SIPTU allowed to block this? What is going on? Big Jim Larkin and James Connolly would turn in their graves over this. The ambulance drivers are entitled to freedom of expression and to join the Psychiatric Nurses Association. They are entitled to do what they want. They provide front-line services and respond to all calls, as...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Is responsibility being taken?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Accountability.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Mattie McGrath: How many additional beds?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Mattie McGrath: A certain number of beds are always required.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Mattie McGrath: The issue of access to mental health services, specifically the total lack of access to residential psychiatric beds in Tipperary, is creating an appalling crisis in our county. Almost all of those who suffer psychological distress are forced to use the services of the 44-bed unit at St. Luke's General Hospital in Kilkenny. I remind the Taoiseach that on 21 December 2018, the Mental Health...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)
Mattie McGrath: I do not believe the people of Tipperary and their families will take much solace from the Taoiseach's answer. More than ten months ago, on 11 May 2018, the Taoiseach's colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly, wrote to the chief officer of CHO area 5 outlining the need to restore some acute bed provision for adults in Tipperary following the closure of St. Michael's unit. We...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2019)
Mattie McGrath: Fianna Fáil voted confidence in the Minister.