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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: There is a guillotine.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It is being guillotined.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (13 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: 69. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made on an application for a foreign birth registration (details supplied); the reason for the delay in processing the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25846/24]

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I would say you are, all right.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: One hundred percent.

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: We have a Bill of 750 or 800 pages we can hardly lift. Indeed, there is also a list of amendments, many of them tabled by the Minister. We are not operating in a silo here. I am speaking to amendments No. 195 and 196 in the group, in addition to other related ones. We are not operating in a silo. We have a housing crisis. We have a crisis with people emigrating. We have a shortage of...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I agree with Deputies Ó Broin and Danny Healy-Rae. The Minister does want to do this. He wants to take away the embarrassment from his own backbenchers and future Government backbenchers by supporting this kind of legislation. I will not be voting for this because it would be like turkeys voting for Christmas. With the Ceann Comhairle's permission, I will mention the case of Sean...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Report Stage (Resumed) (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I support the amendment relating to the national planning framework. Any issues with it or reviews of it should be debated in this House. The Government obviously has to look at it and bring forward proposals but they should be open to scrutiny in this House. That is what we are here for. Amendment No. 181 adds to the list of bodies to be consulted the national representative...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: When are the Taoiseach and his Government going to do something with Uisce Éireann? From the very initial constitution of that entity and the transposition of the infrastructure, the organisation never took over the combined sewers underneath and behind houses. Today, I speak about Cashel Road in Tipperary town. I mention the late Councillor Christy Kinahan, who is being buried...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: An-chiúin ar fad.

Nature Restoration Law: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I compliment the members of the Regional Group on bringing forward this important motion. The EPA has released another report this morning. It is a disgraceful, discredited organisation because it will not look at municipal plants. The Minister of State knows this better than I do. I have put it to him previously. The EPA is discredited, comes out with fake news all the time, and...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Tá fáilte roimh an cathaoirleach nua agus na daoine eile freisin. The bit of Irish at the start of the opening statement was very nice. Mr. O'Rourke has a big job. Senator Byrne asked him his role on the board of the ESB and about the phone call he received from the Minister inviting him to become cathaoirleach of the board of RTÉ. I ask him please not to take the following...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It did not trouble Mr. O'Rourke at all, even in light of where we have come from and where we have arrived at in the context of the culture at RTÉ. I reiterate I have the height of respect for the vast majority of the staff at RTÉ, but the corporate governance was simply appalling. As someone who has been self-employed for 42 years, I know well about regulations and the laws of...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: That is my understanding of what the figure was, but even if it were €5 million, none of us, including those of us who are self-employed, have the liberty to put aside money to settle with Revenue. It comes down on people like a ton of bricks, they are penalised with penalties and savage interest, and many people are put out of business if they get into that position. How does Mr....

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: That is the most important one of all. Taxpayers in the public service have tax taken out before they even get their money, every business has to settle with Revenue and there is no rescue there.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: There are huge penalties in interest as well.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: I am very concerned about the language, with breaches of the law to be rectified. I do not have a choice if I break the law as an employer and nor does anybody else. I would not have an opportunity, nor would any other business, to deal with the Department of Social Protection around the law. The law is the law, and there was massive law-breaking.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: What does Mr. O'Rourke mean, however, about discussing it with the Department of Social Protection? The law is the law.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ (12 Jun 2024)

Mattie McGrath: It would need to be, given it is now four years on. After this meeting, I may need to go to a shop, a restaurant or somewhere else. Those kinds of businesses have to operate within the law. RTÉ was not operating within the law. It was committing a flagrant breach of the law and the management was complicit in it. We saw how all the yellow-pack workers were treated. Ms Cusack...