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- Water Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Nov 2018)
Mattie McGrath: They have the confidence and supply and are all right.
- Water Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Nov 2018)
Mattie McGrath: We will wait in anticipation.
- Water Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Nov 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I move:That Dáil Éireann:notes:— the findings of the Environmental Protection Agency Report ‘Urban Waste Water Treatment in 2017’ include:— the waste water treatment at 28 of Ireland’s 179 large urban areas failed to meet European Union standards; — raw sewage from the equivalent of 88,000 people in 38 towns and villages flows into the...
- Water Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Nov 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am delighted to speak to this motion. The motion refers to the astounding and shocking findings in the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, report, Urban waste water treatment in 2017, particularly wastewater treatment in 28 of Ireland's 179 large urban areas which failed to meet European Union standards. We talk about Brexit and everything else but this is a major indictment on us....
- Water Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Nov 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am trying to. One of the Minister's predecessor, big Phil the enforcer, the former Deputy Hogan, who is currently EU Commissioner, tried to taint all rural dwellers who had septic tanks and their own treatment plants as being the problem, but the problem is here in this damning report by the EPA done under the Minister's watch and which found 179 major failures. That does not include...
- Water Services: Motion [Private Members] (6 Nov 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I am not blaming the Ceann Comhairle at all. Is cara liom é. It is the officials and mandarins who ruled it out. They did so under the Minister's instructions and anything with a money cost gets ruled out. These people are entitled to a modicum of service. They have served this State well. The Leas-Cheann Comhairle has dazzled me now. They have paid their taxes and their rent and...
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Nov 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I attended a meeting last night in Nenagh, held by north Tipperary IFA. I am glad the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Charles Flanagan, is in the House. The people of Tipperary are bewildered at the inaction of the Government. This is another obstacle in their way. We were promised reform of the bail laws. We enacted legislation allowing for electronic tagging of known...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Deputies Coppinger and Kelleher were both represented at the Business Committee meeting. If I remember correctly, the budget debate collapsed because of a lack of speakers.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
Mattie McGrath: The debate ended.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Today's Government business shall be No. 17, motion re title of physical therapists, back from committee; No. 18, motion re EU agreement with Kazakhstan, back from committee; No. 1, Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad] - Second Stage; and No. 33, Public Service Superannuation (Age of Retirement) Bill 2018 [Seanad] - Second Stage (resumed). Private Members' business shall be No....
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I also oppose amendment No. 4. It reduces the level and standard of care that people expected when they voted to repeal the eighth amendment and put it in our hands to decide. I believe we should make haste slowly. GPs were mentioned. The 1967 Act in the UK provided for two GPs. We have to tread carefully and ensure it does not widen the scope. A significant number of GPs have...
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)
Mattie McGrath: No, I am okay.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I record my opposition to the amendment.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)
Mattie McGrath: I want to protest the amendment. There are several others that follow a pattern of seeking to delete the requirement to have two doctors examine the pregnant woman before approving an abortion due to the risk to the life or health of the woman. They would also, perhaps, only have had a conversation over the telephone.
- Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)
Mattie McGrath: Can I finish? It is my belief that it does. As I said, two doctors might have a discussion without having physically examined the pregnant woman. I oppose this amendment.
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: European Council Meetings (6 Nov 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 34. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the issues raised during his attendance at the European Council meeting in October 2018. [43428/18]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Meetings (6 Nov 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 115. To ask the Taoiseach the details of engagements, meetings or correspondence that each Minister of State in his Department has had with a person (details supplied) in the past three years. [45465/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Meetings (6 Nov 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 129. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the details of engagements, meetings or correspondence that each Minister of State in his Department has had with a person (details supplied) in the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45455/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Funding (6 Nov 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 152. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the funding provided by his Department or an agency under his auspices to a project (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45089/18]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Meetings (6 Nov 2018)
Mattie McGrath: 157. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of engagements, meetings or correspondence that each Minister of State in his Department has had with a person (details supplied) in the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45459/18]