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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Communications (6 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 1197. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government 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. [45461/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Meetings (6 Nov 2018)

Mattie McGrath: 1233. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of engagements, meetings or correspondence that each Minister of State in her Department has had with a person (details supplied) in the past three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45454/18]

Vulnerable Persons Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am speaking about the subject of an arrogant Government and arrogant Ministers. They do not care about ordinary people. Ní neart go cur le chéile. That is what I support. The Government does not support anything only that it is mightier-----

Vulnerable Persons Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am sticking to the subject.

Vulnerable Persons Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I have given the reasons. I have quoted the figures and statistics. The HSE stated 8,000 people had called it last year.

Vulnerable Persons Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: What?

Vulnerable Persons Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: You are the fake news. You are the fake Government, as you will find out very soon. It will be a Rialtas imithe. The people saw through it in 2016 and they will see through it again with all of the issues. Patients are languishing on hospital trolleys. When people are sick or stressed, they cannot receive treatment. They cannot gain access to GPs who are being punished and banished from...

Vulnerable Persons Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am speaking about vulnerable people. The Minister of State might not care about them, no more than he cared about the farmer I went to help. He was looking out over his own ditch in County Wexford. He knows all about it. The truth hurts.

Vulnerable Persons Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The Minister of State is the fake news. He left the soldiers, our proud peacekeepers, abandoned in Syria for two weeks after they were supposed to come home. He could not even organise the flights. I do not know if he will find his way home to County Wexford tonight. If it is dry, he probably will, but if there is fog, he will probably get lost and end up in Dungarvan or somewhere else.

Vulnerable Persons Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I thank all the Deputies who supported me this evening. I admitted at the outset that we do not have the resources to research legislation. We do not like the teams of civil servants that the Government has, nor can we carry out pre-legislative scrutiny. The Government railroaded through the termination of pregnancy legislation without any pre-legislative scrutiny. Therefore, it cannot be...

Vulnerable Persons Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am sticking with the Bill but I am reminding the Minister of State of his inadequacies as Minister of State. With all his officials, he left behind soldiers-----

Vulnerable Persons Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: -----from my county and others, who spent six months in the Lebanon. He abandoned them. They were all ready to come home. They had holidays planned and loved ones waiting for them and everything else.

Vulnerable Persons Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I am sticking to the subject. I did not interrupt the Minister of State.

Vulnerable Persons Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: From what I have heard, the Minister of State's ramble-shaggle-taggle Government is going to be forced to accept it because Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil are supporting it. The heroes and great socialists, who want all legislation, do not care about the elderly. The do not care about the young or the unborn either. Where are they? The Bill will be put to a vote here next Thursday....

Vulnerable Persons Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am delighted to have the opportunity to debate the Vulnerable Persons Bill 2015, which I submitted quite some time ago. It was No. 1 in the lottery system but every second week at the business meeting it was not drawn. I thought it was stuck to the bottom of the raffle drum. I thank Ms Sarah Ekada, who, while completing an...

Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (25 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: I completely accept this is a matter of the utmost sensitivity. I acknowledge the pain and trauma that many people continue to feel owing to the events in Tuam and, in particular, the burial of children at the site. The Government approval to accept the recommendation for the forensic excavation of the site of the former mother and baby home in Tuam, County Galway, is welcome, even though I...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The programme for Government strongly supports children in national schools. More than 5,000 people took to the streets of Tipperary town last Saturday. Five national schools there came together last year to apply to the then Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Bruton, who is seated beside the Tánaiste and might be able to whisper an answer to him, for DEIS status but their...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: The schools met the criteria.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: All of the criteria were met.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Oct 2018)

Mattie McGrath: It is.